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US 6,782,711 B2Granted
Portable cooler chest
OwnerJames M. Abfalterinventor
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Abstract
A cooler chest includes an outer unit and a separate inner unit having a height smaller than the height of the outer unit and a space over the inner unit for storing ice cubes, the space being defined in part by porous side walls that allow for drainage of water, resulting from the melting of ice cubes, from the ice cube storage area.
Claims8
A portable cooler chest comprising:
- an outer cooler housing having a frontal wall and a rear wall and opposing side walls extending between said frontal wall and said rear wall;
- said frontal and rear walls and said opposing side walls all having a predefined height;
- an opening in said frontal wall;
- an inner cooler housing disposed within said outer cooler housing and having a predefined height less than said predefined height of said outer cooler housing and a predefined width less than said predefined witdh of said outer cooler housing;
- said inner cooler housing having an upper wall and opposing side walls and having a frontal opening disposed in alignment with said opening in said frontal wall of said outer cooler housing;
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- a spatial area between said opposing side walls of said outer cooler housing and said opposing side walls of said inner cooler housing;
- said cooler chest further comprising opposing wall sections extending between said frontal wall and said rear wall of said outer cooling housing and disposed along said upper wall of said inner cooler housing, whereby ice may be retained in an ice storage area on said upper wall between said wall sections for cooling items disposed in said inner cooler housing.
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