US112282A - In sad and fluting irons - Google Patents

Description

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WILLIAM n.lnoBEETSoN, 0E KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.

lMbnvi-:MNT IN SAD A`N`D FLUTING lRoNs.

4 "Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. `1112,22, dated February 28, 1871.

I, WiLLIAM D. ROBERTSON, of Knoxville,"

in the county of Knox and State of Tennessee,

have invented a new and useful Combined Sad- Iron, Velvet Steamer, y and Flut-ing Iron, of which the following is a specication:

Nature and Objects of the Invention. My invention is designed to provide a useful and convenient eombination'implement for the use of tailors, dress-makers, dyers and scourers, laundresses, and others employed in making and getting up 7 articles of wearing apparel, &c., more especially of the finer `descripl tion.

It consists, first, of `a stand, which may be either temporarily attached to a table or other convenient obj ect by means 0f a clamp or otherwise. The stand is constructed more especiallyV for use with the implements hereinafter described, but may be readily adapted for holding and supporting various tools and utensils employed in other branches of mechanical industry.

Second, of a reversible flat-iron and velvetsteamer with a removable' handle, heated internally, in usual manner. v

Third, of a flirting-iron of peculiar form, heated in similar way.

Description of the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure l is an elevation representing the stand as clamped to a table, the Sad-iron (shown in Section) being attached to the stand. Fig. 2 shows thesad-iron in section and its v Fig. 3 is a rear end view of the sad-iron. Fig. 4C is a top view of the same with handle detached. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the fluting-iron attached to the stand. Fig. 6 is an end view of the-same.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the iiut-ing-iron General Description. The stand consists of a foot, a, a vertical branch, a', which may be either straight or so curved as to admit of the most ready manipulation of the iuting or otheriron on the head thereof and the fabric under treatment, and a head, A, of such shape, preferably slightly tapering, as to lit into grooves in the various `utensils which are intended to be used therewith,` permit their ready removal and replacement, as required.

The flat-iron C may be of usual shape, having an interior cavity for the reception of the heater G, which has a hole at rear, adaptiu g it to be lifted in and out by means of a loose handle.

The iron itself has a slotted lug at front and an upwardly-projectin gear at rear. The former of these is fitted to receive a dovetail on the lower part of the forward branch of the handle, and the latter serves as a stop for the backward branch of the handle, which is pivoted above, enabling it to be rotated so as to clear thestop when it is desired to lift the handle out. A thumb-screw, H, through the top of the shell of the iron presses the heater against l aware, of restoring velvets to their original smoothness of appearance when the plush was ruffled or crushed having hitherto been for one person to hold the iron upside down, while another drew the material, previously damped on the wrong side, over the iron.

My device, besides greatly lessening the labor, dispenses with the services of one operatorfor this purpose. It also affords a superior means of finishing the getting up of dresswaists and other gathered work by drawing the same over the bottom of the iron when'in- .verted, enabling the operator to see clearly what is being done, instead of having the part being ironed hidden iorn view, as is the case when ironing in the usual way on a table.

`When the more difficult part of the work is thus :iinished, the iron can be taken oft' the stand, the handle almost instantaneously replaced, and the implement used in the ordinary way.

The outer shell ofthe iiuting-iron D is cylindrical throughout the greater partof` its'len gth,

has a conoidal point and a shank with a dovetail mortise, into which the tenon A of the stand iits.

rEhe heater J is adapted in form to fit the interior of the shell B, so as to ai'ord uniform heat to every part of the actin g surface of the iron, and is taken out and replaced in manner before described.

Any number of different-sized irons may be adapted to iit the tenen A.

The iuting-iron, by its form and manner o heating and mounting, is peculiarly adapted for iinishing or ironing the ilounces of dresses, trimmingsrills, ruffles, &e., they being drawn over the iron,the tapering point of' which may be pressed up into the gathers, giving a smooth iinish to parts which can be reached, if at all, only with great difficulty in the ordinary Way.

Claims.

I claim as my invention- WILLIAM D. ROBERTSON.

Witnesses CHARLES SEYMOUR, GHAs. II. BROWN.

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