Improvements in Stoves for Heating Smoothing and Pressing Irons for the Use of Tailors and others.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 13th June, 1894-Accepted, 21st July, 1894
Improvements in Stoves for Heating Smoothing and Pressing Irons
for the Use of Tailors and others.
We, ARTHUR TOUSSAINT GILSON, and LUCIEN ADELAIRE, both of No. 27
Rue Nysten, in Liége, Kingdom of Belgium, 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 :-
Our invention relates to improvements in stoves for heating, smoothing and
pressing irons used by tailors and others, and has for object to prevent radiation
and loss of heat through the access of fresh air to the irons whilst they remain upon
the stove.
Stoves as at present constructed for heating irons are provided at their upper
part above the hot air chamber with a polygonal truncated portion upon which the
smoothing irons are placed. These latter when heated by contact with the stove
are continually subject to abstraction of heat through contact with the current of
air ascending along the sides of the stove, the temperature of which current is
naturally much lower than that of the sides.
In consequence of this disadvantage common to all stoves of this kind, the irons
are never sufficiently heated and even when combustion in the fire is most actively
maintained the heat requisite for the irons is seldom obtained. From this condition
there result an excessive consumption of fuel, a rapid destruction of the stove,
and in the place where the stove is erected-an exceedingly high temperature
very inconvenient and injurious to the operatives.
Our invention is designed to remove the irons from the disadvantageous influence
of contact with the current of air passing up the sides of the stove, and to sufficiently
heat them with only a moderate consumption of fuel.
On the accompanying drawings illustrating our invention,
Figure 1 is an elevation, and
Figure 2 a vertical section of one of our improved stoves arranged for heating
5 irons,
Figure 3 being a horizontal section of Figure 1 through line A-B.
Figures 4 and 5 represent respectively irons adapted for tailors' and hatters' use.
Figures 6 and 7 are vertical and horizontal sections respectively of a modification
applied to the stove shewn in Figures 1 to 3.
In carrying out our invention we construct the lower part or hot-air chamber of
the stove, which may be of any suitable form preferably in a separate casting. As
shewn in Figures 1 to 3, the upper part consists of a central portion a of tubular
form for the escape of waste gases, and having around it a number of cells b
corresponding to the number of irons to be heated, arranged alternately with
ntervening spaces c open only at the bottom. If desired these spaces c may be
provided at the top with an opening m communicating with the tube a as shewn on
Figures 6 and 7.
The spaces c form hot air chambers on both sides laterally of the irons d.
In order to convey a greater or less volume of gas or heated air through the
chambers c, in the arrangement shewn on Figures 6 and 7 for the purpose of
horoughly beating the sides of the tube a, we may arrange within the tube at
ny convenient height a grill or perforated plate » for restricting to a certain
extent the passage of heated air through it. The cells b are made in one piece
with the tube a, and are closed on all sides except the exterior lateral side where a
oor or cylindrical slide / allows of the admission and removal of the irons, and

page_text: prevents when closed-the entrance of cold air into the cells b. When a slide is
used for this purpose it is provided with a single opening which is moved in front
of each cell in succession to allow of the removal of the hot iron and the substitution
of a cold one or it may otherwise be furnished with as many openings as the are
cells, so that by the manipulation of the slide all the cells may be simultaneously
opened or closed as desired.
As shewn on Figure 2 the cells bare so constructed and arranged that two sides
of the iron dare in contact with the walls of the cell, and consequently the irons
not being exposed to the cooling influence of the ascending current of fresh ait. are
always thoroughly heated even with a comparatively moderate fire. The hot air-
chambers c also assist in the uniform heating of the irons.
When the iron used has a fixed handle-as shewn in Figure 5-the slide or door f
is provided with two small slotted holes i for the reception of the handle.
The stove may be constructed according to our invention with any number of
cells for the heating of smoothing and pressing irons.
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. In stoves for heating irons for the use of tailors and others, the arrangement
around a central flue a of a number of separate compartments b, each capable of
receiving an iron, closed on all sides and divided laterally from each other by hot-
air-chambers c, as shewn and described.
2. Stoves for heating irons for tailors and others, constructed, combined and
arranged substantially as herein shewn and described with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this Thirteenth day of June 1894