AN IMPROVED MEANS OF WARMING OR HEATING DINNER PLATES, DISHES, CUPS, OR OTHER DOMESTIC ARTICLES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Hugh Hughes, of Hatton Garden, in the
County of Middlesex, Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
MEANS OF WARMING OR HEATING DINNER PLATES, DISHES, CUPS, OR OTHER
DOMESTIC ARTICLES."
Sealed the 30th August 1864, and dated the 13th May 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Hugh Hughes,
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th May 1864.
I, RICHARD HUGH HUGHES, of Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
MEANS OF WARMING OR HEATING DINNER PLATES, DISHES, CUPS, OR OTHER
DOMESTIC ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object an improvement in the means of heating
or sustaining the heat of plates, dishes, cups, or other articles of domestic
use; the said improvement consisting chiefly in the economy of the means
adopted.
For the purposes of my Invention I employ a solid block, lump, or tile,"
made of stone, clay, earthenware, or other similar suitable composition;
metal may be used for this purpose, but I prefer the materials before named.
The said block, lump, or tile I cause to be heated by any convenient method

page_text: previously to placing it in contact with the under surface of the article to be
warmed or heated, to the configuration of which the said block, lump, or tile
should be made to correspond.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Hugh Hughes, in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 12th November 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
HUGH HUGHES, of Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Hugh Hughes, Her special licence that I, the said Richard Hugh
Hughes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Richard Hugh Hughes, 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 "AN IMPROVED
MEANS OF WARMING OR HEATING DINNER PLATES, DISHES, CUPS, OB OTHER
DOMESTIC ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Richard Hugh Hughes, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par.
ticularly 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 within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Hugh Hughes, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following"
statement:-
My Invention has for its object an improvement in the means of heating
and sustaining the heat of plates, dishes, cups, or other articles of domestic
use; the said improvement consisting chiefly in the economy of the means
adopted.

page_text: For the purposes of my Invention I employ a solid block, lump, or tile,
made of stone, clay, earthenware, or other similar suitable composition for
the retention of heat; metal may be used for this purpose, but I prefer the
materials before named. The said block, lump, or tile I cause to be heated
by any convenient method previously to placing it in contact with the under
surface of the article to be warmed or heated, to the configuration of which
the said block, lump, or tile should be made to correspond.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Hugh Hughes, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
RICHARD HUGH HUGHES. (L.S.)
Witness,
RICHARD SILVESTER,
Patent Agent,
13, Warwick Court,
Gray's Inn. W.C.