Cold beverage server method and apparatus
OwnerAndrea Renee Taylor, Mark Alan Taylorinventors
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for serving a cold drink including a base with a rim, a cooling puck having at least an upper surface to conform to a lower surface of the base of a serving container and a flat base surface to fit within said rim of the base. The cooling puck is preferably composed of a plastic shell and contains a fluid that is liquid at room temperature but can be frozen in a conventional freezer compartment of a refrigerator.
Claims17
An apparatus for serving a beverage in a cold condition, said apparatus comprising:
- a base having a lower, generally flat, surface and an upper, generally flat surface, with a retaining rim;
- a cooling puck shell having a flat base and a side wall operable to fit within and generally conform with the interior of said retaining rim of said base, said puck shell having an arcuate upper surface operable to conform to a bottom concave surface of a beverage serving container;
- a cooling fluid carried within said puck shell and being operable to be frozen for absorbing heat from fluid within a beverage container positioned upon said cooling puck within said base rim;
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- wherein said rim is circular and extends upwardly in the shape of a cylinder to at least partially embrace a peripheral side wall of a container of beverage to be consumed.
An apparatus for serving a beverage in a cold condition, said apparatus comprising:
- a base having a lower, generally flat, surface and an upper, generally flat surface, with a retaining rim;
- a cooling puck shell having a flat base and a side wail operable to fit within and generally conform with the interior of said retaining rim of said base, said puck shell having a generally flat upper surface operable to conform to the bottom surface of a beverage serving container;
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- a cooling fluid carried within said puck shell and being operable to be frozen for absorbing heat from fluid within a beverage container positioned upon said cooling puck within said base rim.
An apparatus for serving a beverage in a cold condition, said apparatus comprising:
- a cooling puck shell having a flat base and a side wall extending from the flat base the puck further having an arcuate upper surface operable to conform to a bottom concave surface of a beverage serving container;
- the diameter of said puck has a dimension greater than the interior diameter of a concave recess in the bottom of a beverage container;
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- a cooling fluid carried within said puck shell and being operable to be frozen for absorbing heat from fluid within the beverage container positioned upon said cooling puck.
An method for serving a cold beverage from a container, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing a base having a generally flat upper surface and a generally circular upstanding rim;
- positioning a cooling puck comprising a shell having a flat generally circular base, generally cylindrical side walls and an arcuate convex dome and being filled with a fluid at room temperature and further being operable to be frozen by a conventional freezer department of a refrigerator;
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- positioning a cold beverage container within said circular upstanding rim wherein a concave surface of the base of the container conforms to the convex dome of said cooling puck for maintaining the container of cold beverage cold during consumption of the beverage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.