Cooler with ordered refilling
OwnerWilliam Scott Carmichael, Jeffrey Joseph Tolaninventors
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Abstract
An ice chest or cooler having a vertically oriented chute to receive beverage containers such that when the cooler is being refilled the beverage containers are directed through an opening in the bottom of the chute, into the bottom of the main compartment containing the ice and chilled water, and beneath any beverage containers already present in the main compartment.
Claims26
In a cooler for beverage containers wherein the beverage containers are chilled by direct contact with ice and ice water, said cooler having walls and a bottom defining in combination a main cooling compartment accessible through an open top and sized to retain multiple beverage containers along said bottom, the improvement comprising:
- a generally vertically oriented chute sized to receive horizontally disposed beverage containers in a generally vertical stack, said chute having a lower opening providing ingress into said main cooling compartment;
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- a stationary chute ramp member positioned within said chute, said chute ramp member directing said lowermost beverage container horizontally through said opening along said bottom and into said main cooling compartment.
A cooler for beverage containers wherein beverage containers are chilled by direct contact with ice and ice water, said cooler comprising in combination:
- four walls, a bottom, an open top, and a lid adapted to cover said open top and define a main cooling compartment;
- a divider wall extending between two opposing walls of said four walls and positioned generally parallel to another of said walls, said divider wall having a bottom edge spaced from said bottom to define a lower opening, whereby the combination of said divider wall and said another of said walls defines a chute adapted to receive beverage containers aligned in a generally vertical stack;
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- a stationary chute ramp member positioned at the junction of said bottom and said another of said walls, whereby said stationary chute ramp member directs the lowermost of said beverage containers disposed in said chute horizontally through said lower opening and into said main cooling compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.