Abstract: A cooler is provided for a typical carbonated beverage can, which facilitates cooling of the can and drinking of beverage from the cold can. The cooler includes a container bottom assembly which closely receives the can and a top assembly which fits into the bottom assembly to trap a can therein. About two-thirds of the height of the can lies in the bottom assembly, and the bottom assembly closely surrounds the can, to keep the can cool even when the top is removed and liquid is drunk from the can lying in the bottom assembly. The bottom assembly includes a refrigerant element having a raised middle portion which is received in the concave bottom of a typical pressurized twelve ounce can. The bottom assembly includes a hard cup-shaped shell and a cup-shaped foam liner, the bottom of the liner being closely held in the shell but the top of the liner being spaced from the shell to provide space for an interfitting lip on the top assembly.

Abstract: A portable refrigeration unit adapted for cold storage of human remains. The unit includes a storage container formed of multiple insulated walls detachably interconnected for rapid assembly and disassembly. A refrigeration unit is connected to the container for maintaining the temperature in the container below indoor ambient temperature.

Abstract: A beverage cooler comprises a housing member of generally rectangular configuration. The housing includes a bottom horizontal wall and a plurality of generally vertical side and end walls which are integrally formed with the bottom horizontal wall to define an enclosure having a top opening. Coolant and consumable items normally are inserted in the cooler through the top opening and a cover member is positioned over the vertical walls to form an enclosed container. Sleeve numbers extend through at least one on the vertical wall members and are integral therewith. The sleeve members form an integral outer surface with the wall members for preventing cool air from leaking from the interior of the cooler. The sleeve members enable beverage containers to be inserted therein so that the containers can be cooled by being adjacent the cool air in the interior of the beverage cooler.

Abstract: The specification discloses a portable cooler, storage container or icechest, in the configuration of a briefcase or attache case, and the like. The portable cooler, storage container or icechest is defined by outer side, rear, front, top and bottom walls. The outer rear wall has four separately spaced appendages affixed thereon. Separate inner side, rear, front, top and bottom walls are thermally insulated from the outer walls to define a storage compartment. A lid is defined is by outer side, top and front walls separated by an insulating medium from inner side, top and front walls. The lid is designed with a tongue while the storage container has a groove on their respective side and top walls. A hinging means attaches the lid to the storage container on which is also affixed a latching means, again on the lid and another on the storage container. To enable excess accumulation of moisture passage from the storage compartment, a drainage means extends through the cooler side.

Abstract: An ice sleeve cooler for beer kegs or other beverages comprising a slip-over ice sleeve open at the bottom and open at the top and having inner and outer sleeve members with an ice pocket therebetween. The bottom of the sleeve members are joined in sealed relation and have a draw-string for attachment around the lower side wall of the keg, and both inner and outer sleeve members have top draw-strings for individually attaching these members to the keg. The method of fabricating the ice sleeve cooler from a one-piece sheet of plastic stock involves the steps of folding and sealing the sheet to form the double sleeve members with an integral bottom edge.

Abstract: An inflatable insulated barrel cooler comprising a cylindrical, open topped, closed bottom, container constructed of sheet plastic or vinyl reinforced fabric. The cooler is somewhat rigid when inflated and in use yet is easily stored when collapsed. Insulation is provided by the trapped air of inflation. The cooler accommodates both 1/2 and 1/4 barrel sizes by incorporating a sleeve insert.

Abstract: A device for cooling containers, for instance beverage bottles or beverage cans, arranged in a wrapping comprises a cooling-medium receptacle inserted or insertable within the wrapping, between the containers to be cooled, said receptacle being brought in surface contact with certain areas of the peripheral surface of the containers, due to a predetermined or bag-like shape. The components of a cooling mix have to be placed in the cooling-medium receptacle. The cooling-medium receptacle meant for one-time use and already containing the stable components, for instance the solid components, of the cooling mix is preferred. The cooling-medium receptacle prepared as mentioned can be placed in advance in a commercial package for filled containers, for instance beverage bottles or beverage cans. Before the use of the containers respectively the consumption of the beverages, it is required to add the reactive components after opening the package and then to reclose the cooling-medium receptacle.

Abstract: A portable refrigerated unit for a beverage container such as, for example a soft drink can or bottle includes an outer case having two hinged together the mating halves. A refrigerant pack consists of two separate refrigerant cartridges each formed with a container receiving cavity which are removably installed in mating halves of the outer case. When a beverage container is installed in the cavities of the cartridges and the case is closed, the cavities of the refrigerant cartridges cooperate to completely encompass the beverage container. The refrigerant cartridges are formed with finger insets at appropriate locations at the perimeter of the container receiving cavities to aid in removing the cartridges from the outer case halves.

Abstract: A container is disclosed for maintaining its contents at a desired temperature for an extended period of time such as for use in shipping contents in a frozen condition. The container includes an outer shell which is substantially airtight and which has an inner surface; a passive heat exchange medium; a support structure for the heat exchange medium; and means for maintaining an air space between the contents of the container and substantially the entire inner surface of the outer shell of the container and between the contents of the container and the support structure for the heat exchange medium for allowing convection current to develop in the air space which circulates past the heat exchange medium and maintains a substantially uniform temperature around the contents of the container.

Abstract: In the preferred and illustrated embodiments of the present apparatus, a tray or platform standing above the bottom of an ice chest is disclosed. The tray is a generally horizontal planar member having a number of slots or openings formed therein, and further comprising a set of feet which support the horizontal member in an elevated position. In an alternate embodiment, the tray rests on a set of raised transverse members integrally formed in the bottom of the ice chest.

Abstract: A device for thermally treating products, especially food and beverages, is provided with a thermal element improved in its heat-exchanging efficiency, which is brought into surface contact with the goods to be treated and the selection of a thermal medium suited to establish any desired temperature of the goods and can be charged into the thermal element. For this purpose, the heat-exchanger wall of the thermal element is built in wall sections in order to form a closed unit with the goods to be treated and the thermal element is kept in mutual surface contact and the remaining wall portions form together with the heat-exchanger wall a tightly closable container for the thermal medium having at least one filling and discharge opening, provided with an openable closing element for the thermal medium. The thermal element can be built with basically rigid walls, comprising wall portions fitting the shape of the goods to be treated.

Abstract: There is provided an insulated bag of a multi-layer construction employing nylon fabric as inner and outer liners, thermal suede as thermal insulation inside the outer liner, needle punched Dacron fabric as a vapor and thermal barrier, aluminum foil as a thermal barrier and metalized Mylar as a vapor barrier.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling assembly of the type designed to maintain a bottle of wine or like beverage at a chilled temperature and in a predetermined orientation to facilitate serving thereof. A housing includes a cooling compartment removably secured therein in surrounded relation to insulating material wherein the cooling compartment may be at least partially filled with water and separately subjected to a freezing environment for freezing the water and forming ice to be used as a coolant. A closure and a cover structure is mounted on the cooling compartment to provide access to a coolant chamber while at the same time serving to separate the interior of the cooling compartment from ambient temperature surrounding the housing. Auxiliary compartments are provided on the housing for the storage of glasses, bottle opening structures and like ancillary objects.

Abstract: A container for cooling, preserving and safely transporting a biological specimen includes a thermally insulating over-all container having as contents a container for ice, a container for the specimen including an isothermal metal cup, and a thermally insulating sheet interposed between the specimen container and the ice, the over-all container and the insulating sheet having thermal constants chosen to control the cooling rate, preferably to approximately one to three minutes per degree Centigrade, and to achieve a steady state temperature of the specimen near, but above freezing, preferably in the range of 4.degree. C. to 10.degree. C.

Abstract: A barrel cooler comprising a cylindrical, open ended, insulated cloth sleeve or jacket that slips over a beer keg or the like to keep the barrel cold. The insulated cloth sleeve is fabricated from a single piece of fabric by folding the fabric in thirds longitudinally with the insulation layer therebetween and then stitching the bottom circumferentially. A plurality of vertically stitched seams displaced equal distance around the sleeve create internal pockets in which are placed plastic bags of frozen water or the like to cool the barrel.

Abstract: An adjustable container is provided for maintaining a long-necked beverage-containing bottle at a low temperture. The container is comprised of an upper shell member having a contour generally similar to the shape of the bottle and having an upper opening of small diameter, and a lower opening of large diameter. The interior wall of the upper shell member carries a layer of thermally insulative material. A resilient annular gasket disposed within the upper shell member adjacent its upper opening is adapted to make sealing engagement with a bottle which may be mounted into the upper shell member to an extent which causes the neck of the bottle to protrude through the upper opening. A base member, of cup-shaped configuration is adapted to accommodate the bottom of the bottle and threadably engage the upper shell member to force the bottle into tight engagement with the gasket.

Abstract: A passive temperature control shipment container is provided having a central chamber surrounding a sample or specimen wherein the central chamber has two conductive walls, one of which is in contact with a heat source and one with a heat sink to provide a specified temperature change profile and to maintain a specified temperature time relationship in the shipping container.

Abstract: A transportable self-contained life support apparatus steadily reduces in temperature whole blood collected from donors to a predetermined temperature range. The whole blood is kept live by maintaining the temperature of the blood within such range through conductive heat transfer to an adjacent coolant. The coolant, in a frozen state and having a freezing temperature just below the predetermined range, absorbs heat commensurate to/with its latent heat of fusion and precludes temperature excursion of the blood until all of the coolant has become liquid. Similarly, platelets, extracted from the blood, can be maintained at the predetermined temperature range during storage and transport. Over chilling is precluded by limiting the low temperature of the coolant to its freezing temperature and a life destroying temperature rise is self-evident by and can only occur after a complete change in the state of the coolant.

Abstract: Disclosed are unpressurized multiwall containers of liquid having outer and inner walls of unfoamed plastic material. The plastic container has at least two unfoamed plastic walls, each of which is separated from the next wall by a layer containing a gas or vapor wherein the gas or vapor contains less than ten volume percent oxygen gas and is not reactive with oxygen under packaging conditions. The layer or layers containing the gas can be entirely gaseous or be a foamed or cellular plastic containing, for instance, as little as thirty volume percent gas. The containers have a special utility where it is desired to minimize the permeation of oxygen from the ambient air into the inside of the container. In a particularly important embodiment of the disclosure, the outer plastic layer is supported by a paperboard or wooden container, and the inner plastic container is within the paperboard or wooden container.

Abstract: A shipping container for safely maintaining contents at stabilized temperature during transit has a first insert arranged to be removably, frictionally fit between opposed side walls and formed to accommodate vials and provides storage space for packaged coolant and bottles in selected arrangement, a second insert arranged for frictional engagement with opposed side walls and formed to accommodate bottles and access formations in the side walls engaged by the first insert to permit ready removal.

Abstract: Plastic sheet material forms a thin generally pillow shaped liquid container. A dispenser incorporates an elongated tube with a valve and nozzle at the distal end. The carrying case is shaped like the container and protects and insulates the container.

Abstract: A wrap-around type portable beverage cooler suitable for cooling and maintaining in cooled condition a small container such as an individual wine bottle, soft drink bottle, or sealed cane. The device includes an elastic belt, a portion of which is disposed between the individual walls of a flexible coolant-retaining jacket, the ends of the belt being selectively interconnectable to retain the jacket in surrounding relation relative to the container. An integral strap carried by the lower periphery of the jacket passes under the container to prevent slipping of the container relative to the jacket. Elongate cords pass through openings adjacent the upper periphery of the jacket to enable the jacket and container to be carried without chilling the fingers of a user.

Abstract: A cooling device, particularly for heat protective suits, comprises, a housing having a bottom with a heat exchanger surface exposed therein, and a solid refrigerant, such as dry ice, overlying the heat exchanger surface. The ice is preferably biased toward the heat exchanger surface and a flexible intermediate layer is disposed between the dry ice and the heat exchanger surface. The flexible intermediate layer is saturated with a fluid, such as one which remains liquid to below the sublimation point of the solid refrigerant. The heat exchanger surface is advantageously connected through connecting lines and a pump to circulate it through various passages in the protective vest or suit.

Abstract: A flexible, multilayer thermal wrap for beverage containers. The wrap has an inner coolant layer for wrapping about the container which conforms to the container's shape and leaves an opening at the container's top to expose the pouring end. The coolant layer is externally surrounded by an insulative layer. The insulative layer is externally surrounded by a protective layer. Fasteners are provided for securing the covering about a container.

Abstract: A self-contained refrigerant package and method for shipment of a perishable or degradable product is described. The shipping package comprises an insulated container having therein a predetermined quantity of dry ice and a predetermined quantity of refrigerant gel that separates the product from the dry ice to prevent contact with the dry ice. The shipping package maintains the desired temperature range for periods in excess of 48 hours thus providing a safety factor for delays in shipment of such products.

Abstract: A portable, flexible, refrigerating pouch for carrying and storing insulin needed by diabetics to prevent it from deterioration is disclosed. The pouch comprises an insulating layer and a liner whose structure provides separate compartments for a refrigerating agent, a vial of insulin and a syringe.

Abstract: A cold temperature chilling storage and transportation container specifically is used for fish. The space between double walls of regular or crosslinked polyethylene is filled with polyurethane foam. The outer bottom wall has nine legs formed integrally therewith. The inner bottom wall slopes to a recessed one inch opening in which a plug may be inserted. The upper half of the sidewalls extends outward about an inch and a half on each side so that empty containers may be telescoped. A cover overhangs the outer wall and has lower recesses to receive the sidewall. Nine upper recesses in the cover receive legs of the bottom wall for stacking the containers. The legs enable a forklift to be inserted from either side. A hollow double walled air manifold fits within the bottom and has a nipple to which an air hose may be connected. In use, ice is placed in the container, later, salt water and fish are added.

Abstract: An insulating and cooling receptacle for a beverage bottle comprises an insulating base portion and a bottle-cooling cap portion which is filled with a freezable substance. The cap is removable to permit insertion or removal of a bottle and to permit the cap portion to be separately pre-frozen prior to use. The cap portion is dimensioned to permit the top of the bottle to project through its open top so that the user may drink or pour from the open bottle while the bottle is cooling and insulated within the receptacle.

Abstract: An ice pack which is constructed of a plurality of separate compartments which are connected together through a webbing assembly. Each of the compartments is movable in respect to each other permitting the ice pack to be located within confined various sizes of spaces. Within each compartment of the ice pack is located a quantity of freezable substance which is to be used as a refrigerant. Each compartment is enclosed by a wall assembly which retards the accumulation of moisture on the exterior surface of the wall assembly.

Abstract: An insert for an ice chest which includes a tubular body having open ends and apertured side and end walls arranged to be disposed within the interior of the chest with the lower end in supported engagement with the chest bottom wall, the interior of the chest being provided with one or more vertically spaced removable shelves for supporting foodstuffs and having a cross-sectional shape for defining a surrounding clearance space with the side wall of the chest in which ice is placed so that the air cooled by the ice passes through the apertures in the body walls to refrigerate the foodstuffs on the shelves while the ice is blocked from entering the interior of the tubular body wherein the foodstuffs are stored.

Abstract: An insulated container (10) and a process for shipping perishable products utilizes a box (16) having a lid (18) with an internal compartment for receiving a quantity of dry ice (32) or other expendable refrigerant. The perishable products, which are prechilled, are packed into the box (16) and are covered with a layer of wet ice (24) and a wet pad (26). As the dry ice (32) sublimates, it freezes the wet pad (26) and refrigerates the box (16) to maintain the products in chilled condition. Secondary refrigeration is provided by the frozen wet pad (26) and layer of ice (24).

Abstract: A controlled temperature shipping assembly is disclosed which comprises a container, a plurality of liquid retention members and temperature control means. The container includes both an outer protective layer and an inner insulating layer. The outer protective layer and the insulating layer define a shipping cavity containing the liquid retention members and the temperature control means. The liquid retention members are removably positioned in the shipping cavity such that at least one surface of each of the liquid retention members is in direct contact with at least one surface of the temperature control means. The temperature control means are positioned in the shipping cavity such that the temperature of each of the liquid retention members can be controlled below predetermined levels.

Abstract: A pair of hollow modules, each containing a liquid refrigerant, are shaped to fit around the circumference, bottom and neck of a beverage bottle. The neck of the bottle protrudes from one end so that the beverage can be poured without removal from the cooler. The cooler has an inner curvature which fits the curvature of the largest diameter bottle to be accommodated. The modules are held together by a strap with loops at each end which fit around the pair of modules and into grooves or rings on the outer surface thereof.

Abstract: A refrigerated cargo container, comprising no moving parts, for use in transporting temperature sensitive cargoes in aircraft. The container has six insulated walls with an insulated door along part of one of the walls, preferably the container's front wall, to provide for an air-tight container when the door is closed. An insulated bunker, having an insulated wall about a portion of its outer surface and a heat exchange portion along its bottom surface, containing a coolant such as solid carbon dioxide, is located within one of the top corners of the insulated cargo container. An air inlet duct extends along the top wall of the insulated container to one side of the insulated bunker to allow warm air from the interior of the container and the cargo to flow into the inlet duct along the top wall of the container and to pass along the side and bottom of the coolant bunker where the warm air is cooled by the heat exchange portion of the bunker.

Abstract: A cold temperature chilling storage and transportation container specifically is used for fish. The space between double walls of regular or cross-linked polyethylene is filled with polyurethane foam. The outer bottom wall has nine legs formed integrally therewith. The inner bottom wall slopes to a recessed one inch opening in which a plug may be inserted. The upper half of the sidewalls extends outward about an inch and a half on each side so that empty containers may be telescoped. A cover overhangs the outer wall and has lower recesses to receive the sidewall. Nine upper recesses in the cover receive legs of the bottom wall for stacking the containers. The legs enable a forklift to be inserted from either side. A hollow double walled air manifold fits within the bottom and has a nipple to which an air hose may be connected. In use, ice is placed in the container; later, salt water and fish are added.

Abstract: A refrigerated box is provided in the shape of a cigarette box or pack having an upper container portion and a bottom which contains a heat sink material which is frozen in a home freezer and then plugged into the box to maintain the interior compartment refrigerated for the preservation and chilling of sticks of carrots, celery, and the like, to provide the person undergoing smoking withdrawal low-calorie snacks to munch on to substitute for cigarettes.

Abstract: A constant temperature box comprises a body and a lid for closing the body at an upper opening thereof, which are of adiabatic construction, and a container which is made flat and small in height and supported horizontally at the upper portion of the body the container serving as a cooling or heating source to cool or warm the content of the box.

Abstract: A flexible insulated lunch bag adapted for transportation and storage of food comprises a liner disposed in the interior thereof, means for opening and closing the bag attached near its top and a carrying means affixed to the upper portion of the bag. When empty, the bag can be folded or rolled up to a fraction of its overall length.

Abstract: An insulation jacket for beverage bottles which includes a cylindrical wrapper of thin flexible insulating material shaped to fit a bottle combined with one or more elastic elongate inserts to permit the wrapper to adjust to various diameters and also fit snugly around a bottle. Top and bottom closures are provided together with a space for a disc-like refrigerant pack to supply a concentrated source of cold to maintain the desired low temperature within the jacket.

Abstract: A beverage-containing squeeze bottle is removably contained within a soft, heat insulating outer jacket and has a flexible straw extending from within the bottle to a point exteriorly of the closed outer jacket. The outer jacket has a quickly releasable top opening, an outer covering, a waterproof innerlining, and an intermediate layer of insulating material therebetween. Ice is placed within the jacket surrounding the bottle. The soft outer jacket is then squeezed, forcing liquid out of the bottle through the straw.

Abstract: A beverage container cooling device comprising a lower housing unit having an ice compartment area formed therein adapted to contain ice. The lower housing unit is provided with structure for centering the beverage container on the ice in a substantially horizontal attitude. A top housing unit is detachably secured to the lower housing unit and is provided with a horizontally disposed roller having a crank operatively secured thereto which extends outwardly through the top housing unit. The roller is vertically movably mounted in the top housing unit and is designed to engage the beverage container positioned on the ice so that operation of the crank will cause the roller to rotate the beverage container on the ice which will cause the contents of the container to be cooled.

Abstract: Improvements in multiple vessel container assemblies made up of one vessel removably mountable and secureable on top of another vessel, with the bottom end of the upper vessel and the top end of the lower vessel interconnectable with one another; multiple vessel container assemblies adapted to carry liquids, which vessels optionally may be insulated from one another or to heat exchange one another; multiple vessel container assemblies of versatile use and carrying capacity with respect to ice and liquids for drinking purposes, each vessel separately chargeable with and able to dispense either or both of ice and liquids.

Abstract: A thermal enclosure comprising a container having a cover which is removable to provide access to the interior of the container. The cover includes a frame having inner and outer ends and a passage extending through the frame. The frame includes a peripheral wall and a ledge which extends radially inwardly from the peripheral wall. An inner end wall is positioned in the passage and is supported on the ledge. An outer end wall is affixed to the peripheral wall. A material for adding or removing heat is provided in the passsage between the end walls.

Abstract: A beer keg container of insulating material, such as styrofoam, subdivided into three parts, a lid with a hole through which the shaft of the tap extends, an upper half, and a bottom half, which halves are detachably connected by an interlocking joint. The bottom half is reinforced with a wire basket having handles to facilitate carrying of the insulating container and enclosed beer keg. The diameter of the beer keg is smaller and spaced from the inner diameter of the container so that the space therebetween may be packed with ice cubes or crushed ice to keep the beer keg cold.

Abstract: A cooled enclosure comprising a container having side and end walls and a bottom wall which define an enclosure having an open top. A cover associated with the enclosure includes a heat conductive layer on at least the bottom surface thereof which faces the enclosure. Refrigerant means are positioned in the enclosure and supported therein by resilient supporting means which bias the refrigerant means into intimate contact with the bottom surface of the cover whereby the cooling effect of the refrigerant means is transferred by the layer to the outside surface of said cover.

Abstract: A refrigerated butter dispenser comprising a receptacle for containing crushed ice and an invertable cover unit which has on one side thereof a handle for lifting the cover and on the other an outwardly extending tapered skirt defining interiorly thereof a butter receiving chamber. When the dispenser is not being used, the cover is positioned so that the skirt portion depends inwardly of the receptacle, keeping the butter contained therein in close proximity with the crushed ice. When it is desired to remove the butter from the dispenser, the cover is inverted so that the skirt portion extends upwardly, making the butter chamber readily accessible to the user.

Abstract: Portable cooler for keeping chilled a bottle of wine or the like comprising a carrying case in which a plurality of flasks of coolant are removably disposed about the bottle. In one embodiment, the carrying case is fabricated of a flexible material which is drawn together at the top and removably secured about the neck of the bottle.