Insulated beverage container

• US 4,993,580 A
• Filed: 04/16/1990
• Issued: 02/19/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Glen R. Smith
• Original Assignee: Glen R. Smith
• Inventors: Smith, Glen R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marcus, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J
• Application Number:
  US07/509,714
• Time in Patent Office: 309 Days
• Field of Search: 220/903, 220/401, 220/443, 220/441, 220/85 H, 229/90, 229/DIG. 2, 428/34.2, 428/184, 206/591, 206/594
• US Class Current: 220/1.5
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 3/06 essentially conical or frusto-conical
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 3/22 with double walls; with walls incorporating air-chambers; with walls made of laminated material for thermal insulating purposes B65D81/3818
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 229/939 Container made of corrugated paper or corrugated paperboard

Abstract

A container organization including an exterior wall spaced from an interior wall defining a conical body formed with a reinforced rib at its upper end and a floor at its lower end. The body includes an insulated medium therebetween. The insulated medium includes circumferentially equally spaced ribs therealong either alone or in association with a sinusoidal corrugating medium wherein the corrugating medium may be mounted directly to the ribs or spaced therefrom by an intermediate wall. A plurality of insulated mediums may be utilized offset relative to one another by one-half amplitude relative to one another to effect adhesive contact between upper and lower peaks of respective lower and upper sinusoidal corrugating mediums. Further, a single sinusoidal medium may be utilized spaced from the interior and exterior walls by offset ribs adhesively mounted to alternating upper and lower peaks of the corrugating medium.

Claims

1. An insulated beverage container comprising,

a tubular interior wall defined about an elongate axis, and

a tubular exterior wall, the tubular exterior wall coaxially arranged relative to the elongate axis in a surrounding relationship relative to the interior wall and coextensively formed therewith, and a floor mounted to lowermost ends of the interior and exterior walls orthogonally arranged to the elongate axis defined by the interior and exterior walls, the interior wall spaced from the exterior wall by a predetermined spacing, and

corrugating means adhesively mounted within the predetermined spacing for effecting insulation and cushioning of the exterior wall relative to the interior wall, and

the corrugating means includes a series of equally spaced planar ribs, the planar ribs circumferentially spaced relative to one another within the predetermined spacing and wherein the ribs are radially aligned relative to the elongate axis of the interior and exterior walls, and

wherein the ribs include first ribs, the first ribs defined by a first length equal to one-third of the predetermined spacing, the first ribs integrally mounted to the exterior wall within the predetermined spacing and spaced apart a first spacing, and second ribs defined by a second length equal to one-third of the predetermined spacing and integrally mounted to the interior wall within the predetermined spacing wherein the second ribs and the first ribs are radially aligned relative to the elongate axis, and the second ribs are offset relative to the first ribs to bisect the first spacing between the first ribs, and the corrugating means includes a sinusoidal corrugating medium medially mounted within the predetermined spacing between the interior wall and the exterior wall wherein the corrugating medium is defined by a sinusoidal amplitude equal to one-third of the predetermined spacing between the interior and exterior walls and includes sinusoidal peaks fixedly secured to the first ribs and sinusoidal valleys fixedly secured to the second ribs.