Improvements in Apparatus or Means for Promoting Perspiration, and for Warming Beds and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left; 6th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 14th Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus or Means for Promoting Perspiration,
and for Warming Beds and the like.
I, JEAN LOUIS ROMAIN WEISS of 21 Boulevard Poissonnière Paris in the
Republic of France, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to improved apparatus or means for promoting perspiration
which may be also employed for warming or airing beds or the like.
The apparatus consists of an upper and lower plate preferably hollowed and
made of metal and connected together by metal arms or rods jointed at their outer
ends to the said upper and lower plates and centrally to each other at their inner
ends where they are also jointed to other metal rods preferably situated horizontally
and constituting distance pieces. At each of the points of junction of the
connecting arms and rods rings are provided to which the said arms are attached.
The said arms may be formed of rigid rods or of chains and of any incombustible
material.
The lower or base plate is provided centrally with a sconce or socket for taking
a candle or lamp or other similar heating device and concentrically with this socket
is arranged a guard or chimney so as to surround the candle or lamp to a sufficient
height. From the centre on the under-side of the upper plate is suspended an
extinguisher or conical hood with its opening or base situated downwardly and in
a vertical line with the socket on the aforesaid base plate.
On the upper side of the upper plate is a ring in which engages a hook attached
to a disc on which are mounted metal legs which are arched in an upward direction
and then descend round the sides of the heating device. The said legs terminate
at their ends in balls or other suitable feet and they are constructed so that they
can be folded together when out of use. A sliding ring or the like when raised
into position keeps the said legs at their proper distances apart so that they
constitute supports for the upper and lower plates united by the jointed arms.
An apparatus so constructed is placed in a bed or the like where the person is
also placed who wishes to induce perspiration. A covering or coverings are then
placed over the patient and the candle or lamp or the like is lighted. The heat
generated by the flame is concentrated or confined in the space under the coverings
and perspiration is quickly obtained as if in a sudatory or vapour bath.
When a sufficiently high temperature has been obtained the flame is extinguished
by raising the base plate of the apparatus with the hand which by reason of its
jointed arms can then approach the upper plate so that the said flame is extinguished
by the depending extinguisher.
This apparatus is very simple in construction and besides being used for inducing
perspiration as described may be also used as a warming pan for warming beds or
the like.
The apparatus may be constructed of various sizes and shapes and of any
suitable metal and if desired may be decorated externally.
Dotad this 22nd day of April 1895.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus or Means for Promoting Perspiration,
and for Warming Beds and the like.
1, JEAN LOUIS ROMAIN WEISS of 21 Boulevard Poissonnière, Paris in the
Republic of France, Engineer, 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 apparatus or means for promoting perspiration
which may be also employed for warming or airing beds or the like.
I will describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in
which
Figure 1 is a vertical section, Figure 2 a plan view and Figure 3 a horizontal
section of apparatus arranged according to my invention.
Figure 4 shews the apparatus in use in a bed.
I do not limit myself to the precise details of the apparatus which I shall
describe as it will be evident that they may be varied without departing from the
general nature of the said apparatus.
The said apparatus consists of an upper metal plate B and a lower metal plate A
hollowed or dished and connected together by two sets of arms wires chains or
rods C C jointed at their outer ends a and b to the said upper and lower plates B, A
and central to each other at their inner ends where they are also jointed to other
metal rods D preferably situated horizontally and constituting distance pieces and
at each of the points of junction of the connecting arms and rods, rings are
provided to which the said arms are attached. Or instead of rods a single ring D
may be used to which the upper and lower sets of arms C C₁ are hinged at their
inner ends c as shewn in the drawings. The said arins C C¹ may be formed of
rigid rods or of chains of any combustible material.
The lower or base plate A is provided centrally with a sconce or socket d for
taking a candle or lamp or other similar heating device and concentrically with
this socket is arranged a guard or chimney e so as to surround the candle or lamp
to a sufficient height. From the centre on the under side of the upper plate B is
suspended an extinguisher or conical hood f in a vertical line with the socket on the
aforesaid base plate.
On the upper side of the upper plate B is a ring g in which engages a hook
attached to a disc h on which are mounted 4 metal legs E which are arched in an
upward direction and then descend round the sides of the heating device. The
said legs terminate at their ends in balls or other suitable feet and they are
constructed so that they can be folded together as shewn by the dotted lines in
Figure 2. A sliding ring or the like when raised into position keeps the said
legs E at their proper distances apart so that they constitute supports for the
upper and lower plates A and B united by the jointed arms C C'.
An apparatus so constructed is placed as shewn in Figure 4 in a bed or the like
containing the person in whom perspiration is to be induced. A covering or
coverings is or are then placed over the patient and the candle or lamp or the like
is lighted. The heat generated by the flame is concentrated or confined in the
space under the coverings and perspiration is quickly obtained as if in a sudatory
or vapour bath.
When a sufficiently high temperature has been obtained the flame is extinguished
by raising the base plate of the apparatus which by reason of its jointed arms can
then approach the upper plate so that the said flame is extinguished by the
depending extinguisher.
This apparatus is very simple in construction and besides being used for inducing

page_text: perspiration as described may be also used as a warming pan for warming beds or
the like.
The apparatus may be constructed of various sizes and shapes and of any
suitable metal and if desired may be decorated externally.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. An apparatus or means for promoting perspiration and for heating beds or
the like consisting of plates joined together by hinged arms or chains so that the
said plates may be caused to approach each other when desired the base plate
having a socket or sconce for a candle or lamp or the like and a surrounding guard
or chimney and the upper plate having an extinguisher, the said apparatus being
bung from legs capable of being folded together and constituting a support for the
heating device and for a bed covering or the like substantially as herein before
described.
2. The apparatus for the purposes set forth substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 6th day of February 1896.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.