US1828257A - Electric-heater kit - Google Patents

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Oct. 20, 1931.

M. A. ROLLMAN ELECTRIC HEATER KIT Filed July 16 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Oct. 20, 1931.

M. A. ROLLMAN ELECTRIC HEATER KIT Patented Oct. 20, 1931 UNITED STATES MICHAEL A. ROLLMAN, OF MOUNT J'OY, PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC-HEATER KIT Application filed July 16,

The object of this invention is to provide a simple kit in the form of a metallic box adapted to be conveniently handled and transported and which is adapted to house an electric sad iron having the usual removable heating-element in the form of a shoe, means being provided whereby this shoe, when removed from the iron, may be used either for heating purposes or for cooking purposes, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Roferrin g to the drawings annexed- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the kit box closed;

Fig. 2 is an end elevation showing the top-cover and the end-cover open; Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the device adapted for heating purposes;

Fig. 4 is an end view of the device adapted for cooking purposes.

Referring to the drawings annexed by reference-numerals, 5 designates a metallic rectangular box having a cover 6 hinged to one of its longitudinal edges and an end-cover 7 hinged to one end of the bottom of the box so as to open out flat against a support.

Within the box, near its top edge, is a grating 8 composed of longitudinal and horizontal wires or rods, the transverse rod 9, nearest the open end of the box, being set back from the end of the box, and the adjacent extreme corners of the side-walls of the box being rigidly connected by a rod 10.

The box is large enough to house an electric sad iron 11 carrying a removable heat ing-shoe 12 which is provided with the usual socket 13 for the reception of the usual electric plug (not shown). The shoe is removably fastened within the iron by means of a screw 14. Upon removal from the iron-body,

the shoe is adapted to be placed in a sheetmetal tray, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, said tray consisting of a bottom-plate 15 and sidewalls 16 between which the shoe is adapted to fit. The free edges of the sidewalls 16 are provided with lateral flanges 17 Whose edges are in turn provided with flanges 18 which lie substantially parallel with the side-walls 16. The side-walls 16' and the lateral flanges 17 bulge outwardly at one end of the tray to receive the outwardly- 1929. Serial No. 378,649.

projecting enlargements 19 formed on the shoe, so that, when the shoe is placed in the tray, these enlargements 19 will suspend or support the shoe within the tray, as shown particularly in Fig. 3. Two sets of inwardly-projecting pins 20 are afiixed to the inner faces of the side-walls of the box, near the grid or grating 8, one set being a little nearer the grating than the other set.

As shown in Fig. 2, when the kit is out of use, the sad iron rests upon the bottom of the box and the tray rests on the lower set of pins 20, with its bottom-wall 16 adjacent the grid 8, to thus provide room for the handle of the sad iron. When the sad iron is used for ironing purposes, the grid 8 may be used as a stand for holding the hot iron, in which use of the apparatus the tray has no function except, of course, that the lower set of pins is so located and the tray is so constructed that the tray may be left in position without interfering with the compact housing of the 1I'OI1 when the ironing work is finished. When it is desired to use the kit for cooking purposes, the shoe 12 is removed from the iron by loosening the screw 14 and sliding it rearwardly out of the shell of the iron, and the shoe is then placed on the tray, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4; and then the tray is slid endwisely into the box on either one set of pins 20 or the other set; the top set if a hot fire is needed and the lower set if a slower fire is needed. When thus slid into the box, the flanges 18 of the tray ride on the pins, and, if the upper set of pins is used, then the top surface of the shoe is brought close to the grid to thus render the device efficient in toasting bread, etc. When the device is to be used merely as an air-heater, i. e., a heater for raising the temperature of a room, the tray is inserted down into the space between the rods 9. and 10 and inclined outwardly, so that its lower end rests upon the flat open cover 7 which of course rests upon the support. To hold the tray in this inclined position, one or more pins or lugs 21 are attached to the inner side of the cover 7 In this airheating position, the tray rests against the bar 9 and is held from being displaced by the rod 10, and the heating element is held in an inclined position for disseminating the heat into the room.

In accordance with the provisions of the patent statutes, I have herein described the 5 principle of operation of my invention, together with the apparatus which I now consider to represent the best embodiments thereof, but I desire to have it understood that the apparatus disclosed is only illustrative and that the invention can be carried out by other means. Also, while it is designed to use the various features and elements in the combinations and relations described some of these may be altered and others omitted and some of the features of each modification may be embodied in the others without inter fering with the more general results outlined, and the invention extends to such use.

hat I claim as new is:

9 1. I11 an electric heating kit, a box having an openable top-cover and also a grid within the box near its top edge, supporting elements on the side-walls of the box projecting inwardly at points below the grid, a tray adapted to rest on these supporting elements, and a removable heating-shoe adapted to fit within said tray, for the purpose set forth.

2. In an electric heating kit, a box having an openable top-cover and also an end-cover adapted to open downwardly and lie upon a support, a grid supported within the box near its upper edge, a removable heating-shoe, and atray adapted to fit between the side walls of the box and have its lower edge rest on said end-cover and also adapted to removably receive said heating-shoe.

3. An electric heating kit embodying a box having an openable top-cover and an openable end-cover and also a grid supported within the box near its upper edge, the end of the grid next to the end-cover being set back from the end of the box, a tray adapted to rest. against said end of the grid and be supported on the opened endcover, and a removable heating-shoe adapted to rest within said tray.

4. In an electric heating kit, a box having an openable top-cover and also a grid within the box near its top edge, supporting elements 59 on the side walls of the box projecting inwardly at points below the grid, a tray adapted to rest 011 these supporting elements, and a removable heating-shoe adapted to fit within said tray, said supporting elements being arranged in two series one nearer the grid than the other, and said tray being adapted to rest on either one series.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

MICHAEL A. ROLLMAN.

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