Improvements in Flat Irons for Ironing Purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, -9th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 10th. Dec., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
'Improvements in Flat Irons for Ironing Purposes.
I, CHARLES JOSEPH FARINE, of Noirmont, Jura Bernois, Switzerland, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:—
My invention relates to flat irons for ironing purposes, in which the heating agent
is carried within the body of the iron, and has for its object, the provision of means
whereby the following hygienic conditions may be obtained vit. :—
1st. A certain amount of draught is produced in the iron, so that the combustion
of the charcoal within the iron is more complete, and less carbonic oxide is generated,
a gas which is very deleterious and productive of head aches and giddiness.
2nd. The gases of combustion are deflected, on issuing from the iron at such a
height that the person using the iron does not directly breathe them.
My invention consists in the special construction of the iron to effect the before
mentioned results.
To carry out my invention I arrange the cover or lid of the iron to be movable
about a vertical pivot, and provide a chimney of special construction. This said
movable cover is maintained in its closed position by a movable catch or key
arranged upon the said cover, which engages in a notch or recess situated on the
body of the iron.
In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will now proceed to
describe the same in relation to the drawings hereunto annexed, reference being
had to the letters and figures, marked thereon. Like letters refer to like parts in
the various figures.
Figure 1 is a vertical section of my improved hygienic flat iron.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same.
Figure 3 is a horizontal section on the line X X of Figure 1 and
Figure 4 is a vertical section on the line Z Z of Figure 1.
As shown in the figures the cover A of the flat iron instead of being movable
about a horizontal axis as in the ordinary type, is hinged on a vertical pivot a fitted
to an interior boss on the rearmost wall of the iron.
In order to maintain the cover A in place, it is provided with a key or bolt D
arranged in an interior recess e in the cover, and adapted to engage in a recess
formed by an interior boss E, in the body of the iron, as shewn in Figures 3
and 4.
The key D is terminated at its upper end by an operating button f, which rests
on the cover A, and at its lower end by a shoulder g so that the key cannot
be lost.
To open the cover A of the iron in order to put charcoal within the body
thereof, the key D is raised so as to disengage its shoulder 9 from the recess of the
boss E of the body of the iron, and the cover is turned about its pivot a one way
or the other and by an inverse movement the cover can be closed afresh.
The body of the iron is as usual provided with lateral apertures F for the
admission of the air to the incandescent charcoal contained within the iron and
with the lower aperture G arranged to be closed by a hinged door H.
To the cover A is fixed a handle I.
In order that the combustion of the charcoal may be more complete and that
there shall be a less production of carbonic oxide I dispose upon the cover A a
chimney K to establish a certain amount of draught through the iron.
This chimney K shall have such a height that the gases of combustion are not
breathed by the person using the iron.

page_text: To this end, the free end of the chimney K is bent around in a horizontal
direction, so that the gases of combustion are deviated in their path as they leave
the chimney, and are thus removed from the person using the iron.
Hating now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
clain is-
An iron for ironing, having a cover provided with a chimney, the cover being
movable about a vertical axis on the body of the iron, and maintained in its closed
position by a key or bolt arranged upon the cover and engaging with a notch or
recess on the body of the iron, substantially as described.
Dated this 9th day of November 1892
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.