An Improved Heater for Irons used for Laundry or the like Purposes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb, 1899-Accepted, 18th Mar., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Heater for Irons used for Laundry or the like Purposes.
I, JAMES COURTNEY, of 20, Oxford Street, Bridlington Quay, in the County of
Yorkshire, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
The object of my invention is to produce a heater for irons used for laundry or
the like purposes by means of which such irons can be heated to be sufficiently
hot, without being in direct contact with the flame, so that soot or smoke cannot
get to the irons, by this means the said irons do not get soiled and therefore do
not require scraping or rubbing, as is necessary when they are placed on the fire
or are in direct contact with fire, gas or other source of heat.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shows a side view of my improved heater for irons.
Fig. 2 represents a plan view of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 represents a view of heater looking in at the front,
Fig. 4 is a perspective view of heater, and
Fig. 5 represents a perspective view of heater with an iron partly in position.
For the purpose of my invention I employ a hollow box or receptacle A of
rectangular or other suitable shape with one end B open, and a slot or recess C
in the top running any suitable distance lengthwise of such box or receptacle,
the said slot commencing from the open or front end, where it may be rounded
off as at D, to allow of the iron being easily placed in position.
The box or receptacle may be made to contain one two or any desired number
of irons by enlarging it to the size required, and making the requisite number
of slots to take the handles of the irons E to be placed therein, and it may be
made of cast iron or any metal, material or substance suitable for the purpose.
My improved heater (taking as an instance one to contain a single iron), is used
as follows:-The iron is placed in the box by passing it through the open end,
the supports which take the handle of the iron going within the slot; when the
iron is inside the whole is placed on the fire, gas or other source of heat, the
handle of the iron acting at the same time as the handle for the heater, the
metal material or substance of which the heater is made forms a protective guard
or shield for the iron within it, by encasing it, and prevents soot or smoke from
reaching it, but at the same time heats it to be as hot as if such iron was placed
uncovered on a red hot fire.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. An improved heater for irons, consisting of a hollow box or receptacle, of
rectangular or other suitable shape, having an open front, and a slot or slots in
the top, in the manner and for the purposes, substantially as shown and described.
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page_text: 2. In combination with an iron or irons for laundry or other suitable purposes,
a hollow box or receptacle with an open front, and a slot or slots in the top, in the
manner and for the purposes, substantially as shown and described.
Dated this Fourteenth day of February 1899
JOHN E. WALSH,
Savile Street, Hull, and Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.