IM- PROVEMENTS IN IRONS FOR SMOOTHING, POLISHING, OR BURNISHING WOVEN FABRICS
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Reid, of the Air Burning Company, Limited, of
Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN IRONS FOR SMOOTHING, POLISHING, OR BURNISHING WOVEN
FABRICS."
Sealed the 21st October 1879, and dated the 25th April 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Reid at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th April 1879.
ROBERT REID, of the Air Burning Company, Limited, of Glasgow, in the County
of Lanark, North Britain. "IMPROVEMENTS IN IRONS FOR SMOOTHING, POLISHING,
OR BURNISHING WOVEN FABRICS."
This Invention relates principally to smoothing irons of the kind described in the
Specification of Letters Patent obtained by the present applicant and dated 17
September 1877 (No. 3491), but the present improvements are also applicable to
other smoothing irons which are made hollow and heated by means of combustible
gas or vapor, or of inserted hot blocks or bolts.
The present Invention consists in making the top of the hollow box or iron
removable and so shaped on its under side as to serve for polishing or burnishing
the woven fabrics operated on. The bottom of the main part or box is made flat
as heretofore to serve for ordinary ironing, and whereas a separate iron or instru-
ment has hitherto been required for polishing or burnishing, such separate instru-
ment is by this Invention dispensed with, and for polishing or burnishing purposes
the top of the complete iron which has become heated when in its place on the
body has simply to be detached and used by itself. The handle is fixed to the top
and serves either for working with the complete iron or for working with the top
part alone. The connection between the top and the body or box may be formed
as described in the earlier Specification herein before referred to or in any other
suitable way, but instead of making the underside of it flat or unfinished it is by
this Invention made with a polished convex surface like that of irons as usually
made for polishing or burnishing dressed fabrics.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Robert Reid in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd October
1879.
ROBERT REID, of the Air Burning Company, Limited, of Glasgow, in the County
of Lanark, North Britain. "IMPROVEMENTS IN IRONS FOR SMOOTHING, POLISHING,
OR BURNISHING WOVEN FABRICS."

page_text: the Specification of Letters Patent obtained by me and dated 17 September 1877
(No. 3491), but the present improvements are also applicable to other smoothing
irons which are made hollow and heated by means of combustible gas or vapor, or
of inserted hot blocks or bolts.
My present Invention consists in making the top of the hollow box or iron
removable and so shaped on its under side as to serve for polishing or burnishing
the woven fabrics operated on. The bottom of the main part or box is made flat
as heretofore to serve for ordinary ironing, and whereas a separate iron or instrument
has hitherto been required for polishing or burnishing, such separate instrument is
by my Invention dispensed with, and for polishing or burnishing purposes the top
of the complete iron which has become heated when in its place on the body, has
simply to be detached and used by itself. The handle is fixed to the top and serves
either for working with the complete iron or for working with the top part alone.
The connection between the top and the body or box may be formed as described
in the earlier Specification herein before referred to or in any other suitable way,
but instead of making the underside of it flat or unfinished it is by my present
Invention inade with a polished convex surface like that of irons as usually made
for polishing or burnishing dressed fabrics.
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 representing my improved combined smoothing
and burnishing iron.
Figures and 2 on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings are a plan and a
sectional side elevation of my improved combined smoothing and burnishing iron,
Figure 3 being an end elevation. The body 5 of my improved iron is made hollow,
having within it a perforated bent tube 6 for the introduction of a mixture of com-
bustible gas or vapor and air, and it is formed with its bottom or under side flat
as formerly. The handled cover or lid 7 is fitted to slide into its place in V-grooves
formed in the sides of the body 5, and is held by a pin 8 or any suitable catch
when it is desired to work with the complete iron. The internal or under side of this
lid 7 is formed with a polished convex surface like that of irons as usually made for
polishing or burnishing dressed fabrics and as shown in Figure 4 of the accompanying
Drawings. When it is desired to employ the cover or burnisher 7, the pin 8 is
drawn out and the cover detached from the body 5, it having become heated while
in its place on the body 5.
Having thus particularly described my said Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I bave to state that I do not restrict myself to the precise details
herein described or delineated, but that what I believe to be novel and original,
and claim as the Invention secured to me by and in terms of the herein before
in part recited Letters Patent is,―
The combining of a convex burnishing iron with an internally heated flat smoothing
iron, the burnishing iron forming the cover but usable separately, substantially as
herein before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Reid, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty-second day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine
Witness,
EDMUND HUNT,
Patent Agent,
Glasgow.
ROBERT REID. (LS.)