Abstract: A clothes iron appliance composed of a water reservoir, a steam chamber, and an electro-osmotic pump having a porous body disposed to pump water from the reservoir to the steam chamber.

Abstract: Household appliance, in contact with an aqueous medium, having a water circuit at least partially traversing a compartment containing a disincrustant agent. The disincrustant agent is obtained by cross-linking or hardening of an organosilicic system having a disincrustant action.

Abstract: The invention concerns an iron and an ironing method. The iron comprises a heating soleplate (2), a reservoir (15) designed to contain a textile adjuvant and a device for dispensing (11-13) the adjuvant. The iron comprises a diluting device (7, 12, 14, 18) comprising an adjuvant-free water supply system (7), the diluting device being connected to the adjuvant reservoir and designed to produce a diluted adjuvant solution before dispensing. Preferably, the iron comprises an evaporating device (4-10) fed by the water supply system.

Abstract: Hand held dispenser for thermoplastic material including a casing forming a manual holding element and enclosing a space for receiving a mass of thermoplastic material in a solid state, the casing having an open outlet end communicating with the space; a component for advancing the thermoplastic material toward the open end of the casing, and a heating element for heating the thermoplastic material to a flowable state, wherein the heating element has a low thermal inertia, is arranged in a substantially homogeneous manner across a surface disposed opposite the open end and having dimensions which correspond to dimensions of the open end and wherein the heating element further acts to distribute thermoplastic material in a flowable state in the form of a sheet on a receiving surface.

Abstract: A mechanical hair-removing device includes at least a vibrating part, drivers for providing a periodic alternative movement of the vibrating part and of a roller on which are located the hair-removing devices. The drivers of the hair-removing devices and the vibrating part are actuated simultaneously during a hair-removing session to cause a vibration of the hairy surface.

Abstract: An electric steam iron for pressing fabrics, which iron includes an ironing sole plate, an electrically operated heating element disposed for heating the sole plate by converting an electric current to heat, and a switch unit for automatically reducing flow of electric current to the heating element when the iron is not in use. The sole plate is formed to have a low heat capacity, and the iron is further provided with a stiffening structure via which the sole plate is fixed in position in the iron, the stiffening structure being permeable to steam and being made of a thermally insulating material.

Abstract: A steam generator with automatic supply having a level sensor arranged in a zone of a vessel located at a set threshold level, the sensor measuring the temperature and comparing it with a reference temperature, in order to establish whether a liquid reaches the threshold level, and an adjustment means acting in relation to the steam tapping operations so that the sensor temperature varies in relation to the level of liquid over a variation range, wherein the reference temperature remains within the variation range.

Abstract: A hair removal wax device comprising at least one tank (9) linked to a heating means (11) and a detachable instrument, independent from the tank (9), designed for sampling from the tank (9) a quantity of molten wax, with a means (12) for transferring of a quantity of hair removal wax from the tank (9) to the detachable instrument, where the detachable instrument is a ductile vessel (1) whose inside volume is variable.

Abstract: An applicator system for thermofusible material comprises an electric power supply block (1) and an applicator (3). An electric heater (8) for the applicator comprising a wire wrapped around a diagonally disposed support is placed directly inside a reservoir (4). The electric connection elements (11) of the electric heater (8) link the pins (13, 14) to the power supply block (1). The electric power supply is disconnected during the application of the material.

Abstract: A hair removal wax application system is composed of an applicator (1) comprising a tank (8) designed for accommodating a volume of hair removal wax (20). The tank (8) has an opening (14) at least partially closed by a distribution ring (7, 9) for the wax (20). There is a seat (2) on which the applicator (1) can be placed. The applicator (1) can be disconnected from the seat (2) in order to be used as a self-contained apparatus when applying molten wax (20) on the zone to be depilated. A heater melts the hair removal wax (20) in the applicator's (1) tank (8) and is supplied with electric current from the seat (2). The heater is an inductor (4) rigidly connected to the seat (2) and an armature (6, 18, 19) connected rigidly to the distribution ring (7, 9). The distribution ring (7, 9) is rotatable in the tank (8) and has a diameter between 60 and 95% of the greatest internal dimension of the tank.

Abstract: A painless electric stimulation appliance for body care comprises at least one stimulation electrode (24, 25) and a vibrating part (23) positioned in the vicinity of the electrode, which mechanically prompts the skin in vibration in association with the electric stimulation. The vibrating part is mechanically actuated by the rotation around an axis (18) of a rotating element (22) which is in turn driven mechanically in rotation.

Abstract: A method and device for preventing the formation of scale in an electric appliance for producing steam, which appliance includes a reservoir for holding a quantity of water and a steam generation member for effecting a substantially instantaneous generation of steam; and a scale preventing device. Scale formation is prevented by heating water upstream of the reservoir to a temperature and for a time sufficient to precipitate minerals present in the water into a form which allows the precipitated minerals to be expelled from the appliance with steam generated by said steam generation member.

Abstract: A steam appliance for treating and/or shaping hair, the appliance being composed of: a housing (1) having a handle; a roller body (2) for rolling up locks of hair, the body being secured at one end (5a) to the housing and being limited towards its other end by a partition wall (5b), the body including holes to pass steam produced by a steam production member and conveyed to the roller body (2) by a steam delivery member (20); and a clamp (10) for clamping a lock of hair on the roller body (2). The steam delivery member is a tubular element (20) mounted coaxially inside and extending along the roller body (2) from an inlet (20a) situated in the housing to a terminal end remote from the inlet, the element (20) including at least one steam delivery orifice (21) situated at its terminal end in such a manner as to convey an inlet flow of steam inside the tubular element (20) substantially along its entire length to be released in the vicinity of the partition wall (5b) via the orifice (21).

Abstract: A device and method for destroying parasites present in a mass of hair or fur growing from a skin surface, the device being composed of a handling body adapted to be gripped by a user; a comb fixed to the body and composed of a plurality of teeth, the teeth having portions adapted to be displaced through the mass of hair or fur when the device is in use; and a source of energy for at least locally raising the temperature of the hair or fur when the teeth are displaced through the mass of hair or fur, wherein at least part of the portions of the teeth are thermally conductive and are operatively associated with a source of energy for supplying sufficient heat energy to destroy parasites on the hair or fur which is in contact with the portions.

Abstract: A steam iron has a reservoir from which water is supplied to a vaporization chamber. A plurality of cartridges are placed within a housing of the iron and at least one cartridge contains a product other than a demineralizing product for the purpose of treating water or cloth to be ironed. A ramp is provided for bringing the water of the reservoir into contact with the treatment product. A duct beneath the cartridge conveys the water charged with the treatment product to a vaporization chamber. A plurality of steam discharge orifices in communication with the vaporization chamber distributes the treated water on the cloth to be ironed. The plurality of cartridges are arranged such that at least one is arranged in parallel or in series, or a combination of these, along a path in which water flows as it travels from the reservoir to the vaporization chamber.

Abstract: A steam iron including a vaporization chamber (2) connected by a water/steam supply device (8,11) to a flexible hose (9) extending from an external large-capacity reservoir(13). A device (5) regulates the water discharge that is also connected to the vaporization chamber (2), this discharge regulating device (5) being connected to an internal reservoir (4) incorporated in the iron (1).