An Improved Plate-holder for Heating and Cooling Purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 6th Feb., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Plate-holder for Heating and Cooling Purposes.
1, HARRY MILLER BOEHMER of 87 Hollan Park Avenue, W. in the County
of Middlesex, Clerk 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:-
The improved plate-holder has been devised for the purpose of enabling plates
to be readily heated by means of hot-water or cooled by means of ice: all that is
necessary to do this being, that hot-water should be poured into it or ice placed
therein and the plate that is to be used set on the top, and the clips, that are
provided on the side of the holder, adjusted to the plate.
Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan of the improved plate holder.
Figure 2 is a side view, and
Figure 3 is a section.
(a) is the body; (b) a groove to receive a soft water-proof ring (c); and (d) (d')
are spring clips that are attached to the body (a), and clip the edges of the plate
that is used with the improved plate-holder; () (¹) are feet to keep the body
of the holder above the surface of the table on which it stands. In Figure 3 a
section is shown of a plate in position.
The body of the plate-holder may be constructed of any suitable metal or ceramic
ware. The spring clips are attached to the metal bodies by means of solder, rivets,
screws or bolts, but when made of ceramic ware, by bolts, holes being left in the
bodies to receive them.
The spring clips may be made as shown by (d), which represents a clip bolted
to the body without a hinge to it, or they may be made as shown by (d) with
a hinge, or a combination of the two forms of clips may be used; (e) is a strip
of metal shaped as shown; to this is soldered a tube (f) slotted in the direction of
its length for the purpose of permitting a projection (g) on an inner tube (½)
working up and down within it; in the inner tube (4) is a spring (i), which is
made fast at its lower extremity by solder or other means to a cross-bar (k), and
at its upper end to the gripper (1) which is soldered to the inner tube (h). The
strip (e) and tube (f) may be cast in one, as may also be the inner tube (h)
gripper (e) and projection (g). The clip (d') is shown with the hinge at (m).
The waterproof ring (c), may be made of solid india rubber, or it may be a
hollow tubular india rubber ring as shown, or the ring may be made of asbestos,
or other suitable substance.
The feet (x) (1) may be formed out of the substance of the body (a) or they
may be attached thereto, (c) shows one of the former kind, and (c) one of the
latter, into which can be inserted plugs of wood, cork, or other so called non-
conductors of heat for the purpose of preventing the heat from the bodies of the
plate holders injuring the surfaces of the tables where they are used.
This plate holder is capable of taking plates of varied patterns which the well know
existing hot-water plate cannot do, and consequent on this ability to vary its plates
the metal body has not to be thrown away when a plate is broken, as is the case with
the present "hotwater plate." Further all parts of the improved plate-holder, both
inside and outside, can be got at for the purposes of cleaning; and in addition it can
be used to contain ice for the purpose of keeping the plate cool in summer, or whenever
it may be considered desirable to do so.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what
I claim is :
The plate-holder substantially as hereinbefore described, and shown by the
drawings.
Dated this 2011 JC T
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