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Portable insulated holder for beverage containers
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Inventors: Gordon, Jay E.; Wells, Peter M.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: King; Lloyd L.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Wilburn, Jr.; Luke J., Manning, Jr.; Wellington M.
An insulated holder for beverage containers having walls defining a generally cup-shaped, open-topped compartment for receiving a chilled beverage container therein, the holder being dimensioned so that the side walls of the holder are spaced from the container side walls throughout the major portion of the height of the compartment, a flexible member sealingly engaging the side walls of the beverage container at the upper end of the compartment to form an airtight, sealed space within the compartment and provide effective insulation to the beverage container. The walls of the holder are formed of an inner air-impervious layer and an outer soft cushion layer of foam plastic insulating material. The lower portion of the holder may be provided with a refrigerant which engages the bottom of the beverage container in conductive heat transfer relation and is disposed in convective heat transfer relation with the sealed air space surrounding the side walls of the beverage container. Valve means are provided in the holder wall to permit ready insertion and removal of a beverage container from the holder compartment. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Referring more specifically to the drawings, FIG.
1 shows a preferred form of the invention which comprises an insulated holder 10 shown generally in sectional elevation, with a beverage container or can 12 disposed therein.
The holder 10 is of generally cylindrical configuration and includes a bottom wall 14, circular upstanding side wall or walls 16, and an open top 18 defining a generally cylindrical cup-shaped compartment 20 for receiving the beverage can.
As seen in FIG.
1, the side walls 16 forming the compartment 20 are sufficiently spaced, in transverse direction, to ensure that the compartment side walls are spaced from the side walls of the container 12 to create an annular air space 22 therebetween throughout the major portion of the height of the compartment.
The holder walls are formed of an inner layer 24 of air impervious plastic of relatively thin wall construction, such as a shape-molded polyethylene, polystyrene or the like, which is generally shape-sustaining, but may be resiliently deformed by external pressure without fracture.
Attached to inner layer 24 of the walls is an outer insulating layer 26 of generally soft cushion material, such as a polyurethane or polystyrene foam sheet material.
The foam layer 26 is secured to the air impervious plastic inner layer 24 by suitable means, such as a conventional adhesive.
Preferably, the holder 10 is provided with internal wall means, shown in FIG.
1 as a transverse wall portion 30 extending between the inner side wall layers 24 of the holder and sealingly secured thereto to form a sub-compartment in the lower portion of the holder compartment below the beverage container 12 for the retention of a suitable liquid refrigerant 32, such as a high viscosity aqueous solution of methyl cellulose, glycerine, or glycol-type gelatinous freezeable substance.
Such refrigerant materials are well known in the prior art, and have long been employed to cool various materials in portable containers when frozen in a freezer compartment of a refrigerator
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