Improvements in or relating to Detachable Handles for Sad Irons and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application 3rd June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Mar., 1892-Accepted, 23rd Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Detachable Handles for Sad Irons
and the like.
We, BENJAMIN HAYES of 2 Goswell Terrace, Goswell Road, Hatter, and
ALEXANDER ROUND of 15 Fann Street, Aldersgate, Gasfitter, both in the City
of London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to irons used for laundry purposes also by hatters, tailors,
billiard-table makers and the like and has particular reference to the detachable
handle used in connection with such irons.
In carrying out the invention I employ any suitable form of handle preferably
made of wrought or malleable iron and having a wooden or other non-conducting
part for the hand so that it will not be necessary to employ a cloth or holder for
protecting the hand. A convenient way of carrying this invention into effect is to
provide in the iron or block an opening into which a projection of the handle is
adapted to fit a groove being also preferably employed in which the rest of the
lower portion of the handle will rest. The iron is also provided with a hasp which
may pass through a portion of the handle and a spring catch arranged upon the
handle engages with this hasp. A detaching lever may also with advantage be
arranged conveniently to the finger or thumb of the operator in such manner that
upon pressing this lever the spring catch is removed from the hasp and the handle
can be instantly detached.
It will be seen that this arrangement may be modified without departing from
the spirit of the invention and that many different arrangements of the snap and
catch fastening device may be used.
Dated this 4th day of June 1891
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Detachable Handles for Sad Irons
and the like.
We, BENJAMIN HAYES of 2 Goswell Terrace, Goswell Road, Hatter, and
ALEXANDER ROUND, of 15 Fann Street, Aldersgate, Engineer etc., both in the
City of London, 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 irons used for laundry purposes also by hatters, tailors,
billiard-table makers and the like and has particular reference to the detachable
handle used in connection with such irons.
In carrying out the invention we employ any suitable form of handle preferably
made of wrought or malleable iron and having a wooden or other non-conducting
part for the hand so that it will not be necessary to employ a cloth or holder for
protecting the hand.
A convenient way of carrying this invention into effect is to
provide in the iron or block an opening into which a projection of the handle is
adapted to fit, a groove being also preferably employed, in which the rest of the
lower portion of the handle will rest. The iron is also provided with a hasp which
may pass through a portion of the handle and a spring catch arranged upon the
handle engages with this hasp. A detaching lever may also with advantage be
arranged conveniently to the finger or thumb of the operator in such manner that
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page_text: upon pressing this lever the spring catch is removed from the hasp and the handle
can be instantly detached.
In the accompanying drawings;
Fig. 1 is.a perspective view of a hatter's iron fitted with a detachable handle in
accordance with this invention and
Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective views of respectively the handle and iron-block or
body detached from each other.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
A is the iron-block or body whose upper surface is formed with a groove A¹
which at one end is bridged across by a piece A2 so that beneath said piece is
formed an opening A³. The block or body A is also provided with a hasp B which
projects upwards from preferably the centre of the groove A¹ and with the notch
or recess of which the spring catch C carried on the handle frame D engages.
The handle frame D consists of two standards d d connected at their lower
ends by a bar d² and at their upper ends by a rod d³, one end only of which is
shown in the accompanying drawings, and upon which rod is mounted the wooden
or equivalent non-conducting handle E. The bar d² is provided with an opening d
which fits over the hasp B as shown in Fig. 1 and the projecting end d³ of bar d²
fits into the opening A³.
The catch is preferably formed in part with its spring C₁which may be secured
to the upright pin or stud C² fixed in the bar d² and beyond the part at which it
engages with the hasp B as shown in Fig. 1. it projects through a slot din
standard to which is pivouted the lever F which is prevented from falling too
low down by a shoulder d' on the outer surface of standard d' or by any other
suitable stop.
The handle is detached from the block or body A by raising the outer end of
the lever F in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1, which operation
moves the adjacent end of the catch C in the direction indicated by the arrow e
and thus releases it from the hasp B. The front end of the handle is then raised
so that the hole is moved off the hasp B and by pulling the handle forward so
that the projection is withdrawn from the opening As the handle is freed from
the block. The underside of the projection is curved so as to admit of the front
end of the handle being raised while the projection is still in the opening A³.
For replacing the handle on the block or body A the projection d' is first
inserted in the opening A³ and the handle pressed down so that the spring catch C
may automatically be pushed back by the inclined end of the hasp B to subsequently
engage with the hasp recess or this may be effected or assisted by raising the
lever F.
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. A smoothing-iron block or body having a groove and opening such as A¹
and A3 and a handle frame having a bar d and projection fitting respectively
into the groove and opening of a hasp such as B passing through the bar di and
spring catch such as C C₁ for engaging with the hasp to lock the handle to the
block substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In a smoothing iron the combination with the spring catch by which handle
and block or body are held together of an operating lever such as F substantially
as and for the purpose described and illustrated in the accompanying.drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1805
ALEXANDER ROUND.
BENJAMIN HAYES.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicants.
ALEXANDER ROUND.
BENJAMIN HAYES.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicants.