Modular Transportable Heating Device

• US 20080041859A1
• Filed: 06/07/2005
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Casper Teglbjarg
• Original Assignee: Casper Teglbjarg
• Inventors: Teglbjarg, Casper
• Application Number:
  US11/570,146
• Publication Number:
  US 20080041859A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 220/592.16
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 36/2411 Baby bottle warmers; Devices for warming baby food in jars
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 36/2433 with electrical heating means
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 36/2444 Drinking cups with heating means drinking vessels with means for keeping liquid hot without integral heating means A47G19/2288
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 36/2461 with electrical heating means
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 36/28 Warming devices generating the heat by exothermic reactions, e.g. heat released by the contact of unslaked lime with water
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 2200/42 Heating means
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 9/00 Feeding-bottles in general

Abstract

During journeys, and at other times when no stationary heating devices such as microwave ovens or hotplates are available, providing hot foods, liquid or solid, can be problematic. By providing a container with an in-built heating arrangement, the present invention solves the problem. Furthermore, the container is of a modular design. Its parts are easily interchangeable and new configurations for different purposes can be readily put together.

Claims

1. Modular, portable foodstuffs container (preferably for liquid foodstuffs) that has an opening for emptying and filling and which, preferentially, can be used in conjunction with a teat, the said container having, preferably at its base, a temperature generating (i.e. heating/cooling) arrangement, the whole being characterised by the container having an inward projecting cavity that interfaces with all or part of the temperature generating arrangement, it being possible for the container itself to be made up of a number of modules.

2. Modular, portable foodstuffs container as per patent claim 1, characterised by the temperature generating arrangement being electric and using an external or internal power source that is designed to send current through a resistance wire and thus cause it to give off heat.

3. Modular, portable foodstuffs container as per patent claim 2, characterised by said wire being an integrated part of the temperature generating arrangement, either in the container wall or in a component attached to the container.

4. Modular, portable foodstuffs container as per claim 1, characterised by the temperature generating arrangement, or parts thereof, being in a separate unit that is separately fastenable to a free range of objects (e. g. vehicles and bicycles).

5. Modular, portable foodstuffs container as per claim 1, characterised by the temperature generating arrangement using chemical substances that, either wholly or partly, may be gaseous, or brought to gaseous condition, and which, either in interaction with each other or independently, can generate heat.