US788587A

US788587A - Laundry-iron.

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Publication number: US788587A
Application number: US14131103A
Authority: US
Inventors: Mary Mavis
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1903-01-31
Filing date: 1903-01-31
Publication date: 1905-05-02
Anticipated expiration: 1922-05-02

Description

No. 788,587. PATENTED MAY .2, 1905. M. MAVIS.

LAUNDRY IRON.

APPLIOATION FILED 11.31, 1902.

Patented May 2, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

MARY MAVIS, OF MILWVAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

LAUNDRY-IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,587, dated May 2, 1905. Application filed January 31, 1903. Serial No. 141,311.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY MAVIS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wiscousin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Laundry-Irons; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to devices for ironing fabrics after same have been washed; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, as will be fully set forth hereinafter, in connection with the accompanying drawings, and subsequently claimed.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a View in side elevation of my entire device in operative position, parts being shown in section to better illustrate certain details of construction. Fig. 2 is aview in end elevation of the upper part of the device. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional View taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. I

My device is especially designed for ironing such fabrics as from their peculiarity of shape or arrangement of parts are not readily subject to being ironed by an ordinary flatiron; and to this end the device consists principally of a suitably-shaped block (preferably of oval or eg -shaped contour) supported by an upright shank on a movable device, as hereinafter specified.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 1 represents the shank, preferably of metal and cylindrical in form, its lower end being squared off on tapered lines, as shown at 2, while to its upper end is rigidly secured the ironing-block 3, preferably of oval or egg-shaped form and of polished steel. The direct supporting means consist of a clamp 4, adapted to be secured to a table or other support 5 by a set-screw 6 and provided with a pair of cars 7 8, rigidly secured to and projecting from the vertical wall of said clamp, one ear below the other. The upper ear 7 is formed with a round hole therethrough of substantially the same contour as the shank, but allowing the shank to move therein, and the lower ear 8 is provided with a square hole in line with the round hole above, the square hole being of less diameter than the round hole.

The operation of my device will be readily understood from the foregoing description of its construction taken in connection with the accompanying drawings. The clamp 4 being aflixed to a table or other convenientsupport, the ironing-block 3 is heated in any suitable manner, and its shank thrust into the holes in the ears 7 8 on the said clamp. By reason of the described squaring of the taperedlower end of the shank l the ironing-block 3 maybe made to project in any direction desired by the user and will be firmly held in the preferred position, and then the fabric or article to be ironed is moved back and forth over the block 3 in just the reverse operation to that when goods are ironed by a flat-iron.

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

The combination with a clamp of a pair of vertically-arranged ears projecting laterally therefrom, the upper ear having a perforation therethrough, and the lower ear having a square perforation therethrough in line with, but of less diameter than the hole above the same, and acylindrical shank in movable engagement with said perforated ears, the said shank having a laterally-projecting block. rigidly secured to its upper end, and having its lower end squared off on tapered lines, whereby the direction of projection of the said block may be changed, and its shank held firmly in each adjusted position.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing 1 have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in

the county of Milwaukee and State of Visconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

MARY MAVIS. Witnesses:

H. Gr. UNDERWOOD, JOHN Horn.