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Food and beverage storage and serving vessel comprising an integral phase change material

  • US 7,431,174 B2
  • Filed: 04/05/2004
  • Issued: 10/07/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A food and beverage, storage and serving vessel comprising:

  • an inner container having an inner container bottom wall and an inner container side wall that surrounds and extends upwardly from the inner container bottom wall to a top edge of the inner container side wall; and

    an outer container formed from an interior layer of material suspended above an exterior layer of material, the outer container having an outer container bottom wall and an outer container side wall that surrounds an extends upwardly from the outer container bottom wall to a top edge of the outer container side wall, wherein a top edge of the interior layer of material is secured to a top edge of the exterior layer of material, the outer container being dimensioned to receive the inner container nested inside the outer container with the outer container bottom wall engaging with a majority of the inner container bottom wall and with the outer container side wall engaging with a majority of the inner container side wall;

    an exterior surface of the exterior layer of material provides an elevating apron to elevate the vessel above a supporting surface; and

    a locking assembly between the inner container and the outer container is positioned on the outer container side wall and the inner container side wall that removably attaches the inner container to the outer container;

    a hollow chamber inside the outer container bottom wall and a hollow chamber inside the outer container side wall; and

    ,a phase change material in the outer container bottom wall chamber and a phase change material in the outer container side wall chamber.

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