Abstract:
An ironing system for guests of the hospitality industry that is not only compact in size, for storage in a guest room closet, but is also convenient and safe to use when the guest needs to press garments or other articles of wearing apparel. By combining the customary iron and the usual ironing board with a specially constructed iron holder and tethering arrangement, property damage and loss is contained, all to the benefit of management and guest alike.
Abstract:
An ironing apparatus which includes an ironing head, an ironing head rest including an electrical connection for supplying an electrical current to the ironing head placed on the ironing heat rest, a main tank for containing water and supplying the water to the ironing head, a water supply unit for supplying the water into the main tank, a controller for controlling the water supply unit and a load detector for detecting the placement of the ironing head on the ironing head rest, wherein the water supply unit is driven in response to an input from the load detector in response to the placement of the ironing head on the ironing head rest, thereby supplying water to the ironing head. When the ironing head is no longer in use, it retracts into the ironing head rest and is protected by a movable housing which is opened and closed by an electric drive. When the iron is needed for use, the drive opens the cover and again exposes the ironing head which is raised in a tilted position with the front of the ironing head higher than the back of the ironing head.
Abstract:
An ironing support or board structure has two parallel ironing surfaces formed of boards connected by spacer elements of small height. One of the ironing surfaces is formed by a single board, referred to as the main board. The other ironing surfaces are formed by two separate accessory boards which overhang or overlap the main board. The spacer elements which connect the accessory boards to the main board are associated with the main board at opposite ends of the main board. This results in free parts or free ends of each accessory board extending towards the other accessory board.
Abstract:
A caddy for an iron, or the like, including a base adapted to be clamped to an ironing board, or the like, a post carried by the base, a hook pivotally connected to the post and insertable through an engageable with the handle of the iron, and a rachet and pawl for locking the hook relative to the post in a position to engage the handle and support the iron.