Patent
Thermally insulated floating beverage container holding device
| العنوان: | Thermally insulated floating beverage container holding device |
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| Patent Number: | 5,727,709 |
| تاريخ النشر: | March 17, 1998 |
| Appl. No: | 08/645,093 |
| Application Filed: | May 13, 1996 |
| مستخلص: | A thermally insulated floating beverage container holding device is disclosed which has an elongate body member having a peripheral side wall and a bottom wall closing the side wall to form a chamber for receiving a typical round bottle or aluminum can beverage container therein. The side wall has an upper portion that is substantially thicker than the remaining portion of the side wall to provide floation for the holding device, and a weight is suitably secured to the bottom of the holding device to proide sufficient stability that the device holds a beverage container upright both when immersed in water so that neither will beverage spill from the container nor will water get into the container to contaminate the beverage, and when the device is placed on a dry surface. |
| Inventors: | Nobile, John R. (Fairfield, CT) |
| Claim: | I claim |
| Claim: | 1. A thermally insulated floating beverage container holding device comprising |
| Claim: | A. an elongate body member having a peripheral side wall defining a chamber |
| Claim: | B. means adjacent one end of said side wall for supporting a beverage container within said chamber, the other end of said peripheral wall being open to receive said beverage container within said cheer |
| Claim: | C. means operatively associated with said peripheral side wall for providing said side wall with thermally insulating and buoyant characteristics |
| Claim: | D. floatation means surrounding an upper portion of said peripheral side wall for causing said body member to float in a substantially upright position, said floatation means extending axially for a distance less than one half of the length of said peripheral side wall and having a configuration which extends said floatation means radially beyond said side wall, and |
| Claim: | E. ballast means disposed adjacent said beverage supporting means for assisting in maintaining said holding device in said upright position when said holding device is immersed in water, said floatation means and said ballast means being provided in a proportion of floatation characteristic to ballast that will maintain said holding device substantially in said upright position during depletion of the beverage in said beverage container from full to empty, whereby when said holding device is immersed in water with a beverage container therein, said holding device floats in an upright position with sufficient stability and buoyancy to prevent beverage from spilling from said beverage container and to prevent water from entering said beverage container and contaminating the beverage therein. |
| Claim: | 2. A thermally insulated floating beverage container holding device as set forth in claim 1 wherein said floatation means is approximately three times the thickness of the remaining portion of said pheripheral side wall. |
| Claim: | 3. A thermally insulated floating beverage container holding device as set forth in claim 2 wherein said means for providing said thermally insulating and buoyant characteristics of said peripheral side wall comprises said peripheral side wall being formed as a hollow sealable inflatable bladder defining an air cheer therein. |
| Claim: | 4. A thermally insulated floating beverage container holding device as set forth in claim 3 wherein said inflatable bladder of said side wall terminates adjacent the juncture of said side wall with said flotation means, and said floatation means comprises a separate hollow sealable inflatable bladder defining an air chamber therein. |
| Claim: | 5. A thermally insulated floating beverage container holding device as set forth in claim 2 wherein said means for providing said thermally insulating and buoyant characteristics of said peripheral side wall comprises said peripheral side wall being formed of a thermally insulating and buoyant material, and said floatation means comprises said upper portion of said side wall also being formed of a thermally insulating material. |
| Claim: | 6. A thermally insulated floating beverage container holding device as set forth in claim 2 wherein said means for providing said thermally insulating and buoyant characteristics of said peripheral side wall comprises said peripheral side wall being formed of a thermally insulating and buoyant material, and said floatation means comprises a hollow sealable inflatable bladder surrounding said upper portion of said peripheral side wall and defining an air chamber therein. |
| Claim: | 7. A thermally insulated floating beverage container holding device as set forth in claim 2 wherein said means for providing said thermally insulating and buoyant characteristics of said peripheral side wall comprises said peripheral side wall being formed as a first hollow sealable inflatable bladder which terminates adjacent the juncture of said side wall with said floatation means, and said floatation means comprises a second hollow sealable inflatable bladder surrounding said upper portion of said peripheral side wall, said first and second bladders being joined together to form a single hollow sealable inflatable bladder extending the full length of said body member. |
| Claim: | 8. A thermally insulated floating beverage container holding device as set forth in claim 7 wherein said first and second bladders are disconnected from one another to form two separate bladders. |
| Claim: | 9. A thermally insulated floating beverage container holding device as set forth in claim 1 wherein said means for supporting said beverage container comprises a bottom wall closing said one end of said peripheral side wall, and said ballast means comprises a weight affixed to said bottom wall. |
| Claim: | 10. A thermally insulated floating beverage container holding device as set forth in claim 1 wherein said means for supporting said beverage container comprises a radially inturned flange secured to said peripheral side wall adjacent said one end of said peripheral side wall, and said ballast means comprises an annular weight affixed to said flange. |
| Claim: | 11. A thermally insulated floating beverage container holding device as set forth in claim 1 wherein said floatation means is provided with a plurality of apertures extending therethrough in an axial direction for attaching a carrying strap to said beverage container holding device. |
| Current U.S. Class: | 220/560; 220/603 |
| Current International Class: | B65D 4324 |
| Patent References Cited: | 151261 May 1874 Woerle 1370432 March 1921 Gvosdenovich 2531562 November 1950 Eve 3015406 January 1962 Nolte 4303170 December 1981 Panicci 4802602 February 1989 Evans et al. 4927041 May 1990 Hepburn 5005717 April 1991 Oilar 5088948 February 1992 Scheurer 5447764 September 1995 Langford |
| Primary Examiner: | Moy, Joseph M. |
| Attorney, Agent or Firm: | Wittstein, Martin D. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edspgr.05727709 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | USPTO Patent Grants |
| الوصف غير متاح. |