Insulated jacket for a beverage container
AssigneeCustom Printing II Ltd.
InventorTom Vorderkunz
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Abstract
Insulated jackets for beverage containers are disclosed having a seamless, fabric-covered, finished upper edge. The insulated jackets disclosed also comprise a partially of fully fabric-covered interior surface. Also disclosed are blanks for forming the disclosed insulated jackets for beverage containers.
Claims15
An insulative jacket for a beverage container, comprising:
- (a) a main body formed of a flexible insulative material having at least one face that is fabric covered in a configuration to form an annulus having an outer surface, an inner surface, an upper edge and a lower edge, and
- (b) a generally circular endwall connected to the lower edge of the annulus;
- wherein the main body is openable into a generally annular form defining an interior area of a shape and dimension for receiving the beverage container through the upper edge, and
- wherein the annulus outer surface, annulus upper edge and at least a portion of the annulus inner surface are covered with a substantially continuous sheet of fabric.
A blank for forming an insulative jacket for a beverage container having a circumference, comprising a generally planar web of flexible insulative material having at least one face that is covered with fabric that includes a main elongated rectangular body portion defined by:
- a. opposed first edges wherein the rectangular body portion is of sufficient length to encircle the circumference of a beverage container when the first edges are abutted with one another;
- b. opposed second edges each having four endwall portions extending from the opposed second edges at a spacing therealong selected to form an endwall when the rectangular body section is folded into two halves along a line parallel to the opposed second edges, the first edges of the body are abutted and the ends of the semicircular wall portions are abutted.
The method of claim 8 wherein said endwall portions are semi-circular.
A blank for forming an insulative jacket for a beverage container having a circumference and a height, comprising a generally planar web of flexible insulative material having at least one face that is covered with fabric that includes a main elongated rectangular body portion defined by:
- a. opposed first edges wherein the rectangular body portion is of sufficient length to encircle the circumference of a beverage container when the first edges are abutted with one another;
- b. opposed second edges each having at least two endwall portions extending from one of the opposed second edges at a spacing therealong selected to form an endwall when the first edges of the body are abutted and the ends of the semicircular wall portions are abutted;
- wherein the width of the rectangular body between said opposed second edges is greater than the height of the beverage container.
A blank for forming an insulative jacket for a beverage container having a circumference, comprising a generally planar web of flexible insulative material having at least one face that is covered with fabric that includes a first and second elongated rectangular body portion each defined by:
- a. opposed first edges wherein each first and second rectangular body portion is of sufficient length to encircle the circumference of a beverage container when the first edges are abutted with one another;
- b. and opposed second edges, wherein one of the opposed second edges of the first rectangular body portion and one of the opposed second edges of the first rectangular body portion are joined by a first endwall portion;
- wherein the blank forms an opening suitable for said beverage container when said first and second rectangular body portions are folded along a line parallel to the opposed second edges and the opposed first edges of the body are abutted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.