Beverage Container and a Method of Using Same
AssigneeKin Hip Metal & Plastic Factory Ltd.
InventorKai Ming Andrew Sun
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Abstract
A beverage container (10) is disclosed as including a body (12) with a top end and a cooling device (20) detachably engageable with the body (12), in which the body (12) is adapted to hold a beverage, and the cooling device (20) is adapted to contain a cooling agent, e.g. water and when the cooling device (20) is engaged with the body (12), at least a major portion of the top end of the body (12) is closed and at least part of the cooling device (20) extends into an interior cavity of the body (12), and the cooling device (20) includes a vessel (22) and a top (24) removably engageable with each other. A method of using such a beverage container is also disclosed.
Claims9
A beverage container including a body member with a top end and a cooling member detachably engageable with said body member, wherein said body member is adapted to hold a beverage, wherein said cooling member is adapted to contain a coolable agent, wherein when said cooling member is engaged with said body member, at least a major portion of said top end of said body member is closed and at least part of said cooling member extends into an interior cavity of said body member, wherein said cooling member includes a vessel member and a top closure member threadedly engageable with each other, wherein when said vessel member is engaged with said top closure member, the volume of the internal cavity of said at least one cooling member is larger than the volume of the vessel member, to thereby allow said coolable agent in said vessel member to expand into a cavity of said top closure member upon freezing.
A method of using a beverage container, including the steps of:
- (a) providing a body member with a top end, said body member being adapted to hold a beverage,
- (b) providing a cooling member detachably engageable with said body member, said cooling member being adapted to contain a coolable agent and including a vessel member and a top closure member threadedly engageable with each other, wherein when said cooling member is engaged with said body member, at least a major portion of said top end of said body member is closed and at least part of said cooling member extends into an interior cavity of said body member, wherein when said vessel member is engaged with said top closure member, the volume of the internal cavity of said at least one cooling member is larger than the volume of the vessel member, to thereby allow said coolable agent in said vessel member to expand into a cavity of said top closure member upon freezing;
- (c) introducing said coolable agent into a cavity of said cooling member,
- (d) placing said cooling member into a refrigerating apparatus,
- (e) retrieving said cooling member from said refrigerating apparatus after said coolable agent is cooled to below the ambient temperature, and
- (f) engaging said cooling member with said body member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.