Fluid dispenser
OwnerGreg Swearsinventor
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Abstract
A free-standing, portable apparatus or appliance adapted for receiving a first container such as a pliable plastic bag containing a supply of a fluid such as breastmilk; the appliance adapted for storing, cooling, and/or heating the first container and the fluid contained in the first container; the appliance adapted for dispensing the supply of fluid from the first container; and the appliance adapted for dispensing warm fluid such as breastmilk from the first container into a second container such as a standard baby bottle for instant feeding of the fluid such as breastmilk to an infant; and a process for dispensing warm fluid such as breastmilk from the first container.
Claims2
A process of preparing breastmilk for feeding a baby on-demand by a caregiver comprising the steps of:
- (I) providing a portable apparatus adapted for storing, preparing and dispensing a supply of fluid liquid of breastmilk in a non-invasive and non-contaminating manner;
- said apparatus comprising:
- (a) a housing including a chamber portion having a top surface and bottom surface;
- (b) a housing including a machine compartment portion;
- (c) a support base portion having a top surface and a bottom surface;
- wherein the machine compartment portion is integral to the chamber portion and the base portion forming a space in a vertical plane direction between the top surface of the support base portion and the bottom surface of the chamber portion;
- (d) a receptacle vessel integrally disposed in said chamber portion;
- wherein said vessel is adapted for receiving a first container containing therein a predetermined volume of fluid liquid of breastmilk;
- (d1) a cooling means disposed in said compartment portion;
- wherein said cooling means is adapted for cooling the chamber portion to a preselected first temperature and maintaining the first container in the chamber portion at the first temperature for a period of time until the fluid liquid of breastmilk is ready to be dispensed from the apparatus and used;
- and/or
- (d2) a heating means disposed in said compartment portion;
- wherein said heating means is adapted for heating the chamber portion to a preselected second temperature and warming, defrosting or thawing the fluid liquid of breastmilk contained in the first container to the second temperature for a period of time until the fluid liquid of breastmilk is ready to be dispensed from the apparatus and used;
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- (e) a means for transferring, in a noninvasive and non-contaminating manner, a preselected volume of fluid liquid of breastmilk contained in the first container disposed in the receptacle vessel of said chamber portion, from said first container into a second container;
- wherein the second container is disposed in the space between the support base portion and underneath the chamber portion;
- (II) providing a frozen or refrigerated flexible bag, as the first container, containing frozen or refrigerated breastmilk;
- (III) placing the frozen or refrigerated flexible bag containing the frozen or refrigerated breastmilk into the portable apparatus of step (I);
- (IV) warming the frozen or refrigerated breastmilk in the flexible bag by heating the flexible bag using a heating means in the portable apparatus to a predetermined proper temperature that is safe for feeding a baby without burning or injuring the baby;
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- (V) dispensing the preselected volume of fluid liquid of breastmilk from the flexible bag in the receptacle vessel of the chamber portion via an orifice in the chamber portion and a reclosable door in an open position into a baby bottle, as the second container, adapted for use in feeding a baby.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.