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Portable cooler with suspended grate for ice-free storage areas

US5605056A · kind A · utility

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13References
12Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateSep 25, 1995
Grant dateFeb 25, 1997
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Expiry dateSep 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.

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