Device for cooling substances

• US 10,443,904 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2016
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Patrick Alan Tatom
• Original Assignee: Patrick Alan Tatom
• Inventors: Tatom, Patrick Alan
• Primary Examiner(s): Ciric, Ljiljana V.
• Application Number:
  US15/331,897
• Publication Number:
  US 20170115038A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,087 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F25B 19/005 the refrigerant being a liquefied gas
• CPC Class Codes: F25B 19/04 using liquid jet, e.g. of water
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 23/12 Arrangements of compartments additional to cooling compartments; Combinations of refrigerators with other equipment, e.g. stove
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 25/005 using containers
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 3/107 portable, i.e. adapted to be carried personally
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 7/00 Devices using evaporation effects without recovery of the vapour butter or cheese dishes with cooling devices A47G19/26

Abstract

A device for cooling a substance stored within the device has a body with an internal compartment for holding the substance to be cooled. The compartment can be sealed closed and can be accessed for adding substance to the compartment for cooling or for removing substance from the compartment after cooling the substance. The body of the device has an internal cavity that surrounds the exterior of the compartment holding the substance to be cooled. Fluidized coolant is injected into the cavity through an injection port to cool the substance contained within the compartment before removing the substance from the compartment for use. The device may include exterior buttons that compress the internal compartment when the buttons are pressed toward each other, which in turn compresses and breaks up the substance contained within the compartment.

Claims

1. A device for cooling substances, said device comprising a body, said body comprising an upper housing and a lower housing, wherein the upper housing and the lower housing are configured such that the upper housing and the lower housing can be attached to and detached from each other, wherein the lower housing has a compartment disposed within the lower housing, said compartment being accessible when the upper housing is detached from the lower housing, and said compartment being sealed closed when the upper housing is attached to the lower housing, said lower housing having a cavity disposed within the lower housing, wherein the cavity at least partially surrounds the compartment, and wherein the body has an injection port configured such that a fluid can be injected into the cavity from outside the body via the injection port, wherein the lower housing comprises two opposing buttons disposed on opposite sides of the compartment, wherein the buttons are configured to compress the compartment when the buttons are pressed toward each other.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the body is at least partially made of an elastic material.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the compartment is defined by walls, and wherein a portion of the walls is made of an elastic material.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein a portion of the walls is made of a metallic material.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein at least a portion of the metallic material is adjacent to the cavity.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the upper housing has a cavity disposed within the upper housing, and wherein the cavity in the upper housing is in fluid communication with the cavity in the lower housing when the upper housing is attached to the lower housing.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the injection port is configured such that a fluid can be injected directly into the cavity disposed within the upper housing.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the compartment has a central divider, and wherein the device further comprises a rigid rod positioned under the central divider.

9. A device for cooling a substance, said device comprising a body having a compartment disposed within the body, wherein the body is configured such that the compartment can be sealed closed during periods of use, and the compartment can be accessed for adding a substance to or removing a substance from the compartment during periods of non-use, wherein the body further has a cavity disposed within the body, wherein the cavity at least partially surrounds the compartment, and wherein the body has an injection port configured such that a fluid can be injected into the cavity from outside the body via the injection port, wherein the lower housing comprises two opposing buttons disposed on opposite sides of the compartment, wherein the buttons are configured to compress the compartment when the buttons are pressed toward each other.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the body is at least partially made of an elastic material.

11. The device of claim 9, wherein the compartment is defined by walls, and wherein a portion of the walls is made of an elastic material.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein a portion of the walls is made of a metallic material.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein at least a portion of the metallic material is adjacent to the cavity.

14. The device of claim 9, wherein the compartment has a central divider, and wherein the device further comprises a rigid rod positioned under the central divider.