US20040181979A1 - Pressing iron having an electro-osmotic pump - Google Patents
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Abstract
A clothes iron appliance composed of a water reservoir, a steam chamber, and an electro-osmotic pump having a porous body disposed to pump water from the reservoir to the steam chamber.
Description
- The present invention relates to steam pressing irons, and similar appliances such as steam wrinkle removers. In such appliances, water is conveyed slowly from a reservoir to a steam chamber in which water is converted into steam. More particularly, the invention concerns means for conveying the water into the steam chamber.
- The most well known devices for this purpose are drip devices functioning by gravity, but they have the drawback that they cease to function when the pressure of steam in the steam chamber becomes higher than that of the column of water available above the drip device.
- One solution to this problem consists in adapting an electromagnetic piston or membrane pump actuated by an electromagnet or an electric motor. Such devices are described, for example, in French patents numbers FR2368862 and FR2690932. Also known are rotary pumps such as centrifugal pumps as described in French patent number FR2688013 as well as peristaltic pumps, an example of which is disclosed in French patent number FR2691210, less commonly used.
- These types of pumps have proven satisfactory with regard to flow rate and pressure. However, they also generate noise and vibrations, their flow rate is not easily variable, which leads them to operate in bursts, and they are relatively costly.
- The present invention provides a household electric appliance containing a water reservoir that may be filled with tap water and that is equipped with a pump that is silent, economical and durable to transfer water from the reservoir toward the steam chamber, with a continuous flow rate that is easily adjustable with precision and is interruptible, as well as having a sufficient pressure to overcome the counter pressure generated in the steam chamber during ironing.
- Primarily, the invention is embodied in an ironing appliance having a water reservoir and a pump for transferring water from the reservoir toward the steam chamber, wherein the pump is an electro-osmotic pump.
- An electro-osmotic pump, as contemplated by the present invention, is a device having a first compartment that is normally connected to the water reservoir or that forms a part of this reservoir, and a second compartment connected to the steam chamber in which water transferred by the pump is converted into steam, the two compartments being separated by a porous solid body. Each compartment is furnished with an electrode in proximity to the porous body, the electrodes allowing water to flow therepast.
- Thus, when a voltage is applied between the electrodes, a flow of water is created from the first compartment toward the second compartment and supplies the steam chamber. The principle of an electro-osmotic pump is described for example in U.S. Pat. No. 3,143,691. This document cites the pressures obtained with water, which reach the equivalent of a height of water of 11 mm per volt applied between the electrodes. However, the device described only transfers water from one chamber to another without flowing in a circuit, or serves to detect a pressure or flow rate.
- Uses are known in fields that are radically different from that of the present invention. For example, French patent FR1446109 describes numerous devices using a pump of this nature, but with non-aqueous liquids. Several patents also describe medical uses for distributing medications in very small quantities, uses in chromatography to cause an electrolyte to circulate in a column, and uses in fluidics with low flow rates as in U.S. Pat. No. 6,012,902.
- All of these uses concern movements of electrolytes or diverse solutions having characteristics far removed from running water, generally in fields that are very sophisticated and that involve low flow rates.
- French patent FR2467178 describes a water purifier using electro-osmotic pumps, but the pumps used only operate if the water is purified, by resin devices that demineralize the water.
- None of the above-cited documents envisions or suggests the utilization of such a pump in a household electric appliance, or even less in a pressing iron. However, an iron provided with an electro-osmotic pump performs particularly well and is particularly quiet.
- The pump is placed between the reservoir and the steam chamber. Its water inlet communicates with the reservoir or is located within the reservoir, while its outlet is connected to the steam chamber.
- According to one embodiment, the pump is constituted by an enclosure made of electrically non-conductive plastic, containing a porous body composed of grains of fritted glass, in the form of a disc occupying the entire cross-section of the enclosure. The fluid inlet and outlet are arranged at respective opposite sides of the porous disc. Two electrodes are placed to one side and the other of the disc, in contact with the fritted glass and in the path of the fluid. The pump is actuated by application of a direct voltage between the electrodes, of the order of 10-200 volts. Water is displaced, in this case of a siliceous covering of the disc, from the anode toward the cathode, the flow/pressure characteristic being linear and being directly dependant on the applied voltage.
- Preferably, the cross-section of the porous body corresponding to the water passage has dimensions greater than the thickness of the porous body.
- Specifically, the diameter of the disc is greater than its thickness. This thus avoids having a localized bubble in the porous body interrupt the passage of the electric current and the operation of the pump. In effect, a possible gas bubble, generated by the electrodes and trapped in the porous body, cannot have a diameter greater than the thickness of the porous body and thus cannot obstruct the entire passage cross-section for the water and the electric current.
- In a preferred embodiment, the porous body is constituted by a bed of grains of very fine alluvial sand having a grain size of 0.2 mm or less.
- Thus, fritted glass is replaced by the sand. This provides an economical form of construction of the medium in which the electro-osmosis is produced. Preferably, the porous body is of a siliceous nature, such as a quartz sand.
- The bed of grains is maintained in an enclosure made of plastic by the electrodes, which are preferably made of stainless steel and provided with holes, the electrodes being placed on two flat faces of the bed.
- Preferably, the electrodes are made of sheets of stainless steel that are perforated and expanded.
- The electrodes do not significantly interfere with the passage of water in the pump.
- Preferably, the electrodes are separated from the bed of grains, which they retain, by porous membranes.
- The membranes aid retention of the sand so that the perforations in the electrodes do not have to be particularly small.
- The electric supply of the pump, for reasons of safety, includes a transformer or a switch mode power supply including a galvanic isolation.
- The invention also permits a linear variation of the flow rate by modification of the direct voltage applied between the electrodes.
- FIG. 1 is an elevational, cross-sectional view of an iron according to the invention.
- FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional detail view, to a larger scale than FIG. 1, of a preferred embodiment of a pump according to the invention.
- According to a preferred embodiment, shown in FIG. 1, a
steam iron 1 includes an integratedwater reservoir 11, and asoleplate 12 heated by aheating body 13 furnished with aheating element 131. Asteam chamber 132, closed by aplate 133, is arranged inheating body 13. Steam produced inchamber 132 escapes throughsteam holes 121 in the ironing face ofsoleplate 12. - An electro-
osmotic pump 2 is installed at the rear ofwater reservoir 11. Preferably, the pump is present in the form of acassette 21 introduced into the bottom ofreservoir 11 from the rear of the iron, before closing the heel of the iron by theheel piece 14 during fabrication of the iron. A sealingjoint 211 assures a liquid tight seal between the cassette and the wall ofreservoir 11. As a result of this arrangement, the pump is easily removable and replaceable when it eventually becomes ineffective. At the rear of the iron, the pump remains immersed in water even when the iron is placed on itsheel piece 14. - As shown in FIG. 2,
pump 2 has awater outlet 212 that is accessible to the exterior to the reservoir.Water outlet 212 is connected to apoint 134 at which water is injected intosteam chamber 132 through aconduit 15.Conduit 15 has at a high point along its path ashunt 151 toward a high point ofreservoir 11.Shunt 151 is provided with a calibratedorifice 152, opening into the high point ofreservoir 11, with a diameter of several tenths of a millimeter, which is small relative to the diameter ofconduit 15. - With this arrangement, introduction of air through
orifice 152 interrupts any siphoning fromreservoir 11 towardsteam chamber 132 when the iron ceases being used but remains with the soleplate flat on the ironing surface. In effect, this siphon action, although very slow due to the substantial loss of head inpump 2 when it is halted, would be possible sincereservoir 11 is placed higher than thepoint 134 at which water is injected intosteam chamber 132. When the pump is in operation, the flow of water towardreservoir 11 throughorifice 152 is negligible. - Further referring to FIG. 2, pump2 includes an
envelop 21 in the form of a cassette, divided vertically into twocompartments porous body 220 that may be in the form of a disc. Preferably, the disc has a circular, cylindrical form, with an axis that is vertical in the plane of FIG. 2. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention,body 220 has a diameter of the order of 40 mm, and a thickness of 10 mm. However,disc 220 can have any other outline that is compatible with the internal configuration of the reservoir.Disc 220 is enclosed laterally by aring 221, preferably made of electrically insulating plastic material, this ring facilitating fabrication of the body.Ring 221 is clamped incassette 21 byinternal parts 215, which helps to assure the formation of a fluid tight seal aroundring 21 betweencompartments -
Porous body 220 is preferably constituted by a bed of alluvial siliceous sand having a grain size of less than 0.2 mm. Each exposed face ofdisc 220 is covered with a membrane 22 and anelectrode 223. Each membrane 22 is permeable to water, and may be made, for example, of filter paper, and each membrane 22 is in contact withbody 220. Eachelectrode 223 overlies its associatedmembrane 222 and may be made of an expanded stainless steel sheet that serves to retain the shape of the porous body. Each electrode is connected by asoldered connection 224 to a pin, such as 216, that passes through the wall ofcassette 21 that isoutside reservoir 11. According to another form of construction, the electrodes can be made of an expanded titanium sheet, preferably having a platinum coating. - A connector (not shown) connects
pins 216 to a direct current source, with the lower electrode being the anode and the upper electrode being the cathode. The direct current source can be disposed in the handle of the iron and can be a transformer or a switch power supply including a galvanic isolation with respect to the power mains and the body of the iron. Voltage applied between the electrodes during operation ofpump 2 can be regulated by the user, from 10 to 200 volts. -
Lower compartment 213 ofpump 2 is open at the bottom and laterally to communicate with the interior ofreservoir 11 so that water contained inreservoir 11 will entercompartment 213 and moisten body 20 by capillarity.Upper compartment 214 is coupled to pumpoutlet 212. - When the iron is ready to be used and the user wishes to produce steam, he adjusts the output voltage of the constant current source by acting on a suitable button or switch that can be graduated in terms of steam flow rate. The voltage applied between
electrodes 223 provokes an ion current along the walls of the capillary network constituted by the grains of sand, thus entraining molecules of water in the direction of the cathode in the case of a porous siliceous body. Water passes fromreservoir 11 intocompartment 213 then throughbody 220, intocompartment 214 and then out throughoutlet 212, which may be in the form of a nipple, and finally throughconduit 15, in order to reachpoint 134 where water is injected into the steam chamber. - The thickness of the porous body being constant, the water flow rate is directly proportional to the voltage applied between the electrodes. If there is a slight liberation of gas at the electrodes due to electrolysis of the water, the gas forms into bubbles. The diameter of the bubbles cannot exceed the thickness of the
disc constituting body 220, which thickness is less than the diameter of the body. Therefore, the bubbles cannot completely interrupt the ion current between the electrodes and can thus not cause an undesired blockage of pump operation. On the contrary, these bubbles will be entrained and evacuated along with the water current. - The device as described produces, when supplied with a direct voltage of 200 volts, a water flow rate of around 20 g/min under a pressure of several tens of millibars, much greater than the column of water available in the iron above
injection point 134, fully sufficient to overcome the counter pressure due to the steam produced inchamber 132 and to assure easy ironing. Since there is no mechanical moving part, the pump operation is completely silent. - When the user finishes ironing, and if he allows the iron to cool while left to rest on
soleplate 12,conduit 15 empties slowly throughinjection point 134.Air inlet 152 prevents water from being inadvertently siphoned out ofreservoir 11, throughpump 2. - In a related form of construction,
conduit 15 has, upstream ofshunt 151, a 3-way valve that permits, under control of the user, the supply of water to asprayer 16 situated at the front of the iron in order to moisten items to be ironed. - According to another form of construction,
porous body 222 is constituted by a bed of mixed grains including grains of ion exchange resin having a small grain size. The polarity of the direct current source is selected as a function of the nature of the majority of the grains. The porous body has the double function of a capillary substrate for the electro-osmosis, and a demineralizing system.Water outlet 212 and the associated end ofconduit 15 are modified to facilitate a rapid connection suitable for a relatively frequent replacement of the cassette necessitated by the limited lifetime of such resins. - By these means, there is obtained an ironing appliance having a pump that is silent, economical, reliable and durable for transferring water from the reservoir toward the steam chamber with an easily regulatible constant flow rate and with a pressure sufficient to overcome the counter pressure generated in the steam chamber as a result of the generation of steam during ironing.
- This application relates to subject matter disclosed in French Application number FR 03 01031, filed on Jan. 30, 2003, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
- While the description above refers to particular embodiments of the present invention, it will be understood that many modifications may be made without departing from the spirit thereof. The accompanying claims are intended to cover such modifications as would fall within the true scope and spirit of the present invention.
- The presently disclosed embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims, rather than the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein.
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1. A clothes iron appliance comprising:
a water reservoir;
a steam chamber; and
an electro-osmotic pump comprising a porous body disposed to pump water from said reservoir to said steam chamber.
2. The appliance of claim 1 wherein said porous body has a thickness dimension in the direction in which water is pumped, and a cross-section perpendicular to the thickness dimension, and the cross-section has dimensions greater than the thickness dimension.
3. The appliance of claim 1 , wherein said porous body is composed of a bed composed of fine grains.
4. The appliance of claim 3 wherein the fine grains are constituted by alluvial sand having a grain size not greater than 0.2 mm.
5. The appliance of claim 3 wherein the fine grains are of a siliceous material.
6. The appliance of claim 3 wherein the fine grains include grains of an ion exchange resin.
7. The appliance of claim 1 wherein said pump further comprises an enclosure made of plastic material and containing said porous body, and two electrodes placed in electrical communication with respective opposite faces of said porous body.
8. The appliance of claim 7 wherein each of said electrodes is made of stainless steel or of titanium and is provided with through holes.
9. The alliance of claim 7 , wherein said pump further comprises porous membranes interposed between said body and said electrodes.
10. The appliance of claim 1 wherein said appliance further comprises a source of direct current for said pump, said source comprising a transformer or a switch mode power supply having a galvanic isolation.
11. The appliance of claim 1 wherein said pump is constituted by a cassette which is installed in said reservoir in an easily removable manner, and said appliance further comprises a conduit connected to convey water from an outlet of said pump to an inlet of said steam chamber.
12. The appliance of claim 11 wherein said appliance further comprises a shunt provided with a calibrated orifice and connected between a point of said conduit that is above said steam chamber and a point in an upper region of said reservoir.
13. The appliance of claim 11 , further comprising a spray nozzle and a 3-way valve connected between said conduit and said nozzle for supplying water from said pump to said nozzle.
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