Hand-held steam appliances
AssigneeStrix Limited
InventorsMarc Gibson Collinson, Nicholas Edward Gibbs, Steven Anthony Ashton, Vincent Joseph Garvey
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Abstract
A steam generating appliance such as an electric iron comprises a base unit and a hand-held mobile unit which can be releasably coupled to the base unit. The base unit comprises a reservoir for water and a pump for pumping water from the reservoir into the mobile unit when the mobile unit is coupled to the base unit. The mobile unit comprises a boiler and an on-board reservoir for water, wherein the on-board reservoir is adapted to store water received from the base unit under pressure and to deliver the water to the boiler under the control of a user-operable valve.
Claims36
A steam generating appliance comprising a base unit and a hand-held mobile unit which can be releasably coupled to the base unit, wherein the base unit comprises;
- a base reservoir for water;
- and
- a pump for pumping water from the base reservoir into the mobile unit when the mobile unit is coupled to the base unit;
- and wherein the mobile unit comprises:
- a boiler, and
- an on-board reservoir adapted to store water received from the base unit under a pressure that is greater than an ambient pressure, and to deliver the water to the boiler under the control of a user-operable valve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.