Patent ID: 8359774

Claim:
An ironing board comprising a permeable ironing surface mounted on a body, the body comprising one or more ports through which fluid may be driven to cause the fluid to flow through the permeable ironing surface, said body further comprising a means for modifying the flow of fluid through selected regions of the surface, wherein the body and the permeable ironing surface together define a hollow chamber beneath the permeable surface, wherein the means for modifying the fluid flow rate through the permeable surface comprises one or more walls dividing the hollow chamber into two or more regions, wherein there are two walls dividing the body into three regions, and one of the regions separates the other two along the center of the body to form a central region and two side regions, wherein the central region comprises two sections, one of the sections having a larger cross-sectional area and the other section having smaller cross-sectional area; and one or more means for driving fluid through one or more ports, wherein the larger section is further from the or each driving means than the smaller section.