Improvements in Heaters for Box Irons.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 13th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 28th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Heaters for Box Irons.
We, EDWARD HENRY RUST D'EYE, Major, and ROWLAND HILL ROWLAND,
Hardware Dealer, both of Woodbridge, in the County of Suffolk, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
With box iron heaters as at present made considerable difficulty is often
experienced in putting the heater well into a fire to heat it and in taking it from
the fire when heated and placing it into the box iron. To remedy this we form the
heater with a slot passing horizontally into it for a distance from the centre of its
flat end and another slot passing perpendicularly through it into which the inner
end of the horizontal slot opens.
To insert a heater so formed into a fire or to take it from a fire and insert it into
its place in a box iron we use a rod formed with a handle at one end and a T head
at the other. When the T head of the rod is passed into the horizontal slot until
it enters the vertical slot and a quarter turn is then given to the rod, the rod becomes
locked to the heater so that it cannot be drawn away from it.
To prevent the iron from then turning around the rod we form in addition a
recess down the side of the vertical slot nearest to the flat end of the heater, into
which recess the arms of the T head can be made to enter if the rod after being
locked to the heater as above described is drawn back a slight distance.
When the head has so been drawn back into this recess the heater cannot turn
around the rod but the two are securely locked together and the heater so held at
If the rod is then
the end of the rod can readily be inserted into the box iron.
pressed inwards and turned until the T head can be withdrawn through the horizontal
slot the rod can be readily detached from the heater.
In place of using a T headed rod for inserting the heater into or withdrawing it
from a fire the horizontal slot might be shaped to receive the end of a poker or
the slots shaped to receive a hook of other form the two slots each open at both
ends being still retained so that if any cinders entered the slots they could readily
be dislodged.
Dated this 6th day of November 1890
EDWARD HENRY RUST D'EYE.
ROWLAND HILL ROWLAND.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Heaters for Box Irons.
We, EDWARD HENRY RUST D'EYE, Major, and ROWLAND HILL ROWLAND,
Hardware Dealer, both of Woodbridge, in the County of Suffolk, 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 :-
With box iron heaters as at present made considerable difficulty is often
experienced in putting the heater well into a fire to heat it and in taking it from
the fire when heated and placing it into the box iron. To remedy this we form
the heater with a slot passing horizontally into it for a distance from the centre of
its flat end and another slot passing perpendicularly through it into which the inner
end of the horizontal slot opens.
To insert a heater so formed into a fire or to take it from a fire and insert it into
its place in a box iron we use a rod formed with a handle at one end and a T head
at the other. When the Thead of the rod is passed into the horizontal slot until

page_text: it enters the vertical slot and a quarter turn is then given to the rod, the rod
becomes locked to the heater so that it cannot be drawn away from it.
To prevent the iron from then turning around the rod we form in addition a recess
down the side of the vertical slot nearest to the flat end of the heater, into which
recess the arms of the T head can be made to enter if the rod after being locked
to the heater as above described is drawn back a slight distance.
When the head has so been drawn back into this recess the heater cannot turn
around the rod but the two are securely locked together and the heater so held at
the end of the rod can readily be inserted into the box iron. If the rod is then
pressed inwards and turned until the T head can be withdrawn through the horizontal
slot the rod can be readily detached from the heater.
Salamanders and other such like heaters may be formed in the same way.
Figure 1 of the drawings hereunto annexed is a plan view of a box iron heater
formed as above described and Figure 1 a plan of a modification of the same.
Figure 2 is a back end view of Figure 1.
Figure 3 a section on the line a b Figure 1 and
Figure 4 a section on the line c d.
Figure 5 shews the rod used for putting the heater into and taking it from
a fire.
A is a horizontal slot passing into the heater for a distance from the centre of its
flat end. B is the vertical slot into which the slot A opens and B' the recess
formed down the side of this slot which is nearest to the flat end of the heater.
When a T headed rod such as shewn at Figure 5 is to be used for taking hold
of the heater this slot may be made of the form shown at Figure 1 but preferably
we make it of the form shown at Figures 1 to 4. The advantage of making it of
this latter form is that when the Theaded end of the rod has been inserted into
the slot A and pushed inwards to its inner end and a quarter turn then given to it
the arms of the T head must of necessity come opposite to the recess B₁ so that
they enter it with certainty when the rod is drawn back.
In Figure 6 we have shewn another shape of heater similarly formed with slots A. B
within it to allow of its being readily placed into or taken from a fire by a T headed
rod. The outer form of this heater is the same as that of heaters commonly used
in cookery and known as a Salamander."
CG
It is not essential that the rod used for placing the heaters into and taking them
from a fire should be T headed a rod with a single arm projecting out from its end
might be used or the horizontal slot might be shaped to receive the end of a poly-
gonal poker the two slots each open at both ends being still retained so that if any
cinders entered the slots they could readily be dislodged.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. A heater formed with a slot extending into it from one end and with the
inner end of this slot opening into a second slot formed through the heater at right
angles to the first or approximately so substantially as described.
2. A heater formed with a slot A extending into it from one end and with the inner
end of this slot opening into a second slot B and with a recess B' down the side of
this latter slot substantially as described.
3. The construction of heaters substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in the drawing annexed.
Dated this 9th day of January 1891.
EDWARD HENRY RUST D'EYE.
ROWLAND HILL ROWLAND.