System iron

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10968561-B2
Application number	US-201716474881-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 29, 2017
Priority date	Dec 30, 2016
Publication date	Apr 6, 2021
Grant date	Apr 6, 2021

Abstract

A system iron according to the present invention includes a body including a steam generator for generating steam; an ironing plate rotatably disposed on the body and spraying the steam, which is generated by the steam generator, to an outside thereof, a top being hung on an outer side of the ironing plate; a spreading unit for tensioning the top hung on the outer side of the ironing plate; a front press for holding a front surface of the top, which is hung on the outer side of the ironing plate; and a pair of arm tensioners for tensioning sleeves of the top hung on the outer side of the ironing plate.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system iron comprising:
a body including a steam generator for generating steam;
an ironing plate rotatably disposed on the body and spraying the steam, which is generated by the steam generator, to an outside thereof, a top being hung on an outer side of the ironing plate;
a spreading unit for tensioning the top hung on the outer side of the ironing plate;
a front press for holding a front surface of the top, which is hung on the outer side of the ironing plate; and
a pair of arm tensioners for tensioning sleeves of the top hung on the outer side of the ironing plate.

2. The system iron according to claim 1 , wherein the front press brings the front surface of the top, which is hung on the outer side of the ironing plate, into close contact with a lower surface of the ironing plate.

3. The system iron according to claim 2 , wherein the front press is detachably attached to the lower surface of the ironing plate by virtue of a magnetic material.

4. The system iron according to claim 1 , further comprising an iron protector for holding a rear surface of the top, which is hung on the ironing plate.

5. The system iron according to claim 1 , wherein the spreading unit includes a pair of side tensioners, which are disposed at two lateral side surfaces of the ironing plate and which are spread outwards from the ironing plate.

6. The system iron according to claim 5 , wherein each of the pair of side tensioners includes:
a side bar for tensioning a side surface of the top, which is hung on the outer side of the ironing plate;
a support member for moving the side bar to an outside of the ironing plate in a width direction; and
an elastic member for providing elastic force to a portion of the support member.

7. The system iron according to claim 1 , wherein the spreading unit includes a pair of shoulder tensioners for holding shoulder portions of the top, which is hung on the outer side of the ironing plate, and for tensioning the same.

8. The system iron according to claim 7 , wherein each of the pair of shoulder tensioners includes:
a hanger for holding one of the shoulder portions of the top, which is hung on the outer side of the ironing plate; and
an elastic member for spreading the hanger outwards from the ironing plate in a forward direction.

9. The system iron according to claim 1 , wherein each of the pair of arm tensioners includes:
an arm-tension bar, which is hingedly coupled at one end thereof to a lower surface of the ironing plate so as to be rotated; and
a sleeve-holding unit disposed at a remaining end of the arm-tension bar so as to hold the sleeves of the top, which is hung on the outer side of the ironing plate.

10. The system iron according to claim 1 , wherein the ironing plate further includes a support unit, which is connected to a lower surface of the ironing plate and to the body so as to support the ironing plate.

11. The system iron according to claim 10 , wherein the support unit includes a support leg for supporting the ironing plate, and the body includes a support-leg mount having a mounting recess in which an end of the support leg is mounted.

12. The system iron according to claim 10 , wherein the support unit includes a support member for supporting the ironing plate, and the body includes a support-leg mount having a mounting recess in which an end of the support leg is mounted.

13. The system iron according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a steam nozzle disposed inside the spreading unit of the ironing plate so as to spray steam an outside when the spreading unit is spread; and
a steam flow channel for allowing the steam, generated by the steam generator, to flow to the steam nozzle.

14. A system iron comprising:
a body including a steam generator for generating steam;
an ironing plate rotatably disposed on the body so as to spray the steam, which is generated by the steam generator, to an outside thereof;
a spreading unit disposed at two lateral side surfaces of the ironing plate so as to be spread in a lateral direction of the ironing plate;
a front press hingedly coupled to the ironing plate so as to be detachably attached to a lower surface of the ironing plate; and
a pair of arm tensioners, which are hingedly coupled at rear ends thereof to a lower surface of the front press and which are rotated such that front ends thereof are moved far away from each other.

15. A system iron comprising:
a body including a steam generator for generating steam;
an ironing plate rotatably coupled to an upper portion of the body, position of the ironing plate being changed depending on whether the system iron is operated in an ironing mode, in which an ironing operation is performed, or in a steam-spraying mode, in which steam is sprayed to a top hung on an outer side of the ironing plate;
a spreading unit for tensioning the top hung on the outer side of the ironing plate in the steam-spraying mode;
a front press for holding a front surface of the top hung on the outer side of the ironing plate in the steam-spraying mode; and
a pair of arm tensioners for tensioning sleeves of the top hung on the outer side of the ironing plate in the steam-spraying mode.

16. The system iron according to claim 15 , wherein the ironing plate includes:
a clothing-ironing board, on which clothing is placed so as to be ironed in the ironing mode and on which clothing is hung in the steam-spraying mode; and
an iron rest, which allows an iron in use to be rested thereon and cools the iron in the ironing mode.

17. The system iron according to claim 16 , wherein the ironing plate further includes an iron protector for preventing the iron placed on the iron rest from escaping to an outside of the iron rest in the ironing mode and for holding a rear surface of the top hung on the ironing plate in the steam-spraying mode.

18. The system iron according to claim 15 , wherein the ironing plate includes a first fan for sucking or discharging air through an upper surface of the ironing plate in the ironing mode.

19. The system iron according to claim 15 , wherein the ironing plate includes a support member for supporting the ironing plate in the ironing mode, and the body includes a support leg mount having a mounting recess in which an end of the support member is mounted.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Ye Sungmin
• Song Sungho

Classifications

• D06F81/08 Primary

  incorporating heating, steaming, or forced ventilation means · CPC title

• D06F81/04

  with means for adjusting height · CPC title

• D06F73/00

  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  (combined with external pressure means D06F71/00) · CPC title

• D06F81/003

  with flat iron support · CPC title

• D06F71/20

  for pressing shirts · CPC title