Improvements in Smoothing Irons.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Sept., 1896-Accepted, 3rd Oct., 1896
Improvements in Smoothing Irons.
I, ANDREW HISLOP MACLEAN, Chairman of the Air-Burning Company,
Limited, of 49, North Albion Street, in the County of Glasgow, North Britain,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that
is to say :-
My said invention has. for its object to improve the construction of smoothing
irons, and to apply thereto improved heating apparatus, so as to render the irons
convenient and unobjectionable in use.
My improved instrument comprises a simple box of castiron or other suitable
metal made with two opposite smoothing surfaces each of any suitable form for
smoothing purposes. In the longitudinal axis of the box there is a burner pipe
made with burner nozzles on its upper side; and the box is fitted so that it can be
turned over on the pipe as an axis to put either smoothing surface undermost.
The handle is fitted to vertical end pieces which are fixed to the ends of the
burner pipe; and a spring catch or bolt is provided for locking the box in either
of its two positions.
One end of the burner pipe is closed, and the other end is bent and extended
upwards to form or have fixed to it a small receptacle for methylated spirit or
alcohol or other suitable combustible liquid. From the spirit receptacle cotton or
other suitable wicks conduct the spirit to the burner nozzles in the burner pipe
within the box. The wicks are made to fill the receptacle, or the communication
between it and the burner pipe, with sufficient tightness to prevent too rapid a
descent of the spirit to the burner nozzles; or the flow of the spirit may be
regulated by means of an adustable screw plug. Or the receptacle may be made
to act like a bird fountain by inserting a sinall open-topped air tube through the
top with its lower open end extending down to a level at which the spirit will have
the head necessary for feeding the wicks. The receptacle is provided with a piece
of mica in a slit, to show the quantity of spirit therein; or the receptacle may
consist of a tube of strong glass. The receptacle is provided with a stopper or
plug of any suitable kind.
Dated this Tenth day of December 1895.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
Improvements in Smoothing Irons.
I, ANDREW HISLOP MACLEAN, Chairman of the Air-Burning Company,
Limited, of 49, North Albion Street, in the County of Glasgow, North Britain,
Gentleman, 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, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to improve the construction of smoothing
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page_text: irons, and to apply thereto improved heating apparatus, so as to render the irons
convenient and unobjectionable in use.
My improved instrument comprises a simple box made with two opposite
smoothing surfaces and capable of being turned on a burner pipe one end of which
extends upwards to form or have fixed to it a small receptacle for methylated spirit,
or alcohol, or other suitable combustible liquid, conducted to burner nozzles, or
orifices in the pipe by cotton or other suitable wicks. The flow of the spirit may
be regulated by means of an adjustable screw plug; or the receptacle may be
made to act like a bird fountain as hereinafter described.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings
to be hereinafter referred to and showing a .smoothing iron as made with my
improvements.
Figure, 1, of the drawings is a longitudinal vertical section, and
Figure, 2, an end elevation of my improved smoothing iron.
As shown in the drawing my improved instrument comprises a simple box, A, of
castiron or other suitable metal, made with two opposite smoothing surfaces each
of any suitable form for smoothing purposes. In the longitudinal axis of the
box, A, there is a burner pipe, B, made with burner nozzles or orifices, C, on its
upper side. As described in my Patent Specification No. 19,719 of 1895, the
box, A, is fitted so that it can be turned over on the pipe, B, as an axis to put
either smoothing surface undermost, the handle, D, being fixed to vertical end
pieces, E, F, which are fixed to the ends of the burner pipe, B; and a spring catch
or bolt, G, being provided for locking the box in either of its two positions.
According to the present invention one end of the burner pipe, B, is closed, and
the other end is bent and extended upwards to form (or have fixed to it) a small
receptacle, H, for methylated spirit or alcohol or other suitable combustible liquid.
From the spirit receptacle, H, cotton or other suitable wicks, J, conduct the spirit
to the burner nozzles, or orifices, C, in the burner pipe, B, within the box, A.
The wicks, J, fill part of the receptacle, H, and the whole of the burner pipe, B,
with sufficient tightness to prevent too rapid a descent of the spirit to the burner
nozzles, C; or the flow of the spirit may be regulated by means of an adjustable
screw plug, K. The receptacle, H, may be made to act like a bird fountain by
inserting a small open-topped air tube, L, indicated by dotted lines through the
top and adjustable therein so that its lower open end may be at a suitable level.
The receptacle, H, is provided with a screw stopper or plug, M, and the receptacle
may be provided with a piece of mica in a slit to show the quantity of spirit
therein.; or the receptacle may consist of a tube of strong glass.
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
In a smoothing iron, of the kind to which the invention relates, forming on or
fixing to one end of the burner pipe a receptacle for combustible liquid to be
conducted to burner nozzles or orifices in the pipe by wicks, substantially as and
for the purposes herein before described and as shown in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this Second day of September 1896.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.