Improvements in and connected with Ironing Apparatus and ! Appliances.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 26th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL DE MOTIVATIOAD
Improvements in and connected with Ironing Apparatus and
!
Appliances.
I GILES ATHERTON of the Virginia Mills, Higher Hillgate, Stockport, in the
County of Chester, Hat Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :—
My invention relates to the so-called box irons which are used in laundrys and
by tailors, hatters, and others and to ironing appliances and metal bodies which
are used in a heated state in the smoothing and finishing of goods and articles, and
to means for keeping the same hot.
The said box irons are each formed with an internal chamber. I provide the
iron with a burner or with two or more burners provided with wire gauze or
otherwise adapted to prevent back firing, and I connect a gas passage with such
burner and with an injector the tube connecting the said injector with the gas
passage being flexible to permit of the necessary movement of the iron.
The said injector is supplied with gas and with air unler pressure the issuing
current of air carrying with it a proportion of carburetted hydrogen gas or of
suitable inflammable gas or vapour the mixture being ignited inside the iron.
In practice I form the gas passage in the iron by drilling meeting holes in the
metal substance of the iron. To get the burner into position I form a hole in the
top of the iron. Through this hole tools can be introduced to prepare a seating
for the burner. The said seating may be fitted with a nipple or be recessed to
receive a piece of gauze secured in position by means of a ferrule or ring. The
said seating may be provided with a burner perforated so as to direct the flame
downward or in an inclined direction upon the bottom of the iron.
When the gas issues upward I fix a hood over the flame this hood being held
by means of a screw passed through the said hole in the top of the iron the hood
being provided with feet to check transmission of heat to the top of the iron, or
earthenware, asbestos or other non-conducting substance may be interposed or
may be applied to shield the crown of the chamber either with or without the
hood. I may make the said hood or a suitably shaped crown of fire clay or of a
similar material. A hinged door is provided at the back end of the iron so that
access to the burner for lighting purposes can be obtained. It is not necessary to
provide any special outlet for the products of combustion.
any
suitable form
To provide the air pressure I prefer to use a rotary pump, but
of air pump or blower which will furnish a sufficient pressure of air may be used
for the purpose.
I prefer to use a pump or blower having a cylinder provided with radially
yielding vanes and mounted to revolve within a hollow cylinder upon an axis
excentric to the axis of the hollow cylinder. 1 also prefer to pass the air from
the blower into an air holder or reservoir from which the injector would be
supplied.
One blower and air holder may supply a number of injectors. The air holder
may be dispensed with but in such a case I should prefer to use large air pipes to
connect the blower with the injectors.
In some cases I propose to fix or form each injector upon or in an arm mounted
to turn upon a fulcrum and counter-balanced or acted upon by a spring which,

page_text: would tend to raise the outer end of the arm to which the end of the flexible tube
would be attached the arm yielding to the movements of the iron or the injector
may be connected with such yielding arm.
In place of the said arm I may use any suitable counter-balanced or spring
yielding part arranged to slide up and down or to move so as to check the
excessive sagging of the flexible tube. In the cases of rollers or bodies other
than box irons I provide similar gas burners injectors and blowers but the
flexible tubing and yielding arms and carriers would not be necessary in all such
cases.
I may use the means for supplying air and gas in connection with irons formed
otherwise than in accordance with my invention.
Dusted this 15th day of March 1891
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.
Improvements in and connected with Ironing Apparatus and
Appliances.
I GILES ATHERTON of the Virginia Mills, Higher Hillgate, Stockport, in the
County of Chester, Hat Manufacturer, 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 and accompanying
drawings:-
My invention relates to the so-called box irons which are used in laundrys and
by tailors, hatters, and others, and to ironing appliances and metal bodies which
are used in a heated state in the smoothing and finishing of goods and articles,
and to means for keeping the same hot.
To render my invention fully understood I have attached hereto a sheet of
drawings to which I will now refer.
Fig. 1 is a sectional view of the improved box iron.
Fig. 2 is a view of the mixing jet or injector.
Fig. 3 is a view of the blower and air reservoir.
The said box irons A are each formed with an internal chamber a. I provide
the iron with a burner 6 having a wire gauze partition c or otherwise adapted to
prevent back firing, and I connect a gas passage d d with such burner and with
an injector or mixing-jet B shown at Fig. 2 the tube e connecting the said injector B
with the gas passage dd, being flexible to permit of the necessary movement of
the iron. The said injector or mixing jet B is supplied with gas and with air
under pressure, the issuing current of air passing through the branch / for
example carrying with it a proportion of carburetted hydrogen gas or of suitable
inflammable gas or vapour entering through the branch 2 the mixture being ignited.
inside the iron.
In practice I form the gas passage'd d¹ in the iron by drilling meeting holes in
the metal substance of the iron as plainly shown in Fig. 1. To get the burner b.
into position I form a hole in the top of the iron. Through this hole tools can
be introduced to prepare a seating for the burner.
.
In the example illustrated I fix a hood g over the flame this hood being held.
by means of a screw passed through a washer i occupying the said hole in the
top of the iron, the hood g being provided with feet to check transmission of:
heat to the top of the iron; or earthenware, asbestos or other non-conducting,
substance may be interposed or may be applied to shield the crown of the chamber
either with or without the hood. I may make the said hood or a suitably shaped:

page_text: crown of fire clay or of a similar material. A hinged door j is provided at the
back end of the iron so that access to the burner for lighting purposes can be
obtained. A pivotted catch holds the door closed. It is not necessary to
provide any special outlet for the products of combustion. To provide the air
pressure I prefer to use the rotary pump shown at Fig. 3 but any suitable form of
air pump or blower which will furnish a sufficient pressure of air may be used for
the purpose.
The pump or blower shown in Fig. 3 has a cylinder k provided with radially
yielding vanes and mounted to revolve within a hollow casing or cylinder m upon
an axis n excentric to the axis of the hollow cylinder m.
I surround the axis n with a square frame o and wrap round it a disjoined flat
spring represented by the black line p. The effort of this spring to escape
outwards, keeps the ends of the vanes pressed against the interior of the
cylinder m as the excentrically mounted cylinder k revolves. Air is drawn in at
the upper part of the cylinder m and forced out through the passage r.
I prefer
to pass the air from the blower through a back pressure valves into an air holder
or reservoirt from which the injector or mixing jet B would be supplied.
One blower and air holder may supply a number of injectors. The air holder
may be dispensed with but in such a case I should prefer to use large air pipes to
connect the blower with the injector.
In some cases I propose to fix or form each injector upon or in an arm mounted
to turn upon a fulcrum and counterbalanced or acted upɔu by a spring which
would tend to raise the outer end of the arm to which the end of the flexible tube
would be attached, the arm yielding to the movements of the iron; or the injector
may be connected with such yielding arm.
In place of the said arm 1 may use any suitable counterbalance or spring
yielding part arranged to slide up and down or to move so as to check the
excessive sagging of the flexible tube. In the cases of rollers or bodies other
than box irons I provide similar gas burning injectors and blowers but the
flexible tubing and yielding arms and carriers would not be necessary in all such
cases.
may use the means for supplying air and gas in connection with irons formed
otherwise than in accordance with my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
1. The improved box iron formed with an internal chamber and fitted with a
burner having a diffusing gauze screen and with a crown above the burner for
distributing the heat and protecting the top of the iron, the passages for leading
the gas and air to the burner being bored through the metal of the iron
substantially as described and as shown in the drawings.
2. The general combination arrangement and construction of the parts
comprising the improved box iron substantially as described and as illustrated.
3. The improved blowing or air compressing apparatus or pump with cylindrical
casing containing an excentrically disposed cylinder with radially moved spring-
actuated air compressing vanes arranged and operating for the purposes and
substantially as hereinbefore described and shown."
4. The combination of the improved box iron or any other ironing or finishing
appliance or appliances of a cognate nature with the herein before described air
forcing or pumping apparatus substantially as described and as shown.
Dated this 15th day of December 1894
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.