A Device for Warming Plates.
Year: 1894

page_text: A Device for Warming Plates.
I, EUPHEMIA HANNAH PATERSON, wife of Robert Roy Paterson, of Northwood
House, Trinity, Edinburgh, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to a device for warming plates at dining-room and other
open fires and it consists of a rotating spindle which is fitted in a suitable bed plate.
This spindle has on it three or other number of superposed discs, on which the plates
are placed. The discs may have concentric rings, or pieces or projections, on them
to prevent the lower edges of the plates slipping and the spindle may also be
provided with catches for the same purpose.
Instead of using discs the spindle may be provided with arms or branches for the
plates to rest on.
The whole device may be made of strong stout wire or of other suitable material;
or, if preferred, of wire in combination with other material.
Dated this 23rd day of May 1894.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.
I EUPHEMIA HANNAH PATERSON, wife of Robert Roy Paterson, of Norwood
House, Trinity, Edinburgh, 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 a device for warming plates at dining-room and other
open fires.
And in order that my said invention may he properly understood I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon,
Fig. 1 is a front view of the device, and,
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the top part d of the device.
On referring to the drawings it will be seen that the device consists of a spindle a
which is secured in a support b. c is a handle on top of the spindle by means of
which the whole device can be lifted. Fitted on the spindle are, preferably, three
plate holders or discs d, d', d² made of open wire work. Each of these holders
consists of a strong stout wire ring e held in place by three straight supporting
stays which are secured at their upper ends to ferrules g fitted movably on the
spindle and held in place by pins h passed through the spindle. Three wire bows
or arcs i are fitted on the underside of each wire ring e and these arcs are retained
firmly and rigidly in place by means of three additional downwardly bent wire
stays which are connected at their upper ends to the ferrules g and at their
lower ends to the said arcs i. k are short vertical wire clips or stays which connect
the arcs i to the rings e and which also serve to retain the plates in place. The
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page_text: whole of the stays j, fare bound together by means of horizontally arranged bent
wires l.
The three discs or holders may be connected to each other and held together by
vertical wire stays mi.
Each disc is preferably arranged to hold three plates, one in each arc or loop i,
with their upper parts resting on the wires and stays f
As the ferrules 9 are capable of turning on the spindle a the whole of the wire
device with the plates thereon can be revolved when desired.
If desired the ferrules may be secured rigidly to the spindle a, in which case the
spindle itself can be adapted to revolve in a socket-bearing in the support b.
The device may be made partly of wire and partly of other suitable material.
If desired more than three superposed plate holders or discs may be used.
It is to be understood that I do not confine myself to the precise arrangement of
the wires shown on the drawings as this arrangement can obviously be altered
without departing from the principle of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
consider novel and desire to claim is :-
A device for warming plates consisting of superposed discs or holders made.
wholly or partly of wire and fitted on a supporting spindle, substantially as
hereinbefore described with reference to the drawings annexed.
Dated this 20th day of February 1895.
:
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.