Goods & Services

Self-service laundries Electric machines and apparatus for cleaning clothing

Goods & Services

Self-service laundries Electric machines and apparatus for cleaning clothing

Abstract

A laundry apparatus contains a steamer for providing steam, a first unit for blowing the steam towards a fabric and a second unit for blowing a hot gaseous matter towards the fabric, wherein the hot gaseous matter is formed by heating the gaseous matter also with the steam. An apparatus for removing wrinkles from garments contains a hanger for hanging a garment, a steam tube to blow steam into a sleeve of the garment, and an expandable component underneath the shoulder. The expandable component is in a compact state when the sleeve of the garment is initially hung from the shoulder, and in an expanded state to close the passage between the sleeve and a torso of the garment, wherein the steam blocked by the expandable component operates to remove wrinkles in the sleeve.

IPC Classes  ?

• D06F 73/02 - Apparatus for smoothing or removing creases from garments or other textile articles by formers, cores, stretchers, or internal frames, with the application of heat or steam having one or more treatment chambers
• B25J 17/02 - Wrist joints
• D06F 34/18 - Condition of the laundry, e.g. nature or weight
• D06F 39/40 - Steam generating arrangements
• D06F 58/10 - Drying cabinets or drying chambers having heating or ventilating means
• D06F 58/20 - General details of domestic laundry dryers
• D06F 103/02 - Characteristics of laundry or load
• G06F 18/214 - Generating training patterns; Bootstrap methods, e.g. bagging or boosting

Goods & Services

Electric machines and apparatus for cleaning clothes; Steam cleaning machines Clothes steamers

Abstract

One variation of a method for autonomously processing a garment within a kiosk includes: accessing a set of garment characteristics of the garment, the set of garment characteristics including a garment type and a fabric type; based on the set of garment characteristics, selecting a target processing temperature, a target processing humidity, and a set of steam-processing parameters including a steam nozzle path and a steam nozzle speed. This variation of the method also includes: heating air within the kiosk toward the target processing temperature; injecting steam into the kiosk to drive humidity within the chamber toward the target processing humidity; articulating a steam nozzle along the steam nozzle path at the steam nozzle speed to impinge a steam jet across an interior surface of the garment, tension local areas of the garment against the steam jet, and heat local areas of the garment above the transition temperature.

IPC Classes  ?

• D06F 43/00 - Dry-cleaning apparatus using volatile solvents
• D06F 101/12 - Washing temperature
• D06F 101/16 - Target humidity for the drying process, e.g. very-dry cycles
• D06F 103/06 - Type or material
• D06F 105/20 - Temperature
• D06F 105/56 - Remaining operation time; Remaining operational cycles

Goods & Services

Clothes washing machine featuring a spray rinse system

Goods & Services

Clothes drying machines

Goods & Services

Electric machines and apparatus for cleaning clothing; Smoothing presses

Abstract

A laundry kiosk is provided according to an aspect of the present disclosure. In an embodiment, the laundry kiosk contains a user interface component to receive laundering choices for a garment from a user and an apparatus to process the garment according to the received choices. The laundering choices include one or more of a combination of cleaning, pressing and drying. A suitable enclosure is also provided to hold the apparatus and the user interface component.

IPC Classes  ?

• D06F 73/02 - Apparatus for smoothing or removing creases from garments or other textile articles by formers, cores, stretchers, or internal frames, with the application of heat or steam having one or more treatment chambers
• B25J 17/02 - Wrist joints
• D06F 34/18 - Condition of the laundry, e.g. nature or weight
• D06F 39/00 - LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES - Details of washing machines not specific to a single type of machines covered by groups
• D06F 58/10 - Drying cabinets or drying chambers having heating or ventilating means
• D06F 58/20 - General details of domestic laundry dryers

Abstract

A laundry kiosk is provided according to an aspect of the present disclosure. In an embodiment, the laundry kiosk contains a user interface component to receive laundering choices for a garment from a user and an apparatus to process the garment according to the received choices. The laundering choices include one or more of a combination of cleaning, pressing and drying. A suitable enclosure is also provided to hold the apparatus and the user interface component.

IPC Classes  ?

• D06F 73/02 - Apparatus for smoothing or removing creases from garments or other textile articles by formers, cores, stretchers, or internal frames, with the application of heat or steam having one or more treatment chambers
• D06F 34/18 - Condition of the laundry, e.g. nature or weight
• B25J 17/02 - Wrist joints
• D06F 39/00 - LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES - Details of washing machines not specific to a single type of machines covered by groups
• D06F 58/10 - Drying cabinets or drying chambers having heating or ventilating means
• D06F 58/20 - General details of domestic laundry dryers
• D06F 103/02 - Characteristics of laundry or load
• G06F 18/214 - Generating training patterns; Bootstrap methods, e.g. bagging or boosting

Abstract

A laundry apparatus contains a steamer for providing steam, a first unit for blowing the steam towards a fabric and a second unit for blowing a hot gaseous matter towards the fabric, wherein the hot gaseous matter is formed by heating the gaseous matter also with the steam. An apparatus for removing wrinkles from garments contains a hanger for hanging a garment, a steam tube to blow steam into a sleeve of the garment, and an expandable component underneath the shoulder. The expandable component is in a compact state when the sleeve of the garment is initially hung from the shoulder, and in an expanded state to close the passage between the sleeve and a torso of the garment, wherein the steam blocked by the expandable component operates to remove wrinkles in the sleeve.

IPC Classes  ?

• D06F 58/10 - Drying cabinets or drying chambers having heating or ventilating means
• B25J 17/02 - Wrist joints
• D06F 34/18 - Condition of the laundry, e.g. nature or weight
• D06F 39/00 - LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES - Details of washing machines not specific to a single type of machines covered by groups
• D06F 39/40 - Steam generating arrangements
• D06F 58/20 - General details of domestic laundry dryers
• D06F 73/02 - Apparatus for smoothing or removing creases from garments or other textile articles by formers, cores, stretchers, or internal frames, with the application of heat or steam having one or more treatment chambers
• D06F 103/02 - Characteristics of laundry or load
• G06F 18/214 - Generating training patterns; Bootstrap methods, e.g. bagging or boosting

Abstract

A laundry kiosk is provided according to an aspect of the present disclosure. In an embodiment, the laundry kiosk contains a user interface component to receive laundering choices for a garment from a user and an apparatus to process the garment according to the received choices. The laundering choices include one or more of a combination of cleaning, pressing and drying. A suitable enclosure is also provided to hold the apparatus and the user interface component.

IPC Classes  ?

• D06F 95/00 - Laundry systems or arrangements of apparatus or machines; Mobile laundries
• D06F 33/30 - Control of washing machines characterised by the purpose or target of the control
• D06F 3/00 - Hand rubbing apparatus
• D06F 31/00 - Washing installations comprising an assembly of several washing machines or washing units, e.g. continuous flow assemblies
• G07F 17/20 - Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for washing or drying articles, e.g. clothes, motor cars
• G06Q 20/18 - Payment architectures involving self-service terminals [SST], vending machines, kiosks or multimedia terminals
• G06Q 20/20 - Point-of-sale [POS] network systems

Abstract

A laundry apparatus contains a steamer for providing steam, a first unit for blowing the steam towards a fabric and a second unit for blowing a hot gaseous matter towards the fabric, wherein the hot gaseous matter is formed by heating the gaseous matter also with the steam. An apparatus for removing wrinkles from garments contains a hanger for hanging a garment, a steam tube to blow steam into a sleeve of the garment, and an expandable component underneath the shoulder. The expandable component is in a compact state when the sleeve of the garment is initially hung from the shoulder, and in an expanded state to close the passage between the sleeve and a torso of the garment, wherein the steam blocked by the expandable component operates to remove wrinkles in the sleeve.

IPC Classes  ?

• D06F 73/02 - Apparatus for smoothing or removing creases from garments or other textile articles by formers, cores, stretchers, or internal frames, with the application of heat or steam having one or more treatment chambers
• D06F 58/10 - Drying cabinets or drying chambers having heating or ventilating means
• D06F 73/00 - Apparatus for smoothing or removing creases from garments or other textile articles by formers, cores, stretchers, or internal frames, with the application of heat or steam

Goods & Services

Dry-cleaning and laundry services