Heater plate stand for grease barrel

Abstract

A barrel heater plate stand with internal hot fluid flow supports a lubricant grease barrel to heat the bottom of the barrel without contacting the grease inside. Heated fluid in a hose from an engine cooling system of a vehicle, to which the stand is attached, flows into the stand via an inlet and out of the stand via an outlet to a return hose to the engine cooling system.

1 . A heater plate stand device for heating a barrel of lubricating grease, the device comprising: 
 a barrel heater plate stand for supporting a grease barrel thereon, the barrel heater plate stand secured to a vehicle for transporting a grease barrel, the barrel heater plate stand having an interior passageway to admit a flow of heated liquid therethrough and a top plate above the interior passageway for transferring heat from the flow of heated liquid to an outside bottom of a barrel of lubricating grease resting on the top plate, and a raised lip around the perimeter of the barrel heater plate stand to prevent a barrel resting on the barrel heater plate stand from sliding off, an inlet into the interior passageway, the inlet communicating with a vehicle cooling system to admit a heated fluid flow from the vehicle cooling system into the interior passageway and an outlet from the interior passageway communicating with the vehicle cooling system to return a flow of heated fluid from the interior passageway back into the vehicle cooling system so that the barrel heater plate stand heats a barrel of lubricating grease from an exterior bottom of the barrel upwardly without contacting the grease in the barrel.    
   
   
       2 . The device of  claim 1  further comprising a series of baffles in the interior passageway to direct a flow of heated fluid from the inlet around the entire interior passageway in contact with the top plate and out the outlet.  
   
   
       3 . The device of  claim 2  wherein the barrel heater plate stand further comprises a bottom plate parallel to the top plate with the baffles sandwiched between the top plate and the bottom plate.  
   
   
       4 . The device of  claim 1  wherein the barrel support by existing means of barrel supports on a bed of a vehicle transporting the barrel.