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"vr.tr.clothes-steamer", "name": "clothes steamer", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a clothes steamer, assess its readiness and garment compatibility, and determine which steaming or maintenance actions are appropriate.", "definition": "A clothes steamer is a fabric-care appliance that heats water to produce steam and directs it onto garments to relax fibres and reduce wrinkles, usually without pressing them between heated surfaces.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the clothes-steamer kind: an appliance that delivers steam to garments primarily to relax wrinkles, including handheld and upright configurations, their operating constraints, and the evidence needed to judge individual units.", "in_scope": [ "Garment-directed steam generation and delivery", "Handheld and upright configurations, including integral garment supports", "Water supply, heating, steam controls, and operating states", "Compatibility between the steamer, its attachments, and garment care requirements", "Steam-related hazards, protective functions, maintenance, and faults" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Steam irons whose defining function includes pressing fabric with a heated soleplate", "General-purpose steam cleaners and their surface-cleaning applications", "Enclosed garment-care cabinets and industrial garment-finishing installations", "Garment composition, manufacture, and care specifications as independently maintained knowledge", "Product-line identities, individual-unit ownership, and repair-service histories", "Independent certification schemes and electrical-installation requirements" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Its intended working output is steam directed onto clothing to relax wrinkles; producing room humidity is not its primary function.", "Its defining garment treatment does not require compressing fabric between a hot soleplate and an ironing surface.", "A handheld body or a separate steam head lets the operator direct steam over a garment; an enclosed automatic treatment chamber indicates a neighbouring appliance kind.", "Garment-treatment instructions and attachments distinguish it from a steam cleaner intended primarily for floors, fixtures, or hard surfaces.", "A heated contact plate does not alone establish that the appliance is a steam iron; classify combination products using their documented pressing and steaming modes." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Steamer configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "handheld; upright with hose; combination appliance; other documented configuration", "why_it_matters": "Determines handling, garment support, storage, and which water and steam paths must be assessed." }, { "name": "Steam-generation arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "documented heating and water-feed arrangement; pressure status; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Informs readiness, permissible orientation, refill procedure, and residual-heat precautions." }, { "name": "Rated electrical input", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "W, V, and Hz as marked; battery specifications where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Establishes power compatibility and the appliance's rated demand without inferring steam performance from wattage alone." }, { "name": "Usable water capacity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mL or L, distinguishing reservoir volume from permitted fill volume", "why_it_matters": "Constrains filling and helps estimate work between refills." }, { "name": "Steam delivery rate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "g/min, with mode, test conditions, and claimed or measured status", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison of output and identification of reduced delivery." }, { "name": "Time to steam readiness", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "s or min from a specified starting condition", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes expected warm-up from a possible heating or water-feed fault." }, { "name": "Permitted operating orientation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "manufacturer-permitted angles and vertical or horizontal modes", "why_it_matters": "Constrains use on hanging garments and flat fabric while accounting for water pickup and spitting." }, { "name": "Garment and attachment compatibility", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "supported fabric or garment-care conditions linked to approved attachments and operating instructions", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether and how a particular garment may be treated." }, { "name": "Operating condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unplugged; heating; ready; steaming; paused; cooling; empty; faulted; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Makes permissible handling and operation depend on the actual state." }, { "name": "Handling dimensions and mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm and kg, distinguishing dry body, filled handheld load, hose reach, and support height", "why_it_matters": "Determines reach, handling effort, and suitability for the intended workspace." }, { "name": "Protective-function provision", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "documented presence, absence, or unknown status of relevant cutoffs, shutoffs, locks, and pressure protections", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from assuming that every steamer has the same safeguards." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify whether an appliance belongs to the clothes-steamer kind or requires a combination-appliance boundary.", "Check a garment, attachment, and proposed steaming orientation against documented compatibility.", "Prepare, fill, warm up, and operate a steamer using the applicable product instructions.", "Assess readiness and compare observed steam delivery with a documented baseline.", "Recognise conditions that require stopping use, cooling, inspection, or repair.", "Select documented draining, cleaning, descaling, and storage actions." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Fill, heat and use a clothes steamer on garments the user asks to be treated.", "Check the care label of a garment before steaming it." ], "must_not": [ "Point steam at a person, animal or a garment being worn.", "Leave a hot or filled steamer unattended near children or where it can tip.", "Fill it with liquids other than water or additives the maker does not allow.", "Use one with a damaged cord, hose or casing." ], "requires_human": [ "Steaming delicate, valuable or historic textiles that heat or moisture may damage." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Steam burns can be severe, especially for children and older people.", "Users may trust care advice that ruins garments they value." ], "affected_parties": [ "Users", "Children in the home", "Owners of the garments" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The person who owns and uses it.", "master_systems": [] }, "visual_identification": [ "A handheld or upright appliance with a water tank and a flat steam head or nozzle.", "Upright models have a hose and a pole with a hanger." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Escaping steam and hot water cause scalds.", "Electrical faults near water can cause shocks.", "Spitting water can stain or shrink fabrics." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "IEC 60335-2-85, Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Particular requirements for fabric steamers, International Electrotechnical Commission." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Clothes steamers are used in homes, clothing shops, costume departments and garment-care settings to reduce wrinkles in compatible fabrics.", "They are useful for refreshing hanging garments and treating shapes or decorative details that are awkward to press with an iron." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q16631171: clothes steamer", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16631171", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Clothes steamer", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_steamer", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "garment-steaming-identity", "name": "Garment-steaming identity", "description": "Defines the appliance by its intended garment treatment and configuration.", "rationale": "Steam production alone cannot distinguish a clothes steamer from an iron, cleaner, humidifier, or garment-care cabinet.", "layers": [ { "id": "treatment-boundary", "name": "Treatment boundary", "description": "Establishes which garment-treatment functions define membership in this kind.", "findings": [ { "id": "steam-led-wrinkle-treatment", "name": "Steam-led wrinkle treatment", "description": "Record evidence that directed steam for garment wrinkle relaxation is an intended function, and identify any separate pressing or cleaning modes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the documented intended use describe directing steam over garments to relax wrinkles?", "kind": "definition", "id": "steam-led-wrinkle-treatment-q01" }, { "text": "Does the appliance also provide pressing, hard-surface cleaning, or enclosed treatment that requires a neighbouring model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "steam-led-wrinkle-treatment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "configuration-and-support", "name": "Configuration and support", "description": "Locates the reservoir, heater, delivery head, and garment supports.", "findings": [ { "id": "steamer-component-arrangement", "name": "Steamer component arrangement", "description": "Describe handheld or separate-base construction and distinguish integral supports from optional accessories.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are the reservoir and heater held with the steam head, or connected to it through a hose?", "kind": "definition", "id": "steamer-component-arrangement-q01" }, { "text": "Which poles, hangers, backing boards, and head rests are integral, supplied accessories, or external equipment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "steamer-component-arrangement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "water-to-steam-delivery", "name": "Water-to-steam delivery", "description": "Covers water admission, heating, and delivery at the garment-facing head.", "rationale": "A steamer's useful output depends on its complete water path and cannot be inferred from electrical power or reservoir size alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "water-supply-and-heating", "name": "Water supply and heating", "description": "Captures fill constraints and the documented steam-generation arrangement.", "findings": [ { "id": "water-and-heater-conditions", "name": "Water and heater conditions", "description": "Record allowed water, fill limits, heating arrangement, and any pressure-dependent opening constraints.", "questions": [ { "text": "What water quality, additives restrictions, and minimum or maximum fill levels do the instructions specify?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "water-and-heater-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "How is water heated and fed to the steam outlet, and is any part documented as pressurised?", "kind": "definition", "id": "water-and-heater-conditions-q02" }, { "text": "Under what conditions may the reservoir be removed, opened, or refilled?", "kind": "action", "id": "water-and-heater-conditions-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "output-and-reach", "name": "Output and reach", "description": "Characterises useful steam output and delivery constraints.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-steam-performance", "name": "Qualified steam performance", "description": "Record readiness time, delivery rate, usable runtime, and reach with their measurement conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What readiness time and steam delivery rate are claimed or measured for each mode, and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualified-steam-performance-q01" }, { "text": "What usable runtime, filled handheld mass, and hose or cord reach constrain a steaming session?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualified-steam-performance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "garment-treatment-fit", "name": "Garment treatment fit", "description": "Connects fabric care evidence to steaming technique, orientation, and attachments.", "rationale": "A functioning appliance can still be unsuitable for a garment, finish, trim, or proposed contact method.", "layers": [ { "id": "fabric-and-finish-compatibility", "name": "Fabric and finish compatibility", "description": "Assesses the whole garment rather than relying solely on its main fibre.", "findings": [ { "id": "garment-treatment-permission", "name": "Garment treatment permission", "description": "Relate garment care information and appliance instructions to heat, moisture, finish, and trim constraints.", "questions": [ { "text": "What garment-care and appliance instructions support steaming this fabric, coating, lining, and attached decoration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "garment-treatment-permission-q01" }, { "text": "What uncertainty requires a permitted inconspicuous-area test, specialist advice, or withholding treatment?", "kind": "action", "id": "garment-treatment-permission-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "head-contact-and-garment-support", "name": "Head contact and garment support", "description": "Determines how the steam head may approach a supported garment.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-steaming-technique", "name": "Permitted steaming technique", "description": "Record approved orientations, contact or clearance requirements, and accessory-specific methods.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which operating orientations and head-to-fabric contact or clearance conditions are permitted for this appliance and attachment?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-steaming-technique-q01" }, { "text": "How must the garment be supported and tensioned while keeping hands and the wearer's body outside the steam path?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-steaming-technique-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operating-states-and-protection", "name": "Operating states and protection", "description": "Connects controls and observable states to steam, heat, water, and electrical hazards.", "rationale": "Safe action depends on whether the steamer is heating, discharging steam, cooling, empty, or faulted and on safeguards actually present.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-state-transitions", "name": "Controls and state transitions", "description": "Interprets controls, indicators, and residual hazards during transitions.", "findings": [ { "id": "readiness-and-stop-evidence", "name": "Readiness and stop evidence", "description": "Identify how an operator establishes readiness, starts or stops steam, and confirms conditions for handling.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do the indicators and controls establish about heating, readiness, steam discharge, low water, and faults?", "kind": "definition", "id": "readiness-and-stop-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "After steam is stopped or power disconnected, what cooling or pressure-release conditions govern moving, opening, or storing the appliance?", "kind": "action", "id": "readiness-and-stop-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protective-functions-and-conformity", "name": "Protective functions and conformity", "description": "Records evidenced safeguards and applicable compliance claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-protection-boundaries", "name": "Verified protection boundaries", "description": "Distinguish documented protective functions from assumed ones, and connect conformity evidence to the applicable appliance variant and market.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which protective functions are documented, what triggers them, and what hazards remain after they operate?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "verified-protection-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Which standards, issuing bodies, editions, and certification or conformity marks apply to this variant in its intended market, and what evidence supports each claim?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "verified-protection-boundaries-q02" }, { "text": "Which observed leaks, cord damage, unstable supports, or abnormal steam behaviour require immediate withdrawal from use?", "kind": "action", "id": "verified-protection-boundaries-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "steam-path-care-and-faults", "name": "Steam-path care and faults", "description": "Supports maintenance and fault assessment for reservoirs, heaters, hoses, and outlet heads.", "rationale": "Scale, retained water, obstruction, and condensate can change garment-facing output and require different responses.", "layers": [ { "id": "cleaning-and-storage", "name": "Cleaning and storage", "description": "Captures permitted care methods and consumable requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "approved-steam-path-maintenance", "name": "Approved steam-path maintenance", "description": "Tie draining, cleaning, descaling, filter replacement, and storage to explicit instructions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What cleaning or descaling method is approved, and which chemicals or procedures are prohibited?", "kind": "action", "id": "approved-steam-path-maintenance-q01" }, { "text": "What use conditions or indicators trigger maintenance, and are filters or cartridges replaceable consumables?", "kind": "definition", "id": "approved-steam-path-maintenance-q02" }, { "text": "What draining, drying, cooling, and hose-storage steps are required before storage?", "kind": "action", "id": "approved-steam-path-maintenance-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "output-fault-assessment", "name": "Output fault assessment", "description": "Separates observable symptoms from unverified diagnoses.", "findings": [ { "id": "steam-and-water-anomalies", "name": "Steam and water anomalies", "description": "Record weak or absent steam, spitting, garment wetting, residue, and leaks with the operating conditions in which they occur.", "questions": [ { "text": "What symptom occurs, in which orientation and operating state, and how does it differ from the documented normal behaviour?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "steam-and-water-anomalies-q01" }, { "text": "Which manufacturer-approved checks distinguish filling, warm-up, condensate, or maintenance issues from faults requiring service?", "kind": "action", "id": "steam-and-water-anomalies-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The numerical ranges are approximate recall-based descriptions of domestic products, not verified market limits.", "Applicable electrical safety standards, national adoptions and certification requirements need checking before inclusion.", "Fabric compatibility, water requirements, operating orientation and automatic shut-off features vary by model; steaming does not by itself establish disinfection." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of clothes steamer this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Handheld garment steamer", "Upright garment steamer with a separate water tank and hose", "Travel garment steamer" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of clothes steamer this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Manufacturer model number", "value_or_pattern": "Brand-specific alphanumeric identifier", "note": "Identifies a product model; a serial number, where provided, identifies an individual appliance." }, { "scheme": "GTIN", "value_or_pattern": "Commonly GTIN-12 or GTIN-13", "note": "Identifies a marketed trade item or packaging configuration, not the appliance kind or an individual unit." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of clothes steamer this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Reducing wrinkles in hanging garments at home.", "Preparing clothing for display in retail shops.", "Preparing costumes and wardrobe items for performances or photography.", "Reducing wrinkles in curtains and other hanging textiles when their care instructions permit steaming." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of clothes steamer this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Rated electrical input power", "typical_range": "Approximately 800-2200 for common domestic appliances", "unit": "W" }, { "quantity": "Handheld water-tank capacity", "typical_range": "Approximately 100-300", "unit": "mL" }, { "quantity": "Upright water-tank capacity", "typical_range": "Approximately 1-3", "unit": "L" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of clothes steamer this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Mineral scale can restrict water or steam passages and reduce output.", "Condensation, overfilling or unsuitable operating orientation can cause spitting and water spotting.", "Tank, seal or hose deterioration can cause leaks.", "Steam and heated components can cause burns or scalds.", "Electrical insulation faults or water entering electrical components can create shock or fire hazards." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of clothes steamer this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Mains-powered versions differ in rated voltage, frequency and plug type; travel models are not necessarily dual-voltage.", "Local water hardness affects scale accumulation, while the permitted water type depends on the manufacturer's instructions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of clothes steamer this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Steam iron", "difference": "A steam iron primarily smooths fabric through contact and pressure from a heated soleplate; a clothes steamer primarily applies steam without pressing." }, { "name": "Steam cleaner", "difference": "A steam cleaner is designed primarily to remove soil from surfaces; a clothes steamer is designed primarily to relax wrinkles in textiles." }, { "name": "Garment steaming cabinet", "difference": "A cabinet encloses garments in a treatment chamber; a conventional clothes steamer applies steam through a manually directed head." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of clothes steamer this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Where should combination steamer-irons sit in the registry, and can existing neighbouring models supply their pressing functions without duplicating this model?", "Which electrical and appliance-safety standards and conformity requirements apply across handheld, upright, and commercial clothes steamers in each intended market?", "What source-supported ranges and comparable test conditions should be used for steam output, readiness time, usable runtime, capacity, and handling dimensions?", "How should garment-care evidence resolve cases where steaming is not explicitly addressed, particularly for coatings, adhesives, decorative trims, and sensitive finishes?", "Which products make sanitisation, allergen-reduction, or odour-removal claims, and what independent evidence and exposure conditions would be needed to represent those affordances?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 31 } }