Iron self-clean valve assembly
CA 1075589 A · Owner: General Electric Company · Inventors: Walker, Wendell C.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A steam iron is disclosed having a water tank steam generating soleplate, a guided water valve to start and stop water to the soleplate for steam generation and, a dumper valve in the bottom of the tank to suddenly empty the tank onto the soleplate to purge and clean the iron. To this conventional structure an improvement provides a unitary assembly of the dumper valve that includes a first tubular member with its upper end connected to the bottom of the tank and its lower end extended below the tank towards the soleplate. Cooperating with this is a second concentric tubular member telescopically disposed frictionally with the first member so the two tubes are pushed and locked together. …
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Why it's free to use
- Granted April 15, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 15, 1997.
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