Patent ID: 8347781

Claim:
A portable device for cooling hot food served on a dish so as to quickly render the served hot food sufficiently cool to be safely eaten without burning a person's mouth, lips or fingers, in combination with the dish of hot food, said portable device comprising: (a) a cover comprising a generally dome-shaped plastic body defining a bottom opening circumscribing said dish and sized to fit laterally exteriorly over the dish but not contacting with said hot food, said body having a plurality of vents extending laterally through the plastic body between an upper location of the cover and said bottom opening through which vapors emanating from the hot food on the dish will be released outside said plastic body, (b) a motor compartment spaced upwardly of said bottom opening located at said upper location of the cover, said compartment containing an electric motor, at least one battery for powering the motor to rotate a fan shaft connected with the motor, a gravity sensitive switch including a magnet and operating automatically in response to changes in position of the portable device for turning the motor on and off wherein the motor is on when the portable device is upside-down an off when the portable device is right-side up, and (c) at least one fan blade extending from the fan shaft, said fan blade being spaced upwardly of said bottom opening.