Patent Application
20200190443
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The disclosure and prior art relates to melting devices and more particularly pertains to a new melting device for melting slivers of soap into a single bar of soap.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a chest that is comprised of a microwave safe material thereby facilitating the chest to be heated in a microwave oven. A lid is hingedly coupled to the chest for closing the chest and the lid is comprised of a microwave safe material. A drawer is slidably positioned in the lid and the drawer is comprised of a microwave safe material. A block is stored in the drawer and the block is comprised of glass. The block is removable from the drawer and positioned on the plurality of soap slivers when the chest becomes filled with the soap slivers. Thus, the block compresses the soap slivers into a single bar when the chest and the soap slivers are heated in the microwave oven.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure 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 additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A lid 24 is hingedly coupled to the chest 12 for closing the chest 12 and the lid 24 is comprised of a microwave safe material. The lid 24 has a bottom surface 26 and an outwardly facing surface 28, and the bottom surface 26 covers the top end 14 of the chest 12 when the lid 24 is positioned in a closed position. A drawer 30 is slidably positioned in the lid 24, the drawer 30 is comprised of a microwave safe material and the drawer 30 extends into the outwardly facing surface 28. A pair of knobs 32 is each coupled to a respective one of the lid 24 and the drawer 30 for manipulating the lid 24 and the drawer 30, and each of the knobs 32 is comprised of a microwave safe material.
A block 34 is stored in the drawer 30 and the block 34 is comprised of glass. The block 34 is removable from the drawer 30 and positioned on the slivers of soap when the chest 12 becomes filled with the slivers of soap 22. Thus, the block 34 compresses the slivers of soap 22 into a single bar 36 when the chest 12 and the slivers of soap 22 are heated in the microwave oven. The block 34 has exterior dimensions that are slightly less than the interior dimensions of the chest 12. In this way the block 34 can be easily placed into the chest 12 and removed from the chest 12.
A base 38 is provided and the base 38 is hingedly coupled to the bottom end 16 of the chest 12. The base 38 has a top surface 40 and the top surface 40 covers the bottom end 16 when the base 38 is closed. Moreover, the slivers of soap 22 lie on the top surface 40 when the slivers of soap 22 are positioned in the chest 12. The base 38 is positionable in an open position after the slivers of soap 22 have been melted into the single bar 36 for removing the single bar 36 from the chest 12. A plurality of pegs 42 may each extend downwardly from the bottom end 16 of the chest 12. The top surface 40 of the base 38 may have a plurality of wells 44 each extending downwardly therein. Each of the pegs 42 may be aligned with a respective one of the wells 44 and the pegs 42 may extend into the respective well when the base 38 is closed.
In use, the chest 12 is positioned near a shower or a bathtub and each of the slivers of soap 22 are inserted into the soap slot 20 when the slivers of soap 22 become too small for bathing. The block 34 is removed from the drawer 30 and the block 34 is positioned on top of the slivers of soap 22 once the chest 12 becomes sufficiently filled with the slivers of soap 22. The chest 12 is subsequently placed in a microwave oven for heating and thusly melting the slivers of soap 22. Moreover, the block 34 compresses the melted slivers of soap 22 into a single bar 36 of soap. The base 38 is opened when the single bar 36 of soap has cooled for removing the single bar 36 of soap from the chest 12. In this way the slivers of soap 22 can be continuously recycled into a bar of soap for bathing.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
