Improvements in Smoothing Irons for Velvet, Plush, and the like. materials.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 26th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 3rd Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Smoothing Irons for Velvet, Plush, and the like.
materials.
We, MARTIAL DUTHEIL, and JEAN DEHILLOTTE, both of 27, Rue Clauzel,.
Paris, in the Republic of France, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Our present invention relates to improvements in smoothing irons used for
smoothing velvet, plush, and other materials of the like kind to which the ordinary
smoothing iron is not applicable without risk of damaging the material.
The improved smoothing iron consists of a hollow cast iron body of suitable
shape and size, carried by a bottom plate supported upon legs or supports. The
hollow casting is covered by a plate hinged at one end to the body, so that it can
be readily opened and closed, and the body is provided with handles at its sides by
which it can be lifted and carried. In the cover near the hinges, is a hollow to
receive a little water which when vapourized by the heat allows the material to be
treated to be damped by passing it over the vapour.
The apparatus is preferably heated by gas, a pipe being arranged in the hollow
body, communicating at one end with a gas pipe by a flexible tube and provided
with a regulating tap. This pipe is perforated with a sufficient number of holes.
directed laterally to each side and somewhat upward, so that the cover is equally
heated by the lighted gas escaping through them.
Or, instead of gas, the apparatus may be heated by a lamp, or by boiling water
in the lower part. Or a separate reservoir of hot water may be used by which
the damping is effected independently, or the vapour from which may be conducted
into the body of the iron and allowed to escape through an opening in the cover.
Or, burning charcoal may be used in the iron, one or more openings being made in
the bottom to facilitate combustion.
Deted this 26th day of January 1892
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Smoothing Irons for Velvet, Plush, and the like
materials.
We, MARTIAL DUTHEIL, and JEAN DEHILLOTTE, both of 27, Rue Clauzel,
Paris, in the Republic of France, Manufacturers, 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
drawing, that is to say :-
Our present invention relates to improvements in smoothing irons used for
smoothing velvet, plush, and other materials of the like kind to which the ordinary
smoothing iron is not applicable without risk of damaging the material.
The accompanying drawing is in illustration of our invention, Figure 1 being a
side view, Figure 2 a plan, and Figure 3 an end view.
The improved smoothing iron consists of a hollow cast iron body f of suitable
shape and size, carried by a bottom plate p supported upon three legs or supports v.
The hollow casting is covered by a slightly convex plate d hinged at one end to
the body, by the pin a fitting in lugs o, o¹, so that it can be readily opened and
closed, and the body is provided with handles b at its sides by which it can be lifted
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page_text: and carried.
In the cover near the hinges, is a hollow to receive a little water
which when vapourized by the heat allows the material to be treated to be damped
by passing it over the vapour.
The apparatus is preferably heated by gas, a pipe being arranged in the
hollow body, communicating at one end with a gas pipe by a flexible tube and
provided with a regulating tap G. This pipe is perforated with a sufficient
number of holes i directed laterally to each side and somewhat upward, so that
the cover is equally heated by the lighted gas escaping through them.
Or, instead of gas, the apparatus may be heated (without altering its exterior
form) by a lamp, or spirit, or by placing boiling water in the lower part. Or a
separate reservoir of hot water may be used by which the damping is effected
independently, or the vapour from which may be conducted into the body of the
iron and allowed to escape through an opening in the cover.
Or burning charcoal may be used in the iron, one or more openings being made
in the bottom to facilitate combustion.
In order to use the apparatus, the gas in the tuber is lighted, the hollow / being
partly filled with water, which soon becomes sufficiently heated to provide vapour
to damp the velvet or other material. When the vapour rises in sufficient quantity,
the interior flame is regulated by the cock G, and the material is passed over the
iron cover, damping it with the vapour and drawing it from right to left and vice
versá, always guiding it toward the point of the iron. Where velvet is to be
treated, of course the back will be in contact with the iron and not the front.
The details and proportions of the several parts may be varied more or less, to
suit different circumstances.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is: :-
1. The iron body closed with a cover;
2. The slightly convex hinged cover, having a hollow for water at its wide end,
near the hinge;
3. The inner perforated pipe fixed to the body of the iron, and provided with a
regulating cock and connection for a gas pipe ;
4. In combination with the body of the iron, the handles on each side;
all substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 26th day of October 1892.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicants.