A FLAT CLOTHES SMOOTHING IRON WITH MOVEABLE HANDLES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Fréderic Vasserot, of 45, Essex Street,
Strand, London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A FLAT CLOTHES
SMOOTHING IRON WITH MOVEABLE HANDLES." -A communication from
Francisque Rousserie, residing at Marseilles, in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 14th May 1859, and dated the 17th November 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 17th November 1858.
I, CHARLES FREDERIC VASSEROT, of 45, Essex Street, Strand, London,
Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A FLAT CLOTHES SMOOTHING IRON WITH MOVEABLE HANDLES," (a communication
from Francisque Rousserie, residing at Marseilles, in the Empire of France,)
to be as follows, and is composed of two parts, viz., the part which is to be
heated, and the handle. The handle may be fixed to the iron by different
means, but the one which I prefer is the kind of coupling used for fixing
bayonets to guns. A screen made of sheet iron is placed horizontally in the
lower part of the handle to keep the heat away from the hand of the person
using the iron. It will be understood that the handle being moveable does
not go in or near the fire, therefore it may be made in part of wood, horn,
marble, glass, or of any other suitable materials.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 17th May 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
FREDERIC VASSEROT, of 45, Essex Street, Strand, London, Patent Agent, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot, Her special licence that I,
the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot, 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 "A FLAT CLOTHES SMOOTHING IRON WITH
MOVEABLE HANDLES," a communication from Francisque Rousserie, residing
at Marseilles, in the Empire of France, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument 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 Charles Fréderic Vasserot, 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 :-
The object of my Invention is to form the irons and the handles of smoothing
irons in two distinct parts, so that one handle may be used for several flat irons,
and at the same time preventing the handle from getting heated when the
iron is heating in the fire. I propose to effect this by forming the handle and
the flat iron in separate parts, and then attaching or connecting the handle to
the iron. The mode of attaching or connecting the handle to the flat iron
may be effected in many ways, but the form and method which I prefer is

page_text: shewn in the accompanying Drawings, which are appended to illustrate
generally the way in which I propose to carry out my Invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a plan of the iron. a, the flat iron cast with a mouth or orifice b
on its upper surface, having slots in it similar to the neck of a bayonet; Fig. 2
is a sectional elevation of the iron with its handle, shewing the mode of attaching
the latter to the former. m is the frame upon which the handle proper k
is fixed; this frame is let into the center of the mouth or opening c in the iron,
and the outer arms enter into the slots 6 in the same mouth; the handle is
then pressed downwards and turned either to the right or left, similarly to the
bayonet on a musket. In order to retain the handle in this position two keys
are fixed on an oval ring, the one f¹ passing into the frame of the handle
inserted in the neck of the flat iron so as to hold it in the proper position,
the other passing into the handle k is held or pressed down by means of the
handle acting on the spring 9. Fig. 3 is a separate view of these studs or
pins f, f, with the frame f, also the spring 9; h, in Figures 2 and 3, is a
ff,
zinc or other metallic screen to prevent the heat from rising up to the handle k.
Fig. 4 is an end view of the handle, similar letters indicating the same parts
as in the other Figures. Figure 5 is a transverse section upon the line x, y.
Having now described this Invention, and shewn in what the same consists,
and how it is carried into effect and acts, I wish it understood that what I
claim and desire to secure by the before in part recited Letters Patent is,
forming smoothing irons in two parts, so as to have the handle separate from
the iron, and the mode of forming these two parts and attaching them to each
other, substantially as set forth in the Specification and accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
CH. FRÉD. VASSEROT. (L.B.)