CN1710185A

CN1710185A - Iron with specially shaped handle

Info

Publication number: CN1710185A
Application number: CN 200510075510
Authority: CN
Inventors: D·热吕; F·雷诺
Original assignee: SEB SA
Current assignee: SEB SA
Priority date: 2004-06-17
Filing date: 2005-06-02
Publication date: 2005-12-21
Also published as: FR2871815B1; FR2871815A1; EP1607517A1; JP2006000657A

Abstract

The invention refers to an iron. The iron is provided with a main body (2) loaded on a sole part (1) and a handle (3) forming a projection on the main body (2). The handle (3) is provided with an upper surface (31) forming the support surface for the palm and the first joints of the pointing finger and middle finger of a hand. The handle (3) is provided with a side face wall (32) extended from the upper surface (31) to the main body (2), and the side face wall (32) is provided with a holding part (32a) for receiving especially the end parts of the other fingers of the hand when the palm is applied on the upper surface (31). At the level value of the part, the side face walls (32) are roughly in parallel or slightly close to each other and the width of the handle (3) at the level value of the holding part (32a) is larger than 5 cm.

Description

Flatiron with specially shaped handle

Technical field

[01] the present invention relates to a kind of flatiron, relate in particular to flatiron with specially shaped handle.

Background technology

[02] handle of most of flatirons is cylindrical, along the longitudinal axis extension of flatiron, can grip flatiron by " hammer " handle of grasping handle.But the defective of this " hammer " handle is, the flatiron time one is long, finger and forearm contraction of muscle, and the people is fatigue relatively.The defective of hammer handle formula handle is that also palmistry is limited for the one-movement-freedom-degree of handle, and like this, the user can not change posture to lessen fatigue.

Be well known that [03] WO01/92631 proposes a kind of flatiron of being furnished with spherical multi-direction handle.However, the defective of this handle is to form the position that finger closes up, and also causes pointing contraction of muscle in the meantime.This document also proposes microscler handle, and its protruding upper end is suitable for admitting palm, also admits forefinger so that press button once in a while, and handle is increased with respect to iron body, thereby forms the space below handle, when the user grips handle, is suitable for admitting finger.But the narrow width of handle and following space thereof can form the closed position of hand as " hammer " handle, cause the contraction of muscle of hand.

Be well known that [04] DE 2 712 805 proposes a kind of circular edge formula half elliptic handle, its superiority is that user's posture selects flexibility bigger, can be along different directions grasping handle.But the defective of this handle is, can not grip flatiron well, and is especially true for lifting high flatiron, and when pressure was applied on the handle edge, hand can slide towards the front portion of flatiron.

Summary of the invention

[05] the present invention is intended to remedy these defectives, proposes a kind of flatiron with multi-direction handle, and the hommization that its shape is suitable for providing very good is most operated.

[06] for this reason, the present invention proposes a kind of flatiron, its main body is positioned on the base, its handle forms projection on iron body, it is characterized in that, the upper surface of handle forms the bearing-surface of the first knuckle of palm and forefinger and middle finger, two sidewalls of handle extend to iron body from the upper surface of handle, sidewall has gripping area, be used for when palm places on the upper surface, admitting best other finger finger, gripping location, the parallel to each other basically or convergence a little of sidewall, handle at the width that grips location greater than 5 centimetres.

[07] superiority of this handle is, palm is in release position on handle, and thumb, the third finger and little finger of toe because this position handle width is big, do not form the position that hand closes up fully gripping location grasping handle.At last, sidewall is substantially parallel or convergence a little at gripping area, when between the thumb and the third finger, exerting pressure, and grasping handle well.

[08] another feature of flatiron according to the present invention, the width of upper surface is greater than 6 centimetres, and gripping area is limited to the sunk part on the sidewall.

[09] this feature can have the upper surface of the comfortable support region that forms palm, and sunk part can make finger be hooked in well on the handle, like this, can allow the user alleviate and point the pressure that is applied on the sidewall, to obtain good comfort.

[10] another feature according to the present invention, sunk part with section that base parallels on have recessed slightly profile, on section, have recessed more profile transverse to the handle longitudinal direction.

[11] this feature can be improved the state of finger hook at the handle gripping area when flatiron vertically moves, and finger vertically is hooked on the gripping area, so that need not excessively to clamp finger when lifting high flatiron.

[12] according to other specific embodiments, flatiron of the present invention can comprise one or more combinations individually or according to all possible technical combinations:

[length of 13[-handle upper surface is 1.4 to 2.3 with the ratio of width, is preferably 1.7 to 2.

[14]-sunk part is positioned near the upper wall, extends on the whole height of sidewall basically.

[15]-sidewall of handle extends on greater than 3 centimetres height.

[16]-sunk part is positioned near the handle front end, extends to vertical height of flatiron center of gravity at least.

[17]-midplane of the protruding upper surface of handle tilts 15 ° to 20 ° towards flatiron is anterior.

[18]-and upper surface has the lateral edges of leading edge and two protrusions, linearly the part basically that described leading edge has that longitudinal direction transverse to handle extends, and described lateral edges is restrained a little in the handle front portion, and the handle rear portion is elliptical profile basically.

[19]-flatiron has the finger protection flange that exceeds in side, handle base portion both sides, the bib that described flange is used to point.

Description of drawings

[20] with reference to accompanying drawing and non-limiting example, the object of the invention, feature and superiority will better be understood.Accompanying drawing is as follows:

[21] Fig. 1 to 4 is respectively vertical view, front view, rearview and the side view of the flatiron in specific embodiments of the present invention;

[22] Fig. 5 is the profile along V-V among Fig. 4, and the inner member of handle is not shown;

[23] Fig. 6 is the stereogram of flatiron shown in Fig. 1 to 4;

[24] Fig. 7 is the transverse cross-sectional view along VII-VII among Fig. 1, and the inner member of flatiron is not shown.

The specific embodiment

[25] only promising understanding member required for the present invention just is illustrated.In order to be easy to read accompanying drawing, identical member indicates with same label in each accompanying drawing.

[26] Fig. 1 to 4 illustrates the steam iron with heated base 1, and main body 2 and handle 3 place on the heated base 1, handle 3 be arranged in basically base 1 central authorities above.

[27] wall 21 of main body 2 makes main body 2 form vault towards the convergence of handle 3 directions, and its base portion is consistent with the profile of base 1, and its top has the flared part that blocks of supporting handle 3, and handle 3 forms projection on iron body 2.

[28] iron body 2 preferred interior packaging containers (accompanying drawing is not shown), the vaporizer on base 1 supplies water.

[29] as shown in Figure 1, base 1 is flat basically, has the special shape of three most advanced and sophisticated P1, P2, P3, and most advanced and sophisticated P1 of front end and the most advanced and sophisticated P2 in rear end are arranged on the longitudinal axis of flatiron, and the longitudinal axis of tri-point P3 and flatiron staggers very big.Base 1 has linearly the edge basically that extends in a side of longitudinal axis between most advanced and sophisticated P1 to P2 and P2 to P3, have the very big edge of projection that connects most advanced and sophisticated P1 and P2 at the opposite side of longitudinal axis.The superiority of this shape of base 1 is, can effectively press along all directions.

[30] especially, according to the present invention, handle 3 has general global shape, as individual cobble, be generally have circular edge, the parallelepiped shape of protrusion even recessed polished surface.

[31] handle 3 is preferably provided with slightly towards the anterior convex upper surface 31 that tilts of flatiron, as shown in Figure 4.Preferably, the midplane of upper surface 31 is towards 15 ° to 25 ° of the anterior inclinations of flatiron, and the upper surface 31 of handle omits microprotrusion in the horizontal, and projection is very big in the vertical, is suitable for the natural torsion of palm and finger when being in release position with convenient hand.With embodiment is example, and chordwise curvature radius is about 78 millimeters, and the longitudinal curvature radius is about 140 millimeters.

[32] width of upper surface 31 with 6 to 9 centimetres for well, be preferably 7 centimetres, length preferably is about 13 centimetres greater than 10 centimetres.

[33] shown in Fig. 1 vertical view, the profile of upper surface 31 has basically leading edge 31a linearly, its end by round edge with on the first half of handle 3 a little the lateral edges 31b of projection be connected, the latter half of handle 3 has the profile that is oval basically.

[34] the lateral edges 31b of upper surface and leading edge 31a extend towards the direction of iron body 2 by two sidewalls 32 and an antetheca 33 respectively.The height of sidewall 32 preferably is about 4 centimetres, and handle 3 makes to form flange 4 in the both sides of handle at the width at its base portion place width less than the enlarging top of iron body 2.

[35] when palm places on the handle 3, described flange 4 is protected the guard section of pointing as the supporting part of finger thereby constitute, in case the hot wall 21 of the unexpected contact of finger iron body 2.

[36] shown in Fig. 4 and 6, sidewall 32 is furnished with recessed sunk part 32a near the antetheca 33 of handle 3, and described sunk part 32a extends at the rear portion towards handle that is essentially on 70% the length of sidewall 32.

[37] sunk part 32a vertically is arranged near the lateral edges 31b of upper surface 31, extends on the whole basically height of sidewall 32.

[38] as shown in Figure 5, sunk part 32a has recessed a little profile on the section that is parallel to base 1, has recessed very big profile on the horizontal section of flatiron, as shown in Figure 7.As embodiment, the radius of curvature of recessed sunk part 32a is about 190 millimeters being parallel on the section of base, be about 23 millimeters on the horizontal section of flatiron.

[39] width of sunk part 32a place handle is greater than 5 centimetres, so that when pointing especially thumb and little finger of toe and/or nameless finger and be bearing on the sunk part 32a, do not form the closed position of hand.

The superiority of the flatiron of [40] so making is that handle more meets the human body characteristics, has bigger flatiron operation comfort.In fact, because meeting the shape of human body characteristics, the upper surface of handle has the convexity of the applying palm of the hand when hand is in release position, palm and forefinger and middle finger even nameless first knuckle can place on the upper surface of handle naturally, thumb and little finger of toe place the sunk part of handle both sides, because the width of depressed part office handle is big, therefore do not cause the closed position of hand.

[41] in this position of hand, the slight depression of handle sidewall part is can be at flatiron vertical or vertically improve the superincumbent situation of finger hook when mobile, and like this, the user moves flatiron, and finger can not apply big pressure to the sidewall of handle.

[42] last, in this position of hand, the basis weight of arm places on wrist and the palm, like this, helps handle is applied vertical pressure naturally, is distributed on the clothes by base again, also helps to improve ironing efficiency.

[43] obvious, if the user thinks that the conversion grip position just can conversion, the round-shaped of handle can make the hand orientation discriminatively on handle, carry out hommization and operate.

[44] therefore, be suitable for fully can be along the shape of the base of all directions flatiron for this handle.Handle also has the superiority with respect to its longitudinal axis symmetry, and is like this, for being used to right-hander or left-handed person, all comfortable equally.

[45] obvious, the present invention never be limited to described and shown in embodiment.Especially in the configuration aspects of various members, perhaps pass through substituting of equivalent technologies, still can carry out various improvement, yet not exceed protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. flatiron, it comprises: a main body (2), described main body (2) are positioned on the base (1); With a handle (3), it is gone up at described iron body (2) and forms a projection;

It is characterized in that, described handle (3) comprises a upper surface (31), one bearing-surface of the forefinger of described upper surface (31) formation palm and hand and the first knuckle of middle finger, described handle (3) comprises two sidewalls (32), described sidewall (32) extends to described iron body (2) from the upper surface (31) of described handle (3), described sidewall (32) comprises a gripping area (32a), be used for when palm places described upper surface (31) to go up, admitting best other finger finger, (32a) locates at described gripping area, the parallel to each other basically or convergence a little of described sidewall (32), the width of described handle (3) is located greater than 5 centimetres at described gripping area (32a).

2. flatiron according to claim 1 is characterized in that, the width of described upper surface (31) is greater than 6 centimetres; And described gripping area is gone up at described sidewall (32) and is formed a sunk part (32a).

3. flatiron according to claim 2, it is characterized in that, described sunk part (32a) is parallel to one and has a recessed slightly profile in the section of described base (1), and has a recessed more profile in the section transverse to the longitudinal direction of described handle (3).

4. according to each described flatiron in the claim 1 to 3, it is characterized in that the length of the upper surface (31) of described handle (3) is 1.4 to 2.3 with the ratio of width, is preferably 1.7 to 2.

5. according to each described flatiron in the claim 2 to 4, it is characterized in that described sunk part (32a) arises near the described upper wall (31), and on the whole basically height of described sidewall (32), extend.

6. according to each described flatiron in the claim 1 to 5, it is characterized in that the sidewall of described handle (32) extends on greater than 3 centimetres height.

7. according to each described flatiron in the claim 2 to 6, it is characterized in that described sunk part (32a) arises near the front end of described handle, and extend to vertical height of described flatiron center of gravity at least.

8. according to each described flatiron in the claim 1 to 7, it is characterized in that the midplane of the protruding upper surface (31) of described handle is towards 15 ° to 20 ° of the anterior inclinations of flatiron.

9. according to each described flatiron in the claim 1 to 8, it is characterized in that described upper surface (31) has: a leading edge (31a), it has linearly a part basically of extending transverse to the longitudinal direction of described handle (3); With two lateral edges that protrude, described lateral edges is restrained a little in the front portion of described handle (3), and the rear portion of described handle (3) has the profile that is oval basically.

10. according to each described flatiron in the claim 1 to 9, it is characterized in that it has the flange (4) of the protection finger that exceeds in the side, base portion both sides of described handle (3), described flange (4) is as the bib of finger.