EP2705191B1 - Ironing station - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to an ironing station comprising an iron and a base having a portable receptacle for parking the iron remote from the base on a base.

Ironing stations for steam irons usually have a base formed as a water tank for stopping the steam iron. To set the iron away from the base on a non-heat-resistant pad in the immediate access area of a user, the base may have a receptacle in which the iron is received in a resting position on the base and which is detachable from the base. The problem with stopping the iron in the receptacle beyond the base, however, is that can develop temperatures between the receptacle and the pad due to the hot sole, which pose a threat to the pad. In particular, when producing the inclusion of materials such as metal, which have a high thermal conductivity or when coating the recording with such materials, a maximum allowable temperature can be exceeded very quickly.

From the DE 10 2009 055 165 A1 For example, there is known an ironing station with an iron and a portable base for parking the iron, which comprises a fastening device for fastening the iron to the base. The base has a recess, a receiving element and transverse elevations for receiving the sole of the iron.

From the DE 18 24 718 U is a bracket pedestal for parking an electric iron on a pad known. The resting on several webs of the pedestal iron is spaced, inter alia, by insulating feet of the pad.

Furthermore, from the US 2,655,333 A a generic iron known.

Finally, be on the CH 91 316 A , the DE 609 861 C , the WO 2006/124998 A2 , the US Pat. No. 6,615,515 B1 and the US 5,582,374 A pointed.

The object of the invention is an ironing station which eliminates the aforementioned disadvantages and allows secure positioning of an iron beyond a base.

This object is achieved by an ironing station having the features of patent claim 1.

An ironing station according to the invention has an iron and a base which has a portable receptacle for placing the iron remote from the base on a base; wherein the receptacle has at least one spacer for spacing a support surface facing the base of the iron from the substrate, wherein a space between the receptacle and the substrate is at least partially opened laterally, wherein the base has a recess formed as a pocket for insertion of the at least one spacer when positioning the receptacle on the base, and wherein according to the invention the receptacle has a heat reflector in a bottom wall.

The at least one spacer causes a reduction of heat-transferring contact surfaces of the receptacle and allows through the gap, a lower-side cooling the recording with cool ambient air. Thus, the recording itself may consist of materials or be coated with such materials, which have a high thermal conductivity, without posing a threat to the substrate. The heat transfer can be further complicated if in a bottom wall of the receptacle, a heat reflector is integrated, which acts as a heat shield.

Advantageous embodiments are the subject of the dependent claims.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one spacer is disposed on the sole-tip side and the receptacle has a rear-side boundary for securing the iron in the longitudinal direction. This is the recording and thus the Iron to the pad tilted and facing a user, whereby the comfort is increased. By the rear-side limitation is ensured that the iron can not slide in the longitudinal direction of the recording and enters into direct contact with the pad.

To secure the iron in the transverse direction, the receptacle may have lateral boundaries. Preferably, the boundaries extend in the vertical direction beyond the sole of the iron, so that it is prevented that the user accidentally touches the sole.

In one embodiment, the spacer is made separately from the receptacle. In this way, the material for the spacer can be selected independently of the material for the recording, so that the spacer, for example, consists of a material with a very low thermal conductivity and visible surfaces of the recording are coated with a visually appealing material having a higher thermal conductivity ,

The spacer may be releasably connected to the receptacle, preferably on the back or underside, i. is inserted from an opening facing away from the bottom, in an opening of the receptacle. This mounting direction prevents the spacer is pressed out of the opening in particular when wiping the iron in the receptacle and the recording thus rests flat on the surface.

To reduce heat input from the soleplate into the receptacle, it may be advantageous if at least one support element for supporting the iron and for at least partial spacing of the soleplate is provided by the storage area in the storage area. The at least one support elements is preferably made separately from the receptacle and thus may consist of a different material than the receptacle, whereby the heat transfer from the soleplate into the receptacle is made more difficult with a suitable choice of material for the at least one support elements.

Preferably, a plurality of support elements are provided, each having at least one body portion for support on the base. As a result, the iron is located at the base positioned recording directly on the support elements on the base, whereby the recording is not charged and also the heat transfer from the sole into the base is difficult. The recording holds the support elements virtually only in their position to each other. In addition, an open to the environment air space between the storage area and the supporting elements supporting base wall is created, whereby the heat transfer from the inclusion in the base is further complicated.

Preferably, the spacer is formed integrally with a front support element, whereby the number of parts is reduced and at the same time the front support elements is mounted during assembly of the spacer.

Preferably, the heat reflector is arranged on the back of the shelf and thus facing the pad. The heat reflector can hold at least part of an amount of heat generated by the soleplate quasi within the recording and complicates the heat transfer from the sole of the iron in the direction of the pad.

The effect of the heat reflector can be improved by the fact that the bottom wall in the region of the heat reflector has a reduced wall thickness.

In order to reduce a direct introduction of heat into the heat reflector, the receptacle can have webs for connecting the heat reflector, by means of which heat-transferring contact surfaces between the bottom wall and the heat reflector are reduced.

Preferably, the trained as a recess pocket of the base for guiding the spacer has a geometry adapted to the spacer geometry.

For secure positioning of the receptacle on the base in the longitudinal direction and in the transverse direction, it is advantageous if the base has a countersink for inserting the receptacle.

A base according to the invention for use in an ironing station has a portable receptacle for depositing an iron remote from the base on a base, the receptacle having at least one spacer for obliquely spacing a storage surface facing the sole of the iron from the underlay, with a space between Recording and the pad is at least partially open laterally, and the base has a formed as a recess pocket for inserting the at least one spacer when positioning the receptacle on the base.

The invention is particularly suitable for reliably placing an iron on a base of an ironing station as well as on a substrate remote from the base.

Other advantageous developments of the invention are the subject of further subclaims.

Figur 1

eine perspektivische Darstellung eines ersten Ausführungsbeispiels einer erfindungsgemäßen Bügelstation,

Figur 2

eine Draufsicht auf eine in Figur 1 gezeigte Aufnahme für ein Bügeleisen,

Figur 3

einen Längsschnitt durch die Aufnahme,

Fig. 4 und 5

perspektivische Darstellungen von heckseitigen Auflageelementen zur Stützung des Bügeleisens in der Aufnahme,

Fig. 6 und 7

perspektivische Darstellungen eines vorderen Auflageelementes mit einem integrierten Abstandhalter,

Figur 8

eine untere perspektivische Darstellung der Aufnahme,

Figur 9

eine untere perspektivische Darstellung der Aufnahme bestückt mit Auflageelementen und mit einem Wärmereflektor,

Figur 10

eine perspektivische Draufsicht auf einen Bereich der Basis zum Abstellen der Aufnahme,

Figur 11

eine perspektivische Darstellung des Bereichs aus Figur 10 aus einer Froschperspektive,

Figur 12

einen perspektivischen Längsschnitt durch eine Basis aus Figur 1 mit abgestellter Aufnahme,

Figur 13

einen perspektivischen Längsschnitt durch ein zweites Ausführungsbeispiel einer erfindungsgemäßes Bügelstation durch eine Basis mit abgestellter Aufnahme, und

Figur 14

eine untere perspektivische Darstellung der Aufnahme aus Figur 13.

In the following preferred embodiments of the invention will be explained in more detail with reference to schematic representations. Show it:

FIG. 1

a perspective view of a first embodiment of an ironing station according to the invention,

FIG. 2

a top view of an in FIG. 1 Shown for an iron,

FIG. 3

a longitudinal section through the recording,

4 and 5

perspective views of rear support elements for supporting the iron in the receptacle,

6 and 7

perspective views of a front support element with an integrated spacer,

FIG. 8

a lower perspective view of the recording,

FIG. 9

a bottom perspective view of the receptacle equipped with support elements and with a heat reflector,

FIG. 10

a perspective top view of a portion of the base for storing the recording,

FIG. 11

a perspective view of the area FIG. 10 from a frog's perspective,

FIG. 12

a perspective longitudinal section through a base FIG. 1 with turned off recording,

FIG. 13

a perspective longitudinal section through a second embodiment of an inventive ironing station through a base with stored recording, and

FIG. 14

a bottom perspective view of the recording FIG. 13 ,

FIG. 1 shows an ironing station 1 according to the invention with an iron 2, serving as a water tank base 4 and a portable receptacle 6 for positioning the iron 2 on the base 4 and on a pad 8 away from the base. 4

As in FIG. 2 shown, the receptacle 6 is aligned mirror-symmetrically to its longitudinal axis. It has a sole of the iron 2 nachzeichnende bottom wall 10 to form a 2 facing the iron shelf 12 and a 10 surrounding the bottom wall side wall 14. The side wall 14 has such a minimum height that they in the vertical direction, ie perpendicular to the plane in FIG. 2 , protrudes beyond the sole of the parked in the receptacle 6 iron 2. The side wall 14 serves to secure the iron 2 in the longitudinal direction and in the transverse direction, wherein as in FIG. 3 their sole-tip-side or front-limiting section 16a and their rear-side or rear-limiting section 16b are shown elevated relative to their lateral boundary sections 18a, 18b.

To stop the iron 2 in the receptacle 6, these two rear support elements 20a, 20b and a front support element 22. The support elements 20a, 20b, 22 protrude beyond the shelf 12 and consist of a material with a low thermal conductivity such as plastic. A detailed. Explanation of the mirror-symmetrical support elements 20a, 20b, 22 will be given below.

As in FIG. 3 Shown 26, the projection 26 framed the bottom 24 and goes flush in the side wall 14, wherein for a simplified arrangement of the receptacle 6 at the base 4 of the projection 26, starting from the side wall 14 has a conically tapered outer periphery 28 in the direction of its free end portion.

The front support element 22 is, as will be explained in more detail below, integrally formed with at least one over the projection 26 far projecting spacer 30. When parking the receptacle 6 beyond the base 4, the receptacle 6 is supported with a rear free projecting portion 32 and with the spacer 30 on the base 8 from. In this way, a gap 34 which is open on the side and on the tip side is provided with a wedge-shaped longitudinal section between the base 8 and the bottom wall 10.

As in the FIGS. 4 and 5 shown, the rear support members 20a, 20b each have an arcuate shape with a foot 36, a neck 38 and a head 40. The neck 38 is compared to the foot 36 and the head 40 cross-sectional tapered, thereby forming a demoted form-fitting attachment in Bodenwandungsseitigen Breakthroughs 42a, 42b of the receptacle 6 (s. FIG. 8 ). The head 40 forms a bearing surface 44 facing away from the foot 36 for the iron 2 and has for simplified introduction into the openings 42a, 42b, two roof-like employed side surfaces 46a, 46b. On the foot side, the rear support elements 20a, 20b each have two body sections extending from a foot surface facing away from the support surface 44, preferably designed as support legs 48a, 48b. The support legs 48a, 48b are cylindrical and serve to support the receptacle 6 and the iron 2 on the base 4. They have such an extent in the vertical direction that they easily beyond the projection 26 of the bottom wall 10 protrude (s. FIG. 3 ).

According to the FIGS. 6 and 7 Also, the front support member 22 has an arcuate shape with a foot 36, with a cross-section reduced neck 38 for forming a downgrade for receiving in a bottom wall-side opening 50 of the receptacle 6 (s. FIG. 8 ) and with a head 40 to form a support surface 44 for the soleplate. The head 40 is also provided with two roof-like side surfaces 46a, 46b for ease of insertion into the aperture 50. Furthermore, the front support elements 22 also have two spaced-apart, preferably as support legs 48 a, 48 b formed body sections for support on the base. 4

The spacer 30 has a cone-like profile with a free radially tapered end portion. It is integrally formed with the front spacer 30 and thus consists of the same material. It is radially expanded starting from its free end portion in the direction of the foot 36 and merges into the foot 36 centrally between the body portions, which are preferably designed as support feet 48a, 48b. Thus, it is arranged in the plane of symmetry of the support element 22 and positioned in the assembled state in the plane of symmetry of the receptacle 6.

As in the FIGS. 8 and 9 Shown breakthroughs 42a, 42b, 50 for receiving each one of the support elements 20a, 20b, 22 are arcuate and thereby facing each other with their concave sides. They each have a circumscribed latching projection 52 and a circumferential collar 54, as indicated at the rear opening 42b. The opening 50 for receiving the front support element 22 is arranged in the plane of symmetry of the receptacle 6 and oriented in the transverse direction. The openings 42a, 42b for receiving the rear support elements 20a, 20b, are made obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the receptacle 6.

The support elements 20a, 20b, 22 are respectively inserted from the bottom 24 with their heads 40 in the openings 42a, 42b, 50 until the locking projections 52 releasably engage in the downgrades and their feet 36 are encompassed by the respective collar 54. Their heads 40 then protrude beyond the shelf 12, so that their respective support surface 44 is spaced therefrom (s. Figures 3 and 12 ).

Between the openings 42a, 42b, 50 is in the region of the bottom 24, a body portion 56 for receiving a in FIG. 9 heat deflector 58 shown provided, which is encompassed by a web-like border 59. The body portion 56 extends between and is bounded by the apertures 42a, 42b, 50 and is approximately pear-shaped with a wide rear surface portion and a narrow front surface portion. It is tapered in relation to its wall-bordering portions 61 of the bottom wall 10 and has a plurality of longitudinal and transverse webs 60a, 60b. The webs 60a, 60b each form a plurality of stitches 62 which laterally bound individual air chambers in the mounted state of the heat deflector 58.

For attachment of the heat deflector 58 to the body portion 56, the receptacle 6 has three pins 64a, 64b, 64c positioned in the region of the apertures 42a, 42b, 50, which, as in FIG FIG. 9 represented by corresponding unnumbered holes of the heat deflector 58 are guided.

The in FIG. 9 illustrated heat reflector 58 is made of a material having a high thermal conductivity such as aluminum or an aluminum alloy and acts as a kind of heat shield.

As in FIG. 10 shown has the base 4 to the arrangement of the receptacle 6 a sinking 66 with one of the outer contour of the receptacle 6 corresponding bottom 68 and with a circumferential inner wall 70 which is widened conically in the opening direction (s. FIG. 12 ). To accommodate the spacer 30, a recess 72 formed as a pocket 72 is integrated in the sole tip region of the bottom 68, which are conically tapered in the direction of their bottom 74. In this case, the pocket 72 has a depth such that in the inserted state, the spacer 30 is spaced from the base 74.

According to FIG. 11 the base 4 is formed so thin-walled at least in the region of the sinking 66, that the sinking 66 is stepped in an inner surface 76.

When inserting the receptacle 6 in the sinking 66, the spacer 30 is first inserted into the sinker 66. Then the receptacle 6 slides with its projection 26 along the inner wall 70 until the preferably formed as support legs 48 a, 48 b Body portions of the support elements 20a, 20b, 22 rest on the bottom 68 of the sinking 66. In this state is, as in FIG. 12 , shown the receptacle 6 by abutment of the projection 26 on the inner wall 70 both in the longitudinal direction and in the transverse direction secured to the base 4. By resting on the floor 68 support members 20a, 20b, 22, the projection 26 is spaced from the bottom 68 and the iron 2 is supported directly on the support members 20a, 20b, 22 without interposition of the receptacle 6 on the base 4 from. The recording then acts primarily as a heat shield between the soleplate and the base. 4

In FIG. 13 a section of an inventive embodiment of an ironing station 1 is shown, in which, in contrast to the above-described embodiment, at least one spacer 30 for oblique spacing of a portable receptacle 6 from a pad 8 and a front support member 22 of the portable receptacle 6 form two separate components.

The spacer 30 is connected as a hollow cylindrical body integrally in the plane of symmetry to a portion of a bottom 24 of the receptacle 6. It is integrally formed with the bottom wall 10 of the receptacle 6 and consists of the same material. When viewing the receptacle 6 in the longitudinal direction in the rearward direction, it is arranged in front of the front support element 22.

The front support element 22 is according to the above-described rear support elements 20a, 20b after the FIGS. 1 to 12 formed and thus has an arcuate shape with a foot 36, a cross-sectional tapered neck 38 for releasable locking in an opening 50 of the bottom wall 10, a head 40 to form a support surface 44 and two, preferably as support legs 48 a, 48 b formed body sections for support on the Base 4, one of which is visible in the illustrated perspective and which have such an extent in the vertical direction, that the receptacle 6 in the arrangement of a sinking 66 on the base 4 from the recess-side bottom 68 is spaced.

In the bottom 68 of the countersink 66, a cylindrical pocket 72, which is displaced forward correspondingly to the spacer 30, is formed to receive the spacer 30, which has such a depth that the spacer 30 in the inserted state is spaced from the base 74 of the pocket 72.

As in FIG. 14 Shown is the bottom wall-side aperture 50 for attaching the front support member according to the above-described front opening 50 after the FIGS. 1 to 12 formed and arranged in the plane of symmetry of the receptacle 6 and the bottom wall 10. It has an arcuate shape extending in the transverse direction of the receptacle 6 with a circumferential latching projection 52 for latching with the neck 38 of the support element 22 and with an underside collar 54 for gripping the foot 36 of the support element 22.

Disclosed are a ironing station 1 with an iron 2 and a base 4, which has a portable receptacle 6 for placing the iron 2 away from the base 4 on a base 8, wherein the receptacle 6 at least one spacer 30 for spacing a sole of the Iron 2 facing storage surface 12 of the pad 8, wherein a gap 34 between the receptacle 6 and the pad 8 is at least partially opened laterally, wherein the base 4 formed as a recess pocket 72 for inserting the at least one spacer 30 when positioning the recording 6 at the base 4, and wherein the receptacle 6 in a bottom wall 10 has a heat reflector 58; and a base 4 for use in such an ironing station 1.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1

ironing station

2

Iron

4

Base

6

admission

8th

document

10

bottom wall

12

shelf

14

sidewall

16a, b

front and rear boundary section

18a, 18b

lateral boundary section

20a, b

support element

22

support element

24

bottom

26

head Start

28

end

30

spacer

32

projecting portion

34

gap

36

foot

38

neck

40

head

42a, b

breakthrough

44

bearing surface

46a, b

side surface

48a, b

preferably designed as support legs body sections

50

breakthrough

52

catch projection

54

collar

56

body part

58

heat reflector

59

border

60a, b

web

61

section

62

mesh

64a, b, c

pen

66

sinking

68

ground

70

inner wall

72

pocket formed as a recess

74

reason

76

palm

Claims (13)

1. Ironing station (1) having an iron (2) and a base (4) which has a portable holder (6) for placing the iron (2) on a support (8) at a distance from the base (4),

   - wherein the holder (6) has at least one spacer (30) for distancing a supporting shelf (12) facing a base of the iron (2) from the support (8),

   - wherein an intermediate space (34) between the holder (6) and the support (8) is open at least in sections at the sides,

   - and wherein the base (4) has a pocket (72) embodied as a depression for inserting the at least one spacer (30) when the holder (6) is positioned on the base (4), wherein

   the holder (6) has a heat reflector (58) in a base wall (10).
2. Ironing station according to claim 1, wherein the at least one spacer (30) is arranged at the side of the tip of the sole and the holder (6) has a rear stop (16b) for securing the iron (2) in the longitudinal direction.
3. Ironing station according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the holder (6) has lateral stops (18a, 18b) for securing the iron (2) in the transverse direction.
4. Ironing station according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the at least one spacer (30) is manufactured separately from the holder (6).
5. Ironing station according to claim 4, wherein the at least one spacer (30) is detachably connected to the holder (6) and is inserted from the rear into a passage (50) of the holder (6).
6. Ironing station according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the holder (6) has at least one supporting element (20a, 20b, 22) for distancing the iron (2) from the supporting shelf (12).
7. Ironing station according to claim 6, wherein a plurality of supporting elements (20a, 20b, 22) is provided and these comprise body segments, embodied preferably as supporting feet (48a, 48b), for providing support on the base (4).
8. Ironing station according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the at least one spacer (30) is embodied in one piece with a supporting element (22).
9. Ironing station according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the heat reflector (58) is arranged below the holder (6).
10. Ironing station according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the base wall (10) has a reduced wall thickness in the region of the heat reflector (58).
11. Ironing station according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the holder (6) has webs (60a, 60b) for arranging the heat reflector (58).
12. Ironing station according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the base (4) has a recess (66) for inserting the holder (6).
13. Ironing station according to claim 12, wherein the recess (66) has a geometry adjusted for the at least one spacer (30).

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