Patent ID: 8528466

Claim:
A liquid container for capturing small-appliance-liquid accidentally flowing from a small appliance due to malfunction, breakage, or cracks in the small appliance, the container comprising: walls surrounding and defining an interior reservoir space, the walls including a bottom wall, a sidewall having an outer surface, an inner surface, and a top surface, and an upper platform secured to the container for holding the small appliance; wherein the upper platform has an outer perimeter abutting said inner surface of the sidewall below said top surface, so that the sidewall extends up above the upper platform to form a rim upending all the way around the upper platform to prevent said small-appliance-liquid from spilling off of the container; the upper platform having a platform surface area and one or more apertures totaling 1-10 percent of said platform surface area, the one or more apertures in communication with, and conveying said small-appliance-liquid into, the interior reservoir space, wherein the one or more apertures comprises a pour spout aperture, in the outer perimeter of the platform at the inner surface of the sidewall, adapted for pouring said small-appliance-liquid from the interior reservoir space out of the container without removing the upper platform from the container.