An Improved Infants' Food Warmer, Applicable for other like Uses.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left. 6th June. 1889-Accepted. 6th July. 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Infants' Food Warmer, Applicable for other like Uses.
1, JOHN FREDERIC SMITH, of 22, Whitehead Road, Aston, Warwickshire, Medical
Student, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the improved infants food warmer herein described
which is applicable for other like purposes and is designed for use with an ordinary
glass globe and gas burner or with the glass globe of an oil lamp.
In carrying out my invention I provide a vessel by preference made of thin sheet
metal and of cylindrical form and of a size suitable to fit in the upper opening of
the gas globe with which it is required to be used. The vessel is provided with an
upper flange or side projecting parts by which it is supported from the top of the
globe. This flange is by preference made in the form of an inverted hollow
truncated cone so as to fit on globes of various sizes. The said vessel is provided with
a suitable handle or handles for lifting it by. An ordinary inner jug or pot
containing the infant's food to be warmed fits in the said vessel which latter is
partly filled with water which is heated and kept warm by the gas flame under-.
neath.
The improved infants' food warmer above described can be instantly placed on or
removed from the globe of any gas bracket, chandelier or gas stand or on the globe
of any oil lamp the inner part of such globe forming a chamber of hot air which
surrounds and enables the said vessel to be kept warm with a very small flame, the
heated air and gases from the flame slowly escaping at the top of the globe through
the perforations round the said vessel.
Dated this 5th day of Crestron has 1000
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Infants' Food Warmer, Applicable for other like Uses.
I, JOHN FREDERIC SMITH, of 22, Whitehead Road, Aston, Warwickshire, Medical
Student, 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 consists of the improved infants' food warmer herein described
which is applicable for other like purposes and is designed for use with an ordinary
glass globe and gas burner or with the glass globe of an oil lamp.
In carrying out my invention I provide a vessel by preference made of thin sheet
metal and of cylindrical form and of a size suitable to fit in the upper opening of
the gas globe with which it is required to be used. The vessel is provided with an
upper flange or side projecting parts by which it is supported from the top of the
globe. This flange is by preference made in the form of an inverted hollow truncated
cone so as to fit on globes of various sizes. The said vessel is provided with a
suitable handle or bandles for lifting it by. An ordinary inner jug or pot containing
the infant's food to be warmed fits in the said vessel which latter is partly filled with
water which is heated and kept warm by the gas flame underneath.
The improved infants' food warmer above described can be instantly placed on or
removed from the globe of any gas bracket, chandelier or gas stand or on the globe
of any oil lamp the inner part of such globe forming a chamber of hot air which
surrounds and enables the said vessel to be kept warin with a very small flame, the
heated air and gases from the flame slowly escaping at the top of the globe through
the perforations round the said vessel.

page_text: On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 represents in part sectional elevation an
infants' food warmer constructed according to my invention in position on a glass
globe over a gas burner; Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 3 a plan of the
vessel part of the same separately; Fig 4 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 5 a plan
of a modified form of the said vessel.
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a is the gas burner and is an ordinary open topped glass globe surrounding the
same. c is the thin sheet metal vessel which fits in the top of the glass globe and is
supported by its upper flange d which latter will fit on globes of various sizes. e is
the handle for lifting the vessel by. The vessel c is made rather smaller than the open
top of the glass globe so as to allow a space for a series of holes in the flange d
through which the heated air and gases from the flame can slowly escape. When in
use as represented by Fig. 1 the vessel c is partly filled with water and heated by the
gas flame underneath and in this vessel fits an ordinary inner pot or jug g for
containing the infant's food or other matter to be heated so that the contents will be
heated and kept warm by the water in the vessel which as is well known will
prevent the contents of the jug or pot a being burned or overheated. The flange d
can either be made fixed to the vessel c or detachable therefrom as represented for
instance by Figs. 2 and 3 so that the vessel c will be useful for other purposes. The
flange d can readily be made so that it can be detached from or attached to the
vessel c by the latter having a projecting upper lip c¹ which fits over the top of the.
flange and two projecting pins 2 which fit underneath the flange d; the flange d
having two slots d' so as to permit of the vessel being lifted up from the flange d
when turned round until its pins c² correspond with the slots d'.
In the modification illustrated by Figs. 4 and 5 the vessel c is deeper than that
illustrated by Figs. 1, 2 and 3 and is continued up above the flange so as to serve
as a food warmer without the use of the jug or pot g and in this example the flange d
is fixed to the vessel c.
It will be evident that instead of employing a continuous flange d for supporting
the vessel c from the top of the globe, two or more side projecting parts might be
provided on the vessel c to rest on the top of the globe 6 for the same purpose.
It will be evident that when not in use with an ordinary glass globe or burner or
with the glass globe of an oil lamp the vessel'e can by its flange d or side projecting
parts be supported by a tripod or other support over the flame of a night light lamp
or other heating medium.
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
claim is :-
1st. A vessel for the purposes set forth provided with either a fixed or detachable
flange, or with side projecting parts, adapted to rest upon the top of the glass globe
surrounding a gas burner or other heater so as to support the said vessel partly or
wholly within the said globe for the purpose and substantially as hereinbefore set
forth.
2nd. In apparatus for warming and keeping warm infants' food and for other
like uses, the combination with the glass globe b, of the vessel c, supported partly or
wholly within the same by the flange d, for the purpose and substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
3rd. In apparatus for warming and keeping warm infants' food and for other like
uses, the combination with the water vessel c, provided with the flange d, or with
side projecting parts, of the jug or vessel g fitting within the vessel c for containing
the infants' food or other matter to be heated, substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawing.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.