Abstract: A collapsible flexible hair drying hood includes a base air chamber communicating with a blower and flexible hoselike hood portions. The hoselike hood portions extend upwardly from the base air chamber when the hair drying hood is in use. The hose-like hood portions define nozzle orifices for blowing hot air from the blower onto hair and elongated slots therebetween for communicating the interior of the hood with the free environment.

Abstract: A pressing iron comprises basically a sole-body, housing halves, a clamping device and a circuit support plate. Inclined surfaces on the sole-body and the housing halves cooperate to hold all of the members together when the housing halves are clamped together by the clamping device. Additional features are disclosed for providing an improved pressing iron.

Abstract: A smoothing or pressing iron having a sole body consisting at least partially of a glass material wherein the sole body comprises a trough-like or hollow body-like cup or tray of a glass-impregnated woven fabric fleece of heat-proof fibers, and a support structure filling up the cup at the inner side and having a low specific heat and low thermal conductivity. The sole body side facing the goods being ironed is provided with a heating conductor arrangement covered by a thin electrically insulating sole layer. The support body may consist of a foamed synthetic material or a porous ceramic material having low density. The electrically insulating sole layer is a glass-impregnated fabric layer of heat-resistant fibers.