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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2001
Shinichiro Kobayashi, Osaka, JP;
Toshihide Nakamura, Hyogo, JP;
Mamoru Ikeshima, Hyogo, JP;
Masao Shimizu, Hyogo, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A steam sprayer is used in ironing textile products, including clothes. The steam sprayer is user-friendly and offers highly effective ironing. A vaporizing chamber generates steam by vaporizing water stored in a tank. A water-supplying unit supplies the vaporizing chamber with the water. A steam-ejecting section spouts the steam outside. The steams-ejecting section includes a ironing surface with high frictional resistance characteristics. When touching the ironing surface to clothes or other fabrics for ironing, a pulling force is caused by the frictional resistance, which is a preferable wrinkles-off effect. Thus, the steam sprayer offers a synergistic effect brought by spouting the steam and applying the pulling force to clothes, thereby neatly fixing the form of clothes.