Steam brush with clamping and ironing structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12467195-B2
Application number	US-202418822669-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 3, 2024
Priority date	Sep 6, 2023
Publication date	Nov 11, 2025
Grant date	Nov 11, 2025

Abstract

The disclosure provides a steam brush with a clamping and ironing structure, including a steam brush body and a plate clamp. A material of the plate clamp is a thermally conductive material, and the plate clamp is a frame structure with a hollowed middle part. The plate clamp is hingedly connected to the steam brush body and forms a clamping and ironing structure with an ironing surface. When ironing a garment, the plate clamp can obtain heat from an ironing panel, thereby achieving a better ironing effect.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A steam brush with a clamping and ironing structure, comprising:
a steam brush body and a plate clamp, the steam brush body having an ironing surface and steam outlets provided on the ironing surface, wherein the plate clamp is hingedly connected to the steam brush body and forms the clamping and ironing structure with the ironing surface, a material of the plate clamp is a thermally conductive material, and the plate clamp is a frame structure with a hollowed middle part; wherein the thermally conductive material is a metal material; wherein the steam brush body is provided with a driving portion and an elastic return member, the driving portion acts on the plate clamp to drive the plate clamp to open, and the elastic return member acts on the plate clamp to drive the plate clamp to close; and wherein the plate clamp is provided with a connecting arm, the connecting arm is inserted into the steam brush body via the ironing surface, the connecting arm is hingedly connected to the steam brush body by means of a hinge shaft, thereby realizing a hinged connection of the plate clamp, and both the driving portion and the elastic return member act on the connecting arm.

2 . The steam brush with a clamping and ironing structure according to claim 1 , wherein the metal material is aluminum or aluminum alloy or stainless steel or iron or powder metallurgy.

3 . The steam brush with a clamping and ironing structure according to claim 1 , wherein the elastic return member is a double torsion spring, torsion spring sections at two ends of the double torsion spring are respectively sleeved on two ends of the hinge shaft, and a middle arm and end arms of the double torsion spring respectively abut against the steam brush body and the connecting arm to drive the plate clamp to close.

4 . The steam brush with a clamping and ironing structure according to claim 1 , wherein the driving portion is a press assembly, and a press of the press assembly drives the connecting arm to swing with the hinge shaft as a pivot, thereby driving the plate clamp to open.

5 . The steam brush with a clamping and ironing structure according to claim 4 , wherein the steam brush body further has a handle to be held by a hand, the press assembly comprises a transmission link and a button, the button is arranged on the handle of the steam brush body, a first end of the transmission link is hingedly connected with the button, a second end of the transmission link is hingedly connected to the connecting arm of the plate clamp, and the button, when pressed by external force, drives the connecting arm to swing with the hinge shaft as the pivot by means of the transmission link.

6 . The steam brush with a clamping and ironing structure according to claim 5 , wherein the button is hingedly connected to the handle, a first end of the button is hingedly connected with the transmission link, a second end of the button serves as a press end, and in operation, a finger exerts force to press the press end of the button, the press end of the button swings upward, and the first end of the button swings downward, thereby driving the transmission link to move downward.

7 . The steam brush with a clamping and ironing structure according to claim 1 , wherein the steam brush body comprises an electric heating plate, an insulation base and a heat insulation shield, a bottom surface of the electric heating plate is the ironing surface, the steam outlets are provided on the electric heating plate, the electric heating plate is provided with a steam jet in communication with the steam outlets, the insulation base is a heat insulation base board, the insulation base covers the electric heating plate and is provided with an avoidance window for avoiding the steam jet, and the heat insulation shield covers the steam jet and is fixed on the insulation base.

8 . The steam brush with a clamping and ironing structure according to claim 1 , wherein an outer edge of the ironing surface of the steam brush body is depressed inward to form a depression, the depression and the ironing surface are connected through an inclined transition surface, and when in a closed position, the plate clamp is accommodated in the depression and an inner wall of the plate clamp is an inclined inner wall corresponding to the inclined transition surface.

9 . The steam brush with a clamping and ironing structure according to claim 1 , wherein the hollowed middle part of the plate clamp accounts for at least 50% of a total area formed by the plate clamp.

10 . The steam brush with a clamping and ironing structure according to claim 1 , wherein when the plate clamp is in a closed position, the ironing surface is located in the hollowed middle part of the plate clamp.

11 . The steam brush with a clamping and ironing structure according to claim 10 , wherein when the plate clamp is in the closed position, the ironing surface is flush with or protrudes from a bottom of the plate clamp.

12 . The steam brush with a clamping and ironing structure according to claim 11 , wherein when the plate clamp is in the closed position, the ironing surface protrudes from the bottom of the plate clamp by a height ranging from 0.4 mm to 1 mm.

13 . A steam brush with a clamping and ironing structure, comprising:
a steam brush body and a plate clamp, the steam brush body having an ironing surface and steam outlets provided on the ironing surface, wherein the plate clamp is hingedly connected to the steam brush body and forms the clamping and ironing structure with the ironing surface, a material of the plate clamp is a thermally conductive material, and the plate clamp is a frame structure with a hollowed middle part; and wherein the thermally conductive material is a metal material; wherein an outer edge of the ironing surface of the steam brush body is depressed inward to form a depression, the depression and the ironing surface are connected through an inclined transition surface, and when in a closed position, the plate clamp is accommodated in the depression and an inner wall of the plate clamp is an inclined inner wall corresponding to the inclined transition surface.

Assignees

• Tsann Kuen Zhangzhou Entpr Co

Inventors

• Zheng Zhenxing
• Chen Ronghuang
• Zhou Longhai

Classifications

• D06F71/34

  Heating arrangements; Arrangements for supplying or removing steam or other gases · CPC title

• D06F71/02

  actuated wholly by hand or foot (D06F71/08 takes precedence) · CPC title

• D06F71/36 Primary

  Pressing elements (for use in pressing particular garments or parts thereof D06F71/18; coverings or pads therefor D06F83/00) · CPC title

• D06F71/18 Primary

  specially adapted for pressing particular garments or parts thereof · CPC title