EP1069231A2 - Device for smoothing shirts - Google Patents

Abstract

The cuff treatment devices feature two tensioning bodies, which are inserted into each other. The tension surfaces (8,14) of the bodies are air permeable and are shaped like a section of a U-shaped channel with easily opened sides.

Description

The invention relates to a device for smoothing shirts with devices for Smooth the ends of the shirt sleeves or to smooth the cuffs.

According to a known method, shirts are smoothed by applying them to different Points are fixed and inflated and stretched with heated air in particular, the shirt can also be pulled apart at the fixed points. For the necessary fixation of the cuffs in this procedure is by US 2,740,566 and EP 0 587 173, the cuffs between flat clamping surfaces to pinch. In these cases, however, the cuffs cannot be pinched open so that they will be kinked in any case. Furthermore, DE 36 17 585 inflatable tension bodies known which inserted into the closed cuffs be inflated there and press against the cuffs from the inside however must be closed. These aforementioned fixing methods can be done in one some extent can also be used to smooth the cuffs.

GB 2 225 592 also discloses a device for smoothing the cuffs, where the cuffs are closed between two heatable, slightly curved ironing surfaces can be arranged on their surface with negative pressure have openable openings. These are used to smooth the cuffs pulled against the heated ironing surfaces by negative pressure. The ironing surfaces for the Cuffs are spaced so far that air blown out of the shirt can flow through the cuffs that pass through the cuff fabric the ironing surfaces are partially suctioned off. However, this is disadvantageous on the one hand because of the air flow through the cuffs a powerful blower to produce one sufficient pressure in the shirt and, on the other hand, an additional vacuum pump is required.

Another method of smoothing shirts is using an inflatable inflatable bag around which the shirt is placed. In this case, the shirt not be fixed because it is held by the inflatable bag. The cuffs are in these cases of sleeves of the inflatable bag smoothed. When using a Inflatable bags are only known to fix the button strips of the shirt to be smoothed, so as not to have to button it, as is known from US 3,165,244.

The invention has for its object a device of the type mentioned to create, in which the cuffs are simply put on and smoothed without kinks can.

This object is achieved in that the devices for smoothing the cuffs have two interlocking clamping bodies, the clamping surfaces of which are permeable to air and the shape of a section of a U-shaped channel with slightly open Have thighs. In this way, the cuffs can be particularly simple be created by placing them on the inner clamping body and then the outer clamping body is plugged onto the inner clamping body Press the cuff smooth in between. Due to the air permeability of the clamping surfaces the tensioning body is achieved so that the cuff is better brought into contact with air can be used to improve the smoothing result. The section between the two Legs of the clamping surfaces is advantageously semicircular.

The opening angle of the legs can in particular be chosen to be less than 10 °. On in this way the wedge action between the two clamping bodies causes the pressure of the Supported cuffs, due to the friction between clamping surfaces and cuffs in addition, a fixation of the two clamping bodies against each other can be achieved can.

The free edges of the legs of the outer clamping surfaces can be more have externally curved section to insert the two clamping bodies to simplify and the risk of damage to the cuffs in this Reduce operation. Furthermore, it can be provided that the legs of the clamping surfaces the outer clamping body can spring against each other. If in such a case the Opening angle of the outer clamping surfaces less than that of the inner clamping surfaces is chosen, better compression of the cuffs can be achieved by this spring action and fix the two clamping bodies against each other.

In a specific embodiment, air can flow through the clamping bodies Have support body and perforated plates attached to it, which form the clamping surfaces. The Support bodies can advantageously be plastic molded parts, whereas for the direct ones the cuff-contacting clamping surfaces a higher quality material and in particular Metal can be used. The clamping bodies including the clamping surfaces can but also be made in one piece from plastic.

Furthermore, it can be provided that the inner and outer clamping bodies are parallel can flow through to the clamping surface of air and devices for guiding have air flowing through the clamping bodies to the respective clamping surfaces, and that the devices for smoothing the cuffs means for deflecting of air escaping at one end of the inner tensioning bodies into the outer Have clamping bodies inside if there are associated inner and outer clamping bodies are in the mated condition.

As a rule, a stream of especially heated air is used to smooth shirts used, which is passed into the shirt and sleeves. Airflow from the sleeves get to the inner clamping bodies and there from the inside onto the sleeves Act. The devices for redirecting the air can then, when it flows out at the end of the cuff, deflected and from the outside to the cuff be guided by the outer clamping body or to the outer Clamping surface is guided. The smoothing of the usually multi-layer cuff is made greatly improved in this way.

For the connection of the two clamping bodies to one another, it can be provided that the Device for smoothing the ends of the shirt sleeves a guide for the two tensioning bodies has, from the clamping state to a certain distance of the clamping body each other only allows their displacement against each other without a pivoting movement and from this distance of the clamping bodies to each other additionally or alternatively Pivoting the clamping body against each other allows. To put on the cuff in this case, the clamping body can be pulled apart, whereupon they can also be unfolded from a certain distance. That way achieved very good accessibility, in particular to the inner clamping body that the cuff can be put on. Then the outer clamping body folded over and pushed onto the inner clamping body to clamp the cuff. Preferably, the inner clamping body on the device for Smoothed shirts fastened and the outer tensioning bodies movable. The inner ones Clamping bodies can in particular be arranged with the legs facing downwards, so that the cuff is simply placed over the U, which is open at the bottom can be.

In a particularly advantageous embodiment, the device for smoothing An inflatable bag to stretch the shirt. With the simple and inexpensive In such a case, the inflatable bag can cover the areas of the torso and sleeves are smoothed, which are usually easier to smooth, whereas those are usually cuffs that are more difficult to smooth by a different method by pressing smoothed between two clamping surfaces. This way you can get a good smoothing result for the entire shirt can be achieved with little effort.

The devices for smoothing the cuffs can be attached to the arms are pivotally attached to a base of the device for smoothing shirts. With these arms, the devices for smoothing the cuffs and thus the Cuffs are placed and held in place. The devices To smooth the cuffs, you can use a magnet, a Velcro fastener on the arms or be releasably attached to a snap lock.

In general, the devices for smoothing the cuffs, in which the cuffs pressed and thus fixed, can also be used to tension on the sleeves to smooth them out better.

Fig. 1

eine schematische Vorderansicht einer erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung zum Glätten von Hemden mit Vorrichtungen zum Glätten der Manschetten,

Fig. 2

eine Schnittansicht durch einen inneren Spannkörper,

Fig. 3

eine Seitenansicht eines inneren Spannkörpers,

Fig. 4

eine Ansicht einer Stirnseite eines äußeren Spannkörpers,

Fig. 5

eine Schnittansicht des äußeren Spannkörpers aus Fig. 4 gemäß der Linie A-A und

Fig. 6

eine Schnittansicht durch eine Vorrichtung zum Glätten von Manschetten mit einer angelegten Manschette.

Further details, features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description of an embodiment for a device for smoothing shirts according to the invention with reference to the drawings. In it show:

Fig. 1

1 shows a schematic front view of a device for smoothing shirts with devices for smoothing the cuffs,

Fig. 2

2 shows a sectional view through an inner clamping body,

Fig. 3

a side view of an inner clamping body,

Fig. 4

a view of an end face of an outer clamping body,

Fig. 5

a sectional view of the outer clamping body of FIG. 4 along the line AA and

Fig. 6

a sectional view through a device for smoothing cuffs with an applied cuff.

FIG. 1 schematically shows a device 1 for smoothing shirts with an applied one Shirt 3 shown. The device 1 has an inflatable bag 4 for tensioning the Shirts 3 and a base 5, which serves as a device base and in particular the device control as well as a heater and a blower for inflating the inflatable bag 4 with a heated one Has air. On the outside of the base 5, two arms 6 are pivotally attached, which at their upper ends each have a device 2 for smoothing the cuffs of the Wear shirts 4. The cuffs are additionally of these devices 2 for smoothing fixed and can be pulled out by pivoting the arms 6, to stretch the sleeves of shirt 3 and smooth them better. The arms 6 can To do this, pull them outwards using weights or spring elements.

The devices 2 for smoothing the sleeves each have an inner clamping body 7 with an outer clamping surface 8 and an outer clamping body 12 with a inner clamping surface 14. The two clamping bodies 7, 12 can be pushed into one another be so that the clamping surfaces 8, 14 are directed towards each other.

The inner clamping body 7 shown in Figure 2 has a support body 9 made of plastic on, the ribs 10 carries, with their ends the outline desired for the clamping surface 8 pretend. The ribs 10 run essentially parallel to the sleeve portion of the Inflatable bags 4. Around the support body 9, the clamping surface 8 runs in the shape of a Perforated plate, which is attached to the support body 9 and the clamping body 7 its outer shape gives.

In Figure 3, the clamping body 7 is shown from the side, the clamping surface 8 only is partially shown and the underlying ribs 10 and the support body 9 partially releases. The clamping surface 8 is formed by a sheet metal, which at least in the the ribs 10 lying areas has openings 11 through which air an applied cuff. In the area of the clamping surface 8 in which the lower base of the support body 9 bears from behind and in which no air from behind can reach the clamping surface 8, the perforated plate can be carried out continuously and be attached to the support body 9.

The inner clamping body 7 are each with the ends of the sleeve portions of the inflatable bag 4 connected so that they connect to the sleeve portions of the inflatable bag 2 and air escaping at the ends of the sleeve portions of the inflatable bag 4 to the inner ones Tensioning bodies 7 can be passed. There the air can parallel the clamping body 7 flow to the clamping surface 8 since the spaces between the ribs 10 together form 8 air channels with the overlying clamping surface.

In Figure 4, an outer clamping body 12 is shown from the side on which the end of the Shirt sleeve or the cuff is arranged. The outer clamping body 12 has a housing 13 in which a clamping surface 14 shown in dashed lines in Form of a perforated plate is attached. The clamping surface 14 of the outer clamping body 12 as well as the clamping surface 8 of the inner clamping body 7 has openings. The free Edges of the U-shaped clamping surface 14, which are in the drawing below, are after bent outside so that they form an insertion bevel 15 for the inner clamping body 7.

Furthermore, it is also conceivable to design the clamping surface 14 as an elastic band, which the ends of the insertion bevels 15 is attached to the housing 13 so that it is compressed of the inner 7 and the outer clamping body 12 on the sleeve 16 the inner clamping surface 8 presses. It can be provided that that as a clamping surface 14 used tape in the direction across the sleeve another and especially one has greater elasticity than in the direction parallel to the sleeve. This way can be achieved be that the sleeve 16 with a more even force between the two Clamping surfaces 8, 14 is pressed. This band can also be made permeable to air be, for example, if a fabric interspersed with elastomer threads is used

Figure 5 shows the outer clamping body 12 of Figure 4 according to the horizontal section A - A. In this view it can be seen that the clamping surface 14 is at a distance from the wall of the housing 13 and in this way has an air duct inside the housing 13 forms. When inner clamping body 7 and outer clamping body 12 are plugged together and air for smoothing the shirt is passed through the sleeve portions of the inflatable bag 4 is, this can flow between the ribs 10 through the inner clamping body 7. The air flows along the inside of the clamping surface 8. At the end of the inner The clamping body 7 can flow out of the air and get into the outer clamping body 12. There the air flow can be redirected and in the opposite direction between the Clamping surface 14 and the wall of the housing 13 are guided as indicated by the arrows is shown. For this purpose is the end face of the housing 13, on the side of which the cuff end is ordered closed.

In Figure 6, the device 2 for smoothing the sleeves 16 in section with applied Cuff 16 shown. The respectively assigned clamping bodies 7 and 12 are through a guide connected to each other up to a certain distance of the clamping body 7, 12 to each other only allows shifting against each other. That way just before the cuff 16 is clamped, only one stroke movement as a relative movement between the clamping bodies 7 and 12, so that the sleeve 16 is not can be moved accidentally. Clamping becomes essential for the operator simplified. From a certain distance, however, the leadership also leaves one Swiveling the two clamping bodies 7 and 12 against each other so that they open up to let.

To clamp the cuff 16, the outer clamping body 12 is pulled up until it can be opened. The inner clamping body 7 is very good in this state accessible so that the operator easily the cuff 16 on the inner clamping surface 8 can lay. Then the outer clamping body 12 is closed again and after pushed against the inner clamping body 7 until the sleeve 16 is sufficient is pressed tight. In this position, the two clamping bodies 7 and 12 by means of a Locking device, not shown, can be fixed against each other. This can for example, a latch can be provided.

Furthermore, it is also conceivable to fasten a wedge to a clamping body 7, 12, which wedge a counterpart cooperates, which is connected to the other clamping body 7, 12 and can pick up and clamp the wedge. This counterpart can be used to solve be equipped with a spreading device so that it releases the wedge again.

To smooth the shirt 3, it is preferably in the moist state over the inflatable bag 4, which is inflated with heated air to tighten the shirt 3, whereby previously the cuffs 16 as described above pressed between the clamping body 7, 12 become. The heated air flows through the inner clamping body 7 and arrives through the openings 11 in the clamping surface 8 on the inside of the sleeve 16. The not through Air entering the openings 11 flows between the ribs 10 into the inflatable bag 4 opposite ends of the outer clamping body 12 and is closed there at the End face in the cavity between the housing 13 and clamping surface 14 of the outer Clamping body 12 passed. There the air flows in the opposite direction to the outside Cuffs 16 over, also through openings in the clamping surfaces 14 in The cuffs 16 come into contact.

The shirt-3 and the cuffs 16 are thus heated by the flow of air and the tension by the inflatable bag 4 or the pressure by the Clamping body 7, 12 smoothed. In a development of the device according to the invention 1 can be provided, the air flow from the sleeve portions of the inflatable bag 3 in the To control cuff smoothers and only one at the start of the smoothing process allow low airflow from the sleeve sections to allow higher pressure inside the inflatable bag 4 and thus a higher tension of the shirt 3 and one to achieve better smoothing. After a certain period of time, this airflow can be increased to direct more air to the cuffs 16 to make them smoother and to be able to dry.

Claims (10)

Device (1) for smoothing shirts (3) with devices (2) for smoothing the sleeves (16) of the shirt sleeves, characterized in that the devices (2) for smoothing the sleeves (16) have two clamping bodies (7, 12) which can be plugged into one another ), the clamping surfaces (8, 14) of which are permeable to air and have the shape of a section of a U-shaped channel with slightly opened legs. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the opening angle the leg is less than 10 degrees. Device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the free Edges of the legs of the outer clamping surfaces (14) more outward have curved portion. Device according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the Legs of the clamping surfaces (14) of the outer clamping body (12) against each other can spring. Device according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the Clamping bodies (7, 12) through which air can flow and supporting bodies (9, 13) fastened to them Have perforated plates that form the clamping surfaces (8, 14). Device according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the inner (7) and the outer clamping body (12) parallel to the clamping surface (8, 14) of Air can flow through and devices for guiding through the Chip body (7, 12) of air flowing through to the respective clamping surfaces (8, 14) and that the devices (2) for smoothing the cuff devices (13) for deflecting the inner clamping bodies (7) at one end have air escaping into the outer clamping body (12) when assigned inner (7) and outer clamping body (12) in the mated Condition. Device according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the Devices (2) for smoothing the cuffs a guide for the two Have clamping body (7, 12), from the clamping state to a certain one Distance of the clamping body (7, 12) to each other only their displacement against each other allows without a pivoting movement and from this distance the clamping body (7, 12) to each other additionally or alternatively a pivoting of the clamping body (7, 12) against each other. Device according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that it has an inflatable bag (4) for tensioning the shirt (3). Device according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the Devices (2) for smoothing the sleeves (16) are attached to arms (6), which are pivotable on a base (5) of the device (1) for smoothing shirts are attached. Device according to claim 9, characterized in that the devices (2) for smoothing the sleeves (16) on the arms (6) with a magnet, a Velcro or a snap fastener are releasably attached.

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