Improvements in Apparatus for Warming Plates, Dishes, Tea and Coffee Pots, Kettles, Applicable also for Warming Carriages WARMING,ESES, & COFFEE POTS KETTLES APPLICABLE ALSO FOR WARMING CARRIAGES, BEDS & FOR OTHER LIKE WARMING PURPOSES
Year: 1884

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Warming Plates, Dishes, Tea and
Coffee Pots, Kettles, Applicable also for Warming Carriages,
I EDGAR BROOKS of 1 Trafalgar Terrace, Alcester Road Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WARMING, PLATES, DISHES, TEA & COFFEE
POTS KETTLES APPLICABLE ALSO FOR WARMING CARRIAGES, BEDS & FOR OTHER
LIKE WARMING PURPOSES, 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 apparatus for warming plates dishes,
pots Kettles &c applicable also for warming carriages beds & for other like warming
purposes & the improvements consist in providing a dish or stand of metal or other
suitable material with a lining of asbestos, slag wool or other suitable non
conductor of heat; in the centre of which dish or stand & over the asbestos, or
other non conductor of heat, is placed a slab of fire clay, soap stone, or other
suitable heat retaining material, which has been heated to a sufficient degree in a
fire or oven.
In order to enable my improvements to be fully understood I will describe the
same by reference to the accompanying drawings in which figure 1 is a section of a
warming apparatus constructed according to my Invention & suitable for warming
plates dishes Tea & Coffee pots &c a dinner plate being shewn applied thereto in
order to be warmed; figure 2 is an elevation figure 3 a plan, & figure 4 a section
of the dish or stand of my apparatus; figures 5 & 6 an elevation & a section
respectively of the heating slab for the same. Similar letters in all the figures
represent similar parts. A is the dish or stand of metal or other suitable material
formed hollow by preference as shewn, so as to form a shell with double plates,
between which I place a sufficient-thickness of asbestos slag wool, or other suitable
non conductor of heat B. C is the slab made of fire clay soap stone or other
suitable or similar heat material, which after being heated to a sufficient degree
in a fire or oven is placed upon the dish or stand A as shewn in figure 1, an air
tight or nearly air tight joint will be formed between the edge of the dish or
stand A & the under side of the plate E. to be warmed a space being left between
the top of the slab C and the underside of the plate or dish E it can be warmed
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page_text: very quickly without being liable to crack which it might do if it were in direct
contact with the slab C. The asbestos B or the like will prevent radiation of heat
in any direction except through the plate E which will in consequence be warmed
& kept warm for a considerable time without it being necessary to reheat the
slab C.
ff are handles for carrying the apparatus Instead of forming the dish or
stand A hollow, as shewn in the drawing I sometimes dispense with the inner metal
plate or dish. The slab C of fire clay or the like in that case resting directly on
the asbestos or other lining B which is made to slightly overlap the edge of the
stand A so that the plate E may rest thereon when being warmed. Instead of
heating the slab C in a fire or oven as hereinbefore described I sometimes employ
a spirit lamp placed under the outer dish or stand in which case I cut away a
portion of the metal or other plates & the packing or lining of asbestos or the like
so that the flame of the lamp may operate directly upon the bottom of the slab C.
The apparatus for warming meat dishes, Tea Kettles, coffee pots, &c is similar
in construction to the herein before described for warming plates, the shape &
dimensions of the apparatus & size of the spaces being varied to suit different
kinds of dishes Kettles &c.
My improved apparatus for warming Beds & carriages is substantially the same
in construction as those herein before described except that I preferably provide a
lid or cover suitably provided with Felt, carpet or other similar material upon
which the feet rest.
Having now described my said Invention & the manner of performing the same
what I Claim is
Firstly. The improved apparatus for warming plates dishes Tea & Coffee pots
& Kettles applicable also for warming carriages beds & for other like warming
purposes as herein before described & represented in the accompanying drawings.
Secondly. An apparatus for warming plates & for other warming purposes in
combination with a dish or stand of metal or other suitable material with a lining
or layer of asbestos or other nonconducting material & a slab of fire clay or other
like heat retaining substance as hereinbefore described and represented in tho
accompanying drawings.
Thirdly. The use in the manner described for warming plates dishes carriages
beds & the like of a heated slab of suitable material such as fire clay soap stone
&c and embedding the inner part & edges of the same in asbestos, Asbestos paint
slag wool or some other non conductor of heat; in such manner as to prevent
radiation of heat in other direction than desired.
Dinted this 18th day of October 1884.