A NEW OR IMPROVED PORTABLE APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR SOLDERING OPERATIONS
Year: 1885

page_text: Soldering Operations.
I, WILLIAM WALLACE HACKING of 7 St. James Terrace Nottingham, Notting-
hamshire, Electrician, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED PORTABLE APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR SOLDERING
OPERATIONS" to be as follows that is to say:-
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This Invention has for its object the construction or arrangement of a new or
improved portable apparatus to be used for soldering purposes which will dispense
with the soldering iron or bolt commonly used and at the same time will greatly
facilitate soldering operations especially in making awkwardly situated joints in
gas and other pipes.
The Invention consists in arranging a blow-pipe, having a flexible or rubber
pipe with a glass or other mouth-piece connected to it, upon a tubular metal piece.
This tubular metal piece may be straight or curved and is arranged to hold a
supply of wick, sponge or other suitable substance, saturated with oil grease spirit
or other suitable inflammable substance. This saturated wick is arranged to
protrude through an opening, or it may be the curved-up end of the tubular
piece, so as to be just in front of the end of the blow-pipe which is fitted over the
tubular piece on suitable supports. When using the new or improved apparatus
the wick or other substance is lighted and the workman by blowing through the
blow-pipe projects a fine pencil of flame upon the object to be soldered. It is
obvious that it is possible to reach points in holes or corners quite inaccessible
at present to the ordinary soldering bolt and dispense with the necessity of
employing a bolt at all and its attendant necessary a fire or heating appliances.

page_text: Soldering Operations.
I, WILLIAM WALLACE HACKING of 7 St. James Terrace, Nottingham, Notting-
hamshire Electrician, 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 :-
My said Invention has for its object the construction or arrangement of a new
or improved portable apparatus to be used for soldering purposes which will
dispense with the soldering iron or bolt commonly used and at the same time will
greatly facilitate soldering operations especially in making awkwardly situated
joints in gas and other pipes.
My said Invention consists in arranging a blow pipe having a flexible or rubber
pipe with a glass or other mouthpiece connected to it upon a tubular metal piece
or receptacle. This tubular or hollow metal piece may be curved or, straight and
is formed to hold & small quantity of wick, sponge, cotton wool or other suitable
absorbent material and this material is saturated with methylated spirits, oil or
other suitable inflammable substance. This saturated substance may be arranged to
protrude through a suitable opening in the tubular piece or receptacle so as to be
just under the thin end of the blow pipe attached to the receptacle by a suitable
support. When using the new or improved apparatus the saturated material in the
receptacle is ignited and the worker then blows through the pipe as in using an
ordinary blowpipe and projects a fine tongue of flame upon the object to be
soldered, the intensity of the heat of which may be regulated by blowing more or
less strongly as is well known to the users of blow pipes.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to
be hereinafter referred to and representing one form of my new or improved
In these
apparatus which I term a "Soldering blow-pipe with flame attachment."
drawings the same reference numerals are used to mark the same or like parts
wherever they are repeated.
Figure, 1, on the accompanying sheet of drawings is a full sized side view of one
preferable form of my new or improved apparatus and Figure, 2, is a plan corre-
sponding to the same. The portable apparatus shown is intended for general use
for ordinary soldering purposes, and may be used for making joints in gas or water
pipes, but it is obvious that it may be made in various sizes to suit various
requirements. The receptacle, 3, is hollow and is preferably in the form of a
pan, 4, stamped out of sheet brass and having a cover; 5, of the same material
in which there is a small circular opening for the insertion of cotton wool or
other suitable material to be saturated with clean methylated spirits. This
receptacle is preferably of a shape somewhat longer one way than the other and
narrower at one end, and at this narrow end there is fitted a small stud, 6,
through a hole in a boss on which there is passed the tapped smaller end of a metal
blow pipe, 7. The blow pipe, 7, is screwed into the hole in the stud so that its

page_text: small end projects just over the opening in the receptacle, 3, and so as to be just
slightly above the level of the material therein. To the larger end of the blow
pipe there is attached a short length of rubber tubing, 8, having a glass mouth-
piece, 9, and by means of this flexible tube the receptacle and blow pipe may be
turned about so that the jet of flame produced by blowing through the pipe may
be projected in any required direction.
In some cases it may be desirable to fit the blow pipe to the receptacle for the
cotton wool and spirit so that the receptacle may slide or move along the blow
pipe and so enable a worker to regulate the jet of flame produced.
It is also obvious that for many kinds of work the rubber tubing and mouth
piece may be detached and the blow pipe held by the worker in his mouth thus
enabling him to use both hands for a difficult operation. The end of the blow-
pipe may for this purpose be tinned or electro plated with a suitable metal for a
short distance to make it more agreeable for the mouth.
With the foregoing new or improved apparatus it will be found possible to reach
points in holes or corners quite.inaccessible to the ordinary soldering bolt commonly
used which soldering bolt is quite dispensed with by this apparatus as also is the
necessity for a fire or separate heating appliances and an extra attendant to carry
to and fro the heated irons. The apparatus also may be used for refastening the
loose rubber tyres of bicycles, velocipedes and perambulators that have been
fastened by cement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
(1.) The combination and arrangement of apparatus forming a portable soldering
blow pipe having a flame attachment and capable of being held in the mouth
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
(2.) The combination of a blow pipe with a receptacle for carrying cotton wool
or other suitable material to be saturated with methylated spirit or other inflam-
mable and suitable substance forming a portable soldering blow pipe with a flame
attachment substantially as and for the purposes herein before described.