Electric bottle warmer

Claim 1

A heating device for bottles and the like, comprising an enclosing body adapted to be supported on a surface and defining an interior space for receiving said bottle, said body having a perforated bottom wall, a cup-shaped vessel, having unitarily formed bottom and side walls, for receiving a given quantity of liquid, removably mounted to depend below said perforated bottom and an electric heating element located within said vessel for heating said liquid to produce steam to pass through said perforations into contact with said container, a liquid sensing switch mounted on a side wall of said vessel above the bottom wall, said liquid sensing switch having a normally open position and an operable closed position in series with said electric heating element, said switch being responsive to the presence of liquid in said vessel to be rendered in closed position, a pressure switch having open and closed positions in series with said heating element to control said heating element, said switch being mounted to depend below said vessel and having a switch actuating plunger member extending outwardly of said body into contact with the surface on which it is supported, spring means resiliently biasing said plunger in switch open position, said spring means being sufficient to maintain said plunger in open position on receipt of said quantity of liquid in said vessel and while being free of a bottle, but being overcome on introduction of a bottle into said body.