AN IMPROVED IRON FOR IRONING TO BE USED FOR LAUNDRY, DOMESTIC, MANUFACTURING, AND GENERAL PURPOSES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Raywood, Machinist, of No. 5, Field
Place, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED IRON FOR IRONING TO BE USED FOR LAUNDRY, DOMESTIC,
MANUFACTURING, AND GENERAL PURPOSES."
Sealed the 14th March 1871, and dated the 21st September 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Raywood at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st September 1870.
I, JOHN RAYWOOD, Machinist, of No. 5, Field Place, Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED IRON FOR IRONING TO BE USED FOR LAUNDRY,
DOMESTIC, MANUFACTURING, AND GENERAL PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
And consists of a hollow shell (similar to what is known as a box
iron) but open at the top and at one end, near this open end I insert a.
pipe to receive a gas burner or tip, and which pipe is connected to a
socket to which is affixed a pipe of india-rubber or other suitable
material and communicating with any convenient source of gas. On the

page_text: top of this shell there is a plate having an opening at one end to allow
of a draught; above this plate is another shell having a plate forming a
division about the middle of the same and placed horizontally, having
also suitable openings or outlets in the top part of the same. Within
this top part or shell I place a moveable slide or damper by which may
be regulated the quantity of atmospheric air so as to produce combustion,
and by the use of which slide I also regulate the supply of gas. The
iron has a suitable handle and cover, and the whole is screwed together.
I also insert a hollow pillar through the cover through the top shell down
to the bottom shell, into which pillar may be inserted what are technically
termed Italian irons or mushroom heads of any form or size, and which
can be detached at pleasure. The iron is to be heated by gas, but I do
not claim this method of heating by gas as any novelty.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Raywood in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st March 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
RAYWOOD, Machinist, of No. 5, Field Place, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Raywood, Her special
licence that I, the said John Raywood, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Raywood, 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 "AN IMPROVED IRON FOR IRONING
TO BE USED FOR LAUNDRY, DOMESTIC, MANUFACTURING, AND GENERAL PURPOSES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Raywood,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,

page_text: 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 John Raywood, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto
annexed, that is to say :—
This Invention relates to an improved construction and combination
of the parts of an iron for ironing by which I obtain a better or more
efficient draught, thereby securing a better consumption of the product
of combustion, and in its applicability to various purposes; and consists
of a hollow shell similar to what is known as a box iron, but open at the
top, and with suitable openings for the admission of air. Into this shell
I insert a pipe or socket to receive a gas burner, and to which pipe or
socket is affixed another pipe of india-rubber or other suitable material,
and communicating with any convenient source of gas.
I also place
one or more perforated metallic cases, which may contain charcoal, into
this shell, which being ignited by the gas produces great additional heat.
On the top of this shell is a plate or cover having an opening or openings
to allow of a draught; above this plate is another case having a hori-
zontal plate or division about the middle of the same, thus forming two
compartments having suitable openings, by which arrangement I obtain
a forward and backward or a lengthened and a continuous draught.
The iron has a suitable cover and handle, and the whole is screwed
firmly together. Through the cover and top shell down to the bottom
shell I also insert a hollow case or pillar, into which may be put what
are technically called Italian irons, mushroom heads, or other appliances
of any form or size, and which can be detached at pleasure. When the
iron has to be used attach the india-rubber tube to the supply of gas
and light at the openings in the iron.

page_text: intermediate plate, G, .G, and openings 2, 3, 3, 3; H, H, H, the top
plate, shewing the handle screwed on the top, &c.; J, J, J, the arrange-
ment for Italian irons, mushroom heads, &c. The gas being turned on
enters into the perforated cases B, B, and mixes with the atmospheric
air, which is admitted through suitable openings at the end and sides of t
the bottom shell, passing through the opening or draught hole 1; then
in the direction of the arrows to 2, through which it passes into the top
compartment of the shell F, and the product of combustion having been
consumed in the bottom shell and in its transit to the top shell the
superfluous heat, &c. escapes through the outlets 3, 3, 3. There are
inlets 5, 5, 5, to admit of heat into the part J, J, J, and outlets 6, 6,
above and below the plate G, G.
And having now fully described the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood
that I do not claim the heating of this iron by gas or charcoal (separately) ]
as any novelty, neither do I confine myself to the precise size, form, or
weight of the iron, as the same may be made to suit the wish or purpose
of the user. What I claim as the important features of this improved
iron are,
The method of obtaining a greater amount of heat by the combined
use of gas and charcoal.
The use of the perforated metallic tubes or cases.
The method of obtaining the forward and backward or lengthened and
continuous draught.
The arrangement respecting the Italian irons, &c., and the construction
and combination of the whole as herein-before described and represented
in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Raywood, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
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