Electric heating – Heating devices – With heater-unit housing – casing – or support means
Reexamination Certificate
2000-06-10
2001-08-21
Hoang, Tu Ba (Department: 3742)
Electric heating
Heating devices
With heater-unit housing, casing, or support means
C219S529000, C219S545000, C219S549000, C219S535000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06278091
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a removable cloth sleeve with incorporated heating coil and more particularly pertains to allowing any standard lotion bottle to be warmed before application.
People often use all types of lotion, typically for application on their skin. The lotion is used to treat various ailments or, otherwise, is used to treat dry skin. Sometimes, the lotion, during cold winter months cold and people are reluctant to apply it to their skin. Normally room temperature is too cool for some people to enjoy applying the lotion to their body. Thus, there is a need for a way to warm up the lotion so that the application to the body is an enjoyable task.
The present invention attempts to solve the abovementioned problem by utilizing a heating element that can be wrapped around a lotion bottle so that lotion can be warmed to comfortable temperature before applying it to a user's skin.
The use of heating devices is known in the prior art. More specifically, heating devices heretofore devised and utilized for the purpose of heating various items are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
By way of example, U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,144,174 to Abplanalp and 3,069,528 to Gardner disclose electrical heating means for warming shaving cream; however, they appear to apply the heat to pressure discharge cans. U.S. Pat. No. 5,161,646 to Aurich discloses a heated dispenser.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,065,660 to Berard discloses an electrical appliance for heating feeding bottles. In particular, Berard discloses a device having a stand, and a cloth extending from the stand which may be wound around a feeding bottle. The use of the stand makes the device of Berard quite cumbersome and impractical for the simple task of heating lotion bottles.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objective and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not describe a removable cloth sleeve with incorporated heating coil for allowing any standard lotion bottle to be warmed before application.
In this respect, the removable cloth sleeve with incorporated heating coil according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in doing so provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of allowing lotion to be warmed before application.
Therefore, it can be appreciated that there exists a continuing need for new and improved removable cloth sleeve with incorporated heating coil which can be used for allowing any standard lotion bottle to be warmed before application. In this regard, the present invention substantially fulfills this need.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In the view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of heating devices now present in the prior art, the present invention provides an improved removable cloth sleeve with incorporated heating coil. As such, the general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new and improved removable cloth sleeve with incorporated heating coil and method which has all the advantages of the prior art and none of the disadvantages.
To attain this, the present invention essentially comprises a stand-alone heating element adapted for wrappedly engaging a bottle. The heating element is comprised of an interior heating pad. The interior heating pad has an innermost heating coil in a serpentine configuration. The innermost heating pad is disposed within a protective liner. The interior heating pad has a power cord extending directly outwardly therefrom for operatively coupling with an electrical outlet. The heating element includes an outer cloth pad for removably receiving the interior heating pad therein. Coupling means are provided and are adapted for coupling the heating element to the bottle. The coupling means is comprised of a first hook and loop patch disposed on a first side of the outer cloth pad inwardly of a first end thereof and a second hook and loop patch disposed on a second side of the outer cloth pad inwardly of a second end thereof. The first and second hook and loop patches mate with one another when the heating element is wrapped around the bottle.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are, of course, additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved removable cloth sleeve with incorporated heating coil which has all the advantages of the prior art heating devices and none of the disadvantages.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new and improved removable cloth sleeve with incorporated heating coil which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new and improved removable cloth sleeve with incorporated heating coil which is of durable and reliable construction.
It is yet a further object of the invention to provide a new and improved heating device which is safe to use around the bathroom. Accordingly, the entire heating coil is encased in an electrically insulative protective layer.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved removable cloth sleeve with incorporated heating coil which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such a removable cloth sleeve with incorporated heating coil economically available to the buying public.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved removable cloth sleeve with incorporated heating coil for allowing any standard lotion bottle to be warmed before application.
Lastly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved removable cloth sleeve with incorporated heating coil including a heating element wrappedly engaging the bottle of lotion. The heating element is comprised of an interior heating pad. The interior heating pad has an innermost heating coil. The heating element includes an outer cloth pad for removably receiving the interior heating pad therein. Coupling means are provided and are adapted for coupling the heating element to the bottle of lotion.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a
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