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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7188442 | Ironing device A handheld iron for pressing or creasing an article of fabric without the use of an ironing board. The handheld iron having a housing, a platform, and an actuator for displacing the platform with respect to the housing. The housing further includes a heating surface... | 03/13/2007 |
| 5732489 | Electric iron hem gauge device An electric iron device that employs indicia markings along both sides of an iron sole-plate used for accurately gauging and pressing any desired width of hem or cuff of a fabric, thereby eliminating the need for basting the fabric prior to pressing. The ... | 03/31/1998 |
| 4219724 | Thermostatically controlled electrically heated hand tool for pressing garments A manually operable device for pressing fabric comprising two triangular-shaped jaws, each of which has a flat surface portion. These surface portions face each other and constitute the working surfaces of the device. The two jaws are each secured to a ha... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4209685 | Hair straightening or waving mandrel for use with a vapor generating curling iron An appliance or device for treating hair includes a tubular barrel containing a generator for heat and vapor and a plurality of hair winding mandrels which are slidably mounted over the tubular barrel. The mandrels have different external sizes and config... | 06/24/1980 |
| 3972768 | Carpet seaming tape, electric iron therefor A hot-melt carpet seaming tape having means for cooperating with a specially designed electric iron to maintain registery of the tape and iron while the heated iron is moved along and over the tape beneath the abutting edges of carpet segments to adhere t... | 08/03/1976 |
