Patent ID: 7276676

Claim:
A combined food and food-plate warming device for assisting arthritic users to simultaneously heat refrigerated foodstuff seated on a cold plate, said combined food and food-plate warming device comprising: a first base plate having an annular shape provided with a planar top surface, said base plate further having an outwardly beveled edge provided with a plurality of laterally stepped ridges concentrically spaced from a center of said top surface; a first cover plate directly positioned on said base plate, said cover plate having an annular shape provided with an outer lip directly nested on top of an outer one of said stepped ridges such that heat and steam are prevented from escaping away from an interior of said warming device, said base plate including a plurality of handles directly conjoined to said outwardly beveled edge and diametrically spaced along an outer perimeter of said base plate, said handles being suitably sized and shaped for receiving at least four contiguous metacarpals of the user therethrough; and means for heating said top surface of said base plate in such a manner that the food and food-plate interfitted between said base plate and said cover plate can be effectively heated after a predetermined time interval; a third base plate and a third cover plate directly and removably conjoined therewith, said third base plate having a contoured and beveled bottom surface, said second cover plate having a contoured and beveled top surface having a symmetrically opposite and mirror shape of said third base plate bottom surface respectively such that said third base plate and said second cover plate become interlocked when directly engaged and adapted to a vertically stacked position; wherein each said first, second and third top plates comprise a knob centrally conjoined thereto and protruding vertically upwards such that a longitudinal length of said knob is oriented perpendicular to a respective one of said first, second and third top plates.