US113448A - Improvement in sad-irons - Google Patents

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iran STATES i MARY FLORENCE POTTSQ, OF OTTUMWA, IOWA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. il 13,448, dated April 4` 1871 To all whom it may conceraa Be it known that I, MARY F. POTTS, of Ottumwa, in the county of Wapello, and in the State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sad-Irons; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a sadiron with removable handle, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, rgerring to the y annexed drawings, in which- Figure lis a longitudinal vertical section of my sad-iron with the handle in place. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the plate to which the handle is attached, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of' the sad-iron with the handle removed.

A represents the handle, which is made in curved or semicircular shape. This peculiar shape ofthe handle for a sad-iron makes it lit the hand, no matter what part of the handle is clasped by the hand, and enables the user to always keep the wrist and hand in line and straight with the lower part of the arm, and push the sadiron as a person pushes a plane.

In other sad-irons a person has a straight or horizontal handle to clasp, which cannot be clasped in a natural or easy manner, and produces pain of arm and wrist.

B is a metal plate attached to the bottom of the handle A by two screws a a, the ends of said plate having raised beveled surfaces b b for the ends of the handle to rest upon, and forming, from underneath, countersinks for the heads of the screws a a.

By this means I am also enabled to put the screws a a through the cross-grained part of the Wooden handle A, making it very strong.

The plate B is provided with a slot running longitudinally through a part of it, in which slot is pivoted, and moves up and down, the latch C. On its under side is also attached a lip or tongue-piece, D.

The latch Gis pivoted at one end, and moves up and down in the slot in the metal plate B,

and closes over or onto the cross-piece or bar, d, cast to the inner sides of the sad-iron, preventing the lip D from slipping from un der the bar d and allowing the iron to fall. One or more of these cross-pieces or bars el may be used, and also one or more lips D can be used on one iron.

Upon the lower end of the latch C is a projection, e, as shownin Fig. 2, which prevents the latch from being raised far enough to break the spring f. This spring f is fastened between the end of the handle and the metal plate by the screw a, and serves to prevent the latch C from falling out when the sad-iron is turned upside down, and retains it firmly in place.

In a former patent (No. 103,501) granted to me for sad-iron, I fully described my mode of making the same with a metal shell or metal sides and the inside lilled with some suitable material, non-conductor of heat. In that case I rounded up the metal into the center of the cavity lengthwise; but in this case I hollow out from the middle and increase the thicknessy of the metal at the ends, where most heat is needed.

E is the solid or iron part of the sad-iron,

and G the non-conductor.

At each end of the sad-iron is formed a recess, h, for the ends ofthe metal plate B to it down into, and prevent all side motion of, the handle A; the said ends of the metal plate being drawn down tight into the recesses h h and resting onto the ends of the iron by the action of the lip or tongue-piece D passing under the cross-piece d, making the handle rm and secure onto the sad-iron and yet easily taken oft' and put on.

In the non-conducting material G, which iills the cavity in the sad-iron E, are formed cavities k k to allow the tongue or lip D to pass under the cross-piece d..

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

l. The sad-iron base E, made of metal hollowed out in the center, with the end or ends made solid and the cavity iilled with non-conducting material, as shown and described.

2. The combination of the plate B, provided with raised beveled end-pieces b b, the latch U, end lip or tongue D, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposes substantially as and for the purposes herein herein set forth. set forth.

3. The combination of the semicircular han- In testimony that I claim the foregoing I die A, plate B, latch C, tongue D, cross-bar d, have hereunto set my hand this v3d day of and spring f, all constructed and arranged vOctober, 1870.

substantially as and for the purposes herein M ARY FLORENCE POTTS set forth.

4. The combination of the handle A, plate Witnesses:

B, latch C, tongue D, iron E, and non-conduct- HENRY N. CLEMENT,

ing lling Gr, all constructed and arranged J. H, WEBBER.

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