AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF IRON FOR IRONING
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, of the Firm of
Robertson, Brooman, and Company of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agents, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION
OF IRON FOR IRONING."-A communication from abroad by Clemente
Augusto d'Assumpeao, of Lisbon, Portugal.
Sealed the 10th May 1867, and dated the 22nd November 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd November 1866.
1, CLINTON EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and..
Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, do hereby.
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF
IRON FOR IRONING," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an improved construction of iron heated by gas...
The iron is constructed hollow, and has at about the centre a horizontal
division. At the upper part of the iron a tin or other suitable plate is fixed.
to act as an insulator, and above this plate is a second plate of similar
material of curved form attached at its ends to the handle of the iron. From
the front of the iron a chamber is carried up to serve as a chimney for pro-
ducing draught, and at the back of the iron is a chamber separated from the
compartment of the iron below the horizontal division by metallic netting or a
perforated plate; this chamber has connected it to a pipe furnished with a

page_text: cock, and connected when required with an india-rubber or other suitable
tube communicating with any convenient source of gas. The horizontal
division is formed with an opening, through which atmospheric air, admitted
by openings in the side of the iron above the division, enters, so as to mix with
the gas in the compartment below the division. When the iron is to be used
the gas is lighted through these openings and heats the iron; the degree of
heat, that is to say, the amount of gas consumed, being regulated by the cock
before named.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 22nd May 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CLINTON-
EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and Company, of
166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year
of Her reign; did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, Her special licence that T, the
said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, 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 "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF IRON FOR IRONING,"
(communicated to me from abroad by Clemente Augusto d'Assumpeaó, of
Lisbon, Portugal,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Clinton
Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particu-
larly 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 Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following

page_text: statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings, hereunto annexed;
that is to say:-
This Invention relates to an improved construction of iron heated by gas:
The iron is constructed hollow, and has at about the centre a horizontal
division. At the upper part of the iron a tin or other suitable plate is fixed
to act as an insulator, and above this plate is a second plate of similar
material of curved form attached at its ends to the handle of the iron. From'
the front of the iron a chamber is carried up to serve as a chimney for pro-
dúcing draught, and at the back of the iron is a chamber separated from the
compartment of the iron below the horizontal division by metallic netting or
perforated plate; this chamber has connected to it a pipe furnished with a
cock, and connected when required with an india-rubber or other suitable tube'
communicating with any convenient source of gas. The horizontal-division is
formed with an opening, through which atmospheric air admitted by openings
in the side of the iron above the division enters, so as to mix with the gas in
the compartment below the divison. When the iron is to be used the gas is
lighted through these openings and heats the iron; the degree of heat, that is
to say, the amount of gas consumed, being regulated by the cock before*®*
named.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is an elevation, and. Figure 2a
plan of an iron constructed according to this Invention. The iron is, as before
mentioned, constructed hollow.
a is a horizontal division near its centre; 6 is a chamber carried up
from the front of the iron to serve as a chimney for producing draught; c is a
chamber at the back of the iron separated from the compartment d below the
division a by metallic netting e. The chamber c has connected to it a pipe f fur-
nished with a cock g; this pipe is connected when required by an india-rubber
tube with any convenient source of gas; h is an opening in the division a, and
i is one of two or more openings in the side of the iron above the division a ;
k is a tin or other suitable plate fixed to the upper part of the iron to act as
an insulator, and is another insulating plate of curved form attached at its
ends to the handle m. When the iron is required to be heated the pipe fis
put in communication with the gas supply pipe, the cock g turned on, and a
light applied through one of the openings i; the gas then issues through
the chamber c and mixing with the air which enters through the sides
of this chamber it passes through the netting e, and burns in the chamber,d,
the products of combustion passing up the chimney b. Atmospheric air
enters through the openings i, i, and h facilitates or perfects the combustion
of the gas, and thereby produces a high teu perature; these irons are well

page_text: adapted for use by hat makers, it being easy to heat in the chimneys the small
irons employed for the hat rims. The shape or contour of the irons may be
varied as desired,
The important features of this improved iron are the chamber c, into which
the pipe leads the netting e, the division a forming the top of the com-
partment d, and the chimney 6 combined or acting together substantially as
described.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I do not claim generally
the construction of irons to be heated by gas; but what I claim is, the
improved construction of iron for ironing, substantially as herein-before
described and represented in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Broóman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of May, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.