EP3088599A1 - Elektrohaushaltsgerät zum bügeln, das einen dampferzeuger umfasst, der mit einer entleerungsöffnung ausgestattet ist - Google Patents

Elektrohaushaltsgerät zum bügeln, das einen dampferzeuger umfasst, der mit einer entleerungsöffnung ausgestattet ist Download PDF

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EP3088599A1
EP3088599A1 EP16164329.1A EP16164329A EP3088599A1 EP 3088599 A1 EP3088599 A1 EP 3088599A1 EP 16164329 A EP16164329 A EP 16164329A EP 3088599 A1 EP3088599 A1 EP 3088599A1
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Stéphane Loprete
Jordan DOMINIQUE
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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
    • D06F75/10—Hand irons internally heated by electricity with means for supplying steam to the article being ironed
    • D06F75/14—Hand irons internally heated by electricity with means for supplying steam to the article being ironed the steam being produced from water in a reservoir carried by the iron
    • 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
    • D06F75/10—Hand irons internally heated by electricity with means for supplying steam to the article being ironed
    • 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
    • D06F75/24—Arrangements of the heating means within the iron; Arrangements for distributing, conducting or storing the heat
    • 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
    • D06F75/10—Hand irons internally heated by electricity with means for supplying steam to the article being ironed
    • D06F75/12—Hand irons internally heated by electricity with means for supplying steam to the article being ironed the steam being produced from water supplied to the iron from an external source

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  • the present invention relates to an ironing appliance comprising a housing containing a steam generator having a drain orifice for the removal of scale and relates more particularly to an apparatus comprising a removable cap accessible from the outside of the housing , coming to close the drain orifice, and comprising a cover that hides the plug.
  • ironing appliances comprising a housing enclosing a tank for the generation of pressurized steam connected by a cord to an iron, the tank comprising a drain orifice, allowing the scale removal, closed by a removable cap, accessible from the outside of the case.
  • the cap is generally made of metal, to withstand the high temperatures prevailing in the tank, and is screwed on the drain hole.
  • the latter may be provided with a plastic part which is generally overmolded on the plug, such a plastic part may advantageously have a shape adapted to facilitate handling of the plug. plug.
  • an object of the present invention is to overcome these disadvantages by providing an appliance with improved safety and ergonomics of use.
  • the subject of the invention is an appliance for ironing comprising a housing containing a steam generator comprising a drain orifice for the removal of scale, a removable cap to close the drain orifice, accessible from the outside the housing, and a cover hiding the cap, characterized in that the cover is secured to the housing by a hinge, the cover can occupy a closed position in which it masks the cap and an open position in which it releases the access to the cap.
  • Such a cover has the advantage of reducing the risk of burn when it occupies the closed position by preventing direct contact with the cap.
  • the heat transfer between the cap and the cover is slowed by the fact that these two parts are constituted by two separate parts so that there is a thermal brake at the junction between these two parts even if they are in contact one from the other.
  • the cover is made of plastic material, advantageously polypropylene, the hinge being obtained directly from molding with the cover.
  • Such a technical solution has the advantage of being very economical to implement.
  • such a technical feature reduces the manufacturing cost of the device by reducing the number of assembly operations.
  • At least part of the housing is obtained directly from molding with the cover and the hinge.
  • the cover and the hinge are obtained directly from molding with a lower shell defining the base of the case.
  • the hinge is disposed under the drain orifice, the cover in the open position extending under the outlet of the drain orifice and having a hollow shape which collects the liquid flowing out. through the drain hole.
  • Such a characteristic makes it possible to use the cover in the open position as a collector of the liquid flowing from the drain orifice, which makes it possible to prevent the liquid from spilling uninhibitedly along the housing, by messy, and does not enter the device.
  • the cover in the closed position, extends substantially vertically in front of the stopper and, in the open position, the cover comprises a free end, disposed opposite the hinge, which is inclined towards the bottom.
  • the cover comprises a cavity in which the stopper engages when the cover occupies the closed position, the cavity comprises a bottom wall bordered by a peripheral wall comprising a discharge opening, the opening being advantageously raised with respect to the bottom wall.
  • Such a feature allows the cache to be used as a pipe guiding the liquid from the drain port to a sink.
  • a cache also makes it possible to better visualize the quantity of tartar flowing through the drain orifice, the major part of the scale being trapped in the cavity before flowing through the discharge opening.
  • the hinge is bistable, the hinge being able to occupy a first stable position in which the cover occupies the closed position and a second stable position in which the cover occupies the open position.
  • the hinge generates a pair of recall on the cache whose direction reverses when passing from an intermediate position between the closed position and the open position, the return torque tending to bring the cover to the closed position when the cover is in a first angular range included between the intermediate position and the closed position and tending to return the cover to the open position when the cover is in a second angular range between the intermediate position and the open position.
  • the hinge comprises a membrane arranged longitudinally between two rectilinear parts defining the axis of rotation of the hinge, the membrane having an almond-shaped shape, with two curvilinear edges joining at the end of the rectilinear parts, the membrane deforming by seeing its curvature reverse when moving the cover between the open position and the closed position.
  • the membrane when the cover occupies the open position, the membrane has a concave upper surface.
  • Such a feature allows the hinge to channel water flowing from the drain port to the cover.
  • the cover when the cover occupies the closed position, it is separated from the plug by a layer of air.
  • the steam generator is constituted by a tank for generating steam under pressure which is connected by a cord to an iron.
  • the figure 1 represents an ironing apparatus of the steam generator type, typically comprising an iron 1 and a steam generating base 2 connected to the iron 1 by a bead 3 allowing the transfer of steam from the base 2 to the iron 1, the base 2 being electrically powered by means of a cable, not shown in the figures.
  • the base 2 generating steam comprises, in a manner known per se, a housing 20 enclosing a water tank 21 provided with a filling orifice 21A and a tank 4 for generating steam under pressure, represented in dashed line on the figure 1 .
  • the tank 4 comprises a heating resistor 40 in the shape of a U, arranged under the bottom of the tank 4, which is regulated to allow the production of steam under a maximum pressure of the order of 4 to 6 bars, the tank 4 being fed in water tank by a supply pipe 41 connected to a pump, not shown in the figures.
  • the tank 4 also comprises a steam outlet orifice equipped with a solenoid valve 44 connected to the iron 1 by a steam duct integrated in the cord 3, the solenoid valve 44 being controlled at the opening by a button 10 arranged under the handle of the iron 1.
  • the housing 20 is made by assembling plastic parts obtained by molding and it comprises in particular a lower shell 20A, opaque polypropylene, which is surmounted by an intermediate shell 20B, also opaque polypropylene, and a upper shell 20C transparent or translucent polypropylene.
  • the intermediate shells 20B and 20C upper are advantageously assembled to one another by overmolding a polypropylene seal, and they have complementary shapes forming between them a space defining the reservoir 21, the latter extending along the periphery of the housing 20.
  • the lower shell 20A has a main body 22 which forms a base supporting the tank 4, the latter comprising a lateral opening which communicates with a rigid conduit having an axial end provided with a drain hole 42 closed by a removable metal cap 43.
  • the emptying orifice 42 opens on a lateral face of the casing 20 at an arch 23 formed in the intermediate shell 20B and in the upper shell 20C, the lower shell 20A comprising, facing this arch 23, a support protruding comprising a cradle 24 which is positioned under the conduit comprising the emptying orifice 42 and guarantee the correct positioning of the latter.
  • the lower shell 20A also has a cover 5 which is connected to the main body 22 of the lower shell 20A by a hinge 6 obtained directly from the molding with the main body 22 and the cover 5, the hinge 6 being constituted by an area where the material thickness is reduced.
  • the hinge 6 is advantageously arranged at the lower end of the cover 5 so that the latter can occupy a closed position, illustrated on the figures 1 and 7 , in which the cover 5 is arranged substantially vertically, by masking the plug 43 fixed on the emptying orifice 42, and occupy an open position, illustrated in particular on the figures 2 , 3 and 6 , in which the cover 5 is tilted downwards, forming an angle of the order of 45 ° relative to the horizontal, so as to release access to the closure cap 43, the cover 5 then extending under the outlet of the drain port 42.
  • the hinge 6 comprises a rectilinear portion 60 at each of its longitudinal ends which defines the axis of rotation of the hinge 6, these straight portions 60 being advantageously constituted by a film of material having a thickness of the order of 0.4mm.
  • the hinge 6 also comprises a membrane 61 in the general shape of almond which is disposed between the two rectilinear parts 60, the membrane 61 comprising two curvilinear edges 62 joining at one end of the rectilinear parts 60.
  • the membrane 61 is advantageously constituted by a film of material thickness of the order of 0.5 mm and has a curved shape deforming when the cover 5 moves from the open position to the closed position, the membrane 61 preferably having a concave shape when the cover 5 is in the open position .
  • the hinge 6 thus produced has the advantage of generating a return torque which, when the cover 5 is brought manually from the open position to the closed position, is opposed initially to the movement of the cover towards the closed position and tends to bring it back to the open position, this return torque to the open position corresponding to a first phase of deformation of the membrane 61.
  • This first phase of deformation takes place until the cover 5 reaches an intermediate position where the curvature of the membrane 61 is reversed, and the return torque exerted by the latter, so that the cover 5 is then automatically returned to the closed position, the membrane 61 then having a convex shape.
  • the cover 5 has a hollow shape and comprises a cavity 50 having a bottom wall 51 having a shape complementary to that of the arch 23 and a peripheral wall 52 that engages an edge 25 of the housing 20 delimiting the arch 23, the edge 25 comprising two symmetrical lateral bosses 26 engaging resiliently in two grooves 53 formed on the peripheral wall 52 when the cover 5 occupies the closed position.
  • the peripheral wall 52 has, at the free end of the cover 5 located opposite the hinge 6, a through opening 54 which allows the flow of any liquid present in the cavity 50 when the cover 5 is in the open position, the housing 20 comprising a locking tab 27, located at the top of the arch 23, which engages in the through opening 54 when the cover 5 occupies the closed position.
  • the apparatus can then be used without risk of burning the user, the metal plug 43 closing the emptying orifice 42 being then masked by the cover 5.
  • the cover 5 in the closed position, has the advantage of not being in thermal contact with the metal cap 43, but is instead separated from the latter by a layer of air, so that the temperature of the cache 5 remains very low, even after a long period of use of the 'apparatus.
  • the user manually moves the cover 5 towards the open position, the membrane 61 of the hinge 6 then deforming at first by generating a return torque which opposes the movement of the cover 5 to the open position.
  • the return torque generated by the membrane 61 changes direction and the cover 5 is then automatically brought into the open position, illustrated on the figures 3 and 6 .
  • the user then has access to the cap 43 and can unscrew the latter by means of a screwdriver or a coin.
  • the plug 43 is extracted, the liquid contained in the tank 4 flows through the emptying orifice 42, taking with it any tartar particles present in the bottom of the tank 4.
  • the cover 5 has the advantage of channeling the liquid coming from the emptying orifice 42, thus preventing liquid from flowing anarchically along the housing 20 of the apparatus, with the risk of getting inside the latter.
  • the cover 5 also has the advantage of allowing a better visualization of the scale particles exiting through the emptying orifice 42 so that the user can better appreciate the scaling state of the tank 4 and space in consequence the emptying operations.
  • the opening 54 through the cover 5 may advantageously be located slightly back from the bottom wall 51 so as to result in a step to retain any tartar particles flowing with the water of the vessel 4.
  • the through opening 54 may also be equipped with a filtering grid in order to retain the larger scale particles in the cavity 50 of the cover 5 and thus be able to establish more precisely the scaling state of the tank 4.
  • the user can screw the cap 43 onto the drain orifice 42 and then manually bring the cover 5 into the closed position, the membrane 61 of the hinge 6 then deforming at first by generating a return torque that opposes the movement of the cover 5 to the closed position.
  • the cache 5 reaches the position intermediate where the curvature of the membrane 61 is reversed, the return torque generated by the diaphragm 61 changes direction and the cover 5 is then automatically brought into the closed position.
  • This provides a device providing great ergonomics of use, the bistable character of the hinge 6 equipping the cover 5 having the advantage of facilitating the manipulations necessary for emptying, automatically bringing the cover 5 is in the open position to accompany the flow of the liquid leaving the drain orifice 42, or in the closed position to avoid contact with the stopper 43.
  • the apparatus thus produced has the advantage of having a cover 5 which is captive, whose hinge 6 is of high mechanical strength and which is directly integrated in the molding with a constituent element of the housing so that the necessary operations to the assembly of the device are reduced.
  • the cache may be devoid of an orifice for the flow of the liquid and include only a form of spout at the edge of the cache.

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