Improvements in Foot Warmers.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Oct.. 1892-4ccepted, 5th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Foot Warmers.
I CLARA PERMAN of Oldfield Park Bath in the County of Somerset Medical
and Surgical Nurse do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to that kind of foot warmers designed for use by invalids
and others while in bed which consist of an india rubber bag or bottle for containing
heated water and my said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter
described in foot warmers of the said kind the object of which improvements is to
produce a foot warmer of greater efficiency than those heretofore known and
manufactured.
In my experience of foot warmers of the kind hereinbefore referred to I have
found that they act very inefficiently inasmuch as it is impossible by their use to
keep all parts of the foot uniformly heated and this objection my invention is designed
to obviate.
According to my said invention I form a pocket or pockets for the reception of
the feet within the bag or bottle constituting the foot warmer the mouth or mouths
of which pocket or pockets is or are at one edge or side of the said bag or bottle.
And I so form the said pocket or pockets that when the bag or bottle is charged
with heated water for use the said pocket or pockets is or are surrounded with the
said water. The feet when placed in the said pocket or pockets are consequently
uniformly heated at all parts.
Dated the 21st day of June 1892
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Per P. ( R.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Foot Warmers.
I CLARA PERMAN of Oldfield Park Bath in the County of Somerset Medical
and Surgical Nurse 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 that kind of foot warmers designed for use by invalids
and others while in bed which consist of an india rubber bag or bottle for containing
heated water and my said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter
described in foot warmers of the said kind the object of which improvements is to
produce a foot warmer of greater efficiency than those heretofore known and
manufactured.
In my experience of foot warmers of the kind herein before referred to I have
found that they act very inefficiently inasmuch as it is impossible by their use to
keep all parts of the foot uniformly heated and this objection my invention is designed
to obviate.
According to my said invention I form a pocket or pockets for the reception of the
feet within the bag constituting the foot warmer the mouth or mouths of which
pocket or pockets is or are at one edge or side of the said bag. And I so form the
said pocket or pockets that when the bag is charged with heated water for use the
said pocket or pockets is or are surrounded with the said water. The feet when
placed in the said pocket or pockets are consequently uniformly heated at all parts.

page_text: A bag shaped foot warmer of india rubber provided with two pockets according
to my invention and charged with water ready for use is illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings
Figure 1 of which is a plan or face view of the said foot warmer
Figure 2 an edge view thereof showing the mouths of the pockets
Figure 3 a longitudinal section taken on the line 1, 1 Figure 1 and
Figure 4 a transverse section taken on the line 2, 2 Figure 1.
In the following description of the said figures the parts thereof are referred to
by the letters marked thereon. The same letters of reference indicate the same
parts in each of the said figures
The outer portions of the foot warmer consist of a bag formed of sheets of
rubber a a to which a handle and a neck e provided with a screw stopper d and a
funnel shaped mouth e are connected as usual. ff are the pockets for the reception
of the feet which pockets are formed and secured within the outer portions of the
bag as shown in the drawings and hereinafter described. The said pockets consist
of sheets of india rubber gg which are severally secured to the outer portions a a of
the bag at the edges h and which are both secured together and also to the
sheets a a constituting the outer parts or sides of the bag at the edges i and j and
at those parts of the edge k which lie on each side of the neck c. At the part which
is immediately in line with the neck e the rubber sheets gg are connected together
but not to the parts a a of the bag. The said sheets of rubber yg are also secured
together and to the outer portions a a of the bag at or near the middle of the length
thereof as shown at in Figures 2 and 3 the connection extending from the
edges about two thirds across the bag as shown by the broken lines 11 in
Figure 1.
C
The methods or processes usually adopted in the manufacture of ordinary india
rubber bag shaped foot warmers and other like india rubber goods are suitable in
the manufacture of foot warmers embodying my invention herein described.
The said foot warmer is prepared for use by charging it with heated water as in
the case of ordinary rubber foot warmers. When the said foot warmer is in use the
feet of the person using it are placed one in each of the pockets ff.
In some cases I form within the foot warmer a single pocket of sufficient size for
the reception of both feet instead of two pockets one for each foot.
Where one
pocket only is required the foot warmer is or may be made precisely as hereinbefore
described with reference to the foot warmer illustrated in the accompanying
drawings except that the sheets of india rubber a a and g g are not connected at the
part l.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
Forming in a bag shaped india rubber foot warmer a pocket or pockets for the
reception of the feet of the person using the foot warmer substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the First day of October 1892.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.