Patent ID: 7197239

Claim:
An apparatus for removing wrinkles from a seat covering material on a seat having a vertically oriented rear surface and a front surface having a vertically oriented back portion thereof and a horizontally oriented bottom portion thereof, comprising: (a) a vertically oriented front heater portion positioned substantially parallel with the vertically oriented back portion of the front seat surface such that a distance between the vertically oriented entire front heater portion and the vertically oriented entire back portion of the front seat surface is substantially constant across the vertically oriented back portion of the front seat surface to direct heat thereupon to remove wrinkles therefrom; and (b) a horizontally oriented front heater portion positioned substantially parallel with the horizontally oriented entire bottom portion of the front seat surface such that a distance between the horizontally oriented entire front heater portion and the horizontally oriented entire bottom portion of the front seat surface is substantially constant across the horizontally oriented bottom portion of the front seat surface to direct heat thereupon to remove wrinkles therefrom; wherein the vertically oriented front heater portion and horizontally oriented front heater portion are positioned with respect to each other at an angle corresponding to an angle between the vertically oriented back portion of the front surface of the seat and the horizontally oriented bottom portion of the front surface of the seat such that the vertically oriented front heater portion and the horizontally oriented front heater portion together conform to the shape of the front surface of the seat.