Apparatus for Heating Dinner and other Plates or Dishes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Apparatus for Heating Dinner and other Plates or Dishes.
I, CHRISTOPHER JOHN ARMSTRONG, of No. 55 West India Dock Road, in the
County of London, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to apparatus for heating a number of dinner or other plates
or dishes, and keeping them hot, this apparatus being especially applicable for use
in hotels, hospitals and other public institutions.
For this purpose, I provide a number of hollow superposed shelves, made of sheet
metal such as copper, and I connect the ends of these shelves by upright conduits,
the conduit at the one end having at its top a connection for a steam pipe and that
at the other end having at its bottom an outlet for steam or water of condensation.
The shelves and their connecting conduits are all placed within a casing which
may be of wood, provided with a side door. Having placed the plates or dishes
on the shelves and closed the door, I admit steam which rapidly heats the shelves
and the plates or dishes upon them, and which, even after the steam supply is cut
off, keeps them hot for some time.
I prefer to stamp the upper surfaces of the shelves so as to form indentations in
which the bottoms of the plates or dishes approximately fit. They are thus
steadied in position and brought into close contact with the heated metal.
The apparatus may be fixed in a position convenient for connection to a steam
boiler, or it may be of size to be readily carried from the place where the plates or
dishes are heated to the place where they are used.
Dated this 8th day of December 1896.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Heating Dinner and other Plates or Dishes.
I, CHRISTOPHER JOHN ARMSTRONG, of No. 55 West India Dock Road, in the
County of London, 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:-
My invention relates to apparatus for heating a number of dinner or other plates
or dishes, and keeping them bot, this apparatus being especially applicable for use
in hotels, hospitals and other public institutions.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a perspective front view and Fig. 2 is a
part vertical section of apparatus according to my invention.
I provide a number of hollow superposed shelves A made of sheet metal such as
copper, and I connect the ends of these shelves to upright conduits B, C, the
conduit B at the one end having at its top a connection D for a steam pipe and the
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page_text: conduit C at the other end having at its bottom an outlet E for stean or water of
condensation. The shelves A and their connecting conduits B and C are all
placed within a casing F which may be of wood provided with a side door G.
Having placed the plates or dishes on the shelves and closed the door, I admit
steam which rapidly heats the shelves and the plates or dishes upon them, and
which, even after the steam supply is cut off, keeps them hot for some time.
I prefer to stamp the upper surfaces of the shelves so as to form indentations in
which the bottoms of the plates or dishes fit or approximately fit. They are thus
steadied in position and brought into close contact with the heated metal.
The apparatus may be fixed in a position convenient for connection to a steam
boiler, or it may be of size to be readily carried from the place where the plates or
dishes are heated to the place where they are used.
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 :-
Apparatus for heating dinner and other plates or dishes substantially as described
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 17th day of March 1897.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.