Cooler accessories
AssigneeAOB Products Company
InventorsDerek Wright, Nick Featherston, Michael Cottrell, James Tayon, Brian Steere
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Abstract
A cooler assembly and associated components and methods. The cooler assembly may provide beverage dispensing functions and/or storage functions. In one embodiment, the cooler assembly includes a cooler, a beverage dispenser disposed in the cooler, and a security container releasably connected to the cooler. The beverage dispenser stores and dispenses beverage containers. The security container includes an interior compartment sized and shaped to receive one or more objects. The security container includes a door lock configured to selectively secure the door in the closed position.
Claims27
A cooler assembly comprising:
- a cooler having a base and a lid, the cooler having a security container mount on an exterior face of the base;
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- a security container releasably connectable to the security container mount, the security container including:
- a container housing defining an interior compartment sized and shaped to receive one or more objects;
- a door movable between an open position where the door permits access to the interior compartment and a closed position where the door blocks access to the interior compartment;
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- a door lock configured to selectively secure the door in the closed position
A cooler assembly for holding beverage containers, the cooler assembly comprising:
- a cooler having a base and a lid, the base having a cooler interior, the lid being movable between an open position where the lid permits access to the cooler interior and a closed position where the lid closes the cooler interior;
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- a beverage dispenser sized and shaped to be placed in the cooler interior of the cooler and to permit the lid to be arranged in the closed position when the beverage dispenser is disposed in the cooler interior, the beverage dispenser including:
- a housing having an interior sized and shaped to hold the beverage containers and having an access opening through which the beverage containers are movable;
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- a beverage pusher configured to move the beverage containers toward the access opening.
A beverage dispenser for holding a plurality of beverage containers, the cooler accessory comprising:
- a housing having an interior sized and shaped to hold the beverage containers and having an access opening through which the beverage containers may be installed in the interior and removed from the interior;
- a beverage pusher biased toward the access opening and configured to move the beverage containers in the interior toward the access opening;
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- at least one of:
- wherein the interior defines an arcuate path configured to arrange beverage containers in the interior in an arcuate arrangement along the arcuate path;
- the beverage dispenser further comprises an actuator configured to be accessible by and engaged by a hand of a user to permit the user to actuate the actuator to move the beverage pusher against the bias of the beverage pusher to facilitate loading of beverage containers into the beverage dispenser;
- the housing of the beverage dispenser includes one or more windows different from the access opening configured to permit a user to view one or more of the beverage containers in the housing;
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- the interior is configured to arrange beverage containers in the interior in two columns of beverage containers, and the beverage pusher is configured to engage the lowest beverage containers of the two stacks for biasing said lowest beverage containers toward the access opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.