Receptacles – Receptacle having means to facilitate maintaining contents... – For a beverage
Reexamination Certificate
2000-02-18
2001-01-23
Moy, Joseph M. (Department: 3727)
Receptacles
Receptacle having means to facilitate maintaining contents...
For a beverage
C220S592180, C220S023880, C220S523000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06176387
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to beverage coolers and dispensers and more particularly pertains to a new beverage cooler for holding beverage containers and fluid therein.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of beverage coolers and dispensers is known in the prior art. More specifically, beverage coolers and dispensers heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U. S. Pat. No. 5,421,159; U.S. Pat. No. 4,724,681; U.S. Patent No. Des. 298,602; U.S. Pat. No. 4,974,426; U.S. Pat. No. 4,802,344; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,048,305.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new beverage cooler. The inventive device includes a container with a base and a perimeter side wall upwardly extending around the base of the container. The perimeter side wall terminates at an upper edge defining an upper opening into the container. The container has a dividing wall therein which has an interior face. The perimeter side wall and the interior face of the dividing wall define a reservoir with a open top which is designed for holding a fluid therein. The container has a spigot in fluid communication with the reservoir and outwardly extending from the perimeter side wall of the container. The dividing wall has a top face having a pair of bores therein. Each of the bores of the dividing wall has a holding sleeve inserted therein adapted for holding a stack of beverage containers therein.
In these respects, the beverage cooler according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of holding beverage containers and fluid therein.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of beverage coolers and dispensers now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new beverage cooler construction wherein the same can be utilized for holding beverage containers and fluid therein.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new beverage cooler apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the beverage coolers and dispensers mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new beverage cooler which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art beverage coolers and dispensers, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a container with a base and a perimeter side wall upwardly extending around the base of the container. The perimeter side wall terminates at an upper edge defining an upper opening into the container. The container has a dividing wall therein which has an interior face. The perimeter side wall and the interior face of the dividing wall define a reservoir with a open top which is designed for holding a fluid therein. The container has a spigot in fluid communication with the reservoir and outwardly extending from the perimeter side wall of the container. The dividing wall has a top face having a pair of bores therein. Each of the bores of the dividing wall has a holding sleeve inserted therein adapted for holding a stack of beverage containers therein.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new beverage cooler apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the beverage coolers and dispensers mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new beverage cooler which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art beverage coolers and dispensers, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new beverage cooler which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new beverage cooler which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new beverage cooler which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such beverage cooler economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new beverage cooler which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new beverage cooler for holding beverage containers and fluid therein.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new beverage cooler which includes a container with a base and a perimeter side wall upwardly extending around the base of the container. The perimeter side wall terminates at an upper edge defining an upper opening into the container. The container has a dividing wall therein which has an interior face. The perimeter side wall and the interior face of the dividing wall define a reservoir with a open top which is designed for holding a fluid therein. The container has a spigot in fluid communication with the reservoir and outwardly extending from the perimeter side wall of the container. The dividing wall has a top face having a pair of bores therein. Each of the bores of the dividing wall has a holding sleeve inserted therein adapted for holding a stack of beverage containers therein.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new beverage cooler that may be used to keep beverage containers and fluids store
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