EP1995372A1 - Appareil pour le traitement de vêtements, en particulier le vaporisage et le soufflage de vêtements - Google Patents

Appareil pour le traitement de vêtements, en particulier le vaporisage et le soufflage de vêtements Download PDF

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EP1995372A1
EP1995372A1 EP07425319A EP07425319A EP1995372A1 EP 1995372 A1 EP1995372 A1 EP 1995372A1 EP 07425319 A EP07425319 A EP 07425319A EP 07425319 A EP07425319 A EP 07425319A EP 1995372 A1 EP1995372 A1 EP 1995372A1
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Davide Giuseppe Rotondi
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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
    • 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 
    • D06F73/02—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  having one or more treatment chambers

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  • the present invention relates to an apparatus for clothes treatment, in particular for clothes steaming and blowing.
  • the invention relates to an apparatus of the type comprising a clothes trail extending from a receiving point of the clothes to be treated to a delivery point of the treated clothes.
  • Known apparatuses essentially perform a clothes steaming and a subsequent drying/ironing by blowing hot air, which is in particular let forcedly circulate through a generally steam-heated battery, or by blowing cold air, particularly taken from the outside.
  • apparatuses which are based on a so-called tunnel system with a chain having a ring for continuous supply of clothes to treatment stations, clothes continuously moving in sequence through different steaming and drying chambers, realizing very long apparatuses when a high production rate is desired.
  • Now-on-sale tunnel apparatuses also have discontinuities between steaming and drying chambers, decreasing the so-obtained ironing quality.
  • a clothes side steaming in a dedicated chamber is also generally provided.
  • Such a steaming although allowing the external part of the piece of clothing to be well ironed, does not allow steam to penetrate inside the piece of clothing and unfold, and thus iron the lining.
  • the technical problem underlying the present invention is to provide an apparatus having such structural and functional features as to meet the above-mentioned requirement meanwhile overcoming prior art drawbacks.
  • the solution idea underlying the present invention is to provide a single clothes treatment chamber or cab equipped with steaming means and blowing means.
  • an apparatus for clothes treatment of the type comprising a clothes trail extending from a receiving point of the clothes to be treated to a delivery point of the treated clothes, characterised in that it comprises a treatment chamber positioned along said trail and equipped with clothes inlet and outlet doors, said treatment chamber providing steaming means and blowing means operating in sequence on clothes.
  • steaming means comprise at least a steaming device positioned in correspondence with a lower portion of the treatment chamber; while blowing means comprise at least a primary fan positioned in said lower portion of the treatment chamber for air recirculation in said treatment chamber towards a respective manifold equipped with a plurality of blowing nozzles turned towards the clothes trail and a secondary fan positioned in correspondence with an upper portion of said treatment chamber to suck air from the environment and send it to the clothes trail.
  • the apparatus comprises a superheater provided at said secondary fan entry to heat the air sucked from the environment.
  • an adjustable air intake is positioned between said superheater and said secondary fan entry to suck air directly from the environment.
  • At least a partition is also provided, being movable between a closed position allowing the air to circulate on side heaters and an open position cutting this side recirculation out, as well as at least a baffle, facing the clothes trail and angularly movable between an essentially vertical position and a position forming an angle with the vertical and turned towards the clothes trail.
  • an apparatus for clothes treatment according to the present invention is globally indicated with 1.
  • the apparatus 1 comprises, in a supporting frame, a clothes trail 2 extending from a receiving point 3 of the clothes to be treated to a delivery point 4 of the treated clothes.
  • Clothes to be treated being schematically and limited to a single piece of clothing represented with the numeral reference 5 in figure 1 , can be hanged one by one by means of respective hangers on a conveying chain 6 (as shown in the figure only by way of example) or collected on conveying trucks.
  • the apparatus 1 can be equipped with any clothes conveying/handling system, associated in case to a suitable management software of these operations.
  • the apparatus 1 comprises a treatment chamber 10 positioned along the clothes trail 2 and equipped with a clothes inlet door 11 and a clothes outlet door 12.
  • the apparatus 1 according to the invention comprises steaming means 13 and blowing means 14 acting in said treatment chamber 10.
  • steaming means 13 comprise a first 15 and a second side steaming device 16 positioned on both opposite sides of the clothes trail 2, essentially at half the height of the treatment chamber 10 to send steam directly on clothes to be treated.
  • steaming means 13 also comprise a lower steaming device 17 positioned in correspondence with a lower or bottom portion 10A of the treatment chamber 10 to send steam towards the clothes trail 2 from the bottom.
  • the apparatus 1 is also equipped with suitable steaming device selection and control means, the steaming devices being selected independently from the user and adjusted by a suitable control software.
  • two primary air recirculation fans 18 and 19 are housed in the treatment chamber 10, in correspondence with the lower portion 10A of the treatment chamber 10, said fans sending air towards opposed manifolds 20 and 21, suitably equipped with air outlet slits towards the clothes trail 2.
  • Two side heaters 22 and 23 are symmetrically positioned laterally next to said manifolds 20 and 21 to heat recirculation air, the side heaters being equipped with respective filters 22A and 23A.
  • the apparatus 1 further comprises a secondary fan 24 positioned in correspondence with an upper portion 10B of the treatment chamber 10.
  • the secondary fan 24 has an air inlet duct 25 being open in the environment and equipped with a filter 26 and an heater 27, as well as a delivery duct 28 open towards the treatment chamber 10.
  • an air intake 29 is also provided along the inlet duct 25, being adjustable in amplitude, open in the environment, positioned between the heater 27 and the secondary fan 24, to let roomtemperature air in.
  • the primary fans 18 and 19 and the secondary fan 24 compose the blowing means 14.
  • first 15 and second 16 side steaming devices of the steaming means 13 are suitably positioned within manifolds 20 and 21, the steam being sent to clothes through the slits of these manifolds 20 and 21, with a nebulization effect.
  • two baffles 30 and 31 are provided within the treatment chamber 10, on the opposite sides of the clothes trail 2, being angularly movable between an essentially vertical position and a position forming an angle ⁇ with the vertical and turned towards the clothes trail 2.
  • this angle ⁇ is comprised between 10° and 50°, preferably between 30° and 40°.
  • Baffles 30 and 31 can be positioned between the vertical position and the position forming the angle ⁇ in an adjustable way through per se traditional mechanical means.
  • baffles 30 and 31 are movable between the vertical position and the position forming the angle ⁇ , with an essentially fan-like motion under the action of motor means, individually or in pairs, in phase or counterphase between each other.
  • a lower heater 32 is also provided, being positioned in correspondence with the lower portion 10A of the treatment chamber 10, to be used for further heating the steam.
  • shutters or partitions 33 and 34 are provided within the treatment chamber 10, being movable between a closed position (as shown in figures 2 , 3 and 4A ), allowing air to circulate on side heaters 22 and 23, and an open or nearly open position (as shown in figure 4B ), cutting or nearly cutting this side recirculation out.
  • a completely closed position partitions 33 and 34 are essentially positioned along the side manifolds 20 and 21, while in a completely open position they are extending between such side manifolds 20 and 21 and the delivery duct 28 of the secondary fan 24.
  • an auxiliary pre-treatment chamber 35 is also advantageously provided, being equipped with an inlet door 36 for clothes to be treated, communicating with the treatment chamber 10 in correspondence with the door 11.
  • a plurality of delivery nozzles, particularly microdiffusers, are provided in the auxiliary pre-treatment chamber 35, turned towards the clothes trail 2 to deliver a pre-treatment fluid.
  • This pre-treatment fluid is chosen between a fluid such as water to pre-moisturize the clothes to be treated, for example linen clothes, or a sizing substance, such as a polymerising or general fixing product.
  • auxiliary pre-treatment chamber 35 can also pre-moisturize clothes by exploiting the return of condensate from the treatment chamber 10 (through suitable connection ducts not shown in the figure) and/or a corresponding air and/or steam drainage.
  • auxiliary pre-treatment chamber 35 can comprise an heating module, used for example for wet clothes pre-drying, such as in the industrial laundry field.
  • an auxiliary post-treatment chamber 37 is also provided, communicating with the treatment chamber 10 in correspondence with the door 12 and equipped with an outlet door 36 for treated clothes.
  • a plurality of delivery nozzles, particularly microdiffusers, are provided in the auxiliary post-treatment chamber 37, turned towards the clothes trail 2 to deliver a post-treatment fluid.
  • This post-treatment fluid is chosen between a fluid such as a sanifying substance, or generally a chemical product, to disinfect clothes to be treated, for example imported clothes, or a perfume to scent clothes.
  • a fluid such as a sanifying substance, or generally a chemical product, to disinfect clothes to be treated, for example imported clothes, or a perfume to scent clothes.
  • the auxiliary post-treatment chamber 37 is advantageously equipped with UV sterilization lamps and with a refrigerating module, being per se traditional, to cool treated clothes, for example to make possible unload operations easy, particularly manual, as well as with a heating module, for example to perform a desired polymerisation of possible sizing substances.
  • the refrigerating module can be used to "fix” by thermal shock the ironing condition being obtained in the treatment chamber 10.
  • the apparatus 1 also comprises, in correspondence with the treatment chamber 10, a camera turned towards the clothes trail 2 to remotely control clothes being treated, particularly to control the blowing thereof.
  • the camera particularly allows the clothes behaviour to be seen within the treatment chamber 10, thus facilitating and accelerating the ironing program compilation.
  • the camera is equipped with a refractivity control device, suitable to check for example the treated clothes real colour subsequently deciding on the discard thereof from the lot of treated clothes which are for example ready to be shown.
  • clothes to be treated undergo a steaming step.
  • clothes are subject to steam action, which can come from side steaming devices 15 and 16, when direct steaming onto the piece of clothing is not detrimental, or from the lower steaming device 17, particularly suitable for delicate clothes.
  • baffles 30 and 31 can be fixed in predetermined angular positions, for example depending on the piece of clothing to be treated.
  • these baffles 30 and 31 can be operated with a fan-like motion, individually or in pairs, in phase or counterphase between each other, so as to reduce possible folds and flaws on clothes to be treated, essentially stirring or shaking them.
  • the piece of clothing is subject to a blowing step to perform the desired drying thereof.
  • air is let in towards clothes through the slits of side manifolds 20 and 21 (as shown by way of example in figure 4A , with the shutters 33 and 34 in the closed position) and from the top, through the secondary fan 24 (as shown by way of example in figure 4B , with the shutters 33 and 34 in the open position).
  • the air sent from the top is advantageously temperature-modulated through the air intake 29.
  • the air intake 29 being adjusted at the greatest openings, the hot air effect on clothes supporting hangers is attenuated, reducing undesired deformations thereof.
  • This clothes supporting hanger cooling mechanism also allows the apparatus operating temperature to be increased, subsequently improving the quality yield thereof, reducing the risks to deform or even melt hangers.
  • an air circulation is shown in figure 4A , being performed by means of the primary fans 18 and 19 and of the secondary fan 24, with the shutters 33 and 34 and air intake 29 in the closed position, while an air circulation being performed by means of the primary fans 18 and 19 and the secondary fan 24 is shown in figure 4B , with the shutters 33 and 34 and the air intake 29 in the open position.
  • Air action on clothes is also adjusted by suitably adjusting the angular position of baffles 30 and 31.
  • the possible baffle fan-like motion individually or in pairs, in phase or counterphase between each other, facilitates the air drying effect on clothes and clothes fixation in the ironed condition.
  • the turbulence generated by fan and baffle action also helps particularly heavy clothes to dry.
  • blowing means 14 and baffles 30 and 31 blow air from the bottom and from the top, also generating a desired turbulence air recirculation.
  • they can be controlled in an independent way, thus mixing at will the clothes swelling effect with the shaking one.
  • baffles 30 and 31 are fixed in such a position as to convey the air towards the clothes trail 2 if a piece of clothing needs to be swollen or they are operated in a synchronous or asynchronous way to enhance the turbulence effect and thus clothes shaking.
  • the treatment chamber 10 size is set in order to allow a suitable amount of clothes to be treated to be housed therein (thus ensuring some quantity yield of the apparatus 1), the required clothes swelling and shaking being however ensured by blowing means 14 and baffles 30 and 31.
  • the main advantage of the apparatus according to the present invention is a perfect treatment of a wide range of different types of clothes, being realised by means of a structurally simple and compact apparatus, also allowing a great variety of different treatments.
  • the apparatus being proposed also proves to be easy to clean due to the use of air circulation realised by means of fans and baffles movement and by means of the openings in the environment, such as treatment chamber 10 doors.
  • the maintenance of the different components being positioned in the treatment chamber 10 proves to be similarly easier.
  • the apparatus being proposed also proves to be highly automated being remotely video-controlled, human intervention being limited to clothes load and unload and thus not requiring skilled personnel.
  • This video-control also allows operating parameters to be finely adjusted to ensure a perfect clothes ironing in all apparatus operating conditions.
  • the apparatus for clothes treatment according to the invention realises an essentially universal multi-operating system.
  • the particular multifunctionality of the proposed apparatus results in the possibility to perform therein different special treatments on clothes to be treated, such as sterilization, sanification, perfuming, ionisation, moisturizing or permanent-ironing chemical product application and so on.

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AT07425319T ATE466989T1 (de) 2007-05-24 2007-05-24 Vorrichtung zur behandlung von kleidungsstücken, insbesondere zum bedampfen und belüften
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