IMPROVE- MENTS IN IRONS FOR IRONING
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Gubbins, of York Place, Portman Square,
in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN IRONS FOR IRONING."
Sealed the 28th April 1863, and dated the 31st October 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Gubbins at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 31st
October 1862.
I, CHARLES GUBBINS, of York Place, Portman Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Esquire, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN IRONS FOR IRONING," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to prevent the possibility of singeing the
articles being ironed, and my Invention consists in dividing the box which
contains the red-hot iron for heating the tool into compartments, the lower
of which is to contain water or steam, and that above it the red-hot iron,
while another compartment above the hot iron compartment may contain
water with a communication leading into the bottom compartment. Or the
top compartment may contain the hot iron, the main feature in my Invention
being to prevent contact of the heating iron with the base of the tool, which
bears directly upon the article being ironed.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,. filed
by Charles Bathoe (late Gubbins) in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 30th April 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
BATHOE (late Gubbins), of York Place, Portman Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Bathoe, Her special licence, that I, the said Charles
Bathoe, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Charles Bathoe, 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 "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN IRONS FOR IRONING," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Charles Bathoe, 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 Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Bathoe, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto, annexed, that
is to say:-
The object of my Invention is to prevent the possibility of singeing the
articles being ironed, and my Invention consists in dividing the box which
contains the red-hot iron for heating the tool into compartments, the lower
of which is to contain water or steam, and that above it the red-hot iron, while
another compartment above the hot iron compartment may contain water, with
a communication leading into the bottom compartment. Or the top compart-
ment may contain the hot iron, the main feature in my Invention being to
prevent contact of the heating iron with the base of the tool, which bears
directly upon the article being ironed

page_text: The accompanying Drawing is a longitudinal section of an iron for ironing
constructed according to my Invention. a is the compartment for the red-hot
iron the entrance to which is closed for a slide 6 in the ordinary way; c is the
compartment for hot water which is admitted thereto through an aperture,
shewn closed by the screw stopper d; e is a compartment at the bottom of the
iron, to which steam from the compartment c is led either by a passage f,
formed in the arms g, and handle h, and thence by a continuation i of the said
passage to the compartment e; or the compartment c is put in direct com-
munication with the passage i by the passage k; l is a valve for the escape
of steam from the compartment e in case the pressure therein should be
greater than it could with safety stand. Instead of the valve shewn a spring
valve may be employed. Sometimes I place water in the compartment e, and
allow steam to circulate in the compartment c; or I form the iron with only
two compartments, the lower of which is to contain water.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the construc-
tion of irons for ironing, in which the box for containing the red-hot iron is
divided into compartments for the purpose of preventing the red-hot iron
coming into contact with the base of the tool, substantially as herein-before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said, Charles Bathoe, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of April, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-three.
CHAS. BATHOE. (L.S.)
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