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US 6,581,309 B1Granted
Clothes iron
OwnerCarl J. Confortiinventor
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Abstract
A temperature indicator for a clothes iron includes a heat-sensitive element configured to be coupled to a clothes iron and configured to be disposed to receive heat from a heating surface of the clothes iron, and a visual indicator coupled to the heat-sensitive element and configured to provide a visual indication of heat received by the heat-sensitive element.
Claims19
A clothes iron comprising:
- a heat-sensitive element configured and disposed to receive heat from a heating surface of the clothes iron;
- and
- a visual indicator coupled to the heat-sensitive element and configured to provide a visual indication of heat received by the heat-sensitive element indicative of whether the heating surface is safe to touch.
A clothes iron comprising:
- a grip portion configured to be grasped by a person;
- a heating surface coupled to the grip portion and configured to provide heat;
- and
- a heat-indicative apparatus coupled to the heating surface and configured to provide a visual indication of a temperature of the heating surface;
- wherein the heat-indicative apparatus comprises a thermochromatic material.
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A clothes iron comprising:
- a body including a handle, a base, and a heat-providing surface;
- and
- means for indicating a temperature of the heat-providing surface, the means including indicia of the heat-providing surface being at a first temperature considered to be safe to touch and of the heat-providing surface being at a second temperature considered to be unsafe to touch.
A clothes iron comprising:
- a grip portion configured to be grasped by a person;
- a heating surface coupled to the grip portion and configured to provide heat and to contact clothes;
- and
- a heat-indicative apparatus coupled to the heating surface and configured to provide a visual indication of a temperature of the heating surface;
- wherein the heat-indicative apparatus is disposed on the heating surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.