Garment pressing and ironing appliance

A garment pressing and ironing appliance comprising in combination

• A. a stationary housing incorporating a thin, flat pressing panel having substantially parallel lateral side edges, a front side and a rear side
• a pair of sidewall columns integrally joined respectively to said side edges of the pressing panel, and defining a flat elongated cavity on the rear side of the pressing panel,
• support means formed in the housing positioning it in a stationary orientation,
• B. heating means embedded in the pressing panel adapted to deliver heat to substantially its entire surface,
• C. a thin, flat rectangular clamping panel pivotally connected to the pressing panel on a first transverse pivoting axis for arcuate sector pivoting movement through an arc between about 10 degrees and about 30 degrees between a clamped position closely juxaposed to the front side of the pressing panel and an open unclamped position angularly displaced from the pressing panel,
• D. clamping means releasably securing the clamping panel in its clamped position,
• E. and an ironing board retractable into said cavity and withdrawable therefrom for deployment in a substantially horizontal plane overlying and spanning the space between the upper ends of both said pressing panel and said clamping panel in its unclamped position.