Wall mounted clothes steamer with hose and nozzle

• US 5,123,266 A
• Filed: 12/05/1990
• Issued: 06/23/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fairheads International Holdings S.A. Limited
• Original Assignee: David Tabraham
• Inventors: Tabraham, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Schroeder, Werner H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Izaguirre, Ismael
• Application Number:
  US07/624,871
• Time in Patent Office: 566 Days
• Field of Search: 38/1 R, 38/1 A, 38/3, 38/14, 38/15, 38/69, 38/74, 38/77.6, 38/77.8, 38/77.83, 38/137, 223/51, 68/5 R, 68/5 A, 68/5 B, 68/222, 392/324, 392/392, 392/404, 392/405, 392/381, 392/379, 392/399, 392/313, 392/316, 392/320, 392/333, 392/363, 392/394, 392/397, 392/406, 392/441, 392/484, D32/17
• US Class Current: 68/222
• 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 clothes steamer which can be secured to a wall such as the wall of a hotel room, the steamer including a housing with a heating element in it. The element boils water which is in the housing and causes a flow of steam along a flexible hose to a nozzle. An audible warning device is provided for indicating that an adequate supply of steam is being generated.

Claims

1. A clothes steamer comprising a housing including means for mounting the housing on a vertical surface, a closable filler opening through which the housing is filled with water, an electrical heating element in a lower part of said housing, and a flexible hose one end of which is in communication with the interior of said housing whereby steam generated in the housing enters said hose, there being a nozzle at the other end of the hose through which steam generated in said housing emerges.

2. A clothes steamer according to claim 1, wherein a steam operated audible warning device is provided and said housing is formed with means for supporting said nozzle in an inoperative position, a mouth of the nozzle coming into register with a flowpath leading to said device as said nozzle is placed on the supporting means.

3. A clothes steamer according to claim 2, wherein said means for supporting said nozzle comprises a recess in said housing, said flowpath leading from said recess to said device and in which said nozzle is elongate in form and comprises a portion which is gripped for use, a connection at one end to which said hose is secured and a mouth at the other end through which steam emerges, the part of the nozzle including said mouth being in said recess when the nozzle is in said inoperative position.

4. A clothes steamer according to claim 3, wherein said portion of the nozzle is double walled thereby to provide a central steam passage surrounded by an outer wall, there being an insulating air gap between said outer wall and said passage.

5. A clothes steamer according to claim 1, and including a rheostat for controlling the current to said element and a thermostat for interrupting the electrical supply to said element in the event that the housing has insufficient water therein.

6. A clothes steamer according to claim 1, and including a pipe within said housing, one end of said pipe opening into the upper end of the housing and the other end being in communication with said hose which emerges from said housing near the lower end thereof.

7. A clothes steamer according to claim 1, wherein said hose communicates with the interior of the housing through an opening in the top wall thereof.

8. A clothes steamer according to claim 1, and including a sight glass which visually indicates the water level in the housing.

9. A clothes steamer according to claim 1 and a mounting bracket therefor, the housing including a rib at the upper end thereof for engaging in an upwardly open groove of the bracket, and a mounting flange at the lower end thereof through which fixing elements are passed to secure said mounting flange to a wall.