NEW OR IMPROVED SOLDERING IRON;
Year: 1842

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
RAYBOULD, of Saint James Walk, Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex,
Brassfounder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
bearing date at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of August now last past,
did give and grant unto me, the said William Raybould, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William
Raybould, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, & the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of a "NEW OR IMPROVED SOLDERING IRON;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said William Raybould,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Raybould, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and as follows (that is to say): -
In the ordinary mode of making the soldering iron the copper head is fixed
to the shank by means of rivets, and the handle by which the workman holds

page_text: the tool is fixed and stationary, so that a great number of tools of different
lengths and sizes are required for different descriptions of work.
My Invention consists, firstly, in uniting the copper head to the shank by
means of screws instead of rivets, or by any other mechanical means whereby
the head may with facility be taken taken off when worn out and fresh ones
put on, or changed for others of a different shape. I generally use the two
screws for this purpose, as shewn in the Drawing A, but any other mode may
be adopted which may be thought desirable, the essential part of my Invention
being to allow the head to be easily removed when required; and secondly,
instead of making the handle hollow for a portion of its length only, and
inserting and fixing the end of the shank therein, I make the handle hollow
throughout its whole length, and line it with iron or any other metal, as shewn
in section, Figure B. The shank being made of any length required, is then
inserted into the tube or hollow part of the handle B, and kept firm therein by
means of a screw and nut, as shewn in the Drawing C, or any other mode
which may
be found convenient, and the handle may be adjusted on any part
of the shank by merely unscrewing the nut or otherwise, and then moving the
handle up or down on the shank.
What I therefore claim as my Invention is, a method or methods of readily
fastening and unfastening the copper head to and from the shank of the solder-
ing iron, and the shank itself to and from the handle, for the purpose before
mentioned, by the means before described or referred to, or any other
mechanical means which may be adapted to the purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Raybould, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
HORNE.
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AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Seventeenth day of
October, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Raybould came
before our Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica-
tion aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Seventeenth day of October, in the year above written.