IMPROVEMENTS IN FLAT IRONS TO BE HEATED BY GAS AND AIR, AND IN BURNERS FOR THE SAME
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jamos Paris, of Stratford, in the County of Essex,
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FLAT IRONS TO BE HEATED
BY GAS AND AIR, AND IN BURNERS FOR THE SAME."
Sealed the 28th August 1877, and dated the 20th March 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION loft by the said James Paris at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th March 1877.
JAMES PARIS, of Stratford, in the County of Essex, Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FLAT IRONS TO BE HEATED BY GAS AND AIR, AND IN BURNERS FOR THE SAME."
This Invention relates to an improved construction and combination of the parts
of flat irons to be heated by gas and air under pressure, and to be used for dressing
shirts or other garments in place of the ordinary solid flat or sad irons, so that they
may be heated and used in a better and more economical manner than heretofore.
The improved parts of the burner are designed to be constructed in various
shapes and sizes, so as to be capable of being adapted to box or other hollow irons,
and particularly to the class of irons for which Letters Patent, No. 3905, A.D. 1874,
were granted to the said James Paris.
The present Invention consists of a body casting with a shallow core just
sufficiently deep to allow the necessary space for the burner, and a cover or top
plate, which is secured to the body by screws in the ordinary manner. Over cach
screw hole in the body casting a thin washer is cast on, so that the cover when
screwed down leaves a corresponding slit all round, which serves the purpose of a
free outlet for the products of combustion, but which on account of its great lineal
extension does not allow the hot gases to escape at any one point with such force as
to scorch the material being ironed.
The burner consists of a flat piece of cast iron or other suitable metal slightly
hollowed on the side to be placed next the cover, so as to form a shallow chamber
for the distribution of the mixed gas and air, which passes for combustion through
any suitable number of holes. The holes are bored from the top side, and are made
taper or cup shaped, so as to admit of the combustible mixture passing through with
the greatest possible freedom. The burner piece is attached to the cover by screws,
the gas and air being conveyed to it either through one of the handle supports, as

page_text: embodied in the Specification of the Letters Patent herein-before referred to, or
through a separate pipe fitted in the cover in the ordinary manner, the whole thus
forming a complete compound burner and cover in onc.
For adaptation to other irons having a deeper core and a moveable cover this
flat burner piece is attached first to a supplementary casting of the necessary depth
or thickness to bring the burner piece within the proper distance of the face or
bottom of the iron, the said supplementary casting having a core to convey the
mixed gases to the burner piece, and the whole is then attached by screws, in the
manner first described, to the cover or top plate.
The improved arrangement for the handle consists of a base and two uprights or
supports all in one piece, the base at each end being dovetailed for insertion in
corresponding sockets cast on the cover, and is fixed thereto by a screw or screws.
At the top of each support a square projection is cast on facing each other, which
are to lie in sockets inade in each end of the handle, so as to prevent it from
turning round. The handle is fixed by a pin passing through one support, and
screwed firmly into the other.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James Paris in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th September.
1877.
JAMES PARIS, of Stratford, in the County of Essex, Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FLAT IRONS TO BE HEATED BY GAS AND AIR, AND IN BURNERS FOR THE SAME."
My said Invention relates to an improved construction and combination of the
parts of flat irons to be heated by gas and air under pressure, and to be used for
dressing shirts or other garments in place of the ordinary solid flat or sad irons, so
that they may be heated and used in a better and more economical manner than
heretoforc.
The improved parts of the burner are designed to be constructed in various shapes
and sizes, so as to be capable of being adapted to box or other hollow irons, and
particularly to the class of irons for which Letters Patent No. 3905, A.D. 1874, were
granted to the said James Paris.
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 herein-after referred to. In these Drawings the same reference numerals are
used to indicate the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
Figure 1 of the Drawings is a plan of my improved flat iron, representing a
finished view of the top or cover; Figure 2 is a side section; Figure 3 is a cross
section through the two back screws of the cover and the centre of the gas inlet
tube; Figure 4 is a back end elevation finished view as regards the body of the
iron.
Figure 5 is an under side view of the cover representing one modification of my
improved burner fitted to it.
Figures 6 and 7 are side and cross sections respectively, representing the appli-
cation of my improved burners to box irons whero extra depth of core has to be
provided for.
The present Invention consists of a body casting 1, with a shallow core just
sufficiently deep to allow the necessary space or distance between the burner and the
bottom of the iron, and a cover or top plate 2, which is secured to the body by
screws. Over each screw hole in the body casting, or by preference the corresponding
position on the under side of the cover, a thin washer 3, Figure 5, is cast on, so that
the cover when screwed down leaves a corresponding slit 4 all round, which serves
the purpose of a free outlet for the products of combustion, but which on account
of its great lineal extention does not allow the hot gases or products to escape at
any one point with such force as to scorch the material being ironed.

page_text: The burner 5 consists of a flat piece of cast iron or other metal, hollowed slightly
on the side to be placed next the cover, so as to form a shallow chamber 6, for the
distribution of the mixed gas and air, which passes for combustion through any
suitable number of holes. These holes are bored from the top side, and may be
slightly tapered to admit of the mixture passing through with the greatest possible
freedom. The burner piece 5 is attached to the cover by screws, as in Figures 2
and 5, the gas and air being conveyed to it either through one of the handle supports
7, as embodied in the Specification of the Letters Patent herein-before referred to,
or through a separate pipe 8, fitted to the cover, as shown in Figures 1, 2, 3, the
whole thus forming a complete compound burner and cover in one, removeable as
such, that is to say, as a whole.
For adaptation to box or other hollow irons having a deeper core and a moveable
cover, the flat burner piece 5 is attached first to a supplementary casting 9,
Figures 6 and 7, of the necessary depth or thickness to bring the said burner within
the proper distance of the face or bottom of the iron, the said supplementary
casting having a core 10 to convey the mixed gases to the burner 5, and the whole
is then attached to the cover by screws, substantially in the manner shown.
The improved arrangement for the handle consists of a base and two uprights or
supports cast in one piece, the base at each end being dovetailed for insertion in
corresponding sockets cast on the cover, and is fixed there by screws.
At the top
of each support a square projection is cast on facing each other, which are to lie in
sockets made in each end of the handle, so as to prevent it from turning round.
In the Drawings the part 13 represents an ordinary steel face brazed to the body
casting in the usual manner, and is not new.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it to be understood that, reference being had to
Figures 6 and 7, I do not claim as being new the arrangement shown for the handle
and inlet tube 7, and that I do not restrict myself to the precise details given, but
what I do consider to be novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention
secured to me by the hercin-before in part recited Letters Patent is,—
1. The construction and combination of the parts of gas flat irons, substantially
as shown and described, reference being bad particularly to Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of
the Drawings annexed.
2. The burner herein described, and the method of applying the same and adapting
it to irons of deeper core, reference being had to the shaded parts of Figures 2, 3, 6, 7,
so that the burner and cover are practically in one, and removeable as such, that is
to say, as a whole.
3. The method of providing for the escape of the products of combustion by a
slit all round or partially round, substantially as shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Paris, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Eighteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven,
JAMES PARIS. (L.S.)