Improvements in Hand Irons.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 26th Oct., 1895
Improvements in Hand Irons.
We, WOOLF ABRAHAMS of 34 Cannon Street Road, London, Manufacturer
and JOHN VAN COEVORDEN of 35 Crispin Street, Spitalfields, London, Estate
Agent, 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 improvements in hand irons used by tailors, laundresses
and others for pressing and ironing, and our invention consists in a hand irou
having a readily detachable handle so that one handle may be employed for
several irons, and also so that the handle, being detached, does not get hot while
the iron is being heated.
In order that our invention may be readily understood reference is made to
the accompanying drawings wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts throughout the several figures and in which
Figure 1 represents our improved iron in side elevation.
Figure 2, represents the handle of our improved iron in side elevation, and
Figure 3, is a rear view of Figure 1.
In carrying our invention into practice we make an iron A in about the usual
manner and of any desired usual shape, but in place of a handle which in irons
of the hitherto usual construction, is fixed or cast on the upper face of the iron,
we fix or cast two eyes or equivalents B on said upper face. The uprights C, C¹
to which the preferably wood handle D is fixed in any desired suitable manner,
are formed at their lower ends with relatively horizontal lugs or extensions E
which are adapted to be inserted into and fit in the eyes B. The rear upright C1
we provide with a sleeve F having a fingerpiece f and a preferably forked and
downwardly extending stop-plate G as shown, the arrangement being such that
if the sleeve F and its stop-plate G be raised by means of the fingerpiece being
lifted up, the lugs E may be inserted into the eyes B; then if the fingerpiece f
be released the sleeve and its stop-plate will fall by gravity so that said stop
plate will be on the inner side of the rear eye B and the handle prevented from
being removed until said sleeve and its catch plate have been first raised.
By means of a hand iron constructed as described we are enabled to place the
iron on or in the stove or oven to be heated, then remove the handle and fix
it as described to another irou which bas been already heated, thus utilizing one
handle for several irons and by detaching the handle from the iron, said handle
does not become hot as it would do if the handle and iron were left in the stove.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
A hand iron formed with eyes B adapted to receive lugs E, said lugs being
formed at the lower ends of the upright C, C, which support the handle D, the
rear upright C¹ being also provided with a sleeve capable of sliding on the

page_text: upright and provided with a fingerpiece fand stop plate G, all for the purposes
and substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 16th day of September 1895.
WOOLF ABRAHAMS,
JOHN VAN COEVORDEN,
By their Agents, Horn, Son & Co.,
Somerset Chambers, 151 Strand, London, W.C.