Abstract: A device for autonomously folding a deformable article includes a rotatable platform configured to receive the deformable article and at least one movable elongation in operable communication with at least one elongation drive. The at least one movable elongation is configured to raise and lower from the surface of the rotatable platform, move parallel to the surface, and manipulate the deformable article to thereby fold the deformable article at one of the one or more fold lines. The device includes a table drive configured to rotate the rotatable platform about a central axis such that the at least one elongation aligns with one of the one or more fold lines, and at least one sensor configured to detect the deformable article position and orientation on the rotatable platform. A controller is in operable communication with the at least one elongation drive, the table drive, and the at least one sensor.

Abstract: Ironing board consisting of a top supported by at least one leg with two sections connected to one another by hinge; said hinge allows lower segment of leg to pivot between an unfolded position, in which said lower segment forms an extension of upper segment of leg, and a folded position, in which lower segment is folded in the direction of upper segment, wherein said hinge contains a mechanism to lock the lower segment in an unfolded position and at least one unlocking button to deactivate the locking mechanism to allow lower segment to rotate into the folded position.

Abstract: An ironing board apparatus comprising a primary ironing board component comprising a first surface suitable for ironing fabrics; and a secondary ironing board component comprising a second surface suitable for ironing fabrics, wherein the secondary ironing board component is rotatably attached to the primary ironing board component, and wherein the secondary ironing board component lies in a different but parallel plane than the primary ironing board component. Another aspect comprises an ironing board apparatus comprising a primary ironing board component comprising a first surface suitable for ironing fabrics; and secondary ironing board component comprising a second surface suitable for ironing fabrics, wherein the secondary ironing board component is rotatably attached to the primary ironing board component, and wherein the secondary ironing board component lies in a same plane as the primary ironing board component when the secondary ironing board component is in a closed position.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for displaying at least two modes comprising an interactive application mode and a television program mode on a display device. In one aspect the apparatus comprises: a television program signal receiver; an interactive application signal receiver; means for switching between said television program mode and said interactive application mode being active in said display device; means to receive remote control signals from a remote control device having a mute key for generating a mute signal; means to enable a mute-to-interactive application feature; and wherein when said mute-to-interactive application feature is enabled and said television program mode is active in said display device, upon receipt of said mute signal, said mode switching means is activated causing said interactive application mode to be active in said display device.

Abstract: The ironing board having extendable ironing surfaces includes a traditional ironing board, a plurality of extendable ironing surfaces, a rear detachable basket, and a detachable leg basket. The plurality of extendable ironing surfaces attach to and rotate about a hinge that is also mounted to the undersurface of the main ironing surface. The rear detachable basket connects onto a clip mounted at the rear, underneath surface of the main ironing surface in order to prevent reduction in the surface area of the main ironing surface. The leg basket connects via attaching arms and rotates about one of the intersecting legs, and rests upon a second leg.

Abstract: An ironing board attachment assembly includes a clamp that is removably couplable to a panel of an ironing board. A mount is attached to the clamp and a coupler is rotationally coupled to the mount. An arm has a planar upper surface, a planar lower surface, a first end, a second end, and a pair of side edges. The first end of the arm is attached to the coupler. The arm has a longitudinal axis from the first end to the second end that is positionable at a selected angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the panel. The arm is extendable into a shirt sleeve to allow the shirt sleeve to be ironed at a selected angle with respect to the panel.

Abstract: An inkjet type fabric printing apparatus is provided with an inkjet head, a platen and a positioning member. The inkjet head reciprocally moves in main scanning direction and auxiliary scanning direction relative to a fabric (e.g., clothes). The platen holds the fabric to extend on a plane parallel with the main scanning direction and the auxiliary scanning direction with a first predetermined distance spaced from the inkjet head. On the positioning member, the fabric is set. The fabric is positioned on the platen in place in a direction parallel with the main scanning direction and the auxiliary scanning direction. The positioning member supports at least one of a neck portion and a shoulder portion of the fabric such that the neck portion and/or a shoulder portion is spaced from the inkjet head by a second predetermined distance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a platform assembly and method that expands the surface area of a conventional ironing board. The platform assembly covers a converging end of an ironing board and expands the surface area of the ironing board. The platform assembly of the present invention includes parabolic shaped outer edges that provide a configuration especially useful in the ironing of shirts. A user may easily remove and store the platform assembly in order to convert the ironing board back to its original form.

Abstract: An ironing board has an electrically heated working surface with an electrical heater element disposed therein and an electrical connector for connection of an electrically heated iron. A power management system within the ironing board has a sensor that detects whether the iron is connected to the ironing board. The ironing board and iron can be selectively set to one of a plurality of heat ranges. The power management system detects thermostatically regulated demands for electrical current by each of the ironing board and iron and a controller selectively provides electrical current to at most one of the ironing board heater element and iron so as to not exceed a predetermined maximum electrical current. Control circuitry provides either a fixed or proportional temperature differential between the ironing board and the connected iron. The ironing board can include a height adjuster for selectively adjusting a height of the ironing board.

Abstract: A versatile ironing board is provided including a collapsible leg assembly for maintaining the ironing board in an elevated orientation. Also included is at least one supporting member pivotally coupled to a periphery of the ironing board.

Abstract: An ironing board has a main board and a smaller sleeve board which is separable for ironing sleeves and small items. The sleeve board slides relative to the main board on a slide mechanism, which preferably includes a number of parallel slides, in such a way that the main board and the sleeve board remain coplanar. To hold the sleeve board in its offset position, the slide mechanism has stops which hold the sleeve board in the offset position (in which a gap separates the main board and the sleeve board) and the juxtaposed position, in which the sleeve board is pressed against the main board. The stops are releasable by click detents, release buttons or knobs, or the like, so that the sleeve board can be moved between the juxtaposed and offset positions. Preferably, the detents comprise indentations and teeth pressed together by springs or the weight of some part of the device.

Abstract: An ironing table having an ironing board which possesses at one end two sections extending side by side, approximately in one plane, specifically a clothes ironing section and a sleeve ironing section narrower than the latter, the two sections being separated from one another by a gap. The gap extends approximately to the height of the center of the ironing board, the clothes ironing section admittedly having the width of a conventional ironing board, so that the overall width of the ironing board in the region of the clothes ironing section and sleeve ironing section is greater than the width of a conventional ironing board. In addition, the longitudinal side of the ironing board assigned to the sleeve ironing section extends from approximately the center of the ironing board to the other end of the ironing board, so that the width of this end of the ironing board approximately corresponds to the width of the clothes ironing section, in other words to a conventional ironing board.

Abstract: The invention concerns an ironing press including a base bearing an ironing plate, a sleeve board and an articulated arm for manoeuvring a heating plate, movable between two positions. In one position, the heating plate is pressed against the ironing plate or the sleeve board. The ironing plate and the sleeve board are mounted on the base so as to enable their alternating displacement from a working position to a retracted position. The ironing plate and the sleeve board are each articulated to the base and are interconnected by a linking member providing a kinematic linkage between them.

Abstract: An electric iron is provided together with a temperature control module whereby the iron is electrically connectable to the module and is temperature controllable from circuitry therein. The iron is cordless and the control module includes a support platform for the iron. The control module may be part of an ironing board which itself is electrically heatable and may be adapted to form a trousers press. The iron cooperatively interengages the platform in a rest position at a forwardly sloping angle which enhances stability, allows gravity to maintain the iron in interengagement with the platform and enhances convenient removal of the iron from the platform for use.

Abstract: A sectional-type ironing board in which a longitudinal direction of a first ironing board and a longitudinal direction of a second ironing board having a working surface smaller than that of the first ironing board are oriented in the same direction, the first and second ironing boards are arranged in such a manner that side edges thereof are mutually adjacent, and the first and second ironing boards are independently movable to a collapsed state and an extended state relative to a common base. The first and second ironing boards are placed in the collapsed state or the extended state to form a joint working surface in the same plane, and the joint working surface is formed by a curved surface extending downwardly to edge portions from a central region along the longitudinal direction. An ironing table is used along with the sectional-type ironing board and includes a cart having a plate formed to have a portion on which the base portion of the sectional-type ironing board is placed and secured.

Abstract: An ironing board that includes a main board and two swingable board extensions retractable attached to the main board. The main board comprises a relatively wide section and a comparatively narrow section forming a single planar ironing surface. The narrow section is adapted to telescopically receive a trouser leg, which can be rotated so that all trouser leg areas can be ironed. The swingable board extensions are adapted to receive the sleeve areas of shirts and blouses.

Abstract: In a press wherein an expandable buck and a heated pressing plate are utilized, provision is made for the expansion of the buck without interrupting the overall press finish of garments of varying dimension. The expandable buck includes a thickened longitudinally extending central buck member and two side members. These two side members telescope outwardly from the central buck member. In operation, a garment such as a shirt is passed over the expandable buck. The buck is then expanded at the side members until the garment at its full girth is stretched over the buck. The pressing plate is configured to coact with the buck. It includes an indentation that is configured to coact with the central buck member and thus effect pressing of that portion of the full girth of the garment that overlies the central buck member. It further includes side pressing surfaces designed for cooperative engagement at the expandable sides of the buck protruding beyond the central member.

Abstract: An ironing board apparatus includes an ironing board member mounted on a pedestal. The ironing board member has a main portion and a foldaway corner portion pivotally connected to the main portion by a hinge. A retractable sleeveboard is connected to the ironing board member for movement into position with respect to the ironing board. A flat iron tray is retractably mounted to the ironing board, as well as a laundry tray which is pivotally connected to the ironing board member.

Abstract: An ironing press comprises a heated plate (6) and an arm (5) that can be applied against an ironing board (22). The latter is mounted on a support (28) which can be moved along ramps (30) to reach a lowered position, thus making it possible to lift a sleeve-board (37) which is mounted on arms (38 and 39) in order to bring this sleeve-board substantially to the same level as the level at which the board (22) was previously located. An operating knob (41) allows the sleeve-board (37) or the board (22), as desired, to be locked in the working position or to be both released to allow their positions to be interchanged.

Abstract: An ironing support or board structure has two parallel ironing surfaces formed of boards connected by spacer elements of small height. One of the ironing surfaces is formed by a single board, referred to as the main board. The other ironing surfaces are formed by two separate accessory boards which overhang or overlap the main board. The spacer elements which connect the accessory boards to the main board are associated with the main board at opposite ends of the main board. This results in free parts or free ends of each accessory board extending towards the other accessory board.

Abstract: A universal pressing ham support holds various pressing hams in various positions with a desired exposed pressing surface. A unitary formed support includes sidewalls having a central opening. The top edge of opposite sidewalls are provided with offset recesses, varying slightly in width which permit laying of the pressing ham on its shallow sidewalls. Opposite sidewalls have second recesses, with the width of one being substantially larger than the other for supporting the ham with the large sidewall exposed. The central opening supports the pressing hams on end. The inner vertical walls are specially stepped and shaped to locate the pressing hams in an essentially upright position with the desired end of the ham exposed for pressing.

Abstract: There is disclosed an ironing table that is uniquely suited for use by tailors, particularly for use by homemakers who have need for a compact ironing table having a plurality of iron-working surfaces which are suited for particular purposes. The table comprises a base formed with a platform and an upright standard thereon having a substantially flat planar upper surface and an outboard edge surface and a plurality of interchangeable elongated members bearing iron-working surfaces of different sizes and shapes. The elongated members are removably attached to the base with first clamping means comprising dowel means carried on the upper end of the outboard edge surface of the upright standard with cooperating eyelet means carried at one end and on the undersurface of the elongated members. The second clamping means comprises key means carried at the inboard end of the upright standard with cooperative keyway means carried at an intermediate position on the undersurface of the elongated member.