IM- PROVEMENTS IN CHARCOAL Box IRONS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Asher, of Balsall Heath, in the County
of Worcester, Designer and Modeller, for the Invention of " IM-
PROVEMENTS IN CHARCOAL Box IRONS."
Scaled the 23rd December 1875, and dated the 9th October 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Asher at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th October 1875.
I, GEORGE ASHER, of Balsall Heath, in the County of Worcester,
Designer and Modeller, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHARCOAL Box IRONS," to be as follows:-
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My Invention consists principally in constructing in the manner
herein-after described the lid, chimney, and handle of the said charcoal
box irons, the object of my improvements being to joint the lid and
connect the several parts to the body of the iron in a simple and
inexpensive manner, the parts constructed according to my Invention
requiring no drilling, tapping, or joints to connect them together and to
the body of the iron.

page_text: I make the lid move horizontally and cover and uncover the top of
the box iron by a side motion, the said lid swivelling upon the chimney
as a centre. I fix at the nose or point end of the open box of the iron a
covering plate having in it a nearly circular opening, and on the bottom
of the chimney I make a hook-shaped projection or lip, which lip when
the chimney is fitted in its place engages under the plate described at
the nose end of the box, and assists in securing the chimney in its
place. Above the hook-shaped projection or lip on the chimney is a
neck on which the lid swivels or takes its bearing, the lid at the part
where it swivels on the chimney having a circular hole in it which fits
upon the said neck of the chimney.
In fitting the chimney and lid together and to the body the lid is first
placed on the open top of the iron, and the chimney is afterwards placed
on the lid, the hook projection or lip of the chimney engaging under
the fixed plate at the point cud of the box iron, and the neck on the
chimney engaging in the circular hole in the lid. The neck on the
chimney thus constitutes the axis or centre on which the lid swivels
when turned aside for opening and closing the box iron.
I fix the chimney and lid in their places by means of the handle of
the box iron in the following way:-The chimney forms one of the
uprights of the handle, and the other upright I fix at the heel end of
the box iron by means of a screw and screw nut, the screw serving also
to joint the damper to the front of the heel end of the box iron.
The chimney at the point or nose end and the upright at the heel end
of the box iron are provided with shoulders or bearing parts upon which
the ends of the grip part of the handle are supported.
After the lid and chimney have been fitted together, as before
described, the grip part of the handle is placed on the bearings of the
chimney and upright respectively, and a screw pin or rod is passed
through holes in the chimney through the hollow grip and through a
hole in the bearing at the heel of the iron and fastened at the said
bearing by a screw nut; the several parts are thereby securely bound
and fastened together by the use of a single screw pin or rod and nut.
The upright is cranked or bent near its junction with the top of the box
iron for the rear of the lid to work in, and the motion of the lid is a
limited in closing the box iron by a stop on the lid bearing against the
said upright.

page_text: I make the chimney by preference in halves, and fit them together by
the plain edge of one half engaging with an overhanging edge or flange
on the other half. These parts of the chimney are cast without coring,
and the holes for the screw rod are cast in them. A chimney made in
one piece may however be used with the other parts of my Invention.
In this case the holes for the screw rod are required to be made by
drilling. I fix the combined grating and flue of the box iron to the
body of the iron by means of a lip or projecting part on its rear end
engaging with a cutaway part or recess in the tail of the upright at the
heel end of the box iron.
Instead of fixing the chimney and making the lid swivel upon it
the lid at chimney may move together and the lid, be made to swivel
on the upright at the heel end of the box iron, or the lid itself without
the chimney may swivel on the upright.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Asher in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th April 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
ASHER, of Balsall Heath, in the County of Worcester, Designer and
Modeller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Asher, Her special license that
I, the said George Asher, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said George Asher, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHARCOAL
Box IRONS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Asher, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing

page_text: under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Asher, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists principally in constructing in the manner
herein-after described the lid, chimney, and handle of the said charcoal
box irons, the object of my improvements being to joint the lid and
connect the several parts to the body of the iron in a simple and
inexpensive manner, the parts constructed according to my Invention
requiring no drilling, tapping, or joints to connect them together and to
the body of the iron.
I make the lid move horizontally, and cover and uncover the top of
the box iron by a side motion, the said lid swivelling upon the chimney
as a centre. I fix at the nose or point end of the open box of the iron a
covering plate having in it a nearly circular opening, and on the bottom
of the chimney I make a hook-shaped projection or lip, which lip when
the chimney is fitted in its place engages under the plate described at
the nose end of the box, and assists in securing the chimney in its place.
Above the hook-shaped projection or lip on the chimney is a neck on
which the lid swivels or takes its bearing, the lid at the part where it
swivels on the chimney having a circular hole in it which fits upon the
said neck of the chimney.
In fitting the chimney and lid together and to the body the lid is first
placed on the open top of the iron and the chimney is afterwards placed
on the lid, the hook projection or lip of the chimney engaging under the
fixed plate at the point end of the box iron, and the neck on the
chimney engaging in the circular hole in the lid. The neck on the
chimney thus constitutes the axis or centre on which the lid swivels
when turned aside for opening and closing the box iron.
I fix the chimney and lid in their places by means of the handle of
the box iron in the following way:-The chimney forms one of the
uprights of the handle, and the other upright I fix at the heel of the

page_text: box iron by means of a screw and screw nut, the screw serving also to
joint the damper to the front of the heel end of the box iron.
The chimney at the point or nose end and the upright at the heel end
of the box iron are provided with shoulders or bearing parts upon which
the ends of the grip part of the handle are supported.
After the lid and chimney have been fitted together, as before
described, the grip part of the handle is placed on the bearings of the
chimney and upright respectively, and a screw pin or rod is passed
through holes in the chimney through the hollow grip and through a
hole in the bearing at the heel of the iron, and fastened at the said
bearing by a screw nut; the several parts are thereby securely bound
and fastened together by the use of a single screw pin or rod and nut.
The upright is cranked or bent near its junction with the top of the box
iron for the rear of the lid to work in, and the motion of the lid is
limited in closing the box iron by a stop on the lid bearing against the
said upright.
I make the chimney by preference in halves and fit them together by
the plain edge of one half engaging with an overhanging edge or flange
on the other half. These parts of the chimney are cast without coring,
and the holes for the screw rod are cast in them. A chimney made in
one piece may however be used with the other parts of my Invention ;
in this case the holes for the screw rod may either be made by drilling
or in the casting. I fix the combined grating and flue of the box iron
to the body of the iron by means of a lip or projecting part on its rear
end engaging with a cutaway part or recess in the tail of the upright at
the heel end of the box iron.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in longitudinal
vertical section a charcoal box iron constructed according to my Inven-
tion; Figure 2 represents a plan of the same with the lid open or turned
aside; and Figure 3 represents in elevation the lower part of the
chimney of the box iron separately; Figure 4 represents a plan of a
portion of the box iron.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several
Figures of the Drawing.
a is the body of the box iron moving horizontally, and by a side
motion to cover or uncover the top of the said body a, the said lid
swivelling upon the chimney c, c², as a centre. At the nose end of the

page_text: box a is a covering plate d having a nearly circular opening e' in it (sce
Figure 4). On the bottom of the chimney c, c², is a hooked-shaped
projection or lip c³ which engages with the plate d and assists in securing
the said chimney to the box or body a (see Figure 1). c* is the neck of
the chimney upon which the lid 6 swivels, a circular hole in the said lid
fitting upon the said neck c*.
The manner in which the chimney c, c³, is fitted in its place in the
box iron a and the lid upon the neck c of the said chimney is best
seen in the section, Figure 1. It will also be seen that the neck cof
the chimney c, c³, constitutes the axis or centre on which the lid b
swivels when the said lid is turned aside for opening and closing the box
iron. The chimney is made in halves, the said halves being marked
respectively cand c², the plain edge of one half engaging with the over-
hanging edge or flange of the other half (see Figure 1). The two parts.
c, c², are cast without coring, and the holes c³, c³, in them for the passage
of the screw rod e are made by the casting process. f is the grip of the
handle; and is one of the uprights of the handle. The chimney c, c³,
forms the other upright, as shown. The upright i has a tail piece ²,
and the said upright is fixed at the heel end of the box a by means of a
screw passed through the said tail piece and fastened by the screw nut
at . The screw which fixes the upright also serves to joint the
damper to the front of the heel end of the box iron. The combined
grating and flue m is fixed to the box iron by means of a lip m² on it
engaging with the recess represented in the tail piece of the upright i,
as seen in Figure 1. On the chimney c, c², is a scat c', and on the
upright is a scat upon which seats c and the ends of the grip
part of the handle are supported. The upright i, grip f, and chimney
c, c², are connected together and the chimney firmly fixed to the box
iron a by the screw rode which is passed through the upright i, hollow
grip f, and the holes c³, c³, in the chimney c, c³, and fastened by the
screw nut e. Or the screw pine may be passed through the chimney
first and fastened by a screw nut at the upright i; the several parts are
thereby securely bound and fastened together by the use of a single
screw pin or rod and nut. The upright i is cranked at for the rear
end of the swivelling lid b to work in, and the said rear end of the lid is
provided with a stop 6 (see Figure 2), which when the lid is closed
bears against the said upright i and thereby limits the motion of the
said lid on closing the box iron.

page_text: Although I prefer to use a chimney made in halves, as described and
illustrated in the Drawing, yet a chimney made in one picce may be
used. In this case the holes in the chimney for the fastening pin e may
be made by the casting process or by drilling.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that
I do not limit myself to the precise details herein described and
illustrated, as the same may be varied without departing from the
nature of my Invention; but I claim as my Invention the im-
provements in charcoal box irons herein-before described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, covering and uncovering
the top of the box iron by means of a lid having a side or horizontal
motion, the said lid swivelling upon the chimney as a centre, the several
parts being constructed and combined, substantially as described and
illustrated; also the combination with the said swivelling lid of the
arrangement described and illustrated for fixing the chimney and handle
together and to the box iron, substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Asher, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.
GEORGE ASHER. (L.S.)