Apparatus for pressing shirts having a subdivided inflatable body

US6913172B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Joachim Damrath · Gaggenau, DE
• Gerhard Wetzl · Sontheim, DE
• Markus Spielmannleitner · Ellwangen, DE
• Kathrin Redlin · Berlin, DE
• Sebastian Siegele · Berlin, DE
• Bodo Urich · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 20, 2003
• Grant date: Jul 5, 2005
• Expiry date: Jun 20, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D06F73/00
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A shirt-shaped inflatable body for pressing shirts and on which the shirt is stretched flat includes lateral cavities, which are inflated by an increased pressure, in the sides of the trunk section of the inflatable body. The cavities are supported by a frame located inside the inflatable body and press the trunk section outwards, forming a flat shape. The pressure in the lateral chambers located inside the casing of the inflatable body is increased by the fact that both the casing of the lateral chambers and the casing of the inflatable body are permeable to air and that the lateral chambers are directly supplied with air by a fan, whereas the remaining areas of the inflatable body are only inflated with the air that flows through the casing of the lateral chambers against a flow resistance.