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US 6,616,493 B2Granted
Floatable beverage holder
OwnerSteven C. Powell, Steven L. Kulcsarinventors
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Abstract
A buoy which is suitable for supporting various sizes of beverage containers and allows the center of gravity of the combined buoy and container to be readily adjusted in order to restrain tipping.
Claims21
A buoy for supporting any one of a variety of sizes of containers in a generally upright position when the buoy and supported container are placed in water, said buoy comprising:
- a buoyant body;
- a generally circular opening extending entirely through the body along an opening axis and adapted to receive the container;
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- a resilient holding member defining at least a portion of the opening and adapted to frictionally engage the container when the container is received in the opening, said resilient holding member being sufficiently flexible to allow generally cylindrical containers having outer diameters varying by at least 35 percent to be received in the opening without causing substantial plastic deformation of the resilient holding member,
- said holding member being at least partly defined by a plurality of spaced-apart slots, each of said slots commencing at the opening and extending from the opening into the body.
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A buoy for supporting any one of a variety of sizes of containers in a generally upright position when the buoy and the supported container are placed in water, said buoy comprising:
- a body presenting an outer perimeter and defining an opening extending through the body along an opening axis, said opening adapted to receive the container,
- said body defining a plurality of spaced-apart open slots extending between the opening and the outer perimeter,
- said open slots including an open end adjacent the opening and a closed end positioned between the opening and the outer perimeter,
- said open slots allowing the body to be sufficiently deformed so that the size of the opening can be varied to allow the body to receive and frictionally hold generally cylindrical containers having outer diameters varying by at least 35 percent without causing substantial plastic deformation of the body,
- said body comprising a resilient foam material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.