Iron and ironing method with textile adjuvant dispensing

Details Iron and ironing method with textile adjuvant dispensing Iron and ironing method with textile adjuvant dispensing

1999-07-19

2000-10-10

Izaguirre, Ismael

Textiles: ironing or smoothing

Smoothing implements

Flatirons

D06F 7518

Patent

active

06128839&

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to an iron and ironing process, with distribution of a textile adjuvant.


PRIOR ART

Irons have known significant improvements such as the addition of devices for moistening the linen, by spraying water with the aid of an integrated sprayer, and/or with means for producing steam.
There are known products facilitating ironing, for example by improving sliding of the iron, and products improving the behavior of the fabrics, for example in order to soften them or in order to improve the appearance. The means for distributing these products onto the fabric are essentially bottles filled with treating products in liquid form: soluble oils, suspensions or latex. These bottles are either under gas pressure, or supplied with a manual pump in order to permit distribution by spraying on a fabric to be ironed. However, the utilization of bottles requires the user to put down her iron each time since in order to impregnate the fabric, she must grasp the bottle.
This difficulty is resolved by systems integrated into the iron and comprising a pump, described for example in French patent 2,705,975, which requires a reservoir separate from the steam reservoir, reserved for the textile treating product.
One shortcoming of such systems is that the supplemental reservoir assigned to the active product occupies a great amount of space, at the expense of the water reservoir for steaming, which reduces the capacity of the iron. Moreover, the presence of two reservoirs inevitably leads to filling errors, and the filling of the water reservoir for steaming with an active product, even very diluted, can lead to a very poor functioning of the iron with ejection of impurities through all of the steam holes.
There are also known devices described for example in French patent 2,686,629 where the active product is distributed at the same time as the steam. These devices for distribution with the steam have unfortunately the drawback of not permitting the utilization of a varied range of active products, these having to be among others those which do not distill and which are not destroyed by steam.


SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The invention has as an object an iron permitting a distribution of a textile adjuvant without having the preceding drawbacks of known devices, and thus rendering possible the utilization of a varied range of active products, permitting a satisfactory capacity for the iron and convenience of use with minimum risks of handling errors.
The invention equally concerns an ironing method with distribution of a textile adjuvant, convenient and easy to use.
The invention is thus applied to an iron comprising a heating soleplate, a reservoir intended to contain a textile adjuvant and a device for distributing the adjuvant.
According to the invention, the iron comprises means for diluting the adjuvant comprising an adjuvant-free water supply system, these diluting means being connected to the adjuvant reservoir and intended to produce a diluted solution of the adjuvant before distribution.
Thus, the adjuvant reservoir can contain the adjuvant in concentrated form, the dilution means permitting to obtain during operation the desired concentration of the distributed product. One advantage for an iron is that the adjuvant reservoir can be of small capacity. Thus, in the case of an iron comprising a water reservoir for steaming, the capacity of the iron is not adversely affected, in contrast to existing devices.
Integration of an adjuvant reservoir into the iron permits simplification of the distribution of the adjuvant by a user. In addition, in the case where the iron comprises a water reservoir for steaming, the risks of confusion during filling are considerably reduced by the fact that the capacities of the water reservoir and of the adjuvant reservoir are very different. Any risks of error will be eliminated if use is made in the adjuvant reservoir of pre-filled cassettes.
At the interior of the adjuvant reservoir, the concentrated active product is in a first embodiment in l

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patent: 5138778 (1992-08-01), Brandolini
patent: 5507108 (1996-04-01), Bruggink et al.
patent: 5526595 (1996-06-01), Daulsim et al.

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