Portable Steam Apparatus for Keeping Dishes, Plates, and the like at a Uniform Heat.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 18th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Portable Steam Apparatus for Keeping Dishes, Plates, and the like
at a Uniform Heat.
ELLINOR CAROLINE LOUISA CLOSE Kirtlington Park Oxford, wife of
Henry G. Close do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
.
This consists of a light metal boiler fitted with hook to suspend it before an
ordinary fire grate. A revolving steam pipe is fixed thereon at an angle & a
Hexible tube with suitable connections conveys the steam to a shallow steam box
at a convenient distance therefrom on which the dishes are placed.
ELLINOR CAROLINE LOUISA CLOSE.
Portable Steam Apparatus for Keeping Dishes, Plates, and the like
at a Uniform Heat.
J, ELLINOR CAROLINE LOUISA CLOSE of Kirtlington Park, Oxford, wife of
Henry G. Close, 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 is designed to supply a convenient method of heating dishes and
the like during the serving of meals and for similar purposes.
I will now describe the invention with reference to the accompanying drawings
in which
Fig. 1 shows a small boiler or kettle preferably of half round section fitted
with an inlet nozzle d, a hook, for hanging the boiler on the bar of the grate,
a handle e, and a pipe g, which revolves in any direction by means of a swivel
joint at r.
Fig. 2 shows an oblong pan with cover preferably about forty-five inches long,
eighteen inches broad and one and a half inches deep. Through the centre of the
pan lengthwise, a perforated tube a, of suitable size is fixed, which tube is raised
slightly from the bottom of the pan so as to keep it above the condensation
water.
These two articles are connected by a flexible tube fitted at one end to the
This pipe
boiler by the union c, and at the other end to the pan by the union b.
may be made of metal or any other suitable material.
The boiler and pan can be made of copper, tin or any other suitable metal.
When in operation, the pan is closed and the steam from the boiler is allowed to
pass into the interior.
The dishes to be warmed are placed on the top of the cover. The pan can be
placed on a side table or in any convenient place. The steam keeps the pan hot,
and very little of it can escape into the room if the lid is carefully fitted. The
steam condenses slowly in the pan whence it is removed in the form of water as

page_text: required. If preferred a tap can be added to draw off the water and a layer of
felt may be placed beneath the pan to avoid injury to the table or side-board.
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 :-
A portable boiler or kettle with revolving pipe and hook to hang on bar of grate
combined with a flexible tube and a condensing pan forming a hot plate for heating
dishes, as herein described and set forth.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, E.C., Agent for Applicant.