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Device providing hot and cold storage and transport for food and the like

a technology for hot and cold storage and food, applied in the field of hot and cold storage and transportation devices for food and the like, can solve the problems of not being able to expand a market, and the difficulties of thermos-type devices

Inactive Publication Date: 2014-11-27
OMOMPA
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The patent describes a device that can keep items warm and cool at the same time in a single housing. The device has a base and a lid that seals it tightly. The base has an internal space where various food containers and thermal containers can be placed. The device helps to keep items at the desired temperature in the same area, which makes it convenient and efficient.

Problems solved by technology

Even the THERMOS-type device has its difficulties.
This is not a way to expand a market.

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[0017]FIG. 1 shows, in assembled perspective view, an embodiment 10 of a device that allows material, especially foods, to be stored and transported, with warm or hot material generally retaining its heat and cool or cold material generally retaining its coolness. The device 10 has a housing base 20 that is clearly seen in FIG. 1. In this embodiment, the housing base 20 has a main body 22, which provides a significant internal volume for receiving the other parts of the device 10 and a lid or top 24. In many embodiments, the lid or top 24 can be fastened to the main body 22 along one edge, with a zipper or similar device being used to close the internal volume. In other embodiments, the lid 24 (zippered or not) may be completely removable and other securing means, such as a flanged-type seal as used with TUPPERWARE® and similar devices may be used. In some embodiments, the lid may be interchangeable with similar lids, for either useful or ornamental purposes.

[0018]The housing base 2...

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Abstract

A food storage system allows at least one warm item and one cool item, especially foods to be stored and transported together. A housing with a closable internal volume receives at least one container for the cool items and one container form the warm items. In each of these containers, cool items and warm items are paired with a appropriate phase change material that either absorbs heat or emits heat. The items and the phase change materials can be separately contained.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a non-provisional of U.S. 61 / 789,606, filed 15 Mar. 2013, which is incorporated by reference as if fully recited herein.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The disclosed embodiments of the present invention relate to a device that allows the storage and transport of at least two materials, where one of the materials is to be maintained in a hot condition and the other material is to be maintained in a cold condition.BACKGROUND OF THE ART[0003]Although the “lunch bucket” has a long and storied history among school children, miners and construction workers, the simple truth is that, for the most part, almost every effort in the past has been to contain the foodstuffs in the device while allowing them to seek an equilibrium temperature, that is, allowing the food to assume room temperature, albeit at a slowed rate.[0004]One of the sole exceptions to this has been the lunch box with an accompanying THERMOS-type device for storing a warm ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B65D81/34B65D81/38
CPCB65D81/38B65D81/34A45C11/20A45F3/46
Inventor COX, YUVADEEALTHERR, TERESA MAE
Owner OMOMPA
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