Heating Apparatus for Drinks.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th May, 1894--Accepted, 1st Sept., 1894
UOMI LEIE SPECIFICATION.
Heating Apparatus for Drinks.
I, WILHELM RAUSCH, partner of Kopf, Fuchs & Rausch, Manufacturers, of
Marsinstrasse, Halle in the Province of Saxony and Kingdom of Prussia, 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
3 statement :-
In the cold season of the year it is felt to be a great disadvantage that the cold
drinks served in public houses are of a temperature which is not agreeable to every
guest and, what is more important, grave illnesses are very often caused by the
drinking of cold beer. For a long time this danger has been fully recognised and
suitable means have been attempted to prevent it. But up to the present the means
that have been applied to attain this object must be considered as unsuitable. For
firstly they are not very cleanly or appetizing and then the number of drinks that
can be heated at the same time is unpleasantly limited, the objects used for this
purpose and previously artificially heated (usually iron bars made red-hot in the
Gre), giving off their heat very quickly and requiring a considerable time until they
heated afresh.
are
The apparatus now to be described is intended to do away entirely with the above
mentioned disadvantages.
I annexed drawing Figure 1 is a vertical section through the apparatus and
Figare 2 a view from above.
Figure 3 shows only at the half a cross-section of the apparatus and Figure 4
shows a vertical section through one of the cups g.
The apparatus consists of a boiler a made of sheet-metal and provided with a
fire-box
intended for the reception of a suitable heating apparatus (petroleum,
spirit or gas flame). In the top-plate d of this boiler which is furnished with a
handle c there are several (in the annexed drawing five) circular openings, one of
which serves as feed-hole and is closed with a small cover, attached by means of
the arm e to the shaft of the handle c. The other openings form the approaches
to long cylindrical metal-cases f closed at the lower end and soldered on or otner-
wisse suitably fixed to the inner side of the cover, so that they are completely
surrounded on all sides by the water in the boiler. Into each of these cases is
hung a cup g likewise made of tin, closed at the top by a cork and provided with a
handle. In making use of this apparatus the boiler a as well as the cups g are
filed with water. The water that is contained in a is made to boil by the flame of
the heating apparatus and imparts its heat also to the water contained in the cups g,
So t hat if one of these cups is taken out of the apparatus and held in the drink, the
latter undergoes a rise in temperature proportionate to that of the water in the
cup. The arrangement of the apparatus as regards its material and size may
naturally vary according to circumstances. The number of the cups is unlimited
ind the cases may be entirely dispensed with, so that the cups g dip directly into
the water of the boiler a. The apparatus may be placed on the bar or on a table
of the restaurant; in the latter case it may be placed on a plate or any other kind
of support.
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
1 claim is:
Heating apparatus for drinks so arranged that by the application of metal-
Cubs
filled with waton which

page_text: to boil by a flame, into which boiler the cups either dip direct or are heated by
being hung into cases fattached to the top-plate of the boiler, a drink, into which
one of these cups is dipped, undergoes a certain rise in temperature.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of April 1894.
For WILHELM RAUSCH,
B. Brockhues.