Patent Application
20210190418
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The disclosure and prior art relates to beverage vessels and more particularly pertains to a new beverage vessel for heating and cooling drinks.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a base control apparatus and at least one conductive bottle apparatus. The base control apparatus comprises a cylindrical housing having a top side separated from a bottom side and a sidewall extending therebetween to form an inner cavity. The top side has a pair of semicircular depressions extending towards the bottom side. The pair of semicircular depressions defines a left half, a right half, and a divider wall extending across a diameter of the top side therebetween. A heat exchange is coupled to the housing within the inner cavity and comprises a CPU, a heating element disposed beneath the right half, and a cooling filament disposed beneath the left half. A power supply is coupled to the housing within the inner cavity and is in operational communication with the heat exchange. A plurality of controls is coupled to the sidewall and is in operational communication with the heat exchange. The conductive bottle apparatus comprises a bottle comprising a bottle body and a top. A bottom plate is coupled to a bottom end of the bottle body and has a pair of semicircular protrusions corresponding to, and selectively engageable with, the pair of depressions of the housing of the base control apparatus. The pair of protrusions has a height equal to, or greater than, a depth of the pair of depressions. The bottom plate is thermally conductive.
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 heat exchange 34 is coupled within the inner cavity 22 and comprises a CPU 36, a heating element 38 disposed beneath the right half 30, and a cooling filament 40 disposed beneath the left half 28. A power supply 42 is coupled within the inner cavity 22 and is in operational communication with the heat exchange 34. The power supply 42 may comprise a rechargeable battery 44 and a charge port 46 extending through the sidewall 20 and configured to receive a charging cable. The charge port 46 may be a USB port. The power supply 42 is disposed adjacent a right side 48 of the sidewall and the heating element 38 is coiled within the right half 30 adjacent the power supply. The cooling filament 40 extends around a perimeter 50 of the right half 30 and is coiled within the left half 28.
A display 52 is coupled to the housing 14. The display 52 is rectangular and is coupled to the sidewall 20 extending from proximal the top side 16 to proximal the bottom side 18. The display 52 is in operational communication with the heat exchange 34 to show a current temperature and a set temperature of the heat exchange 34. A plurality of controls 54 is coupled to the sidewall 20 and is in operational communication with the heat exchange 34 to provide the set temperature of the heat exchange 34. The plurality of controls 54 comprises an up control 56 and a down control 58. Each of the up control 56 and the down control 58 may be triangular with the up control 56 oriented upward and the down control 58 oriented downwards for intuitive use for the up control 56 raising the temperature of the heat exchange 34 and the down control 58 lowering the temperature of the heat exchange 34. The CPU 36 detects a difference between the current temperature of the top side 16 and the set temperature of the heat exchange 34 to activate either the heating element 38 or alternatively the cooling filament 40. The up control 56 and the down control 58 are horizontally symmetrical and may be coupled to a front side 60 of the housing and aligned with the divider wall 32. The display 52 is coupled between the plurality of controls 54 and the charge port 46 to group all electronics and improve manufacturing efficiency.
The conductive bottle apparatus 13 comprises a bottle 62 and a bottom plate 64. The bottle 62 comprises a bottle body 66 and a top 68. The bottle 62 may be, but is not limited to, a baby bottle 70 and a water bottle 72. The bottom plate 64 is coupled to a bottom end 74 of the bottle body and has a pair of semicircular protrusions 76 corresponding to, and selectively engageable with, the pair of depressions 24 of the housing of the base control apparatus 12. The pair of protrusions 76 has a height equal to, or greater than, a depth of the pair of depressions 24 to prevent the divider wall 32 from interfering with the stability of the bottle 62 when engaged with the base control apparatus 12. The bottom plate 64 is thermally conductive and may be metal.
In use, the bottle 62 is placed with bottom plate 64 engaging the pair of depressions 24 of the base control apparatus. The plurality of controls 54 is then used to heat or cool the bottle 62 and hence the contents of the bottle body 66 rapidly through the bottom plate 64.
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.
