Improvements in connection with Bed and Foot Warmers.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 28th Jan., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Bed and Foot Warmers.
I, FREDERICK BUNTER CLAPCOTT, Gentleman, of Ponsonby Road, Auckland, New
Zealand, 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 improvements in connection with bed and foot warmers
and the object, is to provide a warmer which can be used for either of these purposes.
In carrying my invention into effect. I proceed in or in about the following manner
making reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which Fig. 1 is a side
view and Fig. 2 an end view. I provide a cylinder a of galvanised iron, earthenware
or other suitable metal or material. The cylinder has passed through it a spindle or
axle the ends of which protrude as at b bi A screw cap or other arrangement c is
provided to an opening through which the cylinder can be filled with boiling water.
The axle ends 6 are free to revolve at the ends of the arms & which are attached
to or form part of a socket e to which a handle f can be attached.
arms may be attached directly to the handle. To receive the axle ends b b¹ the ends
If desired the
of d are open-slotted or bifurcated as at g. Above each slot g is pivotted a
catch piece h having in it a notch i and when the pieces h are shut down the
notches i hold the axle ends b b¹ in one direction while the slots g hold them in the
opposite direction.
Instead of having one axle which passes right through the cylinder a a short axle
may be attached to each end of a.
When the apparatus is to be used as a bed-warmer it is filled with boiling water
and the cap or other cover c firmly secured. The axle ends bb¹ are then entered
into the slots g and the catch pieces shut down so as to prevent the cylinder a
slipping out. After being used as a bed-warmer by rolling up and down between the
bed clothes, the cylinder a can be removed by lifting the catch pieces h and can be
put into a flannel jacket and used as a foot warmer.
I do not confine myself to the precise shapes of the parts shown in the drawings
nor to their relative proportions as they may be considerably varied without
departure from the essential features of the invention.
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
1. Combined but separable bed and foot warmers each combination consisting
essentially of a cylinder to contain boiling water and having passed through it an
axle the ends of which protrude through the ends of the cylinder or having axles
attached to each of its ends, the said axle ends or axles being free to revolve in the
ends of arms which outside the cylinder are connected to a handle or shaft by
means of a socket or otherwise provision being made at the ends of the arms to
permit of the ready removal of the said cylinder as and when required the whole
substantially as described in the above specification and exemplified in the
accompanying drawings.

page_text: 2. In combined bed and foot warmers such as are the subject matter of the
preceding Claim 1 the construction of the ends of the arins whereby the cylinder
can be readily removed and replaced, the said construction consisting essentially in
open slotting (or bifurcating) the ends of the arms and in providing each arm with
a pivotted catch piece having in it a notch and which catch pieces when shut down
will provide with the open-slots openings in which can revolve the axles or axle ends
of the cylinder, the whole substantially as described in the above specification and
exemplified in the accompanying drawings.
3. Combined but separable bed and foot warners constructed subtantially as
described in the above specification and exemplified in the accompanying
drawings.
This 1at do of December 1908
HUGHES & YOUNG,
Agents.