US1424460A - Gas heater for sadirons - Google Patents

Description

O. H. FRANK- GAS HEATER FOR SADIRONS. APPLICATION FILED APR. 6, 1921.

Patented Aug. 1, 1922.

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OTTO H. FRANK, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

GAS HEATER FOR SADIRONS.

Application filed April 6;

- New York, have ii'ivented certai-n new and useful Improvements in Gas Heaters for Sadirons, 01"" which the following is a full, clear, and concise description.

My invention relates to gas heaters for sad irons, and comprehends device of this type admitting of rather general use and adapted for heating sad irons of the-kind commonly used in the household as well-as by tailors and other persons for pressing clothes and the like by hand. My device also admits of use for broilingand toasting, as well as for heating various articles.

More particularly stated, I seek to produce a device of the general type'just mentioned, and in which I make use of a minimum number of parts, the various partshaving such. form as to enable them to be readily made by casting or otherwise. I further seek to give the parts such form as to render them easy to standardize, and to admit of quantity production.

In addition, I seek to give the parts such form as to enablethe device to be operated with the use of comparatively little gas, and to effect a saving of time and labor upon the part of the operator.

In addition, I seek to give various parts of my device such form as to prevent the heat employed from doing damage to certain fragile parts of the device and from unduly melting the wax a portion of which is car'- ried by the device.

My invention has other advantages, described below.

Reference is made to the accompanying drawings it'o'rming a part of this specification, and in which like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my device, certain parts connected therewith being shown in section.

Figure 2 is a section on the line 22 of Figure 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

A casting 4t is made in the form shown, and comprises three pan-like members 5, 6 and 7, all integral, the panlike member 6 being provided centrally with a hole 8, and the pan-like member -7 being similarly provided with a centrally disposed hole 9.

The pan-l ke member 5 p ided. with Specification of LettersPatent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1922.; 1921. Serial No; 458,878.

lugs 10, and the pan-like member 7 is pro vided with lugs 11. The lugs 10, 11- are rounded, as shown in- Fi'gure '2, and serve to supportthe device upon a table or the like, as indicated at 10 A cleaning pad 12 rests upon a disk 13 of asbestos or other fireproof material in sheet torr'n. This is for the purpose of prevent- 111g the cleaning pad I2 from scorching or burnmg in consequence of heat from the pan-like member 6.

The cleaning pad, 12 may be of the usual or any desired construction.

At 14 is shown a cake of Wax, resting upon a disk 15 of asbestos or other fireproof material, in sheet form. This disk 15 has a tendency to prevent the cakeof wax from melting in consequence of heat from the pan-like member? It also tendsto prevent the wax, if unavoidably meltedto a greater or lesser'extent, from running out through the hole 9. i

A casting 16, entirely separate from the casting 5, is provided with a ledge 17 and with an upwardly extending supporting flange 18 and with ribs 19'," these parts being integral. By means of screws 20 which extend through the ledge 17, the casting- 1 6 is detachably held in position upon the panlike member 5. The casting 16 is furtl'ier provided with burner nipples 21*, serving the purpose of gas burners 05E small size.

The general contour of the casting 5 and that of the casting'G together with the upwardly projecting flange 18 is more or less analogous to the general contour of a sad iron, so that when a sad ironis rested upon the flange 18 it will neatly cover this flange and the parts immediately below it.-

The casting 5 is provided with an annular lug 22 integral with it, and extending throughthis annular lug is a pipe 23, provided with a hand valve 245 and with a throat 25. The pipe 23 is further provided with air holes 26 located in immediate proximity to the throat25. The pipe 23 is for supplyingthe gas, admixed with a suitable quantity of air into the casting 5, the gas then passing upwardly through the burner nipples 21.

The hand valve 24 may be adjusted at the will of the operator in order to control the flow of gas. The throat 25 and holes 26 are used in the conventional manner for securing the proper proportion of air in the gas used. V p

or cheese, or even for broiling meats The device is quite economical in the use of gas, owing to the fact that the gas nipples 21 are so arranged as to distribute the burn ing gas uniformly against the under face of the sad iron.

Between the upwardly extending flanges 18 are spaces18 through which the burnt gases, vapors and flames can escape. I

My device can be used for toasting bread or cooking certain small articles of food. It

can also be used for heating a ladle or. the

like, and for very simple metallurigal operations, such for instance as roasting a small specimen ofore, r I

The form of the casting 4 renders the casting specially adaptable for the purpose of being secured upon a board, atable, or

ally suffices to light one or two of the jets,

and from these the othersare lighted automatically. In practice, a match is applied almost anywhereover the top of the member. 16 while the gas is passing upwardly through the burner nipplesQl, the result being that the lighting of all of the gas jets is virtually simultaneously. 1

When the device is used for ironing, the

sad iron is rested upon the flange portions 18 as above described, and heated by the gas flames. .Thesad iron is generally moved by hand, and its; under face is cleaned and partially polished by rubbing it over the cleaning pad 12. Theiron is occasionally uponthe'top of the wax cake 14, so as to take a little wax upon its face, in the manner well. understood in this art.

'By the use of my devlce, owing to the convenience 111' the arrangement of the parts, a considerable saving of time can be effected.

1' do not l1m1t myself to the precise mech anism shown, as variatlons may be made therein without departing from my invention, which is commensurate with my claims.

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

1. A device of the character described comprising a pair of castings'detachably connected, together and each having'a contour analogous to that of sad iron, one of said castings beingprovided with up wardly extending fiangesand with ribs, said ribs and fianges'being integral with said last mentioned casting, and means for admitting combustible gas in between said castings. g

. 2. A device of the character described comprisin means for supporting and heating a sad iron, and a plurality of pan-like members integral with each other, and disks of asbestos located within said pan-like members.

3; A device comprising a hollow casting having the general proximate form of a sad iron, a casting provided with a number of panslike members integral with each other, .said

second-mentioned casting bein, l detaehably mounted upon first-mentioned casting and having a general contour analogous to that of asad iron, said secondementionedcasting being provided with a plurality of burner nipples extending from said pan-like members, said second-mentioned casting being further provided witlrupwardly extending flanges for supporting a sad iron.

4. A device of the character described comprising a pair of castings detachably: connected together and having when thus connected a general contour analogous to that of a sad iron, one of said castings being provided with a number ofupwardly ex;- tending flanges for supporting a sad iron, and being further provided with anumber ofupwardly extending ribs and with-burnerv nipples interspersed between said ribs.

5. A device of the character described comprising a pair of castings detachably connected together so as to form when thusv connected a hollow member having general contour analogous to that of a sad iron, one of said castings; being providedwith upwardly extending flanges for supporting a sad iron and further provided with a number of burner nipples located intermediate said upwardly extending flanges.

OTTO H. FRANK.

of the character described

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