ES2229999T3 - DEVICE FOR IRONING SHIRTS. - Google Patents

Abstract

Device (1) for ironing shirts (3) with devices (2) for ironing the cuffs (16) of the sleeves of the shirt, where the devices (2) for ironing the cuffs (16) have two tightening bodies (7, 12) that can be plugged into each other, whose clamping surfaces (8, 14) are air permeable and have the shape of a piece of U-shaped gutter with arms, arranged with an opening angle, characterized in that the angle Opening is less than 10.

Description

Device for ironing shirts.

The invention relates to a device for iron shirts with devices to iron the ends of the shirt sleeves, that is to iron the cuffs.

According to a known procedure, the shirts are ironed by fixing them at different points and inflating them and tensioning them especially with hot air, where the shirt also It can be stretched further at the fixation points. For the fixation of the fists necessary in this procedure, it is known, by US Patent 2,740,566 and EP 0 587 173 the catch system the fists between flat tightening surfaces. In these cases the fists, however, cannot be caught open, so that in any case they are left with a fold. In addition, by the patent DE 36 17 585 inflatable clamping bodies are known that are enter into clenched fists, inflate there and clench from the inside against the fists, but for this they must be closed. These fixing procedures described above can be use to some extent also to iron the fists.

A GB 2 225 592 patent is also known as a device for ironing the fists, where the fists are placed in closed state between two heated plate surfaces, slightly domed, which have holes on its surface to which they can be applied empty. To iron the fists, these they are vacuum aspirated against hot plate surfaces. The plate surfaces for the cuffs are for it so separated that the insufflated air in the jacket can flow through the fists, which is sucked in part through the tissue of the cuffs, across the plate surfaces. The inconvenience of this is that on the one hand, due to the flow of air through the fists a powerful blower is needed to generate a pressure enough on the shirt and, on the other hand, you also need a vacuum pump.

In another procedure for ironing shirts you use an inflatable bag, around which the shirt is placed. In this case is not necessary to fix the shirt since it is held by the inflatable bag. In these cases the fists are ironed by some stretches of inflatable bag sleeve. When the bag is used inflatable is only known to fix the button placket of the shirt that is about ironing, so as not to have to button it, such as is known from US Patent 3,165,244.

On the other hand the patent EP 0 679 758 A2 and the US Patent 2,626,733 show, respectively, a device for iron cuffs for clothes where a fist is pressed between two V-shaped press caps. The pressing device of The cuffs according to EP 0 679 758 A2 may be provided with perforations to feed or evacuate hot air or steam.

The invention aims to create a device of the class initially cited where the fists they can simply be placed and ironed without folds.

This objective is resolved by the characteristics of claim 1.

The devices for ironing the fists they have two clamping bodies that can be plugged into one on the other, whose clamping surfaces are air permeable and they have the shape of a section of a U-shaped gutter with the slightly open arms. In this way you can place the cuffs especially easily, placing them on the body of internal tightening and then plugging the tightening body outer on the inner tightening body, to press the fist between them leaving him ironed. Due to air permeability of the clamping surfaces of the clamping bodies is achieved that the fist can better get in touch with the air to improve the result of the iron. The stretch between the two arms of the clamping surfaces are advantageously shaped semicircular.

The opening angle of the arms is chosen less than 10º. In this way, by the wedge effect between the two tightening bodies favors the pressing of the fists, where due to the friction between the clamping surfaces and the cuffs it can also achieve the fixing of the two clamping bodies each.

The free edges of the arms of the exterior clamping surfaces may have a folded section more strongly outward, to simplify the fit between yes of the two tightening bodies and to reduce the danger that the fists suffer damage during this process. You can also provide that the arms of the clamping surfaces of the bodies of external tightening they can yield elastically to each other. Yes in a in this case, an opening angle of the surfaces of external tightening less than that of the tightening surfaces interiors, you can achieve, through this elastic effect, a better pressing of the cuffs as well as the fixation of the two bodies of tightening each other.

In a specific embodiment the bodies of tightening can present some support bodies through the which can pass the air, which have fixed plates perforated forming the clamping surfaces. The bodies of support can be advantageously molded plastic parts, while for tightening surfaces that are directly a quality material can be used in contact with the cuffs superior and, in particular, a metal. Tightening bodies including tightening surfaces however they can also be made of the same piece of plastic material.

It can also be expected that the bodies of internal and external tightening can be pierced by air in a direction parallel to the tightening surface, and presenting devices to direct the air that passes through the bodies of tighten to the respective tightening surfaces, and that the devices for ironing the fists present systems for the air forwarding coming out of one end of the bodies of tighten interiors to the interior of the external clamping bodies, when the inner and outer clamping bodies corresponding are embedded together.

Normally, ironing shirts uses a stream of air, especially hot air, which leads to inside of the shirt and sleeves. From the sleeves, the air flow can reach the clamping bodies located in the interior, acting there from the inside on the fists. By means of air forwarding systems, it can be forwarded when it comes out of the end of the fist, driving it from the outside on the fist, leading it towards the tightening body exterior or exterior clamping surface. This way it noticeably improves the ironing of the fist that usually has several layers.

To join the two clamping bodies together, you can expect the device to iron the ends of the shirt sleeves present a guide for the two bodies of tighten that, from the tightening state to a certain distance of the clamping bodies from each other, allow only your relative displacement without turning movement, and that this separation of the clamping bodies from each other allow additionally or alternatively the rotation of the clamping bodies with each other. For place the fist can be separated in this case the bodies of squeeze back down with each other from a certain separation. This way you get very good accessibility, in particular to the inner tightening body on which you can place the fist. Then the tightening body is lowered over outside and slides on the inner clamping body to firmly grip the fist. It is preferably fixed respectively the inner clamping body in the device for iron the shirts, and the outer tightening body is mobile. The inner clamping bodies can be specially arranged with the arms down so that to place the fist this It is simply placed on top of the open U down.

In an embodiment especially advantageously, the device for ironing shirts has a inflatable bag to tighten the shirt. With the simple inflatable bag and In this case, the trunk areas and the sleeves, which are usually easier to iron while that fists, which are usually harder to iron, will iron according to another procedure pressing them between two surfaces Of tightening. This way you can get a good result of ironing for the whole shirt, with a reduced expense.

The devices for ironing the fists can be fixed on arms that are foldable subjects in a device socket for ironing shirts. With these arms the devices for ironing the fists can be placed, and by both fists, in the right place, holding them there. The devices for ironing cuffs can be fixed so removable on the arms by means of a magnet, a hook closure or a pressure closure.

In general, devices for ironing fists in which they are pressed and therefore fixed the fists can be also use an effort to exert on the sleeves traction, to iron them better.

Other details, features and advantages of the invention are deduced from the following description of a form of realization of a device object of the invention for ironing shirts, referring to the drawings. The figures show:

Figure 1 a schematic front view of a device according to the invention for ironing shirts, with devices for ironing fists,

Figure 2 a sectional view of a body of tighten inside,

Figure 3 a side view of a body of tighten inside,

Figure 4 a view of a front face of a outer clamping body,

Figure 5 a sectional view of the body of outer clamp of Figure 4, along the line A-A, and

Figure 6 a sectional view through the device to iron the fists, being placed a fist.

In Figure 1 it is schematically represented a device 1 for ironing shirts, having a shirt on 3. The device 1 has an inflatable bag 4 for tensioning the shirt 3 and a socket 5, which serves as a stand for the device and which in particular leads the device as well as a heating and a blower to inflate the inflatable bag with hot air. By outer part of the socket 5 two arms 6 are fixed so rotating, which at their upper ends carry, respectively, a device for ironing shirt cuffs 4. Cuffs are additionally fixed by these devices 2 to iron them, and they can be stretched outwards by turning the arms 6, in order to tighten the arms of the shirt 3 and iron them better. For this the arms 6 can be stretched towards the exterior by means of weights or spring elements.

2 devices for ironing fists respectively they have an inner clamping body 7 with a outer clamping surface 8 and an outer clamping body 12 with an inner tightening surface 14. The two bodies of squeeze 7, 12 can slide into each other, so that The clamping surfaces 8, 14 face each other.

The inner clamping body 7 represented in Figure 2 shows a support body 9 of plastic material, which it has nerves 10 that with its ends define the contour desired for the tightening surface 8. The ribs 10 pass essentially parallel to the section of the inflatable bag sleeve 4. The clamping surface passes around the support body 9 8 in the form of a perforated sheet that is fixed to the support body 9 and which gives the clamping body 7 its outer shape.

In Figure 3 the tightening body 7 is represented in a side view, the support surface 8 only partially, exposing partially the ribs 10 located below and the support body 9. The clamping surface 8 is formed by a sheet that less in the areas that rest on the nerves 10 presents some holes through which air can pass to a fist That is placed on top. In the area of the clamping surface 8, in which the lower base of the body of is attached from behind support 9, and where air cannot reach from behind to the surface of press 8, the perforated sheet can be continuous and fixed to the support body 9.

The inner clamping bodies 7 are joined respectively at the ends of the sections of the bag sleeve inflatable 4, so that the bag sleeve sections continue 2 inflatable, and the air that escapes the ends of the sections of 4 inflatable bag sleeve can be driven to the tightening bodies interiors 7. There the air can pass through the clamping bodies 7, in a direction parallel to the tightening surface 8, since the separations between the ribs 10 together with the tightening surface 8 located above form some air channels.

In Figure 4 a body of press 12 as seen from the side, on which the end is placed of the sleeve of the shirt, that is to say the fist. Tightening body exterior 12 has a housing 13 in which a clamping surface 14, represented by strokes, in the form of a perforated plate. The clamping surface 14 of the clamping body outside 12 has holes, just like the clamping surface 8 of the inner clamping body 7. The free edges of the surface of tightening 14 in the form of U, that in the drawing remain in the part lower, they are folded outward so that they form a inlet chamfer 15 for inner clamping body 7.

You can also imagine making the surface of tighten 14 as an elastic band that is fixed to the housing 13 in the ends, at the entrance chamfers 15, so that at compress the inner clamping body 7 and the clamping body outer 12 compresses the fist 16 against the tightening surface interior 8. In this case it can be expected that the band used as tightening surface 14 present in the direction transverse to the sleeve a different elasticity and, in particular, superior than in the direction parallel to the sleeve. This way you can get that the fist 16 is compressed with a more uniform force between the two tightening surfaces 8, 14. This band can also be made air permeable, for example if a fabric is used for this combined with elastomer threads.

Figure 5 shows the outer clamping body 12 of Figure 4 according to the horizontal section A-A In that view you can see that the surface of tightening 14 has a separation from the housing wall 13, thus forming an air channel inside the housing 13. When the inner clamping body 7 and the body of outer clamp 12 are fitted together and air is conducted to iron the shirt through the inflatable bag sleeve sections 4, this can pass through nerves 10 through the body of internal tightening 7. For this the air flows through the interior to length of the tightening surface 8. At the end of the body of tighten inside 7, the air can escape and pass to the body of external tightening 12. There you can resend the air flow, driving it in the opposite direction between the clamping surface 14 and the wall of the housing 13, as represented by the arrows For this, the front face of the housing 13 is closed in whose side is the end of the fist.

In Figure 6, the ironing device 2 the fists 16 is represented in section, having the fist in place 16. The respective clamping bodies 7 and 12 are joined together. in each case by means of a guide, that up to a certain separation from each other of the clamping bodies 7, 12 only allows relative displacement between them. In this way, little before the fixation of the fist 16 only one movement is allowed travel as relative movement between the clamping bodies 7 and 12, so that the fist 16 cannot run involuntarily. The fixation is therefore significantly simplified for the operator. On the other hand, after a certain separation, the guide also allows a rotation of the two clamping bodies 7 and 12 between Yes, so that they can be opened.

To clench the fist 16, the body of press outside 12 until it can be opened. In this situation, the inner clamping body 7 is perfectly accessible so that the operator can easily place the fist 16 on the inner tightening surface 8. Then it closes again the outer clamping body 12 and slides down against the inner tightening body 7, until the fist 16 is sufficiently fixed. In this position, the two clamping bodies 7 and 12 can be fixed together by a locking device That is not represented. For this purpose, for example, a interlocking

You can also imagine placing a wedge in one of the clamping bodies 7, 12, acting with an opposite piece that is attached to the other clamping body 7, 12, where accommodate and fix the wedge. To release it, this opposite piece can be equipped with a device to open it, so that it returns to free the wedge.

To iron the shirt 3 it is placed preferably in the wet state above the inflatable bag 4, which is inflates with hot air to tighten the shirt 3, for which the cuffs 16 are compressed previously in the manner described above in the tightening bodies 7, 12. Hot air passes through the body of tighten inside 7 and through the holes 11 it penetrates the tightening surface 8 inside the fist 16. The air that does not pass through the holes 11 flows through the ribs 10 until the ends of the outer clamping bodies 12, opposite the inflatable bag 4, where it is driven by the closed front end to the gap between the housing 13 and the clamping surface 14 of the external clamping bodies 12. There the air flows in the direction opposite on the outside along the fists 16, putting also in contact with the fist 16 through the holes in tightening surfaces 14.

In this way, shirt 3 and cuffs 16 are iron by means of hot air stream and tension by means of the inflatable bag 4 or the pressing by means of the bodies of tighten 7, 12. In a refinement of the device object of the invention 1 it can be provided that the air flow from the stretches of inflatable bag sleeve 3 are driven to the fist ironing devices, allowing at the beginning of ironing process only a relatively stream of air reduced from the sleeve sections to achieve higher pressure inside the inflatable bag 4 and therefore greater tension of shirt 3 and better ironing. After a certain period of time, you can increase this air flow to drive more air to the fists 16 and be able to iron and dry them best.

Claims (9)

1. Device (1) for ironing shirts (3) with devices (2) for ironing the cuffs (16) of the sleeves of the shirt, where the devices (2) for ironing the cuffs (16) have two tightening bodies ( 7, 12) that can be plugged into each other, whose clamping surfaces (8, 14) are permeable to air and have the shape of a piece of U-shaped gutter with arms, arranged with an opening angle, characterized in that The opening angle is less than 10º. 2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the free edges of the arms of the outer clamping surfaces (14) have a more strongly bent outward section. Device according to one of claims 1 to 2, characterized in that the arms of the clamping surfaces (14) of the external clamping bodies (12) can elastically approach each other. Device according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the clamping bodies (7, 12) carry support bodies (9, 13) through which air can pass, and perforated plates fixed to the themselves, which form the clamping surfaces (8, 14). 5. Device according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the inner (7) and outer (12) clamping bodies can be passed through the air in a direction parallel to the clamping surface (8, 14) and have systems for the conduction of the air that passes through the tightening bodies (7, 12) towards the respective tightening surfaces (8, 14) and because the devices (2) for ironing the fists have systems (13) for the return of the air that it exits at one end of the inner clamping bodies (7) into the outer clamping body (12), when the corresponding inner (7) and outer (12) clamping bodies are plugged into each other. Device according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the devices (2) for ironing the cuffs have a guide for the two tightening bodies (7, 12), which from the state of tightening to a certain separation between the clamping bodies (7, 12) allows only a relative displacement between them, without turning movement, and from this distance of the clamping bodies (7, 12) from each other, additionally or substitutably allows the rotation of the clamping bodies (7, 12) each other. Device according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that it has an inflatable bag (4) for tensioning the jacket (3). Device according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the devices (2) for ironing the cuffs (16) are fixed on some arms (6) which in turn are rotatably fixed on a socket (5) of the device (1) for ironing shirts. Device according to claim 8, characterized in that the devices (2) for ironing the cuffs (16) are removably fixed on the arms (6), by means of a magnet, a hook closure or a pressure closure.