Improved Gas-heated Smoothing Iron.
Year: 1898

page_text: 1, WILLIAM SHANNON, of the Model Laundry, Society Street, Londonderry,
Ireland, Laundry Proprietor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention relates to the construction of smoothing irons heated by gas and
employed in the dressing of shirts, fronts, collars, and the like and is specially
adapted for the production of a high domestic finish.
It consists in impressing or moulding the face of a smoothing iron with a
number of recesses or cavities somewhat resembling a honeycomb, and affording
so many gaps or spaces for bringing air to the articles while being dressed and
for receiving and carrying away the extracted moisture rising from such articles
in the form of vapour.
Dotad this 7th day of Tul 1908
HUGH HYNDMAN,
6, Chichester Street, Belfast,
Agent for Applicant.
Improved Gas-heated Smoothing Iron.
I, WILLIAM SHANNON, of the Model Laundry, Society Street, in the City of
Londonderry, in Ireland, Laundry Proprietor, 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:-
1
My invention relates to the construction of smoothing irons heated by gas and
employed in the dressing of shirts, fronts, collars, and the like and is specially
adapted for the production of a high domestic finish.
It consists in impressing or moulding the face of a smoothing iron with a
number of recesses, cells or cavities somewhat resembling a honeycomb and
affording so many gaps or spaces for bringing air to the articles while being
dressed and for receiving and carrying away the extracted moisture rising from
such articles in the form of vapour. But I do not confine myself to the exact
form or structure of the face of a smoothing iron hereinbefore described inas-
much as it is apparent that modifications thereof might also be applied although
perhaps less advantageously for the same purpose. The recesses, cells or cavities
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page_text: may be formed in the moulding of the iron, by punching or pressing the plate
while hot or by drilling it afterwards or by any other ordinary process.
And in order that my said invention may be more fully understood I shall
now refer to the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed, the same letters of refer-
ence indicating the same or similar parts throughout all the figures upon the
sheet.
Fig. I is an inverted plan of a gasheated smoothing iron showing the recesses,
cells or cavities formed therein and somewhat resembling a honeycomb, and
Fig. II is a longitudinal section of the smoothing iron showing the recesses,
cells or cavities extended through the face, with the handle or holder at the
top, and a portion of the pipe by which gas for heating the iron is introduced.
a is the face of the iron, b, b, b, are the recesses, cells or cavities therein; c is
the handle or holder, and d is the pipe conveying gas from the meter to heat
the iron.
and
now fully described
Having
ascertained the nature of my
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is;-
1. A gasheated smoothing iron having its face indented with recesses, cells or
cavities constructed and employed substantially in the manner and for the pur-
poses hereinbefore described and shewn in the drawings hereunto annexed, and
2. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting my improved gas-
heated smoothing iron constructed and employed substantially in the manner
and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings here-
unto annexed.
000
HUGH HYNDMAN,
6, Chichester Street, Belfast.
Agent for Applicant.