CLOTHES REJUVENATOR

• US 3,670,425 A
• Filed: 02/11/1971
• Issued: 06/20/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ann Hudis, Rose Ellen Benjamin
• Original Assignee: Ann Hudis, Rose Ellen Benjamin
• Inventors: Benjamin, Rose Ellen, Hudis, Ann
• Primary Examiner(s): Dority, Jr., Carroll B.
• Application Number:
  US05/114,620
• Time in Patent Office: 495 Days
• Field of Search: 34/46,72,151,163 223/51
• US Class Current: 34/542
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 73/02 having one or more treatment chambers
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 87/00 Apparatus for moistening or otherwise conditioning the article to be ironed or pressed apparatus for smoothing or removing creases from garments or other textile articles by formers, cores, stretchers or internal frames, with the application of heat or steam D06F73/00 ; devices used in combination with a laundry dryer D06F58/203

Abstract

A steamer-dryer and clothes rejuvenator for clothes comprises an enclosure for a blower-heater and a vaporizer which are operable to admit steam and a heated current of air to a cabinet. A control enclosure is also provided in the cabinet housing controls which automatically control the operation of the heaterblower and the vaporizer. The steam from the vaporizer steams out creases as garments hang in the cabinet while the heated current of air dries and sanitizes damp, limp, and musty clothing.

Claims

1. A steamer-drier for clothes comprising in combination a cabinet, a vertical wall in said cabinet defining one side of a control compartment, a horizontal wall in said cabinet defining the top of an equipment enclosure, blower means in said equipment enclosure and mounted on said horizontal wall to produce an air current which passes through an opening provided in said horizontal wall, electric heating means in said equipment enclosure and arranged for heating said air current, a vaporizer means in said equipment enclosure, said vaporizer means including an electric heating element arranged to heat water in said vaporizer means and produce steam, said horizontal wall having an opening through which said steam passes into said cabinet, louvre means in the top of said cabinets through which air exits from said cabinet, and electric control means in said control compartment for controlling the operation of said blower means, vaporizer, and electric heating means, said control means comprising a control switch and a control light extending from said control compartment externally of said cabinet and a timer operable to render inoperable said blower and vaporizer means after a predetermined period of operation.

2. A steamer-drier according to claim 1 wherein said louvre means includes a control rod operable externally of said cabinet for adjusting the amount of air discharged through said louvre means.

3. A steamer-drier according to claim 1 wherein said cabinet has side walls the longitudinal bottom ends of which cooperate with said horizontal wall to define said equipment enclosure.

4. A steamer-drier according to claim 3 wherein said equipment enclosure is provided with means for admitting air thereto.