AN IMPROVE- MENT IN. IRONS FOR IRONING
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard! Archibald. Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for- the Invention of “AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN. IRONS FOR IRONING."-A communication from abroad by Joachim
Etienne Daniel Fossard, of Paris...
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN IRONS FOR IRONING."-A communication from abroad by Joachim
Etienne Daniel Fossard, of Paris...
Sealed the 14th June 1861, and dated the 19th December 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 19th December 1860.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN IRONS FOR IRONING," (communicated to me from
abroad by Joachim Etienne Daniel Fossard, of Paris, to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the employment in flat irons of a movable handle
composed of a core of iron cased in wood, glass, or other non-conducting
material. In order to prevent the wood or glass from turning, the core is,
by preference, made square or angular, and only touches the wood at its
angles, so as to leave air channels between the sides of the core and the
interior of the wood casing. One of the uprights rising from the iron is
hooked, and enters a collar, screwed or otherwise fixed on one end of the
core; at the other end of the core there is a spring catch, which engages i

page_text: a notch in the other upright. The same handle will fit all irons of a given
size, and while one iron is put to the fire to become heated, the handle may
be removed, and may be fitted to another ready for use.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 19th June 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give-and grant unto
me, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN IRONS FOR IRONING,"
(communicated to me from abroad by Joachim Etienne Daniel Fossard, of
Paris,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archibald
Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in the employment in flat irons of a moveable
handle composed of a core of iron cased in wood, glass, or other non-con-

page_text: ducting material. In order to prevent the wood or glass from turning, the
core is by preference, made square or angular, and only touches the wood at
its angles, so as to leave air channels between the sides of the core and the
interior of the wood casing. One of the uprights rising from the iron is
hooked, and enters a collar screwed or otherwise fixed on one end of the core ;
at the other end of the core there is a spring catch, which engages in a notch
in the other upright. The same handle will fit all irons of a given size, and
while one iron is put to the fire to become heated, the handle may be removed,
and may be fitted to another ready for use.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a side elevation of an iron for
ironing, shewing this Invention; Figure 2 is an end view; Figure 3, a
longitudinal section taken through the axis of the handle; and Figure 4, a
plan of the same. Figures 5, 6, and 7 are views in detail to illustrate clearly
the manner in which the handle is connected to the iron.
A is the iron of the ordinary shape; C, C', are two uprights connected to or
made in a piece with the iron A, and it is to these that the handle is con-
nected; B is the handle, made of wood or other non-conducting material,
surrounding a metal rod D, made, by preference, square, as shewn at
Figure 5, or it may be of any other suitable shape. This rod is sunk in the
wooden handle B, to form, as it were, a single piece, but the spaces e, e, made
the whole length of the central opening of the handle, prevent the whole sur-
face of the metal rod D coming in contact with the wood. The wooden handle
can be separated from the metal rod when required, as, for example, when
the handle is worn out; for this purpose one end of the rod D is made smaller
than the other, and is threaded to receive a tapped nut f, which fits into a
socket formed in one end of the handle. When the handle is removed from
the iron, in manner hereafter explained, unscrew the rod D from the nut f,
when the handle can be drawn off from the metal rod D. The upright C¹ is
bent at its upper end, and curved as shewn; it fits into a
socket formed in
the nut f, and into a hollow on the small end of the rod D. The other end of
the rod D has a bent piece of metal h connected to it, by screw or otherwise,
which forms a spring. i is a catch on the spring, and is a hook fitted to
the upright C, into which the catch takes, as shewn. When the catch i of
the spring his under the book 7 the handle remains fixed to the iron, as shown
in the section, Figure 3. To separate the handle from the iron press back
the catch to disengage it from the hook 1, when the fore part of the handle
can be raised and removed.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim manufacturing

page_text: irons for ironing substantially in 'manner herein-before described, in order
that movable handles may be fitted thereto for the purposes described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of June, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.)