A MOVEABLE HANDLE FOR FLAT IRONS
Year: 1885

page_text: I FERDINAND MARGUET of 7 Rue de Verneuil Paris in France, Merchant do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for A MOVEABLE HANDLE FOR FLAT
IRONS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
By my invention I utilize one cool and moveable handle to manipulate any
number of hot irons in use and the manner in which my said invention is to be
performed is as follows.
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I attach or cast in the usual flat iron or hot pressing iron and on its top surface
two portions of metal forming a slot or groove A A to receive and into which fits
the wedge or key end of the standard.
Midway in this slot is a hole B in the flat iron to receive the conical point of the
pin hereafter referred to This wedge or key is cast or attached to the lower end
of the standard or upright.
This standard CC with the wedge at its lower end has a circular hole pierced or
cast in it at the top end to receive the bar "D" which bar when covered with the
wooden cover hereafter referred to forms the handle of the iron. I make this
standard of the shape shewn in the accompanying drawings having longitudinal
indentations on two sides for convenience of rivetting the trigger to the pin both
hereinafter described.
This metal bar I cover with a wooden handle "E" pierced longitudinally so as
to slide on and off, at the outer end of the bar I cast or cut a male screw F to
receive the nut G this nut when screwed on holds and keeps in place the handle
and the shield hereinafter described.
Pierced through the centre of the standard from its top to its base is a circular
hole "H" to receive the pin.
This pin is of wire or metallic rod and I make it of greater length than the
standard in which it moves. I make it half an inch longer than the standard its
lower point is of a conical shape, which when depressed by the spring J hereinafter
described fits into the hole B in the flat iron, and so keeps the wedge fixed in the
slot.
Through the indentations in the standard I rivet to the pin a wire hook or
trigger K which also works freely in the indentations the drawing up of the trigger
with the forefinger thus raises the pin from the hole in the iron, and so leaves free
the wedge to be withdrawn from the slot in the iron.

page_text: To the top of the standard I attach a piece of the flat spring steel extending over
the top of the pin as at J which spring being depressed with the thumb or finger
presses down the pin again when the wedge is again inserted in the slot.
At the lower end of the standard and immediately under the trigger I attach an
oblong metal rim or ferrule as at "L" to which may be hooked the guard or
shield M This shield I make of thin metal and of the shape shewn at N and it
may be covered with cloth or felt and forms a protection for the hand against the
heat of the iron, the other end of the shield is pierced with a circular hole to fit
around the outer end of the handle and is held there by the nut screwed on.
"O" is the flat iron which may be of any shape.
A A is the slot into which fits the wedge end of the upright or standard as
described.
PP shew the indentations in the standard.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The application of a cool and detachable handle to any number of hot pressing
irons substantially and with the advantages above set forth and described.
Dated this or day of December 1000.
A. SHELLEY JARMAN,
55, Chancery Lane, London,
Agent for the said Ferdinand Marguet.
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