An Improved Instrument or Device for Holding and Heating or Igniting Charcoal for Laundry Irons.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 20th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 24th Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Instrument or Device for Holding and Heating or
Igniting Charcoal for Laundry Irons.
I, JAMES BRAMLEY, of Northgate, Halifax, in the County of York, Ironmonger,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new instrument or device for holding charcoal whilst
placed onto a fire to be heated or ignited.
In carrying out my invention I make from suitable wire a square shaped helical,
but instead of the twisted helical square being flat it is cup shaped to hold the
charcoal..
The portion of wire which forms the handle of the instrument is bent at
one or two parts to form legs, the length of the said legs being equal to the depth
of the helical cup, so that the instrument when put down will occupy a level
position.
I make another device like the one described, and the two are suitably hinged
together with their cup shaped twisted or bent wires opposed to each other.
The free ends of the two devices are secured together by a sliding loop, the two
cups being opposed to each other for the purpose of holding the charcoal. When
the instrument thus described is placed onto a fire the charcoal held by the
instrument is quickly heated or ignited.
The first named device may be sold and used without the second or upper one
being combined with it.
Dated this 19th day of May 1893.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Instrument or Device for Holding and Heating or
Igniting Charcoal for Laundry Irons.
I, JAMES BRAMLEY, of Northgate, Halifax, in the County of York, Ironmonger,
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 :—―
This invention relates to a new instrument or device for holding charcoal whilst
placed onto a fire to be heated or ignited.
In carrying out my invention I make from suitable wire a square shaped helical,
but instead of the twisted helical square being flat it is cup-shaped to hold the
charcoal.
The portion of wire which forms the handle of the instrument is bent at
one or two parts to form legs, the length of the said legs being equal to the depth
of the helical cup, so that the instrument when put down will occupy a level
position. I make another device like the one described, and the two are suitably
hinged together with their cups opposed to each other for the purpose of holding
the charcoal. .
When the instrument thus described is placed onto a fire or in contact with a
flame of gas the charcoal held by the instrument is quickly heated or ignited.

page_text: Such being the nature and object of my invention I will now shew how the
same may be put into practice as is shewn on the accompanying drawings where-
Fig. 1 is an elevation and Fig. 2 plan of my improved instrument where it will be
seen that the wire forming the instrument is twisted at A and made cup-shaped for
holding the charcoal, the said wire being bent at B which answers for a leg or
support to keep the instrument level. In Fig. 3 I have shewn two of the wire
instruments connected together by a hinge C so that when the two instruments are
olosed up as shewn in Fig. 4 they will hold a larger quantity of charcoal. In
Fig. 5 a loop is formed in the wire at D so that it can be placed over a gas burner E
the flame arising therefrom heating the charcoal. The handles G and H are by
theans of cranked loop I made to interlock each other and thus keep the parts
together.
The first named device shewn at Fig. 1 may be sold and used without the second
device shewn in Figs. 3, 4, and 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
Firstly. An instrument or appliance made with a cup-shaped recess A in
combination with a leg or standard B.
Secondly. For holding charcoal the combination of two cup-shaped wire
appliances hinged together as at C substantially as shewn in Figs. 3 and 4.
Thirdly. For holding charcoal the use of two cup-shaped wire appliances
hinged together as at C, in combination with the cranked loop I for purposes
described and shewn in Fig. 5.
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Dated this 19th day of February 1894.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.