Refrigerated insulated beverage container system
OwnerMartin Weberinventor
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Abstract
An insulated stein for carrying and maintaining a constant temperature of a poured beverage or of a canned beverage, featuring a sleeve to slip the can into, an optional insulating vessel to alterntively slip into the sleeve that can by itself contain a beverage poured into the vessel, a D-handle for the user to grasp onto, a hinged lid that can be pivoted upwards or downwards to cover the top of the can or to make the can accessible to the user, and a portable reusable refrigerant disk that fits into a cavity in the bottom of the stein and is held in place by a fitted bottom cap. The stein is made of an injection molded thermoplastic selected for good insulating properties.
Claims14
An insulated, refrigerated beverage container system, comprising:
- (a) a substantially cylindrical exterior sleeve of predetermined length, having an upper end and a lower end and having inner and outer side walls, said sleeve defining a predetermined interior diameter sufficiently large to accomodate a beverage container;
- (b) an interior insulating vessel having an interior cylindrical sleeve of predetermined length and inner and outer wall surfaces and having a permanently affixed interior bottom cap, said interior cylindrical sleeve circumferentially wrapped by a layer of thermal insulating material along at least a portion of the outer wall surface of said sleeve's length, said vessel being impermeable to liquids, and said interior insulating vessel having an exterior diameter sufficient to permit said vessel to be slideably inserted into said exterior cylindrical sleeve, and having an interior diameter sufficiently large to accomodate a beverage container;
- (c) an exterior bottom cap defining a recess, said cap adapted so as to be removeably attached to the lower end of said sleeve, such that when said bottom cap is attached, then said beverage container system can receive and support a beverage container, said recess being of a predetermined dimension sufficient to receive a refrigerant module means;
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- (d) said refrigerant module means being disk-shaped and defining a hollow core, and having a continuously convex upper surface and having a discontinuous cylindrical sidewall, and being capable of being separately refrigerated, and after being refrigerated, capable of being inserted into said bottom cap recess such that when a beverage container is inserted into said exterior sleeve or when said interior insulating vessel is inserted into said exterior sleeve and said module is inserted into said bottom cap and said bottom cap is attached to the lower end of said sleeve, then said module is in sufficient close proximity to refrigerate said beverage container or said interior insulating vessel.
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