Improvements in Means for Drying and Warming of Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec.,
1896
Complete Specification Left, 17th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 18th Dec., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Drying and Warming of Boots and Shoes.
SOPHIE AMELIA GREENE The Yews Weeke Hill Winchester Hampshire,
(without a calling) do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The article is fashioned in tin, and also in thin enamelled iron, it is made in the
form of a boot. There is an opening towards the back of the shape, where it is filled
with water. This opening has a securely fixed top.
There is also a folding handle of metal fixed at the extreme top of the shape. The
centre of the metal boot is hollowed out, and into the bottom of the hollow is fixed
a spirit lamp with a wick. It has a firmly fixed lid at the top. The surrounding
part of the metal boot is filled with water and this can be heated either within or
outside the boot itself.
Dated this 17th day of December 1896.
SOPHIE AMELIA GREENE.
SOPHIE AMELIA GREENE The Yews Weeke Hill Winchester without a calling 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:-
This invention relates to improved means for drying and warming boots and shoes,
and consists of a case, adapted to be placed inside a boot or shoe, comprising a
water-chamber and lamp for heating the same.
A convenient form of apparatus is shown in the accompanying drawing, which is
a vertical section through the median line of a boot drier and warmer constructed
according to this invention.
The drier and warmer, is made of copper, tin, or other good conductor of heat,
and preferably resembles a boot in shape, so that when in use the inside and outside
surfaces respectively of the boot and drier are in intimate contact. It comprises a
closed water chamber A, with a central air shaft B, preferably cylindrical, or funnel
shaped, as shown in the drawing, extending from top to bottom of the drier and open
at both ends.
The bottom of this shaft B is filled by an oil or spirit lamp C, securely fixed
therein but so arranged as to be readily taken out and replaced for filling or lighting
purposes. The lamp may be secured in any convenient fashion, either by clips

page_text: engaging with the bottom of the drier, or, as shown in the drawing, by mere
frictional contact with the lower portion of the air shaft, which, in that case, is shaped
as a good fit with the outside of the lamp. It may be provided with a cover to
prevent spilling the oil or spirit when carried about."
In order to facilitate the heating of the water in the front or toe-portion of the
water chamber A, an air-tube, D having preferably an enlarged downwardly directed
opening D¹, is placed in the air shaft B, conveniently a short distance above the
flame of the lamp. The pipe D is continued through the wall of the air shaft down
into the toe portion of the water-chamber, where it forms a curve, and whence it is
carried up the front of the water chamber, ending outside the apparatus at D².
A filling tube E, conveniently formed as shown with a funnel-shaped mouth, and
with a screw-cap or other stopper is provided in the top of the water-chamber, which
should likewise be furnished with an escape valve F, for relief of pressure.
A handle or handles, conveniently hinged or folding may be provided at the top of
the drier, and the lamp may also have a folding wire handle on its bottom to facilitate
removing and replacing the same.
The height of the apparatus may be varied as desired but is preferably made
high as shown so as to receive the upper leathers of ladies and children's walking
boots.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A boot and shoe drier and warmer comprising a lamp and air shaft surrounded
by a water chamber.
2. In a boot and shoe drier and warmer the combination with a water chamber A
air shaft B and lamp C of a pipe D substantially as and for the purpose described.
3. In a boot and shoe drier and warmer the combination with a water chamber
A and contained air shaft B of a lamp normally fixed within said shaft but
readily removable.
4. The boot and shoe drier and warmer substantially as described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 16th day of September 1897.
SOPHIE AMELIA GREENE,
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant.