US133852A - Improvement in sad-iron heaters - Google Patents

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HAGERTY Sad-Iron Heater Patented Dec. 10,1872-.

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THOMAS HAGEBTY, OF RIOHMOgD, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT m sma-lnon HEATERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,852, dated December 10, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS HAGERTY, of Richmond, in the county of Henrico and State of Virginia, have invented a new and Improved Sad-Iron; and I do hereby declare the followin g to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a sad-iron constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of the same in position for heating; and .Fig. 3 is a similar view of a modification.

Similar letters of reference in the accompaing drawing indicate like parts.

My invention has for its object to provide an'improved sad-iron for the use of travelers and others, particularly in vhotels and boarding-houses, which can be heated upon an ordi nary gas-burner. To this end the invention consists in constructing the iron with a perforated cap and shield, supporting a handle, which is adapted to fit upon a gas-burner so that the jet of gasshall be directedwithin the shield against the top of the iron, as I will now proceed to describe.

In the drawing, A is the sad-iron, preferably made small in size, and B is the shield, secured to its upper surface by screws 0, or other convenient means. The sides and ends of the shield are turned down so as to form flanges,

' the edges of which are perforated or serrated,

as shown at d, Fig. 1. The flanges of the shield are lined upon the inside with the perforated metal .linin g E, secured to the iron or shield, sheet metal being preferably employed. By this construction a heating chamber is formed upon the iron, for a purpose to be presently described. F'is the handle, which I prefer to make of wood, secured to the top of the shield or iron, and provided with a central ver tical opening, H, to fit over an ordinary gasburner, G, in the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3. In Figs. 1 and 2 the shield is shown with a central opening, I, into which the end of the gas-burner enters,'and in Fig. 3 a central tube notches d in the shield permit the gas to pass to the edges of the iron in small jets to heat the same, while they also retard, to a certain degree, the escape of such flames.

Combustion is supported by the admission of oxygen through perforations j around the burner, as in Fig. 2, or in the central tube, as in Fig. 3.

By this construction a heating-chamber is formed upon the iron, which heating-chamber also acts as a combustion-chamber, and prevents the escape of smoke to the smoothingface of the iron. 7

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1. In combination with the sad-iron, the shield with its central aperture or tube and the perforated lining, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

2. In combination with the sad-iron,the perforated or notched shield B, perforated lining E, and perforated handle F, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

THOMAS HAGERTY.

Witnesses:

N. K. ELLswonTH, E. A. ELLSWORTH.

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