CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON WARMING PANS OR APPARATUS FOR WARMING BEDS AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1834

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, STEPHEN
HAWKINS, of Milton House, near Portsmouth, in the County of Hants,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-fourth day of May, in the fourth year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Stephen Hawkins, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Stephen Hawkins, my exors, admors, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Stephen Hawkins, my exors, adiñiors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON WARMING
PANS OR APPARATUS FOR WARMING BEDS AND OTHER PURPOSES;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Stephen Hawkins, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His said Majesty
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto bad, may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: relates to the means of filling such warming pans with hot water without the
hazard of scalding the parties when in the act of filling such warming pans;
the latter part of the improvements being applicable to the filling of other
vessels.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Fig. 1 represents a warming pan constructed according to my Invention:
a being the vessel of copper or other suitable material which contains water,
and the handle affixed thereto by screw or otherwise. is an opening at
which the vessel a is to be filled with hot water when it is desired to use the
warming pan. This opening has a screw or other plug for stopping the
opening c when the vessel has been filled. Fig. 2 is the section of the funnel
for filling the vessel a. It will be seen that d is a cork or float suspended by
a wiro e, and this constitutes the second feature of my Invention. It will be
evident that when it is desired to fill the vessel a with hot water, the plug of
the opening c is to be removed, and the funnel inserted at that opening; the
cork d will hang below the mouth of the funnel and within the vessel a; hot
water being poured through the upper part of the funnel will, when that
vessel becomes nearly full of water, float tho cork and cause it to fill the
mouth or opening of the funnel, and thus shut off a further supply to the
vessel a, by which means no overflow can take place, and it will be evident
that this part of my improvements may be advantageously applied to other
purposes. And I would remark that the vessel a, being held by the handle b,
may be held securely when filling, which cannot now be so well effected in
those where the handle has to be removed for the purpose of filling the vessel a,
or where the handle is hollow and the water supplied through the handle.
I would have it understood that what I claim as my Invention is,-
First, the constructing warming pans for holding hot water, having an
opening c for filling distinct from the handle, and thus admitting of the handle
being a fixture at the time of filling, and thus rendering the hazard of scalding
less probable; and,

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water through the funnel, for the purpose of filling such warming pan with
hot water, and for other purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Stephen Hawkins, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1834, the aforesaid Stephen Hawkins came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.