US 5,248,870 AGranted

Electric heating device for warming the contents of bottles or other containers

OwnerMarlyn Redalinventor

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Abstract

A heating device for warming the contents of bottles and other containers. The device has a casing in which a radiant heater is mounted and a container-receiving cylindrical insert in the casing in heat transfer relationship to the radiant heater. The insert is removable from the casing through an opening in the casing top to facilitate cleaning. The insert has an imperforate lower portion capable of intercepting and trapping any product which may drip or run down the container side and openings in an upper portion allowing air to circulate into convective heat transfer with the container. The closed base of the insert has a raised seat which spaces the bottom of the container above the insert base to allow air to circulate across the bottom of the insert and to prevent any product collected in the insert from soiling the container.

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Dependent claims

The combination of a container bottle or other container and a heating device for warming the contents of said container, said device comprising:

a casing which has a horizontally orientable base and a top wall spaced upwardly from said base, there being an opening through said top wall;
a radiant heating means in said base adjacent said opening;
and
an open top, hollow, cylindrical, heat-transmissive, container-receiving insert in said casing, said insert being seated on said base and extending upwardly therefrom through the opening in the top wall into loose fitting relationship with said wall, said insert being free of attachment to said casing and being removable from said casing through said top wall opening;
said insert having an imperforate base and a side wall with an imperforate lower portion and thereby being capable of intercepting and trapping in the lower portion of the insert a product which may drip or run down the side of said container;
and
there being openings in an upper portion of the insert side wall through which air can circulate into convective heat transfer relationship with said container.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.