US111399A - Improvement in holders for plates while being warmed - Google Patents

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dn-drh' ata WILLIAMV rsTOUrENBOROUeH, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

lLetters Parent No. 111,399, dated January 31, 1871.

`lMPROVEME-NT IN HOLDERS FOR PLATES WHILE'BEING WARMED.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

OUGH, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings andStatc of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Holders for Plates while being Warmed; and the following is declared to be a full and correct description ofthe said invention.

In households, when it becomes necessary to warm plates for use at the table, said plates are generally placed one upon another in the oven or upon the top of a stove. When warmed in this manner they do not receive the same degreeyof warmth, and the lower plate, which is in `Contact with the heated plate of the stove, very frequently cracks and breaks from the heat.

The object of my invention is to provide a holder for plates that can be set upon the top of a stove, and

in which the plates will receive an equal degree ot'.

warmth, and iu which there will be no danger of the plates striking against each other, or falling ont, or

cracking with too great heat, or by the weight o f the plates piled one upon another.

I make the holder of an open frame-work ot' wire. The` ends of the holder-are kept 'apart and in their proper position by longitudinal wires or bars, and to these longitudinal wires are attached divisions, at suitable distances apart, to form receptacles for the plates, the holder being supported on legs.

iFigurel is aperspective view ot' my improved,I

holder; and

Figure 2 is a cross-sect-ion of the saine, illustrating the manner in which a plate lis held in tbe bolder-.

c a are the ends 4of the holder, formed of wire or other material, and of the desired shape.

I have shownthe two ends of a semicircnlar form, supported by legs c c, and connected at the upper portion by the cross-bars b b.'

The ends a a are kept in their proper position by the wires or bars Z e c fj, and these are to be conl nccted to said ends a a, in any suitable manner, either by soldering or by being bent or twisted at the proper points around the wire of said ends a a, or both soldering and bending may be employed.

Between the ends a a, and at suitable distances apart, I place the wire divisions h h, each bent into the same general shape as the upper portions of the ends a a, and these wire divisions h h are connected to the wires d, e, and j, by soldering or otherwise.

lThe divisions h h, together with the bars d, c, and j; form receptacles into which the plates are to be placed, thc divisions 71. h preventing the plates resting or striking against each other and the wires or bars (l e f supporting the plates, and preventing fromvfalling out of the holder.-

.My plate-holder is very light and strong, and the plates held therein will each receive a nearly uniform degree of warmth, as the heat from the stove can circulate On both sides of the plates.

. It' desired, the holder might 4be inclosed at the sides and top with a sheet-metal casing, thetop to be provided with 'a swinging cover to allow access to the holder. l

The bars h might be bent down in the middle to facilitate the grasping of small plates or saucers, and vertical rods be used to connect the same .with the bar d, (see dotted lines fig. 2.)

The bars c may be increased in number to strength'- eu the plate-holder, ane the legs c may be braced to the bar el.

I claim as my invention- 4 The plate-holder, formed Of the metallic ends a. a.,

wire divisions h 71', legs c, and connecting-bars d f,

as and for .the purposes specied.

Signed this 16th day of December, A. D. 1870. A W T. STOUTENBOROUGH.

Witnesses (Inks. H. SMITH, Gno. T. BINOKNEY.

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