Clothing care machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12522976-B2
Application number	US-202217840976-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 15, 2022
Priority date	Aug 13, 2021
Publication date	Jan 13, 2026
Grant date	Jan 13, 2026

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a clothing care machine, including a machine base, a support column and an upper part. A bottom of the support column is connected to the machine base, and the upper part is connected to a top of the support column. The machine base is provided with at least one of a steam outlet and a hot air outlet. When in use, the clothes are hung on the upper part, and the automatic care of the clothes is realized through the steam output by the steam outlet of the machine base or the hot air output by the hot air outlet. During the process, the user does not need to operate the whole process. Time and effort can be saved.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A clothing care machine, comprising a machine base, a support column, a cloth cover and a top seat, wherein the cloth cover is provided between the machine base and the top seat to form an enclosed cavity, the cloth cover is provided with a zipper, and the cloth cover is configured to be opened and closed through the zipper, for taking clothes out from and placing clothes into the enclosed cavity;
wherein the support column comprises an upper sleeve and a lower sleeve that are telescopically sleeved, a lower end of the lower sleeve is connected to the machine base, an upper end of the upper sleeve is connected to the top seat, and a fixing assembly comprising a fixing block, an elastic pin, a connecting rod, a movable abutting block and a cam, configured for fixing relative positions of the upper sleeve and the lower sleeve is provided between the upper sleeve and the lower sleeve, such that through retracting of the support column, the clothing care machine is stored and has a reduced volume after storage; wherein the machine base is provided with at least one of a steam outlet or a hot air outlet; wherein the machine base is provided with a water tank, a heating and vaporizing boiler, a condensed water collector and a switch valve, a water outlet of the water tank is connected to a water inlet of the heating and vaporizing boiler, an outlet of the heating and vaporizing boiler is connected to the steam outlet, the condensed water collector is disposed on the machine base for collecting condensed water, a water outlet of the condensed water collector is in communication with a water inlet of the water tank through a recovery channel, the switch valve is provided in the recovery channel, the water tank is detachably provided on the machine base; wherein an upper end of the water tank has an inclined abutting surface, an outside of the machine base is recessed with a water tank receiving cavity, a trigger end of the switch valve extends into the water tank receiving cavity through a top of the water tank receiving cavity, and when the water tank is assembled into the water tank receiving cavity, the inclined abutting surface abuts the trigger end of the switch valve and the switch valve is triggered to be activated; and wherein a water pump is provided between the water tank and the heating and vaporizing boiler, and water in the water tank is pumped into the heating and vaporizing boiler through the water pump; when the water tank is disassembled, the switch valve is closed to prevent leakage of recovered water.

2 . The clothing care machine according to claim 1 , wherein the fixing block is fixed in a lower opening of the upper sleeve, the elastic pin is provided on the fixing block, the lower sleeve is provided with a pin hole corresponding to the elastic pin, under an action of no external force, a pin of the elastic pin protrudes and is inserted into the pin hole, such that the relative positions of the upper sleeve and the lower sleeve are fixed, the connecting rod is provided in the upper sleeve, a lower end of the connecting rod forms an oblique guide fit with the elastic pin, an upper end of the connecting rod extends to the top seat, and the elastic pin is driven to retract by the upper end of the connecting rod by driving the connecting rod to press down.

3 . The clothing care machine according to claim 2 , wherein the lower end of the connecting rod is connected with a fitting piece provided with a guide hole, the fixing block is provided with a guide post penetrating into the guide hole, and the fixing block forms an oblique guide fit with the elastic pin through the fitting piece.

4 . The clothing care machine according to claim 3 , wherein the elastic pin comprises a spring and a pin body, the fixing block is provided with a blind hole, the spring and the pin body are inserted in the blind hole, and when the spring exerts an outward elastic force on the pin body, an outer end of the pin body is protruded with the pin mated with the pin hole.

5 . The clothing care machine according to claim 2 , wherein the top seat is provided with a button, the upper end of the connecting rod abuts the button, and the connecting rod is pressed down by pressing the button.

6 . The clothing care machine according to claim 2 , wherein the lower sleeve is provided with a receiving opening, the movable abutting block is provided in the receiving opening, and the cam is provided with a hinge and located outside the movable abutting block, such that the movable abutting block is located between the cam and the upper sleeve.

7 . The clothing care machine according to claim 1 , wherein the water outlet of the water tank is a normally closed water outlet, the water tank receiving cavity is provided with a butt joint at a bottom of the water tank receiving cavity, and when the water tank is assembled into the water tank receiving cavity, the butt joint cooperates with the water outlet of the water tank to open the water outlet of the water tank.

8 . The clothing care machine according to claim 1 , wherein the top seat is provided with a support frame provided with a support rod, and the support rod is provided with a clamping piece.

9 . The clothing care machine according to claim 8 , wherein two side surfaces of the support rod are concave surfaces, the clamping piece comprises a clamping body and a hanging lug extending from the clamping body, the hanging lug and the clamping body are enclosed to form a through hole, the support rod penetrates into the through hole to have a connection between the support rod and the clamping piece, and one side wall of the hanging lug is inwardly recessed and mated with one side concave surface of the support rod.

10 . The clothing care machine according to claim 9 , wherein two ends of the support rod are respectively connected with end covers and are detachably assembled on the top seat through the end covers, and the support rod is detachably connected to at least one of the end covers.

Assignees

• Tsann Kuen Zhangzhou Entpr Co

Inventors

• Zheng Zhenxing
• Chen Ronghuang
• Cai Ruifeng
• Xu Xiaodong

Classifications

• D06F58/14 Primary

  Collapsible drying cabinets; Wall mounted collapsible hoods · CPC title

• D06F73/02

  having one or more treatment chambers · CPC title

• D06F87/00 Primary

  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}) · CPC title