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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2009
Ugo Favret, Casarsa, IT;
Flavio Noviello, Aviano, IT;
Ugo Favret, Casarsa, IT;
Flavio Noviello, Aviano, IT;
Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V., Brussels, BE;
Abstract
A home laundry drier () comprising an outer box casing () and, inside the casing, a laundry drying container () for housing the laundry to be dried, a hot-air generator () for circulating a stream of hot air inside said laundry drying container (), and a steam generator () for feeding steam into said laundry drying container (); the steam generator () comprising a steam-generating boiler () designed to receive water and convert it into a stream of low-pressure steam whose pressure is higher than external pressure, a steam injection nozzle () structured for projecting jets of low-pressure steam directly inside the laundry drying container (), and a steam exhaust manifold () connecting the outlet of the steam-generating boiler () to the steam injection nozzle () for feeding the low-pressure steam produced by the steam-generating boiler () directly to said steam injection nozzle (); the steam injection nozzle () being located over the steam-generating boiler (), and said steam exhaust manifold () being dimensioned so that the maximum speed (V) of the low-pressure steam flowing along at least one portion of said steam exhaust manifold () is lower than 9 m/s, so to cause the natural flowing of the water droplets resulting from steam condensation inside the steam exhaust manifold () back to the outlet of the steam-generating boiler ().