CONSTRUCTING SAD AND Box IRONS WITH A HANDLE AND SHIELD WHICH MAY BE ATTACHED TO OR DETACHED FROM THE BODY OF THE IRON AT PLEASURE.
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Albert Brown Houghton, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, for the Invention of "CONSTRUCTING SAD AND
Box IRONS WITH A HANDLE AND SHIELD WHICH MAY BE ATTACHED TO OR
DETACHED FROM THE BODY OF THE IRON AT PLEASURE.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Albert Brown Houghton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 22nd November 1871.
I, ALBERT BROWN HOUGHTON, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CON-
STRUCTING SAD AND Box IRONS WITH A HANDLE AND SHIELD WHICH MAY BE
ATTACHED TO OR DETACHED FROM THE BODY OF THE IRON AT PLEASURE," to be
as follows:-
The use of the shield is of course to protect the hand of the person
using the iron, and this Invention consists substantially in so making

page_text: the handle and shield of sad (or solid) and box (or hollow) irons that
these parts (which are attached together and form one composite part)
may be affixed to or removed from the standards or uprights which are
usually attached to the body of the iron at pleasure.
Hitherto all these parts have been so connected together as to form
in the whole the complete ironing apparatus, and thus, in the case of a
sad iron, when the body or ironing part has been placed in the fire, not
only has this part received the required degree of heat, but heat in a
lesser degree has been communicated to the handle and to the shield
also.
Now according to my Invention these last-named parts remain quite
cold whilst the body is receiving the requisite heat, and when this is
sufficiently heated the handle and shield (which form one composite
part) is secured to the body of the iron by springs, levers, or any other
suitable mechanical contrivances; but I prefer that the said handle and
shield shall be secured to the body of the iron by studs being affixed to
the back of the lower part of the said handle and shield, which are
caused to take into corresponding grooves or recesses provided in the
body of the box, and the front of the lower part of the said handle and
shield being fitted with a spring catch this latter upon being pressed!
down takes into the necessary groove provided for its reception in the
body of the box, and thus the fastening is complete.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Albert Brown Houghton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 22nd May 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALBERT
BROWN HOUGHTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, send
greeting.
2
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of November, in the g
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one,
in the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and

page_text: successors, give and grant unto me, the said Albert Brown Houghton,
Her special licence that I, the said Albert Brown Houghton, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Albert
Brown Houghton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "CONSTRUCTING SAD AND Box IRONS WITH A HANDLE AND SHIELD WHICH
MAY BE ATTACHED TO OR DETACHED FROM THE BODY OF THE IRON AT PLEASURE,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Albert Brown
Houghton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters

page_text: Now when my Invention is adopted these last-named parts
remain quite cold whilst the body is receiving the requisite heat, and
when this is sufficiently heated the handle and shield (which form one
composite part) is secured to the body of the iron by springs, levers, or
any other suitable mechanical contrivances; but I prefer that the said
handle and shield shall be secured to the body of the iron by studs
affixed so as to come under the lower part of the said handle and shield,
which studs are caused to take into corresponding grooves or recesses
provided in or attached to the body of the iron, and the front of the
lower part of the said handle and shield being fitted with a spring catch
this latter upon being pressed down takes into the necessary groove
provided for its reception in the body of the box, and thus the fastening
is complete.
Having thus far described my said Invention and therein particularly
described and ascertained the nature thereof, I will now, in further
compliance with the aforesaid condition in the said Letters Patent
contained, proceed to particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed
or carried out in practice, by reference to the accompanying Drawings,
as follows:-
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page_text: or carried out in practice, I hereby declare that I claim the said Inven-
tion of " Constructing Sad and Box Irons with a Handle and Shield
which may be Attached to or Detached from the Body of the Iron at
Pleasure," as the nature thereof is described in the outset of this Specifi-
cation by the words that precede the Description of the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Albert Brown Houghton, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of May, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two
A. B. HOUGHTON. (L.S.)
Witness,
R. MARSDEN LATHAM,
21, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross,
London.