A METHOD OF AND APPARATUS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Wellington Williams, of Cheapside, in the City of
London, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A METHOD OF AND APPARATUS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Wellington Williams at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 28th
January 1854.
I, WELLINGTON WILLIAMS, of Cheapside, in the City of London, Manufac-
turer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A METHOD OF
AND APPARATUS FOR HEATING THE HEATERS OF Box IRONS, AND OTHER LIKE
PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
The object of my improved method of heating is to prevent the injurious
effects and loss occasioned by the present mode of heating the heaters of box
irons by direct contact with fuel, and this I accomplish by employing the heat
radiated from cases, chambers, or receptacles in which the heaters are placed,
and which are themselves exposed to the action of a furnace or other fire.
I construct my apparatus of any convenient size and form suitable for con-
taining a fire-place, or provided with gas burners arranged so that the flame
may, in either case, impinge against the cases, chambers, or receptacles in
which the heaters are placed, and which are fitted to the apparatus in any con-
venient number, and made of any shape that may be most convenient and
capable of containing one or more heaters, as may be preferred. For con-

page_text: venience of entering the heaters into their cases, chambers, or receptacles, and
of again withdrawing them therefrom, I form the heaters with a ring, loop, or
eye, or other equivalent to receive the end of a hook or rod, by which they
may be readily taken hold of. In some cases I construct a frame of perforated
metal or metal bars having two or more receptacles for heaters fitted thereto,
and which may be used with an ordinary open fire.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Wellington Williams in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 28th July 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WELLINGTON
WILLIAMS, of Cheapside, in the City of London, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Wellington Williams, Her special licence that I, the said Wellington
Williams, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Wellington Williams, 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 "A METHOD
OF AND APPARATUS FOR HEATING THE HEATERS OF Box IRONS, AND OTHER LIKE
PURPOSES, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Wellington
Williams, by an instrument in writing under my hand and scal, 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 Wellington Williams, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
The object of my improved method of heating is to prevent the injurious

page_text: effects and loss occasioned by the present mode of heating the heaters of box
irons and other similar articles, such as Italian irons, the heaters for goffering
rollers, &c., by direct contact with fuel; and this I accomplish by employing
the heat radiated from cases, chambers, or receptacles in which the heaters are
placed, and which are themselves exposed to the action of a furnace or other
fire. I construct my apparatus of any convenient size and form suitable for
containing a fire-place, or provided with gas burners arranged so that the
flame may, in either case, impinge against the cases, chambers, or receptacles
in which the heaters are placed, and which are fitted to the apparatus in any
convenient number, and made of any shape that may be most convenient and
capable of containing one or more heaters, as may be preferred. For conve
nience of entering the heaters into their cases, chambers, or receptacles, and of
again withdrawing them therefrom, I form the heaters with a ring, loop, or
eye, or other equivalent to receive the end of a hook or rod by which they may
be readily taken hold of. In some cases I construct a frame of perforated
metal or metal bars having two or more receptacles for heaters fitted thereto,
and which may be used with an ordinary open fire.
Figure 1 of the Drawings hereunto annexed represents a side view;
Figure 2, a section; and Figure 3, a plan of one of these cases, chambers, or
receptacles for containing one of the ordinary shaped heaters for box irons.
A, A, is the body of the case, which is cast somewhat the shape of the heater,
and is also hollow for its reception. a, a, is a flange which surrounds the
mouth or open part of the case, whereby the case is prevented from being
inserted too far into the furnace or fire, when they are arranged in a number
and passed into openings formed in the casing or iron work of the furnace,
also to act as a support to the case when used with a trivet and placed in an
ordinary fire for domestic purposes, as shewn in Figure 1, where A represents
the case and B the trivet, a plan of which is separately given in Figure 4.
Where it is desired to use these cases, chambers, or receptacles for heating
the heaters for box and other irons in a greater number than would be found
convenient in an ordinary fire, as for instance, in laundries or other large
establishments, I arrange them in a furnace similar to the one represented in
Figure 5, a front elevation, and Figure 6, a plan in section. A, A, is the
furnace, which may be of the semicircular shape shewn, or of any convenient
or approved form. The front and sides of the furnace are formed with a series
of holes for the purpose of admitting of the insertion of a corresponding
number of cases or chambers B, which thereby protrude into the fire, or are
acted upon by the heat and flame therefrom, and become heated and so impart
the requisite heat to the heaters which are inserted into the interior of the

page_text: cases. Figure 7 is a section of one of the heaters detached, and shewing the
manner in which I form them, with a loop or ring by which they may be
readily taken hold of either for being inserted into or withdrawn from the
cases or chambers. Or I form them simply with a hole or recess in which
can be readily inserted the end of a rod for the same purpose. Other classes
of heaters than those intended for box irons, such for example as the heaters
for Italian irons, for goffering rollers, or crimping rollers, or other such articles,
may be heated in the manner before described, adapting the shape of the cases,
chambers, or receptacles to such forms of heaters, and either using such cham-
bers separately and in an ordinary fire, or arranged in a number similarly to
those represented in Figures 4 and 5.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
The method of and apparatus for heating the heaters of box irons and other
like articles, such as Italian irons, goffering and crimping rollers, in cases,
chambers, or receptacles, as herein-before described, and represented in the
Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Wellington Williams, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of July, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four.
WELLINGTON WILLIAMS. (L.S.)