PORTABLE BODY STEAM HEATERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1675, 2 May 1884, Page 2

PORTABLE BODY STEAM HEATERS.

A Bridgeport (Conn.) Professor has invented a neat thing in the way of a steam heater to cany about on the person. It is called " the portable body steam heater." The apparatus is a small affair, consisting of a copper boiler, under which is a diminutive lamp, all encased in a nickel box, and balanced something like a compass, so that, no matter what position the outside box is in, the boiler and lamp will always remain in the vertical position. The entire apparatus is so small that it can bo carried in the pocket. After the lamp is lighted, the water in the boiler is heated and circulated through rubber tubes, which run down the legs, around the ankles, up around the back, and back (o the boiler. The circulation of the warm water keeps the body warm on tie coldest day. A safety-valve and escape for a'higher pressure of steam than the affair is allowed to carry Hows off at the back of the wearer's neck. Elaborate heaters ' are being constructed for ladies' wear. They can be worn inside the busfe, and entirely obscured. Before going out of the house the lady's maid can light the lamp, which, by tho way, is gauged to run six, eight, or ten hours, and " my lady" walks out under a free pressure of steam, and warranted to keep warm during, the promenade.