Classifications

• • 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
  • D06F73/00—Apparatus for smoothing or removing creases from garments or other textile articles by formers, cores, stretchers, or internal frames, with the application of heat or steam 

Definitions

• the invention relates to a device for smoothing shirts, in particular for smoothing the ends of the shirt sleeves, or the cuffs, the shirt collar and the button strips.
• shirts are smoothed by fixing them at various points and inflating and stretching them with, in particular, heated air, the shirt being able to be pulled apart at the fixed points.
• Another method of smoothing a shirt uses an inflatable inflatable bag around which the shirt is placed.
• the shirt does not have to be fixed because it is held by the inflatable bag.
• the cuffs are smoothed by sleeve sections of the inflatable bag.
• it is known to fix the button panel as well as the sleeves or the collar of the smoothing shirt so that it does not have to be buttoned, e.g. is known from US 3,165,244.
• the surface of the inflatable bag is heated uniformly by the inflowing heated air, but individual areas of a smoothing shirt where thicker material or the material is used in multiple layers, such as the cuffs, for example Collar or the button placket, are not sufficiently smoothed, since the heated air cannot generate sufficient heat at these points.
• a stronger heating of the air to be supplied or a longer treatment of the shirt to be smoothed would, among other things, lead to an overload of the shirt in the other areas.
• the invention is therefore based on the object of providing a device of the type mentioned at the beginning in which the cuffs or the collar or the button placket as well as the shirt as a whole are satisfactorily smoothed.
• a device for smoothing shirts with an inflatable shirt-shaped inflatable bag which has a torso section, two sleeve sections and a collar section and which has radiators, partially or continuously.
• radiators in the entire shirt-shaped inflatable bag ensures that the shirt is smoothed even with little or no heating of the air introduced into the inflatable bag.
• the duration of the introduction of heated air into the inflatable bag can be shortened in comparison with conventional devices, since sufficient energy is created by the provision of the heating elements so as to smooth the shirts.
• radiators in certain regions of the inflatable bag, it is achieved that the shirt in these regions, in addition to the energy given off by the introduced, heated air, is supplied with energy via the radiators, and the shirt is thereby sufficiently smoothed.
• the radiators are realized in the form of glued-on filaments or woven filaments woven into the material of the inflatable bag. The glued filaments can be attached to the inside of the inflatable bag as well as to the outside of the inflatable bag.
• different surface heating capacities can be achieved by differently controlling different heating devices and / or by providing heating devices with different surface capacities, for example by more or less densely laid filaments. In this way, the areas where the shirt dries more slowly can be specifically heated. Furthermore, the cut or type of shirt can also be taken into account if this is the case for example, breast pockets or applications or additional layers of fabric at certain points.
• the heating of the inflatable bag can also be regulated or controlled in relation to all heating devices in order to take into account different materials, e.g. to be able to set lower temperatures for silk than for cotton.
• Heat conductors are advantageously used, the resistance of which increases sharply with increasing temperatures and in particular above a certain temperature, so that self-regulation of the temperature is achieved. In this way, the heat losses in the faster dry areas can be limited.
• the radiators can be provided in the area of the collar section, in the area of the shirt cuffs at the ends of the two sleeve sections and / or in the area of the button and buttonhole bar.
• the energy source of the radiators is preferably located in the base of the inflatable bag, which also serves as a base for the device.
• the base also has a blower and a heating device in order to be able to introduce the heated air into the inflatable bag.
• the areas in which the filaments are woven or glued on are permeable to air. In this way it is achieved that the shirt is heated in the immediate vicinity of the collar section both by the introduced, heated air and by the energy given off by the radiators and thus smoothed.
• the radiators are assigned temperature sensors and / or moisture sensors and the temperature of the radiators is dependent on the detected temperature and / or humidity of the surface to be smoothed Section of the shirt set. This makes it possible to carry out a synchronous drying of all sections of the shirt, avoiding over-drying of thin or single-layer sections.
• Figure 1 is a front view of a device for smoothing shirts
• FIG. 2 shows a top view in time of the collar section of the device for smoothing shirts from FIG. 1.
• the schematic front view according to FIG. 1 shows a device 1 for smoothing shirts with an inflatable bag 2 which is mounted on a base 6, which is not shown completely.
• the inflatable bag 2 has a torso section 3, two sleeve sections 4 and a collar section 5.
• the base 6, which also serves as a base for the device, has a blower and a heating device in order to be able to inflate the inflatable bag 2 with heated air.
• an air deflection part 7 is fastened above the collar section 5, which in particular deflects air emerging from the collar section at the top downwards and can direct it from the outside to a fixed collar.
• radiators 8 are provided in the form of filaments.
• the radiators 8 are woven into the material of the inflatable bag 2.
• An energy source 9 is provided in the base 6 and supplies the heating elements 8 with voltage.
• the shirt is heated in the immediate vicinity of the collar section 5 both by the introduced, heated air and by the energy emitted by the radiators 8 and thus smoothed.
• radiators 10 and 11 are provided in the form of filaments. These radiators 10 and 11 are also woven into the material of the inflatable bag 2 and are supplied with voltage by the energy source 9.
• the side view according to FIG. 2 shows the collar section 5 with heating filaments 8 arranged therein.
• the air deflection part 7 is not shown in this view.
• the heating threads 8 are provided in the collar section 5 only in the areas in which the shirt collar rests on the inflatable bag 2.

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• Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
• Textile Engineering (AREA)
• Accessory Of Washing/Drying Machine, Commercial Washing/Drying Machine, Other Washing/Drying Machine (AREA)
• Professional, Industrial, Or Sporting Protective Garments (AREA)
• Details Of Garments (AREA)
• Peptides Or Proteins (AREA)
• Lifting Devices For Agricultural Implements (AREA)
• Massaging Devices (AREA)
• Drying Of Solid Materials (AREA)
• Woven Fabrics (AREA)

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