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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
BYRON WILMOT, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.
IMPROVEMENT IN FLAT-IRON HEATERS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,489, dated February 2, 1875; application filed
July 28, 1874.
To all whom it may concern: In practice it has been found that, after the
Be it known that 1, BYRON WILMOT, of the irons have been once heated, they may be
city and county of Dallas, State of Texas, have kept hot, and the ironing completed with only
invented a Flat-Iron Heater, of which the fol- one small flame.
lowing is a specification: It will be evident that, with this device and
The object of my invention is to rapidly heat twocommon smoothing-irons, thesame amount
a flat or smoothing iron to the desired tem- of work can be accomplished as would be pos-
perature for use by the combination, in a flat- sible with six irons and a stove, as heretofore.
iron heater, of a lamp, A, provided with one In cities where gas is convenient, the case
or more burners, B, as shown in the partly- D may be placed over a burner, and the lamp
sectional side elevation, Figure 1 of the ac- dispensed with.
companying drawing. Fig. 2 is a plan view, I am aware that lamp-stoves-like that of
showing the shape of the heater, within which R. B. Mitchell, patented October 26, 1869-
the iron to be heated is placed, and in which have been constructed resembling my device
it has not been deemed necessary to show the in some respects; but they do not allow free
lamp or heating mechanism. access of air on all sides of the burners; nor
The iron C is placed within the metallic do they allow direct application of heat to
case D, which is supported upon legs E. nearly the entire surface of a flat-iron. Such
This case should extend above the flat-iron devices I do not claim; but
two or three inches, to prevent drafts of air What I do claim is-
from blowing down and fanning the flames The metallic case D, having wide bottom
from the lamp, and they also tend to confine opening, legs E, projections F, and burners
the heat around the flat-iron, thus rendering B, combined and constructed substantially as
a small flame sufficient to readily and quickly and for the purpose set forth.
heat a smoothing-iron of ordinary size.
In the case D, secured to the bottom, are BYRON WILMOT.
three projections, F, of suitable height, upon Witnesses:
which the iron to be heated is placed, and J. D. KERFOOT,
kept a proper distance above the flames. C. CHRISTOPHER.
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Wilmot, Byron. Improvement in Flat-Iron Heaters., patent, July 28, 1874; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth166409/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.