US3485065A - Portable clothes steamer - Google Patents

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US3485065A
US3485065A US708657A US3485065DA US3485065A US 3485065 A US3485065 A US 3485065A US 708657 A US708657 A US 708657A US 3485065D A US3485065D A US 3485065DA US 3485065 A US3485065 A US 3485065A
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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
    • D06F87/00—Apparatus for moistening or otherwise conditioning the article to be ironed or pressed
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06C—FINISHING, DRESSING, TENTERING OR STRETCHING TEXTILE FABRICS
    • D06C7/00—Heating or cooling textile fabrics
    • 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
    • D06F75/30—Hand irons of special external shape or form
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06C—FINISHING, DRESSING, TENTERING OR STRETCHING TEXTILE FABRICS
    • D06C2700/00—Finishing or decoration of textile materials, except for bleaching, dyeing, printing, mercerising, washing or fulling
    • D06C2700/13—Steaming or decatising of fabrics or yarns

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  • a housing construction is provided for a portable appliance that steams clothes to remove wrinkles.
  • the housing comprises an uprightly disposed cylindrical type hollow watertight member with an electrically heated Water chamber inside and which has upper and lower interfitting sections.
  • a steam head is provided for treating a garment and a bafiie network between is disposed in a steam conveyance path between the head and the water chamber to prevent spilling of water when the member is tilted and to prevent sputtering of steam flow by condensation of water.
  • This invention relates to a portable garment steamer, and more specifically, it relates to structure for conveying steam from a heated water chamber to a steam head so that it may be used in steaming clothes such as described in my copending application Ser. No. 692,828 for Fabric Treatment Means And Methods, which is incorporated herein as a reference to the state of the prior art.
  • Still another object of this invention is to provide a garment steamer that is leakproof and which may be stored in any position with water inside.
  • FIGURE 1 is an elevation view of a garment steamer constructed in accordance with the invention.
  • FIGURE 2 is a top view, partly in section, of a baflle element arrangement provided in accordance with this invention.
  • the portable garment steamer rests upon a stand 5 to hold its substantially cylindrical, hollow body 6 vertically disposed with an apertured steam head 7 at the top to permit steam 8 to escape.
  • the body 6 is watertight-with a lower water chamber 9 having an electrical heater assem- 3,485,065 Patented Dec. 23, 1969 bly 10 therein for heating the water 11.
  • the body is of plastic or has some insulating holding portion if of metal, since the steamer is hand held and this insulates the hand from the heated water and steam.
  • the body is divided into upper 12 and lower section 9 which are coupled at an intermediate position 14 by means of an interfitting coupling arrangement 15.
  • This coupler can be either a threaded coupler or a bayonet type removable coupling which produces a generally watertight seal at the coupling.
  • the upper member 12 serves as a steam conveyance means between the lower water chamber member 9 and the steam head 7. Within this member 12 is disposed an array of baffles 20 with aperture or slot sections 21 disposed in such a manner that escaping steam must take a zig-zag path 22 out of the water chamber.
  • the top section 12 may be removed at the coupling 15 and the battle array is afiixed inside the top section by means of rod 25 and rivet or screw 26 to extend coaxially within the confines of the top section 12.
  • the rod-baflle assembly is made of a plastic material with the semi-circular wafer-like baffles 20 disposed at an angle from the vertical body axis to provide at their lowermost extremities the slot-aperture portion 21 through which the steam escapes.
  • the baffles 20 may be of a semi-rigid plastic at least.
  • the sloping bafiies will constitute a series of cups designed with a capacity to hold the water capacity of water chamber 9 without reaching or spilling out of the apertures 45 in head 7. Even should some of the water reach the head 7, its angular disposition provides much the same action as the baffies, and the centrally disposed escape apertures 45 are surrounded by internally facing bosses or ridges so that a significant water level must be introduced to permit leakage.
  • a portable garment steamer comprising in combination, a water chamber, heating means disposed in said water chamber, an apertured steam head for treating a garment with escaping steam, conveyance means disposed between said chamber and said head comprising a hollow Watertight housing coupling said chamber and said head having a removable connection dividing the steamer into two interfitting sections one of which comprises said water chamber, and a set of apertured bafi les within said conveyance means directing steam escaping from the water chamber through the apertures in a zigzag path to said head.
  • baffles are mounted integrally within said conveyance means section, extending outside the water chamber.

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Cited By (7)

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US3654780A (en) * 1971-04-21 1972-04-11 Dart Ind Inc Clothes steamer device
US3695066A (en) * 1970-03-16 1972-10-03 John S Doyel Portable hand-held steamer
US3971913A (en) * 1974-07-26 1976-07-27 Gerber Products Company Non-splitting electric room vaporizer
US4616122A (en) * 1980-08-06 1986-10-07 Clairol Incorporated Electrically heated facial sauna vapor generating apparatus
US5121464A (en) * 1989-04-24 1992-06-09 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Steamer with controlled pressure
US20160160434A1 (en) * 2013-08-01 2016-06-09 Koninklijke Philips N.V. Hand-held steamer head
US10214852B2 (en) 2014-01-06 2019-02-26 Techtronic Floor Care Technology Limited Portable garment steamer

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US2172917A (en) * 1936-07-28 1939-09-12 Albert C Voigt Steaming implement
US3272964A (en) * 1964-06-15 1966-09-13 Carlos J Paul Fabric steamer
US3395469A (en) * 1966-09-14 1968-08-06 Bernard Frank Pressing irons

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2172917A (en) * 1936-07-28 1939-09-12 Albert C Voigt Steaming implement
US3272964A (en) * 1964-06-15 1966-09-13 Carlos J Paul Fabric steamer
US3395469A (en) * 1966-09-14 1968-08-06 Bernard Frank Pressing irons

Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3695066A (en) * 1970-03-16 1972-10-03 John S Doyel Portable hand-held steamer
US3654780A (en) * 1971-04-21 1972-04-11 Dart Ind Inc Clothes steamer device
US3971913A (en) * 1974-07-26 1976-07-27 Gerber Products Company Non-splitting electric room vaporizer
US4616122A (en) * 1980-08-06 1986-10-07 Clairol Incorporated Electrically heated facial sauna vapor generating apparatus
US5121464A (en) * 1989-04-24 1992-06-09 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Steamer with controlled pressure
US20160160434A1 (en) * 2013-08-01 2016-06-09 Koninklijke Philips N.V. Hand-held steamer head
US10214852B2 (en) 2014-01-06 2019-02-26 Techtronic Floor Care Technology Limited Portable garment steamer

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