Textiles: ironing or smoothing – Ironing tables – Plural pressing surfaces
Reexamination Certificate
1999-12-10
2001-07-31
Izaguirre, Ismael (Department: 3765)
Textiles: ironing or smoothing
Ironing tables
Plural pressing surfaces
Reexamination Certificate
active
06266902
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to ironing boards for use with hand-held irons and having separable portions intended for auxiliary ironing operations, such as for example ironing sleeves.
REVIEW OF THE RELATED TECHNOLOGY
Several patents are know to relate to the field of the present invention.
FR 2,614,326 shows in FIGS. 1-4 a device with a flat surface having portions 1 and 5. Portion 5 appears to be slidable away from portion 1 on rods 4 sliding in tubes 3. The displacement of the rods 4 in the tubes 3 appears to be limited by pins 8 sliding in slots 9. No detents or stops are disclosed in the slide mechanism. The line between the portions is straight and angled to the major side of the flat surface, which is rectangular (page 3, line 28).
U.S. Pat. No. 4,809,450 shows an ironing press board with a board having two parts 9 and 10. Part 9 is separately usable as a sleeve-board. Part 10 mounted on a sliding carriage 11 (shown in FIG. 3, a bottom view). The part 10 is moved via an operating handle 12 and levers 13 and 14, the latter pivoting about an axis 15. The lever 14 is coupled to the sliding carriage.
When the two boards are juxtaposed (the position of FIG. 3), the mechanism is irreversible (col. 2, line 34) so that pushing on part 10 cannot move the lever 12 and separate the two boards. This is due to the way the levers are “arranged” (col. 2, line 32). However, when the two boards are separated, part 10 is free to move along the slide.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,888,759 discloses an ironing board with a pop-up “midget board” 16 which arises from a central cutout in the main board. The motion of the midget board is out of the plane defined by the two boards when they are aligned.
EP 0,458,503 also shows a board with a smaller portion which pops up (see FIG. 5).
U.S. Pat. No. 3,698,110 shows a sleeve board which pivotally swings out from the main board.
The prior art does not disclose or suggest any auxiliary (“sleeve”) board with any means for positively holding a position of the sleeve board relative to the main board.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, the present invention has an object, among others, to overcome deficiencies in the prior art, such as noted above.
The invention provides a position lock to hold a sleeve board in a position offset from the main board. (This offset position is typically used for ironing sleeves and other articles, hence the name “sleeve board”.) The sleeve board can be slid toward the main board by overcoming the lock. Preferably, the lock includes a detent and is overcome just by pushing sideways on the sleeve board with a force above a minimum or threshold force. The detent can be of the tooth-and-indentation type, where the tooth is releasably held in the indentation by a lateral force from gravity or mechanical force (e.g., a spring). Once it comes adjacent the main board or abuts the main board and is in a juxtaposed position, a second lock holds the sleeve board in the juxtaposed position. The second lock is preferably similar to the first lock.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2888759 (1959-06-01), Vennen
patent: 3698110 (1972-10-01), Shettel
patent: 4809450 (1989-03-01), Hochstrasser et al.
patent: 4910896 (1990-03-01), Ruschitzka
patent: 5016367 (1991-05-01), Breen et al.
patent: 0 458 503 (1991-11-01), None
patent: 2 614 326 (1988-10-01), None
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Izaguirre Ismael
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