IMPROVED HEATING OR COOLING APPARATUS FOR TABLES
Year: 1884

page_text: I, BRUNO BARON VON STEINAECKER, of Lauban, Prussia (Germany), do hereby
declare the nature of said Invention for IMPROVED HEATING OR COOLING
APPARATUS FOR TABLES to be as follows:—
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The present invention relates to.apparatus for heating tables used for carrying
plates, dishes or articles of food to be kept warm, which apparatus may either be
situated in the table, or placed on the top and secured by suitable ledges.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 10, is a plan and
Fig. 104, a longitudinal section of a heating apparatus enclosed by a table and
embodying my invention, while Figs 10b and 100 represent details.
The platform of the table contains one or more recesses situated at the places,
where the heating is desired. A recess may have the shape of a continuous canal o
extending the whole circumference of the table, as shown in the drawing, to which
may be added shorter canals at those places where the surface of the table is to be
heated.
The said recesses or canals are adapted to receive heating vessels d, as illustrated
on a large scale by Fig. 100, which is a cross section of such a vessel and of the
canal holding the same.
The said vessels may be filled with hot sand or water, or connected with each
other by pipes in which circulates steam, hot air, or hot water, which pipe may also
be connected with a central heating apparatus adapted to produce a circulation of
steam, hot air or hot water in the whole system.
Or the heating vessels containing sand or a suitable fluid may be heated by small
burners b.
Finally the heating vessels may be omitted and heat supplied direct to the canal
or to a flat pipe sunk into the platform of the table.
Where heating canals in combination with heating vessels are employed for
heating articles of food as well as plates at any desired place of the table, the canal
and vessels are constructed so that the latter may be introduced into the canal at
any desired point, and several vessels may be placed at any desired distance from
each other. For filling up the open spaces between the heating vessels, movable
plates o may be used as illustrated by Fig. 10°, of which the upper part is a plan,
and the lower part a longitudinal vertical section through the centre. After these
plates have been fitted into the canals (so that their concave ends touch the vessels)

page_text: the surface of the table forms an uninterrupted plane. According to the distance
of the heating vessels from each other, shorter or longer plates c¹ must be used to
cover the canal between two vessels.
The platform of new tables may be made sufficiently strong to serve also as a
heating plate to be provided with the appliances illustrated by the drawings.
When the tables are used for other purposes, the openings or canals are
temporarily covered up.
Existing tables are provided with heating plates a, which contain or carry the
heating appliances described above, and which need only be placed on the table
for use.
The heating plates may be employed in any desired width and number, like the
sliding plates of extensible tables. By means of adjustable ledges the heating plates
may also be adapted to fit any table in the house, the plates being only held in
place by ledges situated at the circumference of the table, without injuring the
latter.
As seen in Fig. 10, the heating vessel d is made flush at the top with the surface
of the table and rests with a flange on the edge of the canal, while the bottom forms
a combustion space e for the reception of the burner b. The burner b fixed under
the bottom of the vessel has one or more gas jets and is connected with a flexible
gas supply pipe of indiarubber or other suitable material.
The gas may be led to the table from the floor or from the ceiling, and is
distributed to the various burners by means of a main pipe branched off where
required, the connection with the burners being preferably formed by indiarubber
pipes in order to facilitate alterations in the position of the burners along the
beating canal.
Where the system of heating vessels or pipes is connected with a central heating
apparatus, the whole heating appliance may be converted into a refrigerator by
supplying the pipes with cold water instead of hot fluids.
Dated this 23rd day of June 1884.

page_text: I, BRUNO BARON VON STEINAECKER, of Lauban, Prussia, (Germany), do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVED HEATING OR COOLING APPARATUS
FOR TABLES, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
The present invention relates to apparatus for heating tables used for carrying
plates, dishes or articles of food to be kept warm, which apparatus may either be
situated in the table, or placed on the top and secured by suitable ledges.
Referring to the drawings accompanying my Provisional Specification
Fig 10 is a plan and Fig 10d a longitudinal section of a heating apparatus
enclosed by a table and embodying my invention, while Figs 10° and 10° represent
details.
The table contains either a number of recesses situated at the places where the
heating is desired, or a continuous canal c extending the whole circumference of the
table, as shown in the drawing, to which may be added shorter canals at those
places where the surface of the table is to be heated.
The said recesses or canals are adapted to receive heating vessels d, as illustrated
on a large scale by Fig 10%, which is a cross section of such a vessel and of the
canal holding the same.
The said vessels may be filled with hot sand or water, or connected with each
other by pipes in which circulates steam, hot air, or hot water, which pipes may
also be connected with a central heating apparatus adapted to produce a circulation
of steam hot air or hot water in the whole system. Or the heating vessels
containing sand or a suitable fluid may be heated by small burners b.
Finally the heating vessels may be omitted and heat supplied direct to the canal
or to a flat pipe sunk into the platform of the table.
Where heating canals in combination with heating vessels are employed for
heating articles of food as well as plates at any desired place of the table, the canal
and vessels are constructed so that the latter may be introduced into the canal at
any desired point, and several vessels may be placed at any desired distance from
each other. For filling up the open spaces between the heating vessels movable
plates c¹ may be used, as illustrated by Fig 10%, of which the upper part is a plan
and the lower part a longitudinal vertical section through the centre. After the
plates have been fitted into the canals (so that their concave ends touch the
vessels) the surface of the table forms an uninterrupted plane. According to the
distance of the heating vessels from each other, shorter or longer plates c¹ must be
used to cover the canal between two vessels.
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The platform of new tables may be made sufficiently strong to serve also as a
heating plate to be provided with the appliances illustrated by the drawings.
When these tables are used for other purposes, the openings or canals are
temporarily covered up.
Existing tables are provided with heating plates a, which contain or carry the
heating appliances described above, and which need only be placed on the table
for use.
The heating plates may be employed in any desired width and number, like the
sliding plates of extensible tables. By means of adjustable ledges the heating
plates may also be adapted to fit any table in the house, the plates being only held
in place by ledges situated at the circumference of the table, without injuring the
latter.

page_text: As seen in Fig 10, the henting vessel d has at the top a flange supported by the
edge of the canal, 'and forms at the bottom a space e for the reception of the
burner b. The burner b fixed under the bottom of the vessel has one or more gas
jets and is connected with a flexible supply pipe of indiarubber or other suitable
material.
The gas may be led to the table from the floor or from the ceiling and is
distributed to the various burners by means of a main pipe branched off where
required, the connection with the burners being preferably formed by indiarubber
pipes in order to facilitate alterations in the position of the burners along the
heating canal.
Where the system of heating vessels or pipes is connected with a central heating
apparatus, the whole heating appliance may be converted into a refrigerator by
supplying the pipes with cold water, instead of hot fluids.
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 :-
1. A heating apparatus for tables consisting of heating vessels & sunk into
suitable recesses of the table or otherwise attached to the same, or placed in one or
more canals in combination with intermediate plates c² serving to cover or fill up
the portions of the canal or canals not occupied by the heating vessels.
2. Heating vessels sunk into the platform of a table so as to be flush with the
surface of the latter and containing hot sand or a hot fluid, such as water, steam
or air.
3. The combination of heating vessels or canals as described with an appliance
for heating the said vessels or canals from a common centre.
4. The combination of heating vessels as described, with burners b placed under
the same.
5. The combination of vessels sunk into the platform of a table as described,
with a system of pipes adapted to supply the said vessels with cold liquid from a
common centre.
6. The combination of vessels sunk into the platform of a table as described,
with a heating apparatus, and a cooling apparatus, and a system of pipes adapted
to set the vessols in communication either with the heating or with the cooling
apparatus.
The whole substantially as described.