Fold-up insulated beverage container holder with a stabilizing support base
US4648525A · kind A · utility
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 2, 1985 |
| Grant date | Mar 10, 1987 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 2, 2005 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S220/903
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A one piece beverage insulator holder in the form of a beverage container holder with an open top and an expanded area support base that is die cut from a sheet of insulative foam either open cell or closed cell laminated with a surface vinyl film. The one piece beverage insulator die cut pattern is in the form of a main body portion that, when the ends are tape fastened together and a can is being held thereby, assumes the shape of a cylinder. There is a bottom projection from an edge of the main body portion that has an interconnect shank having two opposite side cutouts extending into the main body portion. The bottom projection has a generally rounded portion, approximately the size and shape of a can bottom held in the holder, with a flat edge surface on the opposite side from the interconnect shank. Toward the outer edges of the main body portion there are two additional cutouts duplicating the two shank opposite side cutouts leaving two mirror image tabs that as the body portion ends are taped together the two tabs are taped together and to the flat edge surface by an extension of the tape used to tape the body portion ends together. Thus there is provided a collapsible can …
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