US150967A - Improvement in sad-irons - Google Patents

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N H. LINDLEY. Sad-Irons.

No. 150,967. Patented Kmq/19,1874,-

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NOAH H. LINDLEY, OF BBIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAD-IRONS.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 150,967, dated May 19, i874; application filed November 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, N. H. LINDLEY, of Bridgeport, in thecounty of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Sad'lrons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved sad-iron with its handle detached and elevated above it 5 and Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same through the dotted line x w of Fig. 1, showing the parts united together, 4and the means for attaining that end.

Corresponding parts in the two figures are designated by like letters.

This invention relates to a certain improvement in that class of sad-irons which are detachable from their handles; and the nature thereof consists `in the means employed in uniting the parts of the sad-iron together, to wit, a metallic bow or U-shaped pin, one arm or branch of which is supplied with a stop or bent at its free end at a right angle to its horizontal portion or body, combined with a cap or hood appended to the handle, and a slotted and perforated post formed upon or otherwise supplied to the iron, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention relates to make an d use the same, I will proceed to describe it.

InV the annexed drawings, A refers to the base or iron of a sad-iron, upon which is formed or supplied thereto in any other known way a short post or pedestal, a, inelosed or sur` rounded by an angular inclosure or socket, a1, formed upon the said base. In the upper ed gef of this post or pedestal is a transverse slot or passage, a2, and directly below the latter is a hole or perforation, a3, passing through the said pedestal, the office of which will be reverted to or explained hereinafter. B refers to the handle, suitably wrapped with some nonconducting material, and supplied with a shield or guard, to protect the hand from the ascending heat of the iron while the latter is being used. To the lower side of this handle or ellipse is secured, in any known way, a cap or hood, B", transversely through one of the sides `the sad-iron are connected together.

of which pass the arms or branches of the bow or U-shaped pin C, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The extremity or terminus of the upper arm or branchof the bow C is bent downward, or at a right angle to its body, as seen at c, by which a stop is formed to prevent the withdrawal of the bow from the hood B', while the inner sides of the latter are recessed at b b to receive the said stop as the bow C is shifted fromone side to the other of the hood, for the purpose of avoiding contact between it (the stop) and the pedestal a. The bow C protrudes sufficiently from the hood or cap B to permit of its being readily and conveniently grasped in thrusting it into and withdrawing it from contact with the pedestal or post a of the base in uniting and detaehing the handle from the iron. The hole or perforation a3 in the post or pedestal a receives and permits of the passage of the lower arm of the bow C to the opposite side of the hood B, where it (the said arm) enters and rests in a recess therein, as shown at c', Fig. 2, by which the parts of The slot or passage a2 is simply for the purpose of allowing the stop c on the upper arm of the bow C to pass the pedestal a as the said bow is moved back and forth in attaching and de taching the parts of the sad-iron.

W'hen the handle and iron are conjoined, the cap or hood B fits down over the perles tal a and within the inclosure or socket al upon the base A, which imparts finish and neatness to the appearance'of the cont-rivance.

The bow or pin C not being detachable from the hoodB, as above described, and therefore prevented from leavin g its place, can be quickly, and without exercising great carefulvness, adjusted with reference to the parts of I claim, und desire to secure by Letters Pat- In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed ent, ismy name this 22d day of November, 1873, in

The iron A, having the perforated and slotpresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ted pedestal a, handle B, having the hood or NOAH H. LINDLEY.

oop Bf, with recesses I1 b, in combination with Witnesses:

the -U-shaped piu C, with the stop c, substan- SAM, B. SUMNER,

tiztlly as and for the purpose set forth. GEO. L. WOODS.

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