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US 2017/0341838 A1Published application
Removable Can Holding Refrigerator Container
AssigneeDanby Products Limited
InventorsShauna Gamble, Gregory Allan Thomas Hall, Michael Joseph DeFazio, Steven Henry Fyke, Brent Wayne Thomas
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Abstract
A beverage can holding container (20) is removably positionable within an interior area (12) of a refrigerator (10). The container has an interior area (36) that holds a plurality of beverage cans (22). A plurality of handles (46, 58, 60) are provided to facilitate removing the container from the refrigerator and transporting the container with the beverage cans therein to a location away from the refrigerator where the beverages will be consumed.
Claims26
Apparatus comprising:
- a container, wherein the container is configured to house a plurality of beverage cans and be removably positioned within a refrigerator,
- the container including a housing, the housing including
- a generally rigid first wall,
- a generally rigid second wall disposed from and generally parallel to the first wall,
- a generally rigid first end wall, wherein the first end wall extends generally perpendicular to and between the first wall and the second wall,
- a generally rigid second end wall, wherein the second end wall extends generally perpendicular to and between the first wall and the second wall, wherein the second end wall is disposed from the first end wall,
- a closure wall, wherein the closure wall extends between the first wall, the second wall, the first end wall and the second end wall,
- wherein the housing bounds an interior area and includes an opening to the interior area opposite the closure wall, wherein the interior area is sized to hold the plurality of beverage cans therein,
- at least one ramp surface, wherein the at least one ramp surface is in operative connection with the first wall, wherein the at least one ramp surface is configured such that when the at least one first wall is operatively supported on a generally horizontal surface, at least one interior can supporting face in operative connection with the first wall is slanted downward toward the closure wall,
- at least one handle, wherein the at least one handle is operatively connected to one of the first wall, the second wall, the first end wall and the second end wall,
- wherein the container is configured to be supported on a generally horizontal shelf surface within a refrigerator interior and wherein when the container is so supported, the at least one ramp surface causes the plurality of cans in the interior area to be urged downward toward the closure wall,
- and wherein the container is removable from the refrigerator interior by manual engagement of the at least one handle, and when the container is carried by the at least one handle the plurality of beverage cans are urged downward toward the closure wall.
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Apparatus comprising:
- a container, wherein the container is configured to house a plurality of beverage cans,
- wherein the container is configured to hold a plurality of beverage cans within an interior area of the container when positioned in supported connection with a horizontal shelf within a refrigerator and when removed from the refrigerator,
- wherein the container includes a housing,
- wherein the housing includes
- at least one side wall bounding the interior area,
- a closure wall extending between the side walls,
- an opening to the interior area opposite the closure wall,
- at least one ramp surface extending outward from at least one side wall on a side of the housing,
- a handle in operative connection with the housing, wherein the handle is operatively connected to the housing on a further side of the housing opposed of the side including the at least one ramp surface,
- wherein with the container supported on a horizontal shelf within the refrigerator with the at least one ramp surface in abutting relation with the shelf
- all cans within the interior area are slanted downwardly within the interior area and urged toward the closure wall, and
- each can is manually removable horizontally from the interior area,
- and the container is manually engageable by the handle to disengage from the shelf and be carried by the handle outside the refrigerator,
- wherein when the container is carried by the handle all cans within the interior area are urged downwardly generally perpendicular to the closure wall.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.