Portable cooler with suspended grate for ice-free storage areas
US5605056A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 25, 1995 |
| Grant date | Feb 25, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 25, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02A40/963
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A portable cooler for use with fish bait, as well as food and beverage, includes a housing having an insulated bottom, side walls, and a pivotal top hinged to one of the side walls. There is a support positioned within the housing with the support having side walls and a bottom. There is a space for ice defined between a plurality of the housing side walls and a plurality of the support side walls. There are a plurality of drawers movable in the support and accessible from outside of one of the housing side walls. Each drawer includes a front, side walls, and a bottom, at least one of the drawers having a grate supported on the side walls above the drawer bottom, the space beneath the grate and above the drawer bottom providing a container for ice to cool articles positioned on the grate, but to keep the articles spaced from the ice positioned beneath the grate.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.