Portable ice table

A portable ice table comprising:

• a platform comprised of a light-weight hard organic plastic material having an outer insulating surface comprised of an expanded rigid polystyrene plastic, a bottom, a lower upstanding vertical wall extending upward from the bottom, a ledge extending outward from the lower vertical wall, an upper vertical wall extending upward from the ledge and having an upper edge, and an inner surface including grooves extending from the bottom to the upper edge of the upper vertical wall;
• a manually removable separating member with opposite ends fitted into and held in place by the grooves within the inner surface and extending vertically from the bottom of the platform to the upper edge of the inner surface;
• said platform also including a skirt around its perimeter depending from the upper edge of the inner surface and spaced from the upstanding vertical wall, a handle, a recessed dry storage compartment and a recessed ice storage compartment separated from the dry storage compartment by the separating member and having a first section for storing ice, a manually removable perforated ice supporting member and a second section;
• said first section being disposed above the second section with the perforated ice supporting member being disposed between the first and second sections;
• said perforated ice supporting member including a plurality of openings between the first and second sections;
• said second section including at least one positioning member;
• said perforated ice supporting member resting on the ledge and positioning member thereby positioning it between the first and second sections;
• said second section further including means to store and drain water from the ice storage compartment comprising a threaded orifice in the second section extending through the platform and including a valve having open and closed positions for opening and closing the orifice;
• a plurality of adjustable supporting members comprising legs pivotably secured to the platform to support the platform above a generally horizontal surface and including supporting and non-supporting positions;
• said legs being stored within the platform in the space between the skirt and the upper vertical wall when in said non-supporting positions;
• said legs being positioned in a direction which is generally vertical and normal to said platform and which may be temporarily and securely locked when in said supporting positions;
• said platform having locking and restraining members to provide vertical and lateral stability to the legs when in said supporting positions;
• a plurality of supporting members fixedly secured to the platform to support the platform above a generally horizontal surface when the legs are in a non-supporting position;
• a removable insulating cover;
• and wherein the melting of ice stored in the first section causes water to flow through the perforated ice supporting member into the second section;
• said bottom of the platform being sloped such that water flows away from the dry storage compartment towards the threaded orifice;
• said water being stored in the second section when the orifice is closed and being drained from the second section when the orifice is open.