A new or improved food warmer applicable for sick rooms and the like / [Penelope Marion Bishop].
- Bishop, Penelope Marion.
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A new or improved food warmer applicable for sick rooms and the like / [Penelope Marion Bishop]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![A.D. 1900 Date of Application, 14th Nov,, 1900 Complete Specification Left, 14th Aug., 1901—Accepted, 14th Nov., 1901 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. u A New or Improved Food Warmer applicable for Sick Rooms and the like 9 ’ I, Penelope Marion Bishop of Villa Ste. Heloise, Cannes Fiance, do kereby declare the nature of this invention to he as follows ;—- This invention has for its object a simple portable device which can be set up at a moment’s notice, and used as a food warmer. 5 It consists essentially in two parts, first the base which is preferably double and of tinned iron, having a hollow in the centre for a lamp, four sockets at each corner for the legs, and a reversible handle of brass wire or its equivalent which semi-rotates on pivots or sockets, and which can lie fiat on the base when not in use or can project straight off from beyond the base. I prefer to make 10 this handle as a wire loop ending with two short pieces at right angles. Second, a lid or warming tray, to which is attached one or more flaps to act as shades for the light, and two wires bent to the shape of three sides of a rectangle, the centre side in each case being enclosed by a piece of tin soldered to the tin elate forming the warming table. This tin plate is strengthened with short sides ] 5 so arranged as to retain part of the heated air or gases and also act as a sort of box in which to insert the bottom part when travelling, the legs being folded over, level with the bottom of the box. For this purpose it is desirable that the two pairs of legs should just miss each other in folding, the sockets being some¬ what unsymmetrically spaced for that purpose. If then the handle be also so 20 arranged as to fit into the recess left for the lamp when the apparatus is folded up my experimental model will go into a space of about one and a quarter inch thick, namely, five-eighths inch thickness of bottom, one-eighth inch depth of knobs which act as legs and one-quarter inch thickness of legs, table top and hinged flap. 25 The mode of action is as follows ;-—The lamp being placed in the central socket (the lamp can be simply a glass of water with a night-light or its equivalent floating therein) the legs are placed vertically to the top and inserted into the sockets at the four corners, the handle having previously been thrown over so as to stand outside the base. The lamp is now lit and the fqod placed on the top. A 30 good large night-light is found quite sufficient to keep the food nice and warm through the night, while the flap keeps the direct light of the night-light from the eyes of the invalid in bed. The bottom being supported on legs there is no chance of it singeing the table on which it stands, and the flap or flaps prevent any chance of bed-clothes getting into the light and catching fire. I have only 35 spoken of one flap but it is obvious that. I may have a hinged flap on each side if desired, or a metallic or other non-combustible curtain fixed round it. Experi¬ mentally however, I have found that one flap appears to be all that is desired. The handle having its ends in sockets and a bearing on the bottom beyond as a fulcrum and being raised a little more than the height of the fingers from the \Priee 8^.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3073633x_0001.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
