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US 4,597,435 AGranted
Bottle warmer or cooler
OwnerBenjamin P. Fosco, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A device for heating or cooling a baby bottle or similar article by heat exchange with a thermal transfer fluid includes a container for holding the bottle in contact with the fluid, preferably water from a conventional faucet. The bottle is held on a platform above the bottom of the container and the fluid is directed to flow upwardly through the platform against the bottle.
Claims17
A portable device for selectively heating or cooling a bottle by heat exchange with a fluid, comprising:
- A. a container for holding said bottle in contact with said fluid, said container having an enclosing wall upstanding from a closed bottom end thereof and having an open, upper end thereof;
- B. a platform means positioned within said container above said bottom end for supporting the bottle in spaced relation thereto, said platform means dividing the interior of the container into an upper chamber for holding said bottle and a lower chamber between said platform means and said bottom end for distribution of said fluid, said platform means having at least one passageway oriented upwardly therethrough for directing upward passage of said fluid from said lower chamber into said upper chamber to contact said bottle during upward flow of the fluid through the container;
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- C. a conduit means communicating with said lower chamber and defining a flow path separated from said upper chamber for supplying said fluid to said lower chamber, said conduit means including an upstanding tube positioned within said container, said tube having an opening formed at the upper end thereof for entry of fluid downwardly flowing through said tube into said lower chamber.
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A portable device for selectively heating or cooling a bottle by heat exchange with a fluid, comprising:
- A. a container for holding said bottle in contact with said fluid, said container having an enclosing wall upstanding from a closed bottom end thereof and having an open, upper end thereof;
- B. a platform means positioned within said container above said bottom end for supporting the bottle in spaced relation thereto, said platform means dividing the interior of the container into an upper chamber for holding said bottle and a lower chamber between said platform means and said bottom end for distribution of said fluid, said platform means having at least one passageway oriented upwardly therethrough for directing upward passage of said fluid from said lower chamber into said upper chamber to contact said bottle during upward flow of the fluid through the container;
- C. a conduit means communicating with said lower chamber and defining a flow path separated from said upper chamber for supplying said fluid to said lower chamber;
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- D. at least one guide bracket positioned within said upper chamber for engagement with an upstanding surface of the bottle, said bracket including a member positioned inwardly from the interior surface of said enclosing wall and resiliently displaceable outwardly toward said wall when said bottle is inserted into said container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.