US553813A - Sad-iron - Google Patents

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E. MGCADDEN. SAD IRON.

No. 553,813. 'Patented Jan. 28, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMMA MCCADDEN, OF BLAIR, NEBRASKA.

SAD-IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 553,813, dated January 28, 1896. Application filed March l1, 1895. Serial No. 541,320. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, EMMA MCCADDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Blair, in the county of lVashington and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Sad- Iron, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in sad-irons having a special narrow smoothingface for pressing down seams, and the objects of my improvement are, first, to provide a sadiron body of this character that is interchangeable with what are known as Mrs Iotts irons,7 (shown in patent to M. F. Potts, No. 113,448, dated April et, 1871, for a sadiron,) using the same detachable handle; second, to combine in a sad-iron of this character a broad smoothing-surface for general work, and a narrow surface for pressing seams that may be changed from one surface to the other without changing the center of gravity, allowing the iron in either Icase to stand upright and, third, to provide simple and efficient means for shifting quickly back and forth from a broad to a narro wsmoothing-surface while at work and without det-aching the handle. I attain these objects through the medium of mechanism illustrated by the accompanyin g drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a central vertical longitudinal section of the body with a side view of a Mrs. Potts handle attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a central vertical cross-section with the handle removed. Fig. 3 is a top View of the thumbshaft 6 in position as shown in Fig. 2. Fig.

4C is a top view of the main body 2 divested of all other parts. Fig. 5 is aview of the under side of the cap-plate 4, and Fig. G is a View of the under side or smoothing-surface of the complete sad-iron.

The body of the sad-iron consists of the narrowseam-pressing part 3, closely but movablj7 iitted in a central longitudinal groove in the smoothing-face of the main body part 2. Part 3 has a central bifurcate projection consisting of the prongs 7 and 7 which project upward through a mortise opening into and agreeing with a niortise 11, of greater length extending down from the top in part 2 less than the depth of the metal above part 3, thereby forming the lledges or stops 8 and S', on top of which impinges the ends of a slightlyresilient metal plate 5, loosel)T fitted in the mortise 11, and attached to the ends of the prongs by the screws 5 5', to limit the downward movement of part 3. A thumb-shaft 6 is journaled centrally across the mortise in the notches 12 and 12', opening upward in part 2. The cap-plate 4 has the downwardly-projecting lugs 9 and 9, to enter the notches and hold down the shaft G, and is attached to the part 2 by the screws 13, in the usual manner. The part 6 of the shaft crossing the mortise is eccentric, and is disposed through between the prongs 7 and 7 and beneath the plate 5. The outer end of the shaft is flattened, as shown at 6, to facilitate turning with the thumb and finger, and the body has the concavity 14, to receive this part as much out of the Way as possible. Vhen the shaft is turned to the position shown in Fig. 2 the eccentric part 6 strikes against the prong 7, the inner face of which is in line with one side of the journals of the shaft, so as to stop the eccentric directly above or below,

limiting it to a one-half revolution, and bears l in the bottom of the fork between the prongs while the resilientrplate 5 rests at its ends on the stops, its resiliency preventing the. parts from rattling and the shaft, by friction, from turning. The part 3 is projected below the balance of the smoothing-surface for pressing seams. the part 3 into the groove, so that the smoothing-surfaces are flush, the eccentric bears up against the center of the resilient plate, and the parts are retained as before. Parts 2 and 4 are chambered at 11' and 11", and the prong 7 placed far enough away to allow the eccentric to turn. Part 3 may be reversed end for end in assembling the parts without changing the result. The cap-plate et, aside from the downwardly-projecting lugs 9 and 9, is the same as the old Pott-s sad-iron, having a central elliptic opening spanned by an integral bar lO, to be engaged by the hook 15 and latch 16 of the old handle, as shownin Fig. 1, which also shows the resilient plate 5 is, at its highest position, far enough below the cap-plate to admit the fastening-hook and latch of the handle.

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

1. A sad-iron divided through its smooth- A reverse turning of the shaft draws ICO tically adjustable part connected to an eccentric on a shaft journaled in the main body,

and a fixed cap-plate having a central opening spanned by a bar to engage a detachable handle substantially as described.

Signed at Blair, in the county of Washington and State of Nebraska, this 6th day of March, 1895.

EMMA MCCADDEN. Vitnesses:

J. F. BADGEROW, LoN. VAUGHAN.

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