Abstract: A handheld steam iron for straightening creases in wrinkled fabric is disclosed. The handheld steam iron can combine the benefits of both an iron and a steamer by providing heat and steam to a garment. The handheld steam iron can include an upper arm and a lower body. The upper arm and/or lower body can include a plate, steam chambers, or both. The steam iron can include a pump to provide fluid to the upper arm and/or lower body. The steam iron can also include a fluid reservoir that enables a user to quickly provide the liquid used for steam.

Abstract: A handheld steam iron for straightening creases in wrinkled fabric is disclosed. The handheld steam iron can combine the benefits of both an iron and a steamer by providing heat and steam to a garment. The handheld steam iron can include an upper arm and a lower body. The upper arm and lower body can include a plate, steam channels, or both. The steam iron can include one or more pumps to provide water to the upper arm and/or lower body so that both sides of the steam iron receive equal amounts of steam. The steam iron can also include a removable liquid reservoir that enables a user to quickly replace the liquid provided for steam.

Abstract: The embodiments herein provide a modular rosin press device for use with a base clamp device having a pair or opposing rectangular elements, the modular device having a proximal press assembly, distal press assembly, and proximal block assembly. Each press assembly preferably contains a metallic heating component with a channel sized to accept the rectangular elements of the base clamp device. Each press assembly may also include a heating element, insulating plate, ledges which extend inwardly, and ribs of various designs and orientations.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pants seam clamping structure for novel handheld garment steamer. The structure comprises an auxiliary steam outlet for ironing pants seams, a pants clamping plate for pressing the garments, and a steam generator and a main steam outlet, both of which are arranged in the handheld garment steamer. The auxiliary steam outlet comprises a vaporization cover, a pants clamping tube connector provided with an inner hole, a sealing plug provided with an inner hole, and a top cover of the garment steamer. The pants clamping plate comprises a rotary shaft bracket, a rotary shaft, a torsion spring used for providing a torsional force, and a pressing plate used for pressing and fixing the garment. The present disclosure provides independent auxiliary steam outlet and steam channel which has good sealing performance and stable structure.

Abstract: An iron generally includes a water tank and a steam generator in flow communication with the water tank. The steam generator includes a thin-film heater tube that receives water from the water tank to generate steam inside the heater tube.

Abstract: An appliance used for styling or shaping of fiber that is comprised of at least two heatable plates with a longitudinally extending gap between adjacent plates. The gap between the plates allows for increased function of the appliance. The appliance may be a hair straightener, a crimping iron, a curling iron, clothes iron or any other appliance that uses heated plates and is used to shape or style fibers.

Abstract: A handheld telescopic ironing device for pressing clothing, fabric and the like comprising two handles joined at the distal end with a pivotal hinge, each handle comprised of an elongated hollow outer handle housing and at least one elongated hollow inner handle housing concentrically aligned and telescopically mounted within outer handle housing with a locking means to hold the with inner handle housing and outer handle housing at extended or contracted lengths. Attached to the two handles are heads each having a pressing surface mounted on a hollow head housing so that the two pressing surfaces oppose each other. The telescopic ironing device is further comprised of at least one heating element disposed within one or more of internal cavities of the head housing and has an optional steam feature.

Abstract: A piezoelectric element is manufactured in a method including forming an adhesion layer of zirconium above a zirconium oxide insulating film, forming a first electrode above the adhesion layer, forming a piezoelectric layer of a complex oxide containing bismuth above the first electrode, and forming a second electrode above the piezoelectric layer.

Abstract: This invention relates to the ironing of fabrics, such as clothes in particular, and provides a compact, light-weight apparatus suitable also for use in various ironing applications. The ironing apparatus comprises first and second fabric-pressing surfaces, supporting arms to which the surfaces are mounted opposite each other, to define a fabric-receiving gap between the surfaces. The supporting arms operate to urge the first surface toward the second, so to narrow the gap from a first, fabric receiving width, to a second, fabric-compressing width effective for exerting crease-reducing pressure on said fabric in the gap, while permitting relative traversing movement between said surfaces and the fabric. The supporting arms may be in the form of a flexible U-shaped member having opposed ends to which the respective pressing surfaces are mounted to be inwardly opposed, and a generally central portion defining a body.

Abstract: A hand-held clothes steam ironing apparatus includes first and second elongated substantially rectangular arm members having an inner portion and an outer portion, a hinge mechanism rotatably connecting the two arm members at one narrow end of each such that said inner portions are substantially opposing. Imbedded in inner portions of each arm members is at least one heat plate, this heat plates containing a plurality of steam orifices distributed longitudinally along the heat plate with fluid communication between the orifices. An electrical power supply is wired in adjacent the hinge mechanism and electrically connects to the heat plates with power control capability between the two for regulating the amount of power supplied to the heat plates. Water tanks with removable caps are attached to outer portions of each of the body members, and water conduits run between each water tank and the heat plates in the corresponding arm members.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a consumer-portable dual hem ironing unit including at least a first and a second ironing unit members and a mechanism for grasping and retaining a first and a second material fold (first and second hems) during an ironing of the folded material. The consumer-portable design allows users to reposition either the unit or the material along an unfinished length of material and form a uniform continuous double rolled hem configuration. Adjustable measurement guides allow for hem accuracy and alternative configurations provide steam supply and steaming options. Alternative heavier-use embodiment enables securing to a table edge and includes an enhanced water capacity for improved steam generation. Multiple mechanisms are provided for gripping the folded material during a use and thermal and fluid flow controls allow control of double rolled hem pressing across a wide palate of fabric and flexible material types.

Abstract: The creaser accessory device includes first and second plates pivotally connected to a lever arm that can be operated by a user to pivot the plates away from each other to receive a portion of a garment, and toward each other to press the portion of the garment such as to form a crease in the garment. The typically have apertures therethrough to allow steam from a hand held steam generating device removably coupled to the creaser accessory device to pass through the apertures to heat the portion of the garment when received in the creaser accessory device.

Abstract: An apparatus for changing a characteristic of fabric comprising a first member and a second member pivotally connected to said first member wherein at least one of the first and the second member are able to be heated and to provide heat to a plurality of types of fabrics. When a respective fabric is positioned between the first and second member and the heatable means contacts a surface of the fabric and changes a condition of the fabric.

Abstract: A portable automatic ironing press for trousers includes two housings each having a rectangular pressing ironing plate pivotally mounted on a base. A central dividing plate is rigidly connected to the base and has a cut in its top part located between the pressing ironing plates while at least one of the plates has a heating element. The base has a lower horizontal part and at least one lateral vertical part rigidly linked to each other. The vertical part of the base includes guiding elements and an extended shaft bearing an arm. In the base of the press are located the electronic control bloc, control board and at least one driving gear to guide the tools to open and press the pressing ironing plates and operate the extended shaft. The housing includes windows through which the lower part of the trousers can be discharged.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal panel includes the steps of adjusting mutual positions of a pair of substrates, applying a pressure onto a sealing material made of a ultraviolet-curing resin applied onto the substrates, and hardening a predetermined temporal combining area of the sealing material by emitting a UV ray to be incident thereon. The resulting temporary fixed substrate is placed on a stage of a final hardening press device, and an embossed sheet having fine protrusions and recessions uniformly formed on a surface thereof is lowered to be superimposed onto the temporary fixed substrate. Further, by applying a vacuum suction to a sealed space between the stage and the embossed sheet, the entire surface of the temporary fixed substrate is pressurized under an atmospheric pressure to form a uniform cell gap as desired. Thereafter, a UV ray is applied by a UV lamp to finally harden the sealing material.

Abstract: Two-sided fusible tape is mounted in an effective manner upon the sleeve seam allowance of a garment comprising the steps of placing a jacket arranged inside out upon a heated stationary buck, the jacket being positioned on the buck so that the sleeve seam allowance is properly aligned. An exposed surface of a two-sided fusible strip is placed along the sleeve seam allowance, the other fusible surface being covered with a protective sheet. A vacuum communicating with the buck is drawn to retain the garment in the proper position. A pair of heated heads having pressing surfaces conforming to the shape of the buck are simultaneously driven toward the buck to press the fusible strip against the sleeve seam allowance of the garment, the heat from the buck and the heads activating the fusible. Steam may be ejected from the heads when the fusible employed requires steam for activation. The heads are withdrawn from the buck and the garment is removed in preparation for mounting a shoulder pad to the garment.

Abstract: A tie press (1) having a base moulding (3), a heating element (4) covered by a foam pad (5) and a center moulding (6) having a tie receiving recess. A cover (7) is also provided having a foam pad insert (9) and is hingedly connected to the center and base mouldings (3,6). The press being designed to press creased front and rear knot forming sections (K.sub.F,K.sub.R) of a tie (2). The creased tie portions or portion is placed between the pads and the cover is lowered and locked on the mouldings by a locking and releasing device (36).

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: An improved head and buck for a fabric pressing machine, each comprising a hollow casting. The head has an upper steam chamber and a lower spray chamber. A cowling surrounds the head steam chamber, having air intake holes at one end and an air valve near its other end directly connecting the cowling to the spray chamber. The head has a resilient peripheral sealing element engaging a peripheral rim on the buck when the head is closed thereagainst. The buck has a vacuum valve connecting the buck to a source of vacuum. With the head sealed about the buck, air in heat exchange with the head steam chamber within the cowling can be drawn through the workpiece during the drying step of the pressing cycle by opening the buck vacuum valve. The buck is provided with a grid plate, pad and cover assembly which is divided longitudinally into front and rear halves.

Abstract: A photometer for a reproduction machine in which the light reflected from a document, illuminated with light through a slit, is condensed by a condensing lens, the condensed light is diffused by a diffusion plate, and then the diffused light is detected by a plurality of sensors for a photometric test. The sensors are arranged along the width of an image of the document formed through the slit. Therefore, a reliable photometric test can be made even on such a document which has different colors on opposite sides of the intermediate portion of the slit along its length.

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: Apparatus for pressing shirts comprising an upper platen provided with a cut-out and a lower platen, between which a shirt is pressed. Nozzles permit moisture to be sprayed on the front of the shirt prior to pressing. An ejector rod enables a pressed shirt to be removed from the lower platen after pressing. A rod slidably secured to a casing allows the shirt to be correctly located on the lower platen by engaging with the neck apex of the shirt. An adjustment knob varies the distance between the upper and lower platens to ensure that the fabric of the shirt is not crushed during the pressing operation. Various controls are provided to adjust parameters affecting the pressing operation. In a modified form the lower platen may be duplicated in a carousel or sliding tray arrangement.

Abstract: A foldable trousers press comprises at least two trouser press members movably mounted relative to each other so as to be movable from a position in side by side relationship to a position in which the members are located in end to end relationship, so that the members together form the total length of the trousers press, being the combined length of the members. Each member comprises a base part and a top part which are movably mounted together from an open position to a closed position in which the base part and the top part abut each other. The base part has a heating means to heat the leg of a pair of trousers located in the trousers press.

Abstract: An ironing machine provided with a pair of press plates are juxtaposed with respective elastic webs on tensioning frames which can stretch the webs with the article to be pressed between them so as to tension the article outwardly from the center on both sides, the tension being maintained during pressing.

Abstract: A wall-mounted garment pressing appliance provides an outward pivoting clamping panel, for removably clamping a garment or fabric against a heated pressing panel, and also provides an ironing board deployable into a horizontal ironing position and retractable into a housing cavity positioned between the mounting wall and the heated pressing panel.

Abstract: A laundry press of the type suitable for pressing all articles of apparel, especially shirts, is contained in a rectangular cabinet. The cabinet upon opening includes at least one panel member hinged at the bottom for bracing the cabinet in an upright position. The cabinet provides at its upper end the support structure for a buck and heated pressing plate for placing on the garments the desired press. The buck and heated pressing plate in turn fold upwardly from the cabinet and are supported so as to cantilever from the cabinet overlying the bracing panel member. The buck is provided with the capability of rotation with respect to the pressing plate. Thus, a garment once mounted to the buck can be pressed on all sides. The buck is provided with side arm members that fold outwardly to support a duality of function to the buck. First, the outwardly folding members expand the buck to enable pressing of virtually all sizes of shirts, coats and other abdominal garments.

Abstract: A pants presser having two flat members with facing surfaces, a heatable sheet covering at least one of the members, and a flexible pad proximate with the heatable sheets. A gripping bar is proximate with the bottom of one of the flat members for gripping the bottom of a pair of pants by pressing the pants against the other flat member, the gripping bar being movably mounted to retract substantially linearly and transversely to the plane of the member with which it is proximately mounted. A latching bar is pivotally mounted proximate with one of the members such that it latches to the other member, the latching bar having at least three detents, a full open detent for freely installing a pair of pants thereon, a half-closed detent in which the bottoms of the pants are securely held while the remainder of the pants are free and a closed detent in which the pants are tightly pressed between the flat members.

Abstract: An assembly for heat treatment of a papermaking wire or felt comprises mutually opposing heating surfaces that are alternately offset in the direction of web travel and can be moved toward the felt/wire, thereby enabling one to obtain an ironing effect on both sides of the web simultaneously. The heating surfaces may constitute parts of respective box members whose interiors are formed for being heated by a heat medium, for example, hot oil.

Abstract: A manually operable device for pressing fabric comprising two triangular-shaped jaws, each of which has a flat surface portion. These surface portions face each other and constitute the working surfaces of the device. The two jaws are each secured to a handle. These handles are pivotally joined by a hinge so disposed that the two flat surface portions are separated from each other or are in parallel pressure engagement. The separated position of the surface portions constitutes the loading position of the device for inserting fabric between the two jaws and the other position constitutes the pressing position for pressing fabric inserted between the two jaws. Springs coacting with the handles bias the same into one or the other of the two positions.

Abstract: A heating system for dressings comprising a housing having a pair of opposed heating elements. The housing may be opened to place the dressings intermediate the heating elements, and may be closed in order to heat the dressings intermediate the elements.

Abstract: A household flatplate ironer comprising two cooperating pressing plates, the upper one of which is lowerable onto the lower one by means of a supporting arm and a counterpoise, is provided with means for re-opening the ironer automatically after it has remained closed for a predetermined period of time, thus affording an article of laundry being ironed to cool off without suffering damage from overheating.