Portable cooler

Receptacles – Receptacle having means to facilitate maintaining contents... – Ice-box – refrigerator – or freezer cabinet

Reexamination Certificate

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C220S023870, C220S501000

Reexamination Certificate

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06193097

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a portable cooler.
Portable coolers to keep and preserve cold food and drinks by having ice there are already known in the market, however, when using them, ice liquefaction increases remarkably and the location or removal of food and drinks becomes thus very troublesome.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
With the portable cooler of this invention, said drawbacks have been overcome and the cooler is provided with a structure separating food and drinks as regards to the ice and facilitates therefore location and removal of food and drinks; the amount of water from the ice liquefaction is also separated and collected at a lower container and the liquefaction speed is thus reduced.
The portable cooler of this invention is of the type comprising two differently-sized parallelepiped bodies inserted one within the other, a thermoinsulating material filler inserted between body and body, and in a quite simpler way a peculiar good-natured main moulding body can also be provided. The cooler having a top cover with the same insulating characteristics or not than the main body and has a carrier handle. The cover is fixed to the main body by conventional sealing means.
OBJECTS AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The portable cooler of this invention comprises a food and/or drink container body and is provided with a handle-fitted sealing cover; the body comprises a compartment for food and drinks distribution to keep and preserve them at cool temperatures when contacting with cold components; essentially characterized in that the container body comprises a top area defining a plurality of food and/or drinks and ice gathering compartments and a lesser-profiled lower area than the top one making up a lower container for keeping there the liquid from the ice liquefaction and is also provided with a draining hole fitted with a sealing plug, these top and lower parts are separated by an intermediate drilled plate resting on the profiled edge projecting from the lower area and upholding food and/drinks and ice located at the top area.
According to this invention, the compartments for keeping ice there are made up with removably and directed receptacles as regards the inside walls of the container body which are resting on the intermediate drilled place at the bottom side.
According to this invention, the compartments for keeping ice there are made up with removably bottom-drilled tanks arranged between the receptacles for keeping food and/or drinks there and resting on the intermediate drilled plate at the bottom side.
Also according to the invention, the compartments for keeping ice there are defined by the spaces between the compartments for keeping food and/or drinks there, which are made up with directed and removably receptacles resting on the intermediate drilled plate at the bottom side, the ice remaining kept between said receptacles and the same intermediate drilled plate.
According to the invention, the container body top area is upwardly having a double section also upwardly defining an inside perimetral bracket allowing that the flattened containers arranged above the receptacles and/or tanks can be rested quite balanced thereon. Said receptacles and tanks may have a height at the same level as the perimetral bracket enabling the flattened containers to be rested on the receptacles, tank and bracket.
According to the invention, the plurality to food and/or drinks keeping compartments and the ice tank at the top area, are defined by a plurality of removably separating components arranged between the cooler container body sides positionably-able to define equal and/or diverse spaces as might be required.


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