AN IMPROVED COMBINED SAD AND FLUTING IRON
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical
Draughtsman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED COMBINED SAD AND
FLUTING IRON."-A communication from abroad by Frederick Myers,
of the City and State of New York, United States of America.
Scaled the 5th September 1871, and dated the 5th April 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Vincent Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 5th April 1871.
I, ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED COMBINED
SAD AND FLUTING IRON," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements-in combined sad irons and
fluting irons of that class in which two cast metal plates consisting of
a lower one and an upper one are used, the lower one having a smooth

page_text: sad iron face on the bottom and a corrugated upper face, and the upper
one being corrugated on the lower side, and both being provided with
connecting devices by which they may be connected together when the
instrument is to be used as a sad iron and disconnected when it is to
be used for fluting.
The Invention consists in the construction of the two plates with
convex fluted surfaces, for acting on the goods by a rolling motion, and
the employment in connection therewith, of connecting apparatus which
will admit of such rolling or oscillating motion and at the same time
bo capable of holding them firmly together when the instrument is
used as a sad iron. For the purpose of connecting the upper and lower
plates together the upper plate is slotted transversely, and through
it projects a copper stud under the shoulders of which a forked wedgo
piece, carried by the upper plate, is made to slide, by withdrawing this
wedge piece the upper plate will be released from the lower plate, and
by thrusting it forward the two plates are connected together.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Vincent Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 5th October 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Alfred
VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-onc, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, Her special
licence that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton,
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 IMPROVED COM-
BINED SAD AND FLUTING IRON," being a communication to me from abroad

page_text: by Frederick Myers, of the City and State of New York, United States
of America, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred
Vincent Newton, 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 bo filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, 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, reference being had to the Drawing here-
unto annexed and to the letters and figures marked thercon (that is
to say)
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This Invention relates to improvements in combined sad irons and
fluting irons of that class in which two cast metal plates consisting of
a lower one and an upper one are used, the lower one having a smooth
sad iron face on the bottom and a corrugated upper face, and the upper
one being corrugated on the lower side, and both being provided with
devices by which they may be connected together when the instrument
is to be used as a sad iron, and disconnected when it is to be used for
fluting.
The Invention consists in the construction of the two plates with
convex fluted surfaces for acting on the goods by a rolling motion, and
the employment in connection therewith of connecting apparatus which
will admit of such rolling or oscillating motion and be capable of holding
them firmly together when the instrument is used as a sad iron.
In the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional
elevation of the improved combined sad and fluting iron. Fig. 2 is a
plan view of the same; Fig. 3 is an end view; Fig. 4 is a side elevation
shewing a modified arrangement of the plates; and Fig. 5 is a trans-
verse section of Fig. 4. Similar letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts.
iron.
A is the lower plate and B the upper one. Both are made of cast
The plate A is shaped in the form and finished on the bottom
to correspond with the ordinary sad iron. The upper surface for about
half the length is made convex and grooved or corrugated as indicated

page_text: at D. Immediately in front of this convex fluted part a broad stud E
rises vertically and terminates in a cap F projecting over each edge.
Near the point is a deep socket G and in front of this a bifurcated
vertical stud II. The part B is made convex and corrugated on the
part corresponding to the convex corrugated part of A and has a broad
vertical mortise I through it in front of the said corrugated part for
the stud E to rise up through. Near the point is a vertical stud K
extending downward into the socket G, and from this stud a pivot L
extends forward to rest and work in the bearing formed by the bottom
of the bifurcation in the stud H. M is a forked wedge fitted on the top
of plate B in connection with any suitable guide, as at N, for holding it
in place while admitting of sliding under the cap F to lock the two
parts together and sliding backward for releasing them. O represents
the corrugated sheathing of brass or other non-corrosive metal which I
apply to these cast metal plates for protecting the goods from rust, or
I may use thick plates as shewn at y Fig. 3. When the locking key or
wedge is forced under the cap F the two parts are held firmly together
and serve for the ordinary uses of a sad iron, but when withdrawn the
plate B may be raised off of A for the application of the muslin to be
fluted, and the plate B may be set down on A and the goods, first at
one edge and then rolled over to the other edge, in a way to draw the
goods gradually and successively into the grooves in a way calculated
to strain them much less than when the corrugated surfaces are flat
as in other combined ironing and fluting machines. The pivot L may
be dispensed with and the point of the stud K may rest on the bottom
of the notch G and serve for the point of oscillation equally as well as
the pivot docs while affording the same facility for detaching the two
parts. Or the stud K pivot and notch G may all be dispensed with
and the two plates provided instead with plain convex surfaces at or
near the points, as shewn at X Figures 5 and 6, for bearing on each
other when the upper plate is rolled on the lower one, also bearing
together when the two parts are locked so as to prevent the upper
plate from being tilted forward by the locking key and to make a
substantial connection

page_text: Letters Patent I claim, the combination of parts as above described
constituting an iron which will admit of being used at pleasure either
as a sad iron or for fluting.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, the Fifth day of October, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
onc.