Patent ID: 6100504
Filing Date: 2000-08-08
Classification: A47J,H05B

Abstract:
A pitcher and warming system, comprising:a pitcher having a bottom wall and a peripheral side wall leading to an open top;an outwardly projecting shoulder on the peripheral side wall and located thereon between the open top and bottom wall;a receptacle having a pitcher receiving recess formed therein and including a receptacle bottom wall, a receptacle side wall joining the receptacle bottom wall and extending to an open peripheral rim;a heater mounted to the receptacle adjacent to the pitcher receiving recess and configured to heat ambient air within the recess;wherein the pitcher is releasably positionable in the pitcher receiving recess with the shoulder engaging the open peripheral rim and suspending the pitcher from the receptacle with the bottom wall spaced above the receptacle bottom wall and heater by a distance of approximately 0.50 inches, and with the peripheral side wall spaced from the receptacle side wall by a distance of between approximately 0.25 and 0.35 inches, and thereby defining an air space between the receptacle bottom and side wall and respective bottom and side wall of the pitcher;whereby ambient air within the airspace may be heated by the heater and such heated ambient air may heat the bottom and side wall of the pitcher.