US 8,584,384 B2Granted

Garment press assembly, travel kit, and pressing methods

OwnerPavel Savenokinventor

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Abstract

A mechanical garment press assembly enables users to mechanically press garments during travel and may be stored or carried in combination with standard carry-on luggage. The garment press assembly comprises opposed outer resilient planar members, each of which has a hinge end and a clamp end. A hinge member flexibly interconnects the hinge ends. Clamping structure clamps the clamp ends toward one another after a (wrinkled) garment section is received intermediate the opposed outer planar members for imparting primary wrinkle-removing forces into the target garment section. Tension members interconnect the hinge ends to the clamp ends and retain the resilient members is bowed tension for imparting secondary wrinkle-removing forces into the target garment section. Various portable assemblies are contemplated based on the foregoing basics as well as a home-based version. Certain garment pressing methods are also described based on the foregoing basics.

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Dependent claims

A travel kit for enabling travelers to mechanically press garments during travel, the luggage kit comprising:

a three-dimensional luggage assembly, the luggage assembly thus having a luggage length, a luggage width, and a luggage depth;
and
a portable garment press assembly, the portable garment press assembly being sized and shaped to be received within the luggage length, width, and depth, the portable press assembly comprising:
first and second outer planar members, the first and second outer planar members each having a hinge end and a clamp end, the outer planar members each comprising inner hydrophilic surfacing, the inner hydrophilic surfacing for enhancing moisture absorption from garment sections coming into contact therewith;
a first flexible hinge member, the first flexible hinge member being flexibly attached at the hinge ends for interconnecting the hinge ends;
an inner planar member, the inner planar member being sandwiched intermediate the first and second outer planar members and attached to the first flexible hinge member, the inner planar member for separating opposed garment sections as received intermediate the first and second outer planar members;
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clamping means for clamping the clamp ends of the outer planar members toward one another, a garment section being receivable intermediate the first and second outer planar members and the first flexible hinge member and clamping means, the first and second outer planar members for imparting primary wrinkle-removing forces into a received garment section when the clamping means clamp the clamp ends toward one another.

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A method for mechanically pressing a garment section, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a portable garment press assembly comprising opposed resilient outer planar members interconnected at hinge ends thereof by a hinge structure, the hinge structure comprising outer hinge surfacing;
positioning a garment section upon a first of the opposed outer planar members;
positioning a second of the opposed outer planar members into contact with the garment section via the hinge structure;
clamping via clamping means the opposed outer planar members toward one another at clamp ends thereof for imparting primary wrinkle-removing forces into the garment section, the clamping means comprising outer clamp surfacing, the outer hinge and clamp surfacing comprising first fastening means;
and
interconnecting the hinge ends to the clamp ends with tensioning means thereby resiliently and arcuately bowing the outer planar members for imparting secondary wrinkle-removing forces into the garment section, the tensioning means comprising second fastening means, the first and second fastening means being cooperable for fastening the tensioning means to the hinge structure and clamping means for retaining the outer planar members in bowed tension.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.