Year: 1885

page_text: I THOMAS FLETCHER of Thynne Street Warrington in the County of Lancaster
Gas Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to gas heated laundry, hatter's and similar irons and these
Improvements consist in a new or modified adaptation arrangement or combination
of the gas burner to or with a hollow iron.
The gas burner is arranged in such a manner that the injection tube or burner
is wholly or principally external to the hollow iron but will deliver its flame into
the interior of the iron and against that part requiring to be heated. The air
required for combustion may be drawn into the iron partly by and through the
burner and partly. through an opening left in the body of the iron for that purpose
through which also the flame from the burner may pass or the flame may pass
through a separate opening. The products of combustion may pass from the
interior of the iron by a separate opening flue or outlet provided by preference
near the nose of the iron. The burner may be permanently secured to the iron
or it may be made detachable so that two or more irons may be successively heated
by the same burner.

page_text: and similar Irons.
I THOMAS FLETCHER of Thynne Street Warrington in the County of Lancaster
Gas Engineer 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 gas heated laundry hatter's and similar irons and
these Improvements consist in a new or modified adaptation arrangement or
combination of the gas burner to or with a hollow iron.
The gas burner is arranged in such a manner that the burner is wholly or
principally external to the hollow iron but will deliver its flame into the interior
of the iron and against that part requiring to be heated. The air required for
combustion may be drawn into the iron partly by and through the burner and
partly through an opening left in the body of the iron for that purpose through
which also the flame from the burner may pass, or the flame may pass through a
separate opening. The products of combustion pass from the interior of the iron
by a separate opening, flue or outlet provided by preference near the nose of
the iron.
The burner may be permanently secured to the iron or it may be made
detachable so that two or more irons may be successively heated by the same
burner.
And in order that these improvements may be more readily understood and
carried into practical effect I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings having
the figures thereon marked with similar letters to denote similar parts and
reference being hereinafter had thereto.
Fig. 1 represents in side elevation, Fig. 2 in longitudinal section and Fig. 3 in
plan a convenient form of smoothing iron for laundry use having these improve-
ments applied thereto.
A is the gas jet, B the injection tube; these two parts constituting the burner.
C is a bracket or support for carrying the burner, D is the cavity in the iron, E is
the flue or outlet, F the handle and G the air inlet.
As represented in the drawings the burner is secured to the bracket C by means
of screws, but it may with equal convenience be held in position by a spring &
clutch or other device, and such an arrangement is preferred when it is desired to
employ the same burner for successively heating two or more irons or alternatively,
the bracket itself may be made detachable.
The arrangement shown may be modified in several ways for particular cases
but only so that the burner is wholly or principally external to the iron, and that
the flame issuing therefrom is directed downwards within and upon the bottom of
the iron.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
(1.) In a gas heated laundry hatter's tailor's or similar smoothing iron, a gas
burner so mounted or arranged as to be wholly or principally external to the hollow
part of the iron and to deliver its flame upon the interior of the part required to be
heated, substantially as herein before set forth and described.
.
(2.) As a gas heated laundry hatter's tailor's or similar smoothing iron, the
combination and arrangement of an external gas burner and a bracket for carrying
the burner, with a hollow iron provided with flame and air inlet, a flue or outlet
and a handle, substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this eleventh day of August. A.D. one thousand eight hundred and