Iron

Object Name:

Iron

Object ID:

1994.511.06

Description:

Iron for clothes. Wood, steel, iron. Rough, cast iron insert that would be heated, then placed inside body of iron with sliding door to keep it in place. Iron body has smooth, flat bottom surface. Back flat. Sides curve forward and inward to a point. Sides flat and about 2.2" high. Inside surface on bottom is made up of steel bar stock that rests on bottom plate. This plate is 0.15" thick. Bar stock is 0.25" high x 0.13" thick. Straight piece of stock parallel to back edge. Gap of 0.22" between it and back piece. This groove is where door fits when pushed downward in place. Another straight piece of bar stock that goes from center of back to front. On either side of central piece are two curved spirals of iron that are roughly mirror images of each other. Spirals make more than two complete revolutions. In front of them are two more smaller spirals. In front of that is a single straight cross-bar. Back of iron is one piece, 0.16" thick, with large rectangular hole in it. Hole is 1.4" high x 3.15" wide. Top of body is thick piece of steel, 0.12" thick; rests on side pieces. It butts against back piece with small slot 0.16" front to back, 3.49" wide. Door passes through this slot. Two, roughly square pieces of steel rest against inside vertical surfaces of sides. These seem to fit into holes in bottom of top section. Another roughly square piece at very front of iron that is behind front junction of the two sides. Two iron handles fastened to top surface with square-headed bolts that have single hole in them; they are threaded and pass through circular pad at bottom end of handles. Above pad is semi-circular section that extends upward 1.6", then becomes straight section and extends upward to a round, flat pad. Handle sections taper slightly from top to bottom. Rear handle similarly shaped but has on its vertical flat section a vertical sleeve about 1" long. Wooden handle, slightly tapered towards it center, 4.1" long, central diameter 0.97". Long rivet passes through front and back handle pads and through center of round wood handle. Ends of rivet are turned over. Rectangular steel door with horizontal top edge 0.4" wide. Top of door extends beyond vertical leaf. Rectangular cast section at center, 0.3" high. Vertical, heavy wire handle connected to top of door frame that extends vertically through sleeve on back of handle and makes horizontal bend at its top end. Small metal knob (possibly brass) attached to end of lift shaft. Number "2" stamped into front vertical surface of front handle piece. Three pairs of narrow scribed lines around center of handle, which are quite worn on left side.

Material:

Iron
Wood
Steel

Dimensions:

H-6 W-3.7 L-5.3 inches