EP0869214A2 - Improved iron - Google Patents

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EP0869214A2
EP0869214A2 EP98500082A EP98500082A EP0869214A2 EP 0869214 A2 EP0869214 A2 EP 0869214A2 EP 98500082 A EP98500082 A EP 98500082A EP 98500082 A EP98500082 A EP 98500082A EP 0869214 A2 EP0869214 A2 EP 0869214A2
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lamp
iron
switch
housing
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Tomas Bastida Vildosola
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Oficina de Investigacion Agrupada SA
Officina De Investigacion Agrupada SA
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F75/00—Hand irons
    • D06F75/08—Hand irons internally heated by electricity

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  • the present invention relates to an iron of the kind used to iron clothes, preferably within the household, which has been significantly improved in order to enhance its standard of performance, specifically by including a front light which allows a supplementary illumination when ironing delicate or difficult areas of the fabric.
  • current irons for household use viz. those acting upon the iron being slid over the fabric to be ironed, are provided with pilot lights or lamps the function of which is exclusively to signal whether their mechanisms are switched on, the pilots being by nature and arrangement devoid of an illuminating function.
  • the improvements disclosed herein are devised to achieve such an ancillary performance, and essentially lie in establishing a housing for an illumination lamp at the front of the iron, the housing being arranged slightly inclined forwards and downwards in order for the light beam to be suitably directed towards the working area of the iron.
  • two heat dissipating plates are adapted to the sides of said lamp to prevent if from overheating, extending its useful life, said plates extending backwards considerably and snugly adapting to the wall of the water tank water, thereby for the water mass initially designed to generate steam to act as a cooler.
  • a heat limiter in order for the lamp to be switched off automatically when it exceeds a pre-set temperature, and a voluntary lamp on/off switch, can be established in the circuit supplying said lamp.
  • said switch is of the push-button type and lies on the rear of the iron, which usually constitutes its supporting base when at rest, and therefore by merely placing the iron in such a position of rest, the illumination lamp is automatically switched off, and will only be on when the iron is in a working position.
  • the switch, temperature limiter and lamp are connected in series.
  • Figure 1.- Is a side elevation view of an iron made in accordance with the object of the present invention, which is partially cut away in order to show in greater detail the mechanisms of the iron on which said improvements are focused.
  • Figure 2.- Is a schematic plan representation of the same iron, cut away at the height of the illumination lamp and the heat dissipating plates.
  • Figure 3.- Is a front elevation view of the switch included in the circuit supplying the illumination lamp.
  • Figure 4.- Is a side elevation and diametric sectional view of the same switch, in the off position.
  • the characteristics of the iron subject of the invention can be seen to lie in the provision at the bottom front of such body (1) of a small housing (5), open at the front, within which an illumination lamp (6) is housed which, due to the arrangement of said housing (5), and as shown particularly in figure 1, lets off a light beam inclined downwards and forwards, its position being optimal to impinge straight on the area of the fabric to be ironed which is thereupon to be impinged on by the iron when the latter is used in a normal fashion.
  • This illumination lamp (6) directly connected to the iron lead (7) in order for it to work irrespective of whether or not the heating resistor is connected, is so connected through a temperature limiter (8) and a switch (9) in order for the limiter (8) to switch the lamp (6) off when its temperature exceeds a pre-set value, whereas the switch (9) cuts the supply to the lamp (6) when the iron is at rest, particularly when the lamp is lying on its heel or rear base (10).
  • the illumination lamp (6) In order for the illumination lamp (6) to be kept suitably cooled, same is designed to have adapted to its sides two plates (11) which extend backwards considerably, adapting laterally to the tank (3), and therefore said plates (11) take in the heat generated by the lamp (6) and release it to the water contained in the tank (3). If there should however be no water in the tank (3) and hence no water-cooling effect, said heat limiter (8) will prevent the lamp (6) from overheating.
  • the heat limiter (8) will obviously be rated in accordance with the type of materials surrounding the lamp (6).
  • the metal pin (14) has been designed to play within a channel (17) operatively provided in the insulating part (18) on which the fixed metal connections (12-12') are arranged.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Textile Engineering (AREA)
  • Irons (AREA)
  • Farming Of Fish And Shellfish (AREA)
EP98500082A 1997-04-02 1998-04-01 Improved iron Withdrawn EP0869214A2 (en)

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ES09700834U ES1036846Y (es) 1997-04-02 1997-04-02 Plancha perfeccionada.
ES9700834U 1997-04-02
PCT/ES1998/000147 WO1999061695A1 (es) 1997-04-02 1998-05-26 Plancha perfeccionada

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EP98920549A Withdrawn EP1008687A1 (en) 1997-04-02 1998-05-26 Improved iron

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Cited By (2)

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WO2003046272A1 (en) * 2001-11-29 2003-06-05 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Cool-zone iron
WO2007045576A1 (de) * 2005-10-19 2007-04-26 BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH Dampfbügeleisen

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US8397406B2 (en) 2010-03-22 2013-03-19 Sears Brands, L.L.C. System and method for using color to indicate a state of a home appliance, such as an iron
CA159445S (en) 2014-09-26 2015-06-09 Richards Morphy N I Ltd Iron

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US5250139A (en) * 1990-08-06 1993-10-05 Hall David W Lighted bonding iron
US5493089A (en) * 1994-01-13 1996-02-20 Black & Decker Inc. On/off switch assembly for an electric iron

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2003046272A1 (en) * 2001-11-29 2003-06-05 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Cool-zone iron
WO2007045576A1 (de) * 2005-10-19 2007-04-26 BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH Dampfbügeleisen

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WO1999061695A1 (es) 1999-12-02
EP1008687A1 (en) 2000-06-14
ES1036846Y (es) 1998-04-01

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