IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR WARMING AND HEATING SOLID AND LIQUID FOOD FOR CHILDREN AND INVALIDS."
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas George Fonnereau Dolby, Manufacturing
Goldsmith, 14, Old Town, Clapham Parish, in the County of Surrey,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS
FOR WARMING AND HEATING SOLID AND LIQUID FOOD FOR CHILDREN AND
INVALIDS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas George Fonnereau
Dolby at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 22nd November 1867.
I, THOMAS GEORGE FONNEREAU DOLBY, Manufacturing Goldsmith, 14, Old
Town, Clapham Parish, in the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS
FOR WARMING AND HEATING SOLID AND LIQUID FOOD FOR CHILDREN AND INVALIDS,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a hollow vessel formed of earthenware, metal, or
other suitable substance somewhat in the form of an ordinary foot warmer,
and when in use is filled with hot water. Any required number of water-
tight chambers are formed in the pan opening outwards at the top or sides,
into which are inserted feeding bottles, mugs, jugs, pots, pans, cups, saucepans,
cooking or other utensils for keeping a constant supply of warm gruel, milk,

page_text: tea, coffee, cocoa, or other nourishment. The entire apparatus and utensils
are kept warm by filling the pan with hot water and wrapping the whole in
flannel or woollen material, and thus doing away with the necessity of keeping
a fire or light during the night for that purpose.
This Invention is also very useful when travelling long journeys, where the
apparatus serves the double purpose of a food and foot warmer.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Thomas George
Fonnereau Dolby in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
GEORGE FONNEREAU DOLBY, Manufacturing Goldsmith, 14, Old Town, Clapham
Parish, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Thomas George Fonnereau Dolby, Her special licence that I, the said
Thomas George Fonnereau Dolby, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Thomas George Fonnereau Dolby, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND
APPARATUS FOR WARMING AND HEATING SOLID AND LIQUID FOOD FOR CHILDREN AND
INVALIDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas
George Fonnereau Dolby, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office, or on before the First of June, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas George Fonnereau Dolby, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-

page_text: for warming and heating solid and liquid food for children and invalids as
indicated in the title and set forth in the body of this my Specification.
In witness, I, the said Thomas George Fonnereau Dolby, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of May, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.
THOMAS GEORGE FONNEREAU DOLBY. (LS.)