Refrigeration – Cooled enclosure – Portable receptacle
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-29
2001-12-04
Bennett, Henry (Department: 3744)
Refrigeration
Cooled enclosure
Portable receptacle
C062S530000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06324864
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the field of chiller devices for drink receptacles in general, and in particular to a chiller tube that threadedly engages both a receptacle and an advertising accessory.
2. Description of Related Art
As can be seen by reference to the following U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,531,383; 5,189,892; 5,235,823; 5,502,981; and 5,732,567, the prior art is replete with myriad and diverse chiller insert arrangements for beverage receptacles.
While all of the aforementioned prior art constructions are more than adequate for the basic purpose and function for which they have been specifically designed, they are uniformly deficient with respect to their failure to provide a simple, efficient, and practical dual function chiller insert arrangement which both captively engages a chiller insert in a beverage receptacle, but also serves as a means for advertising and/or identifying a particular brand of beverage in a unique and novel fashion.
In the past, chiller inserts have either been permanently or loosely associated with a beverage receptacle and as such they have provided only a fairly limited function.
As a consequence of the foregoing situation, there has existed a long-standing need for a new and improved type of chiller arrangement for drink receptacles that will not only provide a chilling function, but will also serve to advertise and/or identify a specific beverage being served in the receptacle, and the provision of such an arrangement is a stated objective of the present invention.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Briefly stated, the chiller arrangement for drink receptacles that forms the basis of the present invention comprises in general, a receptacle unit, a chiller unit, and an advertising unit.
As will be explained in greater detail further on in the specification, the receptacle unit includes a pitcher shaped serving receptacle member which is adapted to threadedly engage one end of the chiller unit which includes an elongated tubular insert member provided with a closure element to captively engage a quantity of freezable gel within the interior of the tubular insert member.
In addition, the advertising unit includes a cap member adapted to cover both the upper end of the tubular insert member, as well as the closure element wherein the cap member is fixedly secured to an advertising panel member that serves a variety of functions.
The advertising panel member not only provides a gripping surface to engage the cap member with the tubular insert member, but also functions to engage and disengage the tubular insert member with the serving receptacle member for purposes of cleaning.
Furthermore, the advertising panel member will serve the function of advertising the content of the receptacle member to different patrons, as well as assisting servers in identifying the contents of a particular serving receptacle member.
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Stewart Diana
Stewart Thomas
Bennett Henry
Henderson & Sturm LLP
Jones Melvin
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