Year: 1888

page_text: Wo RICHARD CLAYTON Chairman of the Cannon Hollowware Company Limited of
Deepfields in the County of Stafford Ironfounders and THOMAS WHYMAN of 65 Hill
Top West Bromwich in the same County, Works Manager to the said Company,
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:
The Invention relates to an improved method of closing and fastening the Lids of
Charcoal and other Box Irons and to improvements in the hinged parts of such
Irons.
The lids of such Irons are usually fastened down when closed by a lever which
fastens in the interior of the Iron and is thereby liable to become sooted and warped
by heat and thereby defective.
The object of this invention is to arrange the working parts of the fastening outside
the Box so as to obviate the said defect and further to prevent the escape of any
heat.
A further object is to fasten the said lids by an automatic or self-closing action.
The improvement in the hinged part of such Box Irons will enable the lid to be
detached from the Box without removing any of the parts which in the case of heater
Irons will be convenient and simple. Any ordinary or usual style of hinge for
affixing the lids of Charcoal Box Irons, can be used if preferred.
The objects and improvements are effected in the manner shewn by the accompany-
ing drawings of which Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section through a Charcoal Box Iron
which for preference is illustrated. Fig. 2, a plan, with handle and guard removed.
Fig. 3 an end elevation and Fig. 4 an enlarged view of hinge shewn when open and
closed.
The same letters of reference repeated upon either of the said plans or drawings
indicate the same or corresponding parts. A is the box for the Charcoal. B the lift,
C the Chimney. D the handle and guard. E the cross-bar and snug, cast across the
box such snug projecting upwards in the Chimney: F is a guide snug cast or fixed on
to the lid. G is a rod or pin attached to which or connected thereto is a spring, H,
which spring can be either spiral, flat, or elliptic. I is a knob or bow.

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The rod or pin G slides or works through the holes a a³into a correspond-
ing hole. a in E which is tapered so that when the lid is being closed or shut the
said Pin slides or is forced automatically backwards and when the said lid is completely
shut down or closed shoots or springs automatically into the hole at and so effectually
secures or fastens the said lid. To unfasten or open the said lid the knob or bow I is
pulled backwards and the said Pin released or withdrawn from the hole a*.
The whole of the working parts connected with this mode of fastening are on the
exterior of the said Box Iron.
The said mode of fastening can be adapted to Box Irons vertically by fixing the
said Pin and spring to the said Chimney or to the handle or otherwise on the said lid,
but for preference we have adopted the method above described as giving the most
direct and secure action.,
The improvement in the hinged parts of the said Irons describe
we
as follows.
M is a bracket fastened to the Box A. The 2 slots I are to receive the hinge K
which is fastened to the lid B.
The parts M and K are not fastened or rivetted together like ordinary hinges but
by passing the hinge K through the Slot L the Box A and lid B are hinged together.
To remove the said lid from the Box the hinge K is lifted out of the Slot L.
Having described the nature of our said Invention and the manner of effecting or
performing the same we declare that, what we claim is :-
1. An exterior fastening for the lids of Charcoal or other Box Irons consisting of
the Pin G and spring. Hr constructed, to, work in part automatically or otherwise
substantially as before described and shewn.
2. An exterior hinge K and M which permits of the lid being detachable from the
Box without the removal of any of the parts.
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RICHARD CLAYTON;
THOMAS WHYMAN;
.Applicants for Patent.