Insulated portable beverage container

• US 4,196,817 A
• Filed: 11/20/1978
• Issued: 04/08/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Moser D. Wescott
• Original Assignee: Moser D. Wescott
• Inventors: Moser, D. Wescott
• Primary Examiner(s): Norton, Donald F.
• Application Number:
  US05/961,974
• Time in Patent Office: 505 Days
• Field of Search: 215/13 R, 215/11 C, 215/1 A, 150/2.2, 150/3, 150/2.1, 150/52 R, 150/52 F, 62/371, 62/372, 62/457, 222/105, 222/131, 222/183
• US Class Current: 215/12.1
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/3897 formed of different materials, e.g. laminated or foam filling between walls
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2303/081 using ice cubes or crushed ice
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2303/0841 external to the container for a beverage, e.g. a bottle, can, drinking glass or pitcher
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2303/0843 on the side of the product
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2303/0845 below the product
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2331/801 Bags
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2331/803 Bottles
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 3/08 portable, i.e. adapted to be carried personally
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 31/007 Bottles or cans

Abstract

A beverage-containing squeeze bottle is removably contained within a soft, heat insulating outer jacket and has a flexible straw extending from within the bottle to a point exteriorly of the closed outer jacket. The outer jacket has a quickly releasable top opening, an outer covering, a waterproof innerlining, and an intermediate layer of insulating material therebetween. Ice is placed within the jacket surrounding the bottle. The soft outer jacket is then squeezed, forcing liquid out of the bottle through the straw.

Claims

1. An insulated beverage container including:

(a) an outer envelope having a reclosable seam along at least one edge thereof and a quick release closure means for selectively closing and opening said seam, said quick release closure means including selectively engageable strips of minute hooks and loops commonly known by the tradename Velcro;

(b) said outer envelope including a soft, flexible outer cover, an inner lining of moisture impervious, flexible sheet material and an intermediate layer of flexible insulation material positioned intermediately of said outer cover and said inner lining;

(c) a capped bottle removably contained within said outer envelope for holding a beverage therein, said bottle being formed of a flexible, heat conducting material; and

(d) a flexible straw extending from within said bottle through said reclosable seam to a point exteriorly of said outer envelope,

whereby a selected beverage may be placed in said bottle, chilled to or maintained at a desired temperature within said envelope, and by compressing or squeezing said flexible bottle the beverage may be forced through said straw as desired.

2. An insulated beverage container as in claim 1 further including handle means adjacent said reclosable seam.