IMPROVEMENTS IN CHARCOAL BOX IRONS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Perks and Francis Perks, of Wolver-
hampton, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturers, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHARCOAL BOX IRONS."
Sealed the 17th July 1874, and dated the 9th March 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Perks and
Francis Perks at the Office of the Commissioners. of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 9th March 1874.
We, WILLIAM PERKS and FRANCIS PERKS, of Wolverhampton, in the
County of Stafford, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHARCOAL BOX IRONS," to be as:
follows, that is to say:
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Our Invention refers to an improved form of hinge for charcoal box
irons, and which we manufacture of wrought or malleable iron, instead
of employing cast iron, as used for the ordinary box iron linge.
The hinge consists of a central cross pin secured at both ends in the
ordinary lugs by running the iron round such ends during the process of
casting the box iron. Upon the central cross pin works a flap hinge
screwed or otherwise secured to the lid or top of the box iron, the
flap hinge being curled or shaped with a tubular end to receive the
cross pin.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Perks and Francis Perks in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 8th September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, WILLIAM
PERKS and FRANCIS PERKS, of Wolverhampton, in the County of
Stafford, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the Thirty-seventh
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said William Perks and Francis Perks, Her special
license, that we, the said William Perks and Francis Perks, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
William Perks and Francis Perks, our 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 CHARCOAL
Box IRONS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
William Perks and Francis Perks, our executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under our, 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 we, the said William Perks and Francis Perks,
'do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-—
Our Invention refers to an improved form of hinge for charcoal box
irons, and which we manufacture of wrought or malleable iron; instead
of employing cast iron, as used for the ordinary box iron hinge.
The hinge consists of a central cross pin secured at both ends in the
ordinary lugs by running the iron round such ends during the process"

page_text: of casting the box iron. Upon the central cross pin works a flap
hinge, screwed or otherwise, secured to the lid or top of the box iron,
the flap hinge being curled or shaped with a tubular end to receive the
cross pin.
We will now proceed to describe our Invention more fully in detail,
reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1 illustrates in side and front clevation the improved hinge for
charcoal box irons, and which we manufacture of wrought or malleable
iron, instead of employing cast iron, as used for the ordinary box iron
hinge.
Fig. 2 represents a charcoal box iron with the lid thrown open, and
fitted with the improved hinge, which consists of a central cross pin (a)
secured at both ends in the ordinary lugs (b), Fig. 2, by running the
iron round such ends during the process of casting the box iron.
Upon the central cross pin (a) works a flap hinge (c) screwed or other-
wise secured to the lid or top (d) of the box iron, the flap hinge (c)
being curved or shaped with a tubular end (c') to receive the cross
pin (a).
Having thus described the object and nature of our said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, we claim,
without limiting ourselves to these precise details, the improved form of
hinge for charcoal box irons made of wrought or malleable iron, sub-
stantially in manner as herein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Perks and Francis
Perks, have hereunto set our hands and scals, this Fourth day of
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred
and seventy-four.