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US 2011/0030418 A1Published application
Protective and cooling device for bottles
OwnerGordon Sterling Starlinginventor
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An apparatus for conductive and convective cooling of the liquid contents of bottles in a thermally insulating chest. A plate with spaced holes each for receiving a respective bottle with a gap between each of the bottles and the side of the respective hole. A set of legs for supporting and stabilizing the plate within the chest and crushed ice, ice cubes and the like filling the volume between the plate's support surface, the exposed upper portions of the bottles and the associated sides of the chest. Conductive cooling is attained through direct contact between the bottles and the ice. Convective cooling occurs through the liquid contents of the bottles, the colder, more dense liquids in the upper portions of the bottles flowing down into and displacing the less dense and warmer liquid contents upwardly toward the ice.
An apparatus for cooling liquid stored in bottles for use with a cooling medium in a thermally insulated chest comprising a plate having a plurality of spaced holes each for receiving a respective one of the bottles therein, said holes spacing keeping each of said bottles from physical contact with the bottles adjacent there to, said holes establishing gaps between the respective bottles and said respective hole surfaces to enable flow of the cooling medium through said gaps, a support surface on one side of said plate for supporting the cooling medium thereon and to establish convective cooling for the liquid stored in the bottle, and means for mounting said plate within the thermally insulating chest.
An apparatus for conductive and convective cooling of liquid in bottles stored within a cooling chest comprising a plate having a thickness of about ½ inch, a plurality webs having a minimum width of about one quarter of an inch and holes formed in said plate through a distance that prevents each of the bottles from contacting the bottles adjacent thereto, each of said holes having a radius of about 1¾ inches to form a gap between the bottles and said respective webs formed in said plate, four legs for supporting said plate within the chest, each leg being mounted on said plate and generally perpendicular thereto at a separate corner thereof, said legs each having a hollow tube, tapered at one end thereof in order to establish a force-fit with said plate and to support and stabilize said plate and the bottles within the chest.
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