AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR GIVING WARMTH TO THE LOWER EXTREMITIES AND MEMBERS OF INVALIDS AND OTHERS WHEN TRAVELLING OR IN CHURCHES, CHAPELS, THEATRES, ROOMS, CARRIAGES, AND OTHER SIMILAR PLACES, AND ON SHIP-BOARD, & ALSO FOR AIRING CARRIAGES
Year: 1859

page_text: Pimlico, in the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Architect, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
GIVING WARMTH TO THE LOWER EXTREMITIES AND MEMBERS OF INVALIDS AND
OTHERS WHEN TRAVELLING OR IN CHURCHES, CHAPELS, THEATRES, ROOMS,
CARRIAGES, AND OTHER SIMILAR PLACES, AND ON SHIP-BOARD, & ALSO FOR
AIRING CARRIAGES."
Sealed the 27th March 1860, and dated the 28th September 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Fordham Stanford
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th September 1859.
I, JOHN FORDHAM STANFORD, of No. 7, Denbigh Place, Pimlico, in the
Parish of St. George, Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex, Architect,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR GIVING WARMTH TO THE LOWER EXTREMITIES AND MEMBERS OF
INVALIDS AND OTHERS WHEN TRAVELLING OR IN CHURCHES, CHAPELS, THEATRES,
ROOMS, CARRIAGES, AND OTHER SIMILAR PLACES, AND ON SHIP-BOARD, & ALSO FOR
AIRING CARRIAGES," to be as follows:—
I prepare a box or case to be used as a footstool or settee, or other similar
thing, of tin or other suitable material, with a lid or cover to open at pleasure,
and I cover the same with any suitable material, and stuff the top thereof

page_text: with horse-hair or other suitable material, and I fit up within the said box,
settee, or other suitable thing, a revolving or rolling lamp, so arranged that on
turning such box, settee, or other similar thing in any direction the light or
flame of such lamp will not be extinguished, and I have a plate of iron or
other suitable material placed over the flame of the lamp and under the cover
and stuffing of the top of the box, settee, or other similar thing, and such
plate being heated all the parts become heated, and the feet and lower
extremities of persons using the same are thereby made warm, the effects of
which I increase by having a covering of fir, skin, or other suitable material
affixed on the top of such footstool, settee, or other similar thing (and
removable at pleasure) to cover the feet and lower portion of the legs, whereby
the benefits derivable from the warmth given as before stated are increased.
And I claim as my Invention the novel construction of the footstool, settee,
or other similar thing, with the application of the revolving or rolling lamp, in
the manner herein-before described, and to the uses herein-before stated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Fordham Stanford in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 27th March 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
FORDHAM STANFORD, of No. 7, Denbigh Place, Pimlico, in the Parish of St.
George, Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex, Architect, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Fordham Stanford, Her special licence that I, the said
John Fordham Stanford, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John Fordham Stanford, 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 "GIVING WARMTH TO THE LOWER EXTREMITIES AND MEMBERS OF
INVALIDS AND OTHERS WHEN TRAVELLING OR IN CHURCHES, CHAPELS, THEATRES,
ROOMS, CARRIAGES, AND OTHER SIMILAR PLACES, AND ON SHIP-BOARD, AND ALSO FOR

page_text: AIRING CARRIAGES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
John Fordham Stanford, 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 John Fordham Stanford, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:
to
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Fig. 1 shows a side elevation of a footstool; Fig. 2, a section, and Fig. 3
a plan, of a footstool in section, constructed and fitted with a lamp, according
my Invention; and it is preferred to construct the stool for the most part
of metal, and to cover it with any suitable fabric. a is a lamp, which is
hung in frames on gimbles, in order that it may not be upset; 6 is an inverted
hollow cup or dome fixed above the lamp. From this dome or inverted cup
four tubular flues c proceed, and open out at the sides of the stool. In some
cases only a single flue is used, and provision is made to connect it with an
outlet in the bottom of a carriage when the stool is to be used in a carriage;
or more or less flues may be used in a stool, in order to diffuse the heat of
the lamp. The lamp is suspended between two plates d, d, and e, e. The
upper one is perforated with numerous holes, and air is admitted below the
plate d, by a grating or gratings f, at the side or sides of the stool. The upper
part of the stool is shown to be rendered elastic by spring stuffing, or it may
be by other elastic material used in place of or in conjunction with metal
springs. The manner of constructing footstools and of suspending lamps
therein may be varied.
Fig. 4 shows a front, and Fig. 5 a vertical, section of a settee, in which
a box 9 is used, arranged similarly to the interior of the footstool above
described, with a lamp; but in this case the flues pass out of the box, and
they are conducted to and enclosed within the seat and back of the settee or
other like piece of furniture for a room, carriage, or other place; and, when
desired, the box g may be formed suitable for a footstool, in place of acting
simply as a heating apparatus to a settee or to other piece of furniture to sit
or recline on, so that the feet of the person may be warmed when sitting.

page_text: Fig. 6 shows a section of a heating box, containing a lamp, and arranged
suitably for use when heating a bed. h is a tube leading from the dome or
inverted cup within the box, which is, when about to be used, to be connected
by a flexible or other tube with metal flues arranged within a bed, which, by
preference, should be rendered elastic by metal springs, though other elastic
materials may be used in the construction of the bed.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not claim the
making of the lamp, or of the stool or box, or of the settee or bed, or any
of the parts separately, nor do I confine myself to the details shown and
described; but what I claim is, the combination of a lamp and apparatus
and a stool or settee or bed, or other article of furniture to sit or recline on,
as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Fordham Stanford, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
JOHN FORDHAM STANFORD. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered in the
presence of
JNO. YONGE, Sol',
151, Strand.