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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 1989
Filed:
Jul. 25, 1988
Robert Z Kopelman, Rockville Centre, NY (US);
Other;
Abstract
In a preferred embodiment, a commercial dry-cleaning or pressing apparatus has a perforated horizontal substrate with a heated pressing iron pivotably mounted thereon for lowering onto and pressing a garment positioned on the upper face of the perforated substrate, the perforated horizontal substrate having perforations therein through which water vapor is passed from a mixing chamber in which pressurized outside air is admixed with pressurized water vapor after pressurized water vapor is passed through a vapor-pump-outlet inclusive of a restricted vent of a water-vapor collecting chamber from enclosed water-vapor space thereof, above heated water having a water-vapor producing transducer therein within an enclosed water-containing vessel also enclosing the water-vapor collecting chamber thereabove, with a water-vapor pressurizing pump with an outside-air intake and feeding air into the water-vapor collecting chamber and concurrently pressurizing an outgoing mixture of air and water vapor from the water-vapor collecting chamber, and a water-vapor thermostat within the water-vapor collecting chamber controlling when the water-vapor pressurizing pump turns on and off alternately, and heating elements with a heating-elements thermostat being within water of the water-containing vessel controlling when the heating elements are turned on and off alternately, and water-vapor sealed water-overflow device within the water-containing vessel, the heating element thermostat being adjacent the water-overflow device, and the heating elements, the water-vapor pressurizing pump and the transducer each having separate on-off switches concurrently alternately activatable and deactivatable by the heating-element thermostat, and the water-vapor switch being connected in series with said transducer off-on switch and the heating-element thermostat, and the heating element switch and the transducer switch being connected in parallel to the heating element thermostat, and the water-enclosing vessel receiving water through a conduit from a larger water-heating tank having a water-tank thermostat controlling the temperature of water within the water-tank water.