A New or Improved Gas and Air Pipe Standard for Use in Connection with Heating Hand Irons and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1899-Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Gas and Air Pipe Standard for Use in Connection
with Heating Hand Irons and the like.
I, GEORGE EDWARD BERRY, of Old Heath Laundry, Old Heath Road, Colchester,
in the County of Essex, Engineer, 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: —
This invention relates to a new or improved gas and air pipe standard for use
in connection with heating hand irons and the like by means of air and gas
under pressure, and consists essentially of a standard provided at its upper end
with suitable sockets or junction pieces so formed or arranged as to allow of the
air and gas pipes joining or connecting two or more of the standards together
being fitted therein in a simple, cheap and expeditious manner and carrying
stands or supports for the irons or the like on its lower end.
I will now particularly describe my invention making reference to the accom-
panying sheet of drawings in which:-
Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of two standards connected together by
the air and gas pipes.
Figure 2 is a view in end elevation thereof, and
Figures 3 and 4 are enlarged detail views in section.
The
Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.
The standard A, preferably made of cast iron and of the shape shown is pro-
vided on its upper end with transverse socket or junction bosses b and c.
socket or junction boss b carries the adjacent ends of the gas pipes B, for which
purpose it is screw threaded with either a left or right hand screw thread depend-
ing on the thread provided on the next adjacent standard, for instance, if the
boss 6 of the standard A is provided with a right hand thread then the boss of
the standard A¹ will have a left hand one the object being to cause the standards
to approach each other when the gas pipe, or rather lengths of pipe B, provided
on their ends with corresponding screw threads, are rotated.
The socket or junction boss c provided for the reception of the air pipe C is
left plain or not screw threaded internally, but is provided with an internal
shoulder c against which the plain adjacent ends of the air pipe or lengths of
pipe C are held on screwing up the gas pipe B, it will thus be seen that by
rotating or screwing up one of the lengths of the gas pipe B four joints are made
simultaneously in a cheap, quick and effective manner. As a modification I may
slightly cone or taper the ends of the lengths of the air pipe C and correspond-
ingly cone or taper the sockets or bosses c (see Figure 4) in such case the
shoulder c may be dispensed with.
The sockets or junction bosses b and c are provided with holes or the like.c
and on either or both sides into which brass mixing cocks are fitted to
which flexible tubes are attached for the purpose of supplying air and gas to
the hand irons or the like.
Near the bottom of the standard on either or both sides thereof is fixed prefer-
ably in the manner shown a stand or support D provided with a leg d, which
stand serves as a rest for the hand iron or the like when not in use.

page_text: 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:
An air and gas pipe standard constructed and arranged substantially as here-
Dated this 22nd day of September 1899.
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc.M. Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech. E.,
Chartered Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant