Insulator for a Beverage Container

Abstract

A disposable insulator that can be wrapped around a chilled beverage container, or is capable of receiving and holding therein the chilled beverage container, for preventing the hands from becoming chilled includes a flexible, deformable, rectangular-shaped plastic member sized to encompass the beverage container and the plastic member having air-filled chambers dispersed therethrough so that the coldness of the chilled beverage container cannot be reach or be conducted to the hands. The insulator conforms to the various shapes of beverage containers, cans, cups and bottles, and can be cup-shaped so that the beverage container is able to be placed within the cup-shaped insulator.

Description

DESCRIPTION [0001] The present invention pertains to insulators for containers, and more specifically pertains to a one-time use, flexible insulator for wrapping about chilled beverage containers. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Devices and methods to insulate beverage containers that are carried about or transported are widely known and used in various settings that range from public events, venues and activities like athletic events, concerts, parades, and shopping to more personal settings like the morning and evening work commute or transporting children to their activities. Whether the liquid within the beverage container is hot or cold, such liquid needs insulated from the hands that hold the beverage container for reasons of both safety and convenience. Thus, hot coffee or chocolate common at fall football and soccer games, for example, is best held in insulative drink cups and containers that prevent one's hands from being burned while holding the cup or container. Specia...

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Benefits of technology

[0009] The present invention comprehends a lightweight insulator that is wrapped around a cold or chilled beverage container, such as a cup, can or bottle, for preventing one's hands from becoming chilled while holding the cold beverage container. The insulator is a disposable item intended for one-time use and then is to be discarded.

[0010] The insulator includes in a preferred embodiment a flexible, rectangular-shaped plastic member having opposed exterior surfaces that enclose therebetween a plurality of spaced-apart air-filled cavities. The plastic member can be wrapped around the beverage container, or, in an alternative embodiment, the insulator can be cup-shaped for placement therein of the chilled beverage container. The air-filled cavities provide the primary insulative capability for preventing conductance of the chill and coldness of the beverage container to the individual's hands.

[0011] It is an objective of the present invention to provide an insulator that can be wrapped around and conforms to the exterior surface of various types of chilled liquid containers such as cups, cans, bottles and holders.

Problems solved by technology

Yet even on sultry summer days, holding such chilled beverage containers for brief or extended periods of time can be uncomfortable, and, therefore some means to insulate the chilled beverage container from the individual's hands is desired.

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