Improvements in Branding Irons and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1899-Accepted, 22nd July, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Branding Irons and the like.
I, FREDERIC HUGHES, of 20, Paget Road, West Dulwich, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
is
My invention relates to improvements in branding irons and the like and the
object is to provide means whereby when the brand has been once heated at the
furnace the heat can be sustained so that the brand remains in an efficient con-
dition without being repeatedly returned to the furnace. In carrying my inven-
tion into effect I proceed in or in about the following manner making reference
to the accompanying drawing which shows a sectional side view. I provide a cylinder
a consisting of two metallic rings having between them a layer of asbestos or
other non-conductor. Passed axially through the cylinder is a tube b to which
the cylinder is held in any suitable manner as by radial arms c. To one end of
the tube b is attached the branding iron preferably but not necessarily having
a fluted or ribbed back as patented by me in 1895 No. 6607. The tube
closed at e and provided with the gas inlet f which can be connected by flexible
tubing to the supply. If desired the supply may enter at the end e. Connected
with 6 by the pipes g are two or more burners h upstanding within a & below
the brand d. In use the brand connected with the gas supply by flexible tube
is placed in a chamber similar to that described in my Patent 6607/95 (but
without burners) and the twin burners of said brand being lighted, it is allowed
to remain in the chamber, till heated to redness, then withdrawn and the burners
kept alight so as to maintain a continuously uniform temperature while branding.
Similarly several separate brands can be placed in the same or larger chambers
and can be connected with one or more separate supply pipes thus greatly facili-
tating the work of branding. The chief object of my invention being to maintain
the largest number of brands in a condition for continuous branding without the
necessity for frequent reheating.
To assist in maintaining uniformity of temperature I may employ alloys of
copper with other suitable metals as experience may prove most expedient.
It is obvious that the tube b might be provided with a single burner as at i
behind the branding iron d in which case the branding iron could be supported
on the rim of the cylinder a or otherwise.
Some variation being possible in the form and disposition of the several parts
I do not confine myself to precisely what is shown on the drawing.
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. Branding irons each supported at one end of two concentric metallic cylinders
having an intermediate layer of non-conducting material the back of the said
branding iron being continued in a heated condition by a gas burner or by

page_text: gas burners situated within the said cylinders and supplied with gas by a tube
or pipe which serves the dual purpose of a supply pipe and support for the
branding iron and cylinders, the whole substantially as described in the above
specification and exemplified in the accompanying drawing.
2. The combination with branding irons and the like of means for keeping
them continuously heated, substantially as described in the above specification
and exemplified in the accompanying drawing.
3. Branding irons constructed and operating substantially as described in
the above specification and exemplified in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 12th day of May 1899.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, E.C., Agents.