An Improved Foot Warmer or Hot Water Bottle.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Foot Warmer or Hot Water Bottle.
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I, ELIZABETH DAVIS, of 36, Brown Street, Altrincham, in the County of Chester,
Certificated Nurse, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved foot warmer or hot water bottle for the
use of invalids and others and the object of my invention is to warm the feet more
effectually and so promote the circulation particularly in the case of patients"
suffering from heart disease and certain other ailments.
In the ordinary forms of hot water bottles for heating the feet, the hot water
is contained in a receptacle upon which the feet are placed so that the heat is
applied only to the soles of the feet.
My improved foot warmer consists of a hollow walled vessel or water container
made with an internal space somewhat in the form of a double slipper into which
both the feet can be placed, and be thoroughly warmed above below and at the
sides by the hot water contained in the hollow walls.
The hollow walled vessel may be made of metal, earthenware, india rubber
suitably stiffened to retain the desired form, or any other suitable material and
when used in a room it may or may not be partially inclosed in a suitable casing
or covering or it may be used in bed or in infants' cots or on a couch or sofa either
alone or with a covering.
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H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
An Improved Foot Warmer or Hot Water Bottle.
I, ELIZABETH DAVIS, of 36, Brown Street, Altrincham, in the County of Chester,
Certificated Nurse, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to an improved foot warmer or hot water bottle for the
use of invalids and others and the object of my invention is to warm the feet more
effectually and so promote the circulation particularly in the case of patients
suffering from heart disease and certain other ailments.
In the ordinary forms of hot water bottles for heating the feet, the hot water
is contained in a receptacle upon which the feet are placed so that the heat is
applied only to the soles of the feet.
My improved foot warmer consists of a hollow walled vessel or water container
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page_text: made with an internal space somewhat in the form of a double slipper into which
both the feet can be placed, and be thoroughly warmed above, below and at the
sides by the hot water contained in the hollow walls.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings-
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation, Figure 2 a plan and Figure 3 a front elevation
of my improved foot warmer, which in the construction illustrated, consists of two
hot water vessels 1, 2, forming the top and bottom, and connected together by side
walls 3. The vessels 1, 2 are filled with hot water and emptied through orifices
closed by screwed caps 4, and if desired the walls 3 might be made double so as
to form hollow water vessels in cases where weight and size are not of consequence.
The foot warmer is preferably furnished with two handles 5 by which it may be
conveniently carried about, and also with a support 6 by which it may be tilted
into the position shown in the drawings or by taking out the support 6 and reversing
it as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1 the foot warmer will lie flat upon the floor.
In either case the feet are placed upon the lower hot water vessel 2 and are heated
by it and also by the upper hot water vessel 1.
The hollow walled vessel may be made of metal, earthenware, indiarubber suit-
ably stiffened to retain the desired form or any other suitable material and when
used in a room it may or may not be partially inclosed in a suitable casing or
covering or it may be used in bed or in infants' cots or on a couch or sofa either
alone or with a covering.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved foot warmer having hollow walled hot water vessels both above and
below the feet, and also if desired at the sides substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 28th day of February 1898.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.