IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED FOR IRONING
Year: 1847

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLTON
HENRY SLOMAN, of Saint Martin's Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Pro-
fessor of Music, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of
October, One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, in the eleventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charlton Henry Sloman, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Charlton
Henry Sloman, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Charlton Henry Sloman, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED FOR IRONING;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Charlton
Henry Sloman, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in

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appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charlton Henry Sloman, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully
deseribed and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference
being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters
marked thereon, that is to say:-
My Invention consists of constructing instruments or apparatus suitable to
be used with what are called flat irons. It is well known that flat irons as now
made and used are smooth on the under surface, and when they have been
rendered hot they require before being used to be cleansed by rubbing,
which is not only troublesome, but it often happens that they are not perfectly
cleansed before being used. Now according to my Invention such repeated
cleansings are dispensed with by using a separate ironing surface, which,
fitting on to a flat iron, transmits the heat thereof to the article which for the
time is being operated on.
Figure 1 shows a flat iron, having on it a slipper or separate ironing surface
of thin metal, and Figure 2 shows the slipper or separate ironing surface,
which I prefer to be of sheet iron or brass, which is to be made suitably
smooth on the under surface. The flat iron a fits easily into the slipper b, the
fore part or nose of the slipper at c being turned down to act as a spring to
retain the slipper 6 on the flat iron. The slipper b is suitable for the ordinary
flat irons now in use, but in making new flat irons it will not be necessary to
make their under surfaces smooth as heretofore, but if they be used separate
from the slipper b, when employing the instrument 6 several flat irons may
be used therewith, and as one becomes cooled down it may be replaced by a
heated one.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that I am
aware that what are called box irons have before been used when separate
heaters are placed into a box, having a handle to it, and I am also aware that
other irons have been made, each consisting of two parts, which when
combined are in form and use very similar to a flat iron, in which case the
ironing surface was to be heated by the other part, but in such case the
ironing surface was cast with an internal projection, and the heater having a
handle was cast or formed with a hole through for the passage of the internal
projection of the other or ironing part. I mention these circumstances in
order to state that I do not claim the making the ironing surface and the

page_text: heating surface of an iron in two parts; but what I claim is, the constructing
and applying instruments or apparatus 6 suitable to be used with what are
called flat irons, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charlton Henry Sloman, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
CHARLTON HENRY (L.s.) SLOMAN.
EMEMBERED, that on the Nineteenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord 1848, the aforesaid Charlton Henry Sloman came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.