IMPROVEMENTS IN CHARCOAL Box SMOOTHING IRONS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Enoch Siddaway, of West Bromwich, in the County
of Stafford, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CHARCOAL Box SMOOTHING IRONS."
Sealed the 26th July 1867, and dated the 7th February 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Enoch Siddaway at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th
February 1867.
I, ENOCH SIDDAWAY, of West Bromwich, in the County of Stafford, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CHARCOAL BOX SMOOTHING IRONS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in con-
structing and arranging the parts of charcoal box Smoothing irons whereby
compactness and strength of the parts are secured, as well as greater room for
the handle.
I will describe my Invention in connection with a charcoal box smoothing.
iron having a hinged or jointed lid or cover. I joint or hinge the lid.or. cover...
to one end of the box, and I connect to the said lid. or cover the handle. by
which the iron is held when in use, and the guard by which. the hand is:
pro-.

page_text: tected. The chimney by which the fumes escape from the iron is also carried
by the hinged lid or cover. The said chimney is made in two parts, the lower
part being fixed to the lid or cover of the iron, and the upper part being
moveable and capable of rotating upon the lower fixed part of the chimney.
When the upper moveable part of the chimney has been turned in the
direction proper to prevent the fumes annoying the person using the iron
the said moveable part is secured to the fixed part by a screw or other
fastening. The handle of the iron is supported at one end by an ordinary
upright, and at the other end by the fixed lower part of the chimney, the said
fixed lower part constituting the second upright.
By the improvements described one of the ordinary uprights is dispensed
with, and more room is in consequence obtained for the handle; the chimney
is also much stronger and firmer than ordinary chimneys.
Although I have described my Invention with reference to a charcoal box
iron having a hinged lid or cover, yet my Invention may also be applied to
charcoal box irons in which the lids or covers are otherwise connected with
the bodies of the irons.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Enoch Siddaway in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st August 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ENOCH
SIDDAWAY, of West Bromwich, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Enoch Siddaway, Пer special licence that I, the said Enoch
Siddaway, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Enoch Siddaway, 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 "IMPROVE-
HENTS IN CHARCOAL Box SMOOTHING IRONS," upon the condition (amongst others).
that I, the said Enoch Siddaway, my executors or administrators, by an instru-

page_text: ment 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 Enoch Siddaway, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in con-.
structing and arranging the parts of charcoal box smoothing irons whereby
compactness and strength of the parts are secured, as well as greater room
for the handle.
I will describe my Invention in connection with a charcoal box smoothing
iron having a hinged or jointed lid or cover. I joint or hinge the lid or cover
to one end of the box, and I connect to the said lid or cover the handle by
which the iron is held when in use, and the guard by which the hand is pro-
tected. The chimney by which the fumes escape from the iron is also carried
by the hinged lid or cover. The said chimney is made in two parts, the lower
part being fixed to the lid or cover of the iron, and the upper part being
moveable and capable of rotating upon the lower fixed part of the chimney.
When the upper moveable part of the chimney has been turned in the
direction proper to prevent the fumes annoying the person using the iron the
said moveable part is secured to the fixed part by a screw or other fastening.
The handle of the iron is supported at one end by an ordinary upright, and at
the other end by the fixed lower part of the chimney, the said fixed lower
part constituting the second upright.
By the improvements described one of the ordinary uprights is dispensed
with, and more room is in consequence obtained for the handle; the chimney
is also much stronger and firmer than ordinary chimneys.
Having explained the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to describe,
with reference to the accompanying Drawing, the manner in which the same
is to be performed.
;
Figure 1 represents partly in longitudinal vertical section, and partly in
elevation. a charcoal box smoothing iron having a hinged or jointed lid or
cover, the said box iron having my improvements applied thereto; Figure 2
is an end elevation of the same; and Figure 3 is a section of a portion of
the chimney of the same. The same letters of reference are employed to
indicate the same parts in each Figure.

page_text: a is the body of the box iron, and 6 is the damper by which the admission.
of air for combustion is regulated. The top of the body a is closed by the
lid or cover c, the said lid or cover being jointed or hinged at to one end of
the said body a.
On the said hinged lid or cover c is the chimney d, d', by
which the fumes escape from the iron, the handle e by which the iron is held
when in use, and the guard f, by which the hand is protected. The lid or
cover c is held down in its place by means of spring catch fastening g. The
chimney of the iron is made in two parts, marked respectively d and d³, the
lower part d being fixed to the lid or cover c, and the upper part being.
moveable and capable of rotating upon the lower fixed part d. The shape of
the moveable top of the chimney is best seen in the separate view, Figure 3.
The handle e of the iron is supported at one end by the ordinary upright h,
and at the opposite end by the fixed lower part d of the chimney, the said
fixed lower part of the chimney thus constituting the second upright. After
the upper moveable part of the chimney d, d, has been turned in the
direction proper to prevent the fumes annoying the person using the iron the
said moveable part is secured to the fixed part by the screw i. Instead of
the screw any other convenient method of fastening the moveable top of the
chimney to the fixed lower part may be employed.
i
In the ordinary construction of those kinds of charcoal box irons in which.
moveable chimneys are used the whole of the chimney is made capable of
rotating. In this case the handle of the iron is supported by two uprights.
By my improvements one of the ordinary uprights is dispensed with, the
second upright being formed by the fixed lower part of the chimney. More
room is thereby obtained for the handle, and the chimney constructed according
to my Invention while possessing all the advantages of the ordinary rotating
chimney is also much stronger and firmer than ordinary chimneys.
Although I have only described and represented my Invention with reference
to a charcoal box iron having a binged lid or cover, yet my
Invention may also
be applied to charcoal box irons in which the lids or covers are otherwise
I connected with the bodies of the irons.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not
limit myself to the precise details herein described and represented in the
Drawing, as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of
my Invention; but I claim as my Invention the improvements in charcoal
box smoothing irons, herein-before described and represented in the accom-
panying Drawing, that is to say, providing the lids or covers of charcoal box
irons with a chimney partly fixed and partly moveable, the upper moveable

page_text: part being capable of rotating upon the fixed lower part, the fixed lower
part of the chimney being made to constitute one of the uprights of the
handle of the smoothing iron substantially as described and represented.
In witness whereof, I, the said Enoch Siddaway, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
ENOCH SIDDAWAY. (L.S.)