Methods and Apparatus for Heating Breast Milk
AssigneeNutto LLC
InventorsAmi Striker, Edward Hicks
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Abstract
In exemplary implementations of this invention, a warmer is configured to hold warm water and a container of chilled or frozen breast milk, and to heat the breast milk by heat transfer from the water to the breast milk. The warmer may comprise a vessel (for holding the warm water), flexible bristles and a lid/dome. The vessel is insulated by a vacuum layer. The water can be poured into a cavity in the vessel. The vessel is penetrated by a hole that opens into the cavity. In exemplary implementations, the flexible bristles protrude into the hole, and are configured (i) to be elastically deformed when a human user inserts or removes a breast milk container through the hole, and (ii) to inhibit bobbing of the container, due to buoyancy.
Claims20
An article of manufacture that comprises, in combination:
- (a) a vessel;
- and
- (b) bristles;
- wherein:
- (i) the vessel is configured to contain water within a cavity in the vessel;
- (ii) the vessel is penetrated by a hole that opens into the cavity,
- (iii) the bristles protrude into the hole, and
- (iv) the bristles are configured
- (A) to be elastically deformed when a human user, by hand, inserts or removes a container through the hole, and
- (B) to inhibit bobbing of the container, which bobbing is due to buoyancy of the container when in the water.
An article of manufacture that comprises, in combination:
- (a) a vacuum-insulated vessel;
- and
- (b) bristles;
- wherein
- (i) the vessel is penetrated by a hole that connects to a cavity inside the vessel,
- (ii) the bristles each, respectively, protrude into the hole,
- (iii) the hole and bristles together comprise an elastically deformable orifice through which a human user can, by hand, insert a container into water in the cavity, which container contains breast milk, and
- (iv) the hole and bristles together comprise means for inhibiting bobbing of the container when the container floats in the water.
An article of manufacture that comprises, in combination:
- (a) a vacuum-insulated vessel;
- (b) bristles;
- wherein
- (i) the vessel surrounds a cavity,
- (ii) the vessel is penetrated by a hole, which hole connects the cavity and a volume exterior to the vessel,
- (iii) each respective bristle, out of the bristles
- (A) is situated such that the respective bristle extends into the hole, and
- (B) has a hardness between 45 shore D durometer and 55 shore D durometer,
- (iv) the vessel has a first diameter at a first region, a second diameter at a second region, and a third diameter at a third region,
- (v) the second region is situated between the first and third regions, and
- (vi) the second diameter is less than the first diameter and less than the third diameter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.