US746532A - Curling-iron heater. - Google Patents

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' No. 746,532. PATENTED DEC. 8, 1908, I J. M. LAWLOR.

GURLING IRON HEATER.

APPLICATION FILED mm: 1, 1000.

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sents a support.

UNITED STATES Patented December 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

CURLlNG-IRON HEATER.

SPECIFICATION-forming"part of Letters Patent No. 746,532, dated; December 8, 1903.

' Application filed June 1, 1900. Serial No. 18,732. (No model.)

without permitting them to come into the di-.

rect contact of the flame, thus preventing the accumulation of lampblack from the flame upon the curling-irons.

With this object in consideration myinvention consists in certain novel features ofconstruction and combinations of parts,which will. be more fully described hereinafter and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of one form of my invention, showing it applied to an ordinary gas-burner. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same device. Fig. 3 shows a slightly-modified construction. Fig. 4 is an end view thereof. Fig. 5 shows one form of construction adapted for and applied to an ordinary lamp-burner, and Figs. 6, 7, and 8 are modifications.

Referring now to Figs. 1 and 2, A repre- As shown in these several figures of the drawings, this support preferably consists of a single piece of wire bent ator nearthe center into a plurality of convolutions to constitute an adjustable socket l to fit upon the burner and a pair of diverging arms 2 2, which terminate in rings 3 3 at their.

upper ends. Extending through from ring to ring is shown a tube 4., preferably struck out of sheet metal and corrugated as indi-' cated, to permit it to be self-adjusting to the size of the irons to be inserted therein and also give it freedom of expansion and contraction. This tube may be held in the rings in any convenient manner, although I have shown as a simple expedient for-this purpose narrow strips 5 5 of thesheet-metal tube bent around these rings. When thus constructed, the entire device virtually consists of only two pieces of metal-to wit, the wire and the tube. These can be quickly made and assembled at a trifling initial cost. Furthermore, the article when thus constructed not only presents-a neat and attractive appearance, but also and of far greater importance iseffectual in holding the curling-irons in or immediately above the flame without contact therewith, thus avoiding the inconvenience and annoyance of reaching up in. many instances and holding the irons in the hand while being heated and the nuisance of their getting blacked and soiled while being heated.

In Figs. 3 and at substantially the same elements and assemblage of elements are shown, with the exception that the tube is perfectly round or cylindrical and not corrugated and a trifle smaller in diameter.

In Fig. 5 the same elements are indicated as in the construction just previously described; but in this view the coils forming the socket are made larger to fit an ordinary lamp-burner.

I have only indicated two or three possible constructions of a great variety which could be obviously conceived of embodying the essential elements described, and I might add that it would be possible to even dispense with the tube altogether, as shown in Fig. 6, although for the reasons mentioned the tube is most desirablein actual practice. It would even be possible to have a half-tube or U- shaped tray for the support of the curlingirons, as shown in Fig. 7, in lieu of a complete tube, as the same protection to the irons would be afiorded thereby. Likewise the tube could be a split tube or not, as shown in Fig. 8, and these various details are merely suggested as being in contemplation and as within the scope of my present invention, their choice being entirely optional with the manufacturer and the commercial necessities or demands.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

' 1. A curling-iron holder composed of a wire bent at or near the center to form a plurality of horizontally-disposed coils which constitute an elongated vertically-disposed springsocket adjustable to the size of the burner and adapted to elastically clamp a considerable portion of the surface of the burner and the ends of the Wire forming supporting-arms for the curling-iron.

2. As an article of manufacture,a curlingiron heater comprising a support and a corrugated tube, the support provided with an adj ustable socket to fit upon and receive a burner, its free ends terminating in rings, the tube extending through said rings and strips cut from the tube and bent around the rings whereby to secure the tube to the rings.

3. As an article of manufacture, a curlingiron holder comprising a support and a corrugated tube, the support provided with a socket to fit upon and receive a burner, rings at the free ends of said support, said rings 15 adgpted to receive and hold the corrugated tu e.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH M. LAWLOR. Witnesses:

W. PEABODY REID, OLARENOE E. SMITH.

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