A New or Improved Stand for Flat-irons, Saucepans, and other Heated Articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Jan., 1892-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Stand for Flat-irons, Saucepans, and other
Heated Articles.
I, WILLIAM BEATTIE, of 27 Violet Street, South Benwell, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
in the County of Northumberland, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved stand for flat-irons, saucepans, and
other heated articles. The rings or tripods at present used as stands on which
the domestic irons are placed temporarily while the operator shifts or moves
the linen or other material being ironed, are made of metal and are therefore heat-
conductors, hence the feet or legs of, or the stands, or tripods, frequently burn,
scorch, mark, or otherwise damage the material on which they are standing. Now
the object of this invention is to make a stand for heated articles of all kinds,
which said stand is itself a non-conductor of heat.
According to this invention I make the stand of asbestos, preferably from a sheet
of asbestos millboard of suitable thickness. .
This asbestos stand may be used by itself, or may be secured in one piece, or in
strips, to a wooden, metal, or other stand, ring, or tripod, as found convenient.
The heated article makes no noise when placed on the asbestos stand, is not so
liable to slip off as when placed on metal, and retains its heat much longer, none of
the heat being conducted away as with the metal stands heretofore used.
Dated this 23rd day of Anril 1891
CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Stand for Flat-irons, Saucepans, and other
Heated Articles.
I, WILLIAM BEATTIE, of 27 Violet Street, South Benwell, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
in the County of Northumberland, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to a new or improved stand for flat-irons, saucepans, and
other heated articles. The rings or tripods at present used as stands on which the
domestic irons are placed temporarily while the operator shifts or moves the linen
or other material being ironed, are made of metal and are therefore heat-
conductors, hence the feet or legs of, or the stands, or tripods, frequently burn,
scorch, mark, or otherwise damage the material on which they are standing. Now
the object of this invention is to make a stand for heated articles of all kinds, which
said stand is itself a non-conductor of heat.
According to this invention I make the stand of asbestos, preferably from a sheet
of asbestos millboard of suitable thickness. This asbestos stand may be used by
itself, or may be secured in one piece, or in strips, to a wooden, metal, or other
stand, ring, or tripod as found convenient. The heated article makes no noise
when placed on the asbestos stand, is not so liable to slip off, or get scratched as
when placed on metal, and retains its heat much longer, none of the heat being
conducted away as with the metal stands heretofore used.
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page_text: And in order that my invention may be more fully understood and carried into
practice I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings of which
Figures 1 and 2 shew a stand for flat-irons, of which the body is constructed of
wood, papier mache, or other material of like nature, and
Figures 3, 4, and 5 shew such an article composed of iron, brass, or other
suitable metal.
Figure 6 shews an iron stand for laundry use in which strips of wood or asbestos
are used to support the upper sheet of asbestos.
In the arrangement shewn at Figures 1 and 2 a sheet of asbestos a is secured to
the upper side of a stand or frame of wood, papier mache or other suitable
material, by means of screws, cement, or other suitable means. Figures 3, 4, and 5
shew a similar sheet of asbestos a secured to the upper side of a stand or frame of
iron, brass, or other metal or alloy. In this case the stand is recessed to receive the
asbestos millboard. In a modification of this arrangement the metal stand b is
formed with overhanging ribs or ridges between which the asbestos millboard is
slid and by means of which it is retained in position. In the arrangement shewn
at Figure 6, the asbestos millboard a is supported upon strips c of asbestos, wood,
papier mâché or the like. It is obvious that the asbestos strips c may be employed
without the upper millboard a.
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 :-
The employment of asbestos, either by itself, or mounted in one piece,
or in strips, upon a suitable frame or support, as a support for flat-irons
saucepans, and other heated articles, substantially as herein before set forth and
described.
Dated this 22nd day of January 1892.
WILLIAM BEATTIE.