Improvements in Apparatus for Heating Flat Irons.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 27th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 1st Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Heating Flat Irons.
KIRSTEN VAN KERVEL, of 3 Eversley Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
An apparatus constructed according to my invention consists of a flat triangular
box formed as a flat-iron and is open at the wide end. The apparatus is intended to
be applied to ordinary kitchen or other fires for the purpose of holding fat-irons
which are to be heated. At the wide end on the bottom of the box, which is
extended to form a handle, there are two or more projecting feet or hooks constructed
so as to grip one of the bars of the front grate of a fire place. The top of the box is
slotted from the wide end along to the pointed one so as to allow the passage of the
handle carriers of flat-irons. The apparatus may consist of
one, two or
boxes cast or joined together.
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In applying the apparatus to a fire place, it is hung on to the top bar of the front
grate by means of the projecting fect or grips. As it so hangs over the fire, the
flat-irons, which are to be heated, are put in to the boxes. The flames of the fire play
on the bottom and sides of the apparatus and the heat is stored in it and transferred
to the flat-irons. Owing to the peculiar shape of the apparatus it does not chok
the fire.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Heating Flat Irons.
KIRSTEN VAN KERVEL formerly of 3 Eversley Street Liverpool in the County of
Lancaster, now of the town "Arendal" of Norway, 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 :-
An apparatus constructed according to my invention consists of a flat triangular
box formed as a flat-iron and is open at the wide end. The apparatus is intended
to be applied to ordinary kitchen-or other fires for the purpose of holding flat-irons
which are to be heated. At the wide end on the bottom of the box, which is
extended to form a handle, there are two or more projecting feet or hooks, con-
structed so as to grip one of the bars of the front grate of a fire place. The top of
the box is slotted from the wide end along to the pointed one so as to allow the
passage of the handle carriers of flat-irons. The apparatus may consist of one, two
or more boxes cast or joined together.
In applying the apparatus to a fire place it is hung on to the top bar of the front
grate by means of the projecting feet or grips. As it so hangs over the fire, the flat-
irons, which are to be heated, are put into the boxes. The flames of the fire play on
the bottom and sides of the apparatus and the heat is stored in it and transferred to
the flat-irons. Owing to the peculiar shape of the apparatus it does not chok the
fire.
In order that my invention may be thoroughly understood I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawings thereof, reference being had to letters and figures
marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a plan and Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of a triangular box constructed
according to my invention; a are top, bottom and sides of the box which may be
made of cast iron or any other suitable material; a' is the inner open space in the
box into which the flat-iron is to be inserted; b is a slot made in the top of the box

page_text: and which forms a passage for the handle carriers of a flat-iron; c is a space between
the feet d made of such a size as it will fit the front grate bars of kitchen fire
places; d are feet cast on to the bottom of the box and by means of which the box,
when applied to a fire place, is, made to hang on the top bar of the front grate; e is
a handle.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of any said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is
A box or boxes for holding flat-irons which are to be heated constructed sub-
stantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 25th day of January 1890
F. KLOUMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.