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US 4,365,143 AGranted
Assembly for preparing and dispensing infantile dietary formulation
OwnerWilliam X. Kerber, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
An assembly for preparing and bottling liquid infant's formula, which assembly includes a steam basin having a water reservoir, and a heating element in the reservoir for boiling the water to yield steam, a graduated measuring pitcher invertible over and adapted for support upon the steam basin; and sterilization racks removably supported on the steam basin and dimensioned for containment within the measuring pitcher.
Claims15
An apparatus for preparing and for dispensing infant formula comprising:
- a steam basin subassembly including:
- a reservoir for formula water containment;
- heating means in said reservoir;
- handle means for pouring hot, uncontaminated formula water out of said reservoir into a container means;
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- pouring means for cooperating with said handle means in the pouring of heated formula water out of said reservoir into a container means;
- container means having an open top and inverted over, and supported on, said steam basin subassembly and suitable for mixing formula therein;
- sterilizing rack means removably positioned at least partially within said container means and over said steam basin subassembly;
- lip means on said container means for directing condensed steam from said container means downwardly toward said steam basin subassembly and for pouring liquid from said container means during formula preparation;
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- trap means on said water reservoir for receiving steam from said steam directing means and for condensing the received steam at a location isolated from the water in the water reservoir.
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An apparatus for preparing and dispensing infant's formula from a sterile container comprising:
- a steam basin subassembly including:
- a housing having vertically extending side walls, and having a flange projecting inwardly from the side walls adjacent the upper edges thereof;
- a steam trap-pouring spout structure on one of the side walls of the housing and defining a hollow interior communicating with the interior of the housing, said steam trap-pouring spout structure including a check valve isolating a space for accommodating condensed steam from the interior of the housing;
- heating means in said housing;
- a handle on said housing for pouring hot water from the housing out through said steam trap-pouring spout structure;
- a graduated measuring pitcher subassembly over said steam basin subassembly and supported on said flange, said graduated pitcher subassembly including:
- a pitcher having volumetric graduated scale means thereon;
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- means for directing condensed steam into said steam trap-pouring spout from the interior of the pitcher;
- a sterilizing rack subassembly supported on said steam basin subassembly independently of said graduated measuring pitcher assembly, and enclosed within said pitcher and;
- implements used in assembling said nipples to bottles carried detachably on said sterilizing rack subassembly.
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An apparatus for sterilizing paraphernalia used in the preparation of infant formula comprising:
- a steam basin subassembly including:
- a reservoir for water containment;
- and
- heating means in said reservoir;
- lid means having an open top and inverted over, and supported on, said steam basin subassembly;
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- sterilizing rack means removably positioned at least partially within said lid means and over said steam basin subassembly, said rack means comprising:
- a plurality of vertically spaced grids of generally rectangular configuration and including at least one intermediate grid between the uppermost of said grids and the lowermost of said grids;
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- a vertically extending support rod supporting said grids in vertically spaced relation to each other and rotatably supporting said intermediate grid for rotation about the axis of said vertically extending support rod.
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