In- PROVEMENTS IN SAD, Box, AND OTHER HAND IRONS FOR SMOOTHING FABRICS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Benton, of West Bromwich, in the
County of Stafford, Ironfounder, for the Invention of "In-
PROVEMENTS IN SAD, Box, AND OTHER HAND IRONS FOR SMOOTHING
FABRICS."
Bealed the 12th November 1875, and dated the 27th May 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Benton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th May 1875.
I, WILLIAM BENTON, of West Bromwich, in the County of Stafford,
Ironfounder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
“IMPROVEMENTS IN SAD, Box, AND OTHER HAND IRONS FOR SMOOTHING FABRICS,"
to be as follows :—
Hitherto these irons have generally been made solid, that is to say,
the face has been of the same material or metal as the iron. In some
cases, however, brass faces have been rivetted on to box irons, but it is

page_text: found that when this is done, upon heating the iron a perfectly smooth
surface cannot be obtained.
According to my Invention I cast the upper or body portions of irons
and their handles in the usual manner, but I form a projection on its
lower side, which projection has a groove formed longitudinally round it.
I then place the iron again in the sand, having first moulded the face
from a suitable pattern; and I then pour in molten brass, which forms
the face of the iron, and the molten metal running into the groove
which is formed around the said projection securely holds the brass face
to the body or upper part of the iron.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Benton in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 25th November 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BENTON, of West Bromwich, in the County of Stafford, Ironfounder,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors,

page_text: give and grant unto me, the said William Benton, Her special licence
that I, the said William Benton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Benton, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SAD, Box, AND OTHER HAND IRONS FOR SMOOTHING FABRICS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Benton, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and 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 I, the said William Benton, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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) :—
Hitherto these irons have generally been made solid, that is to say,
the face has been of the same material or metal as the iron.
In some
cases, however, brass faces have been rivetted on to box irons, but it is
found that when this is done, upon heating the iron, a perfectly smooth
surface cannot be obtained.
According to my Invention I cast the upper or body portion of irons
and their handles in the usual manner, but I form a projection on its
lower side, which projection has a groove formed longitudinally round or
above it. I then place the iron again in the sand, having first moulded
the brass face which is to be affixed thereto from a suitable pattern ;
and I then pour in molten brass which is to form, as before explained,
the face of the iron, and this molten metal running into the groove
which is formed around or above the said projection securely holds the
said brass face to the body or upper part of the iron.
The advantages of my Invention are

page_text: brass face in the manner and for the purpose herein-before described and
shewn in the accompany Drawings.
In witness whereof I, the said William Benton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.