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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1997
James A Schwartz, Belleair, FL (US);
Sue A McDowell, Belleair, FL (US);
Other;
Abstract
A pair of cooler inserts may be used as single units when immersed in a beverage in a container or as a pair when positioned in a cooler of the type designed to hold multi-pack beverage containers. Each insert has a flat top wall, a flat bottom wall, a pair of sidewalls and a pair of flat end walls. Plural concavities are formed in each side wall to accommodate cylindrical surfaces of beverage cans when the inserts are used as a pair to cool multi-pack beverage containers. Posts are formed in the top wall of each insert and post-receiving recesses are formed in the bottom wall of each insert so that a pair of inserts are easily interlocked to one another when a first insert is positioned in overlying relation to a second insert. The flat top and bottom walls ensure that the concavities abut the respective cylindrical surfaces of the multi-pack beverage cans along the entire vertical extent of the cans so that the cans are cooled to the maximum extent possible.