Garment tunnel finisher with atomized spray and hot air mix
AssigneeLeonard Automatics, Inc.
InventorJeffrey Neal Frushtick
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Abstract
A laundry tunnel finisher including a tunnel providing a moisturizing zone therein having a non-linear conveyor pathway therethrough with curved portions adjacent the entrance and exit of the tunnel, at least one nozzle directed at the curved portions of the pathway, a hot water source supplying hot water to the at least one nozzle, a compressed air source supplying compressed air to the at least one nozzle, and a hot air source directing hot air into the tunnel, wherein hot water is atomized using compressed air and is sprayed through the at least one nozzle and mixed with hot air in the tunnel to raise the temperature in the moisturizing zone.
Claims19
A laundry tunnel finisher, comprising:
- a tunnel defining a moisturizing zone therein and having a garment conveyor therethrough defining a conveyor pathway having a first curve within the tunnel adjacent an entrance of the tunnel and a second curve within the tunnel adjacent an exit of the tunnel;
- at least one nozzle positioned within the tunnel adjacent an outer portion of at least one of the first and second curves;
- a hot water source supplying hot water to the at least one nozzle;
- a compressed air source supplying compressed air to the at least one nozzle;
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- a hot air source directing hot air into the tunnel;
- wherein hot water from the hot water source is atomized with compressed air from the compressed air source and sprayed into the tunnel through the at least one nozzle and is mixed with hot air from the hot air source to raise the temperature in the moisturizing zone.
A laundry tunnel finisher, comprising:
- a tunnel having an entrance and an exit positioned adjacent opposed ends thereof and defining a moisturizing zone within its interior;
- a garment conveyor defining a conveyor pathway extending between the entrance and the exit of the tunnel;
- a plurality of nozzles disposed within the tunnel and directed at the conveyor pathway;
- a hot water source supplying hot water to the nozzles;
- a compressed air source supplying compressed air to the nozzles;
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- a hot air source directing hot air into the tunnel;
- wherein hot water from the hot water source is atomized with compressed air from the compressed air source and sprayed into the tunnel through the nozzles and is mixed with hot air from the hot air source to raise the temperature in the moisturizing zone.
A laundry tunnel finisher comprising a tunnel providing a moisturizing zone therein having a non-linear conveyor pathway therethrough having curved portions adjacent an entrance and an exit of the tunnel, at least one nozzle directed at the curved portions of the pathway, a hot water source supplying hot water to the at least one nozzle, a compressed air source supplying compressed air to the at least one nozzle, and a hot air source directing hot air into the tunnel, wherein the hot water is atomized using the compressed air and is sprayed through the at least one nozzle and mixed with the hot air in the tunnel to raise the temperature in the moisturizing zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.