Abstract: A hair dryer, designed to be used both professionally and domestically, has a generally cylindrical body with a nozzle for the discharge of a flow of hot air generated in its interior, this body having secured thereto a saddle-shaped base to which an inclined handle is attached under spring pressure with the aid of a bolt perpendicular to the body axis. The base and the handle adjoin each other along surfaces parallel to that axis for enabling the handle to be rotated through 180.degree. between two extreme positions in which the handle respectively slants toward the rear and the front of the body. The relative rotation is limited by a semicircular cutout in the handle penetrated by a pin rigid with the base.

Abstract: An electric steam iron has a sole plate, a housing carried on the sole plate and defining a substantially closed chamber adapted to hold a body of water, at least one electric heater for heating the water in the chamber to above 100.degree. C., and a valve at the chamber for maintaining the chamber under superatmospheric pressure. Thus superheated steam is produced therein by the heater. A conduit extending between the chamber and the sole plate conducts this superheated steam to the sole plate. The water chamber is above the sole plate and the housing forms another chamber constituting part of the conduit and in turn above the water chamber. The valve is between the chambers and only permits fluid flow into the upper chamber from the water chamber when the pressure in the water chamber is above a predetermined superatmospheric level.