Steam iron soleplate

US4658520A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• ROWENTA WERKE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Gerd Henneberger · Neu-Isenburg, DE
• Robert Walter · Eppertshausen, DE
• Rolf Lewis Thomas · Worthing, GB
• Ernst Bechstein · Offenbach am Main, DE
• Norbert Voss

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 4, 1986
• Grant date: Apr 21, 1987
• Expiry date: Jun 4, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D06F75/38
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

An electrically heated steam iron has a soleplate in which are arranged an electrical heating element and a vaporization chamber, and a soleplate liner which consists of a different material from the soleplate and which is fixed thereto. The soleplate is provided with steam escape holes which communicate with respective openings in the soleplate liner, each such opening having a steam distribution groove on the ironing surface of the soleplate liner. The soleplate has recesses each congruent to a respective steam distribution groove and the longitudinal axes of all the grooves are directed towards the center of gravity of the ironing surface of the soleplate liner.