Patent ID: 8904665

Claim:
A method for operating a clothes refresher device having a refreshing mechanism, an expandable and collapsible flexible wall enclosure structure and one of a rigid top housing structure and rigid bottom housing structure comprising the steps: expanding the wall enclosure structure to an expanded condition by lifting the top housing structure to a raised position, the wall enclosure structure having a snap attachment mechanism located at at least one of a top and a bottom of the wall enclosure structure, the snap attachment mechanism comprising a hook member formed on an extruded plastic member that is secured around a periphery of one of a top and a bottom of the wall enclosure structure, the corresponding top or bottom rigid structure being provided with a locking member extending around a periphery of the top or bottom rigid structure having a flexible locking feature for interferingly mating with the hook member to provide a locking engagement therebetween while the wall enclosure structure is in the expanded condition, introducing a garment into an interior of the wall enclosure structure through an opening in the wall enclosure structure, closing the opening in the wall enclosure structure, operating the refreshing mechanism, opening the opening in the wall enclosure structure, removing the garment from the wall enclosure structure, collapsing the wall enclosure structure by lowering the top housing structure to a lowered position.