Combination bottle and can cooler
AssigneeWallis H. Wallis Trust of 2004
InventorThomas Beggins
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Abstract
An insulating holder for holding a beverage in a bottle or a can having a lower cylindrical enclosure which receives an upper cylindrical enclosure. The lower cylindrical enclosure has vertical ribs to frictionally grip the upper cylindrical enclosure. The upper cylindrical enclosure is adapted to cover the top portion of a bottle inserted into the lower cylindrical enclosure and to snuggly receive a can when inverted and inserted into the lower cylindrical enclosure.
Claims27
An insulating holder for a rigid bottle having a top with a neck that increases in diameter down its length, and a bottom, or for a beverage can that is generally cylindrical with a substantially flat top and bottom, the insulating holder comprising:
- a lower cylindrical enclosure comprising an interior wall;
- an invertible upper cylindrical enclosure;
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- at least one vertical rib protruding from the interior wall of the lower cylindrical enclosure to frictionally grip the invertible upper cylindrical enclosure when the invertible upper cylindrical enclosure is inserted into the lower cylindrical enclosure.
An insulating holder for a rigid bottle having a top with a neck that increases in diameter down its length, and a bottom, or for a beverage can that is generally cylindrical with a substantially flat top and bottom, the insulating holder comprising:
- a lower cylindrical enclosure comprising an interior wall, a top, and a bottom, wherein the lower cylindrical enclosure is formed of insulating foam material for thermally insulating the rigid bottle and has a depth sized to receive at least one-fourth of the length of the rigid bottle;
- an invertible upper cylindrical enclosure;
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- a plurality of vertical ribs protruding from the interior wall of the lower cylindrical enclosure to frictionally grip the invertible upper cylindrical enclosure when the invertible upper cylindrical enclosure is inserted into the lower cylindrical enclosure.
An insulating holder for a rigid bottle having a top with a neck that increases in diameter down its length, and a bottom, or for a beverage can that is generally cylindrical with a substantially flat top and bottom, the insulating holder comprising:
- a lower cylindrical enclosure formed of insulating foam material for thermally insulating the rigid bottle, the lower cylindrical enclosure comprising an interior wall, a first end, and a second end, the first end closed and the second end opening into a cylindrical interior for receiving the bottom half of the rigid bottle;
- an invertible upper cylindrical enclosure;
- a plurality of vertical ribs protruding from the interior wall of the lower cylindrical enclosure to frictionally grip the invertible upper cylindrical enclosure when the invertible upper cylindrical enclosure is inserted into the lower cylindrical enclosure;
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- a cylindrical recess in the interior wall around a top portion of the lower cylindrical enclosure wherein a diameter of the interior wall at the cylindrical recess is greater than a diameter of the interior wall at all other locations of the lower cylindrical enclosure,
- whereby the invertible upper cylindrical enclosure can be inserted into the lower cylindrical enclosure second end first or first end first.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.