AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR IRONING AND GOFFERING FABRICS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Mills, of Heywood, in the County of
Lancaster, Machine Maker, and Thomas Albert Scholfield, of the
same Place, Insurance Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR IRONING AND GOFFERING FABRICS."-A communication
from abroad by Doctor S. Charles Smith, of Chicago, in the State of
Illinois, in the United States of America.
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Scaled the 21st February 1871, and dated the 10th September 1870..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Mills and
Thomas Albert Scholfield at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 10th September 1870.
We, FREDERICK MILLS, of Heywood, in the County of Lancaster,
6 Machine Maker, and THOMAS ALBERT SCHOLFIELD, of the same Place,
Insurance Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR IRONING AND GOFFERING FABRICS," being a
communication to us from abroad by Doctor S. Charles. Smith, of

page_text: Chicago, in the State of Illinois, in the United States of America, to be
as follows:-
This apparatus consists of a plate the lower part of which is of the
shape of an ordinary flat iron for ironing fabrics, and the upper part is
fluted like a goffering iron; to this plate is hinged a second plate, the
lower part of which is fluted, and the upper part is provided with a
handle like that of an ordinary flat iron. When this apparatus is used
for ironing the two plates are locked together by a catch, but when used
for goffering the catch is unfastened to allow the upper plate to be
opened on its hinge for admitting the fabric between the goffering
flutes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Mills and Thomas Albert Scholfield in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th March 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, FREDERICK
MILLS, of Heywood, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, and
THOMAS ALBERT SCHOLFIELD, of the same Place, Insurance Agent, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Frederick Mills and Thomas Albert
Scholfield, Her special licence that we, the said Frederick Mills and
Thomas Albert Scholfield, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Frederick Mills and Thomas Albert Scholfield,
our 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
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR IRONING AND GOFFERING FABRICS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Frederick Mills and
Thomas Albert Scholfield, our executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our, or their, or one of our or their hands and

page_text: seals, should particularly 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 we, the said Frederick Mills and Thomas
Albert Scholfield, do hereby declare the nature of this said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to
say):
This apparatus consists of a plate the lower part of which is of the
shape of an ordinary flat iron for ironing fabrics, and the upper part is
fluted like a goffering iron; to this plate is hinged a second plate, the
lower part of which is fluted, and the upper part is provided with a
handle like that of an ordinary flat iron. When this apparatus is used
for ironing the two plates are locked together by a catch, but when used
for goffering the catch is unfastened to allow the upper plate to be
opened on its hinge for admitting the fabric between the goffering
flutes.
And in order that this Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation we will proceed to describe the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, which represent four views of the improved appa-
ratus for ironing and goffering fabrics.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 an end view, Fig. 3 a plan with the
handle removed, and Fig. 4 a plan of the bottom plate, which is of the
shape and size of an ordinary flat iron; this plate is marked a, and to it
is hinged at the upper plate c, to which the handle d is secured in any
convenient manner. The upper surface of the back part of the plate a
and the lower surface of the same part of the plate c are fluted or made
with projections and recesses as shewn best in Fig. 2, of the size and
shape of the goffering to be produced. The number and shape of these
projections and recesses can be varied at pleasure.
When the apparatus is used for plain ironing the two plates a and c
are locked together by the catch e, which is hinged to the top plate c
and catches into a recess in the staple f, which is cast to the plate a and
passes through a slot in the plate c; but when the apparatus is used for
goffering-the-catch is unfastened to allow the upper plate to be opened,
as shewn by dotted lines in Fig. 1, to admit the fabric between the
goffering flutes.

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of the Invention, and described a
convenient manner of performing the same, we wish to remark that we
do not limit ourselves to the details given, as the mode of locking the
plates together and other particulars may be varied; but what we
claim is, the combined apparatus for ironing and goffering shewn and 5
described