IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR WARMING BEDS, PERSONS, CARRIAGES, AND ROOMS
Year: 1844

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
COKE WILMOT, of Haddenham, in the County of Buckingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria did, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of September,
in the eighth year of Her reign, give and grant unto me, the said Edward
Coke Wilmot, my exors, adiñiors, and assigns, during the term of fourteen
years therein mentioned, that I should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and.
in all the Colonies and Plantations abroad, and the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey,
Alderney, Sark, and Man, my Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR WARMING
BEDS, PERSONS, CARRIAGES, AND ROOMS;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said Edward Coke Wilmot, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Coke Wilmot, in compliance
with the said proviso, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described

page_text: and ascertained in and by the following statement and the Drawings therein
referred to (that is to say):-
The object of my Invention is, the obviating the objections usually made to
warmers now in use, and providing an improved apparatus, particularly adapted
as a warmer for beds, carriages, small rooms, or closets, or for the person, in cases
of suspended animation, spasmodic affections, or other complaints requiring the
application of heat to different parts of the body. I make the warmer of cast
iron, that being the only base metal that does not, when heated, emit an
unpleasant effluvia. The warmer may be made in one picce or in two pieces,
of an oval or round shape, flattened at each side so as to form a hollow convex
box or case about two inches thick in the middle, and polished or not on the
outer surface, according to the purpose for which it is intended to be applied;
but it is most convenient to have it polished, as it will then answer all purposes.
It is heated by means of a cast-iron heater, made red hot. The warmer, if
made in one piece, must be cast hollow.
Figure I. represents the warmer cast in one piece.
Figure 2 represents a hollow piece of iron, forming the neck, and attached
to the body of the warmer about one inch, and cast therewith, and opening
into it for the purpose of receiving the heater; this hollow or opening is cir-
cular, and should be about one and a half inch in diameter, and finished
interally with a female screw to receive the handle or stopper, as either may
be required.
purpose
Figure 3 represents a cast-iron lieater, to be used for the
of heating
the warmer, Figure 1; it should be cast with a bridge or eye at one end,, so
that it may be conveniently moved when hot by means of the hook Figure 4,
and dropped through the neck of the warmer. The heater should be about a
quarter of an inch less in diameter than the opening or neck, and about one
and a half inch less than the diameter of the warmer from a to b, so as not to
impede the introduction of either the stopper or the handle. It has a shoulder
near the top to rest upon a corresponding shoulder or ledge, to be made in the
neck at Figure 5. This heater may be either cast hollow or solid; one of
each should accompany the warmer, to be used as greater or lesser heat may
be required.
Figure 6 represents a warmer open, made in two pieces, which are fastened
together by means of a hinge cast with the warmer, and fastened with a flush
bolt when closed:
Figure 7 represents a hollow projection of a pyramidical form, formning
part of and cast with the warmer over which the heater is placed.
Figures 8, 9, 10, represent three smaller projections, also cast with the

page_text: warmer, upon which the heater must rest to prevent its coming in immediate
contact with the internal surface of the warmer.
Figure 11 represents. a hollow piece of iron, cast with the piece forming the
lower side of the warmer Figure 6, and finished with a female screw to receive
the male screw of the handle or stopper, as either may be required.
Figure 12 represents a heater, to be used with a warmer. Figure 6, and to
be cast of such height, including a bridge or eye, as will not, when in its place
in the warmer, impede the closing of the warmer. This must, be cast with a
hollow corresponding in shape with the projection, Figure 7, in the warmer,
but should not fit thereto exactly. There should be three licaters of Figure 12,
varying in weight from one pound to three pounds, to be respectively used
according to the amount and duration of heat required..
Figure 13 represents a handle made of wood, having at the end a male
screw, which may be of brass or other metal; the handle may be in one piece,
but, as represented, is in two pieces, joined by means of a male and female
screw, made of brass or other metal.
Figure 14 represents a cast-iron stopper, having a male screw end to fit into
the neck, and adapted for use with either warmer.
Figure 4 represents a hook, to be made of metal, with a wooden handle, to
be used for the purpose of removing the heater from the fire and placing it in
the warmer; it should be about eleven inches in length, so as conveniently to
fit into the case Figure 15.
Figure 15 represents a case open, the sides of which are to be made of
wood; the case is to be used to receive the warmer. When required for
warming the feet or travelling, the top and bottom should be covered with
cotton, velvet, or other thin material that will not materially intercept the heat
from the warmer.
Figures 16 represent pieces of cast iron fixed with screws to the sides of the
case, so constructed as to fix the warmer in its place and prevent its immediate
contact with the wood.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that what I claim as
my Invention is, the improved apparatus, consisting of a cast-iron warmer,
adapted and arranged as herein-before described for the warming of beds,
carriages, persons, or rooms.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-
second day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and forty-five.
EDWD COKE (L.S.) WILMOT.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of March,
in the year of our Lord 1845, the aforesaid Edward Coke Wilmot came before
our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Trolled the Twenty-fifth day of March. in the year of our Lord One