AN IMPROVED PRESSING IRON FOR THE USE OF TAILORS, HATTERS ETC.
Year: 1885

page_text: We, JULIUS UMBACH Engineer, and EDMUND SCHULTZ, Engineer N° 6 Anthony
Street. Farncombe Str. Jamaica Road London, S.W. do hereby declare the nature
of our invention for AN IMPROVED PRESSING IRON FOR THE USE OF TAILORS,
HATTERS ETC. to be as follows:-
This Iron is made of cast-iron, with two compartments, of wich the upper
compartment A, as shewn in the drawing, serves as the cooling part to the handle
of the iron and hot air chamber and is partly filled with asbestos, burnt charcoal
or any heat resisting substance. Compartment B, wich serves as a heat retaining
chamber, is filled with a composition of metals, lead, copper etc, wich quickly take
heat & retain it for a long period, the handle of this iron can be attached and
detached, as required.
These irons we make with fast and loose handels, namely: the fast ones are
securely attached by means of screws and nuts, the loose ones can be taken off
while the iron is placed on the fire to heat, so as to keep the handel perfectly cool
and away from the fire, and are constructed as follows.
The lower part of the handel is made of wrought iron about inch by inch
thick and 4 in long, this lower part of the handel fits in nooses or guides on the
iron and by sliding it in and pushing it up to the rectangular piece to wich there
is a bolt or catch attached it locks itself in it proper place by means of the bolt
and a hole drilled in the cover of the iron.
The handel can be taken of by the simple process of withdrawing this bolt.

page_text: We, JULIUS UMBACH, Enginier and EDMUND SCHULTZ, Enginier, both of
No 6 Anthony Street, (Farncombe Str. Jamaica Road) Bermondsey London S.E.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This Iron is made of cast-iron with two compartments, of wich the upper
compartment A serves as the cooling part to the handle of the iron and hot air
chamber, and is partly filled with asbestos burnt charcoal, or any heat resisting
substance. Compartment B, wich serves as a heat retaining-chamber, is filled with
a composition of metals, lead, copper etc. wich quickly take heat and retain it for
a long period. These irons we make with fast and loose handles; namely: the
fast ones are securly attached by means of screws and nuts; the loose ones kan be
taken off while the iron is placed on the fire to heat, so as to keep the handle
perfectly cool and away from the fire, and are constructed as follow: the lower part
of the handle is made of wrougt iron about iuch by in thick and 4 inch in long.
This lower part of the handle fits in nooses or guides on the iron and by sliding it
in and puching it up to the rectangular piece, to wich there is a bolt or catch
attached, it locks itself in its proper place by means of the bolt and a hole drilled
in the cover of the iron; the handle can be taken off by the simple process of
withdrawing this bolt.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is!
1. Our Pressing Iron is shorter for the same weights than those which are now
in use and consequently is much handier.
2. It requires less time to heat.
3: It retains the heat for a considerable time longer than, the irons now in use.
4. The same size of irons can be given any required weight within 30% of its
normal.