Patent ID: 8663161

Claim:
A heating system for heating neonate nutritional liquid so that a temperature of the nutritional liquid is greater than room temperature for providing warmed nutritional liquid to the neonate during feeding, the heater system comprising: a heater including: a first heating portion having a first groove for receiving a tube in fluid communication with the neonate, the groove being straight from an entrance of the first heating portion to an exit of the first heating portion; a first handle fixed to the first heating portion; a second portion disposable over the first groove; a second handle fixed to the second portion; a biasing member attached to the first heating portion and the second portion for biasing the first heating portion and the second portion to a closed position; wherein the first heating portion is pivotally traverseable to the second portion between the closed position and an open position, the first heating portion and the second portion being biased toward the closed position and the first and second handles are operative to traverse the first heating portion and the second portion to the open position, in the open position, the neonate feeding tube may be inserted or removed from the first groove, in the closed position, the second portion covers the first groove and the first heating portion warms the neonate nutritional liquid that flows through the tube to the neonate.