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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2004
Applicant:
Russell Berger, Needham, MA (US);
Inventor:
Russell Berger, Needham, MA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F24C007/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus () for warming a vessel (), such as a baby bottle with milk or formula therein, includes a panel of expandable material () having a number of flexible heating elements () embedded therein. The expandable material includes an outer layer of neoprene rubber () and an inner layer of stretchable polyester material (), such as lycra. The heating elements () are finger-like in construction and can flexibly adjust relative to one another to closely accommodate and conform to a baby bottle () inserted into the apparatus (). The heating elements () are made of an electrically resistive material and receive electricity from a power supply.