An Improved Stand for Smoothing and other Irons.
Year: 1887

page_text: [Communicated from abroad by ROBERT CROMMER and ADELBERT H. PHILIPS, both of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.]
An Improved Stand for Smoothing and other Irons.
I HENRY HARRIS LAKE of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co. Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex 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:-
The object of this invention is to provide means in combination with a stand for the
reception of a flat or sad iron, whereby the surfaces of said irons may be cleaned
of impurities adhering thereto, which would soil a garment.
The said invention consists in the combination with a metallic stand for the
reception of a flat or sad iron whilst in a state of rest, of a roller located at a
convenient point on the upper surface thereof journalled in suitable bearings and
covered throughout its length with a fibrous web of material, saturated with bees wax,
paraffine, or analagous substance over and upon the periphery of which the surface of
the flat iron may be rubbed by the operator to remove any impurity adhering thereto
as will be fully understood from the following description. In the accompanying
drawing.
Figure 1, is a faced view of the stand with the roller in connection therewith.
Figure 2, is a like view with the roller removed, shewing the depression for
its reception.
Figure 3, is a longitudinal section taken through a central line.
Figure 4, is a side view of the roller drawn to an enlarged scale; and
Figure 5, is an end view of the same.
Like letters of reference in all the figures indicate the same parts.
A is a metallic stand of usual construction as to outline, for the reception of a flat or
sad iron, which stand is provided with the recess or depression for the reception of
the roller B journalled in suitable bearings in the opposite sides of the stand, which
bearings may be so formed as to permit of the removal of the roller when mutilated or
worn and the insertion of another.

page_text: The form of bearing may be varied to suit convenience.
B is the roller having journals c, c, and which is covered with a webbing C
of fibrous material that is saturated with bees wax paraffine or analagous substance,
over and upon the periphery of which the surface of the iron is rubbed to coat
the said surface with a film of lubricating substance.
By this combination of the stand with a roller which is caused to rotate when
a heated iron is passed over it, a sufficient quantity of the lubricant is supplied to the
surface of the iron during its passage to cause it to pass smoothly over a garment and
prevent the adhesion of particles of starch upon said surface.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondents I declare that what I claim is :
A stand for a flat iron, provided with the roller B journalled in suitable bearings,
said roller being covered with a webbing of fibrous material saturated with a
lubricant applicable to the flat iron.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.