DOMESTIC ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CONTAINING ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC D06F75/38 

FIELD: personal use articles.

SUBSTANCE: electric steam iron 33 with a reservoir 4 intended for placement of water therein and with an appliance 8 intended for removal of air from the water reservoir 4 ad containing a valve 34. In the valve body 14 there is a side hole 40 and a ball-shaped valve body 30 that, then the water reservoir 4 is filled, tightly adheres (under gravity) to the valve seat 20 thus to lock the air removal appliance 8; then the water reservoir 4 is full up, an air cavity 32 Is formed therein. While the steam iron 33 is in the vertical idle position, the air removal appliance 8 is opened with the end section 46 of the air duct 42 with a liquid hole therein 16 projecting into the air cavity 32.

EFFECT: this invention is intended, particularly, for reliable levelling of pressure in the water reservoir of an electric steam iron both in the vertical idle and the horizontal working positions and for reliable filing of the water reservoir.

13 cl, 3 dwg, 1 tbl