Patent Application
20060150448
The present invention generally relates to the connection, protection and support to an electric flatiron power cord, in particular, to an electric flatiron with power cord easily winded up.
Electric flatiron or electric iron is commonly used in people's daily lives, but how to roll back the power cord is a great problem that perplexes people. In order to solve this problem, in prior art, a winding apparatus is disposed at the rear of the electric flatiron. This winding apparatus includes a winding box, the central portion of which is a winding shaft which sleeved with a rotor plate used for winding the power cord.
Wherein, the rotor plate may rotate relatively to the winding shaft. In order to join the electricity, the power cord must be connected to the heating component inside the electric flatiron through the rotor plate and winding shaft, wherein many problems of the electric connection between the components should be considered; in order to enable the winding shaft to roll back the power cord automatically, a coil spring which could force the rotor plate to rotate along the winding direction of the power cord should be set on the winding shaft, meanwhile a clip which could lock the power cord in pulled-out position should also be set, but these components may easily deteriorate when repeatedly used; when pulling the power cord out from the winding apparatus, there should be enough force to overcome the force of the coil spring, and after being released from locked position, the power cord immediately wind back under the force of the coil spring. The process of pulling out and winding back the power cord may easily make related components deteriorate.
Obviously, the existing winding apparatus of electric flatiron is complex, with high costs, and apt to break down.
In addition the use of the winding apparatus makes the volume of the electric flatiron bigger. A handle is usually disposed upon the flatiron body, the space between the handle and the flatiron body is undesirably wasted. Therefore, electric flatiron of this kind is unreasonable in space design, which can not utilize space well.
The purpose of the present invention is to create an electric flatiron with power cord easily winded up which correct the unreasonable design of the winding-up apparatus and the handle which make the electric flatiron have a complex structure, high costs, a huge volume and bc apt to break down.
The solution presented in this invention is: an electric flatiron with power cord easily winded up, which comprise a flatiron body which has a base plate and inside an electric beater which heats the base plate, the electric heater is connected with a power cord which extends out of the body. A hand grip portion is disposed upon the flatiron body, the space between the hand grip portion and the flatiron body could be used for winding up the power cord.
The above mentioned hand grip portion is a disk-like body, which is connected to the flatiron body by a winding post which has a bigger diameter in both ends and a smaller diameter in the middle. The out surface of the winding post is a slick curved surface. This surface in company with the bottom surface of the hand grip portion and the top surface of the flatiron body define the space used for winding up the power cord.
The top of the above mentioned flatiron body subsides slightly forming a sinking.
The related power cord extends out from the rear of the flatiron body, a clip used for lock the power cord is set on the top front portion of the flatiron body.
The related wand grip portion includes a temperature controlling knob which controls the temperate of the electric heater. The temperature controlling knob embeds into the top portion of the hand grip portion.
One aspect of the present invention is an electric flatiron with power cord easily winded up which has a hand grip portion upon its body. In the approximate middle of the hand grip portion there is a connecting portion connected to the flatiron body. Thus, there is no preformed space needed for fingers to cross through above the flatiron body, which helps the structural design.
Another aspect is an electric flatiron with power cord easily winded up which has a hand grip portion. The hand grip portion may be designed in any suitable size and shape, e.g. like a mouse used with a computer.
Still another aspect is that in traditional flatiron for being usable, there must be preformed space between the hand grip portion upon the flatiron body for hands to grip the hand grip portion well. As a result, this limits the structural design of the electric flatiron, the designer has to define a space above the flatiron body for fingers to cross though when gripping the handle.
The present invention breaks through the structural design of traditional electric flatiron and abandons the structure of traditional handle. The present invention create a creative design that provides a winding portion between the handle and the flatiron body, which ingeniously makes the handle and the winding up apparatus a integral part and fully utilizes the space between the handle and the flatiron body. Winding apparatus in this design may be easily used and hardly deteriorate. In addition, the present invention changes the traditional structure that there must be a preformed room between the handle and the flatiron body, and the hand grip portion is designed as a mouse, which accords with modem's use habit and aesthetic conceptions.
The present invention will be described with greater specificity and detail through the use of the accompanying drawings, in which:
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The hand grip portion 2 on its top includes a temperature controlling knob 7 which controls the temperature of the electric heater. The temperature controlling knob 7 embeds into the top portion of the hand grip portion 2, which does not influence gripping the hand grip portion 2.
The present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from its spirit or essential characteristics. The described embodiments are to be considered in all respects only as illustrative and not restrictive. The scope of the invention is, therefore, indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description. All changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are to be embraced within their scope.
