Patent Application
20240369279
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The disclosure relates to cooler devices and more particularly pertains to a new cooler device for facilitating a beverage to be completely emptied from a beverage cooler. The device includes a beverage cooler that has a sloped floor and a spigot aligned with a low point of the sloped floor. In this way the sloped floor facilitates the beverage in the beverage cooler to be completely emptied through the spigot.
The prior art relates to cooler devices including a variety of beverage coolers that each has some manner of sloped floor and a spigot aligned with a low point of the sloped floor; the sloped floor is defined by a variety of means that are secondary to the structure of the beverage cooler and in at least one instance includes structural features to direct the flow of fluid along the sloped floor. In no instance does the prior art discloses a beverage cooler that has a sloped floor which is a unitary structure of the beverage container.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a beverage cooler that has a sloped floor to direct a beverage in the beverage cooler to run downwardly along the sloped floor. A spigot is aligned with a low point of the sloped floor of the beverage cooler to receive the beverage in the beverage cooler. A lid is removably positionable on the beverage cooler for closing the beverage cooler.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The bottom wall 18 has an upper surface 26 and a lower surface 28 and the upper surface 26 lies on a plane that is angled toward the lower surface 28 such that the upper surface 26 defines the sloped floor 14 of the beverage cooler 12. The upper edge 22 has a groove 30 extending around a full circumference of the perimeter wall 20. The groove 30 is aligned with an inside surface 32 of the perimeter wall 20 and the groove 30 has a lower bounding surface 34. The beverage cooler 12 has a hole 36 extending through the perimeter wall 20. The hole 36 is positioned adjacent to a low point 38 of the upper surface 26 of the bottom wall 18 thereby facilitating the hole 36 to receive the beverage 16 in the beverage cooler 12.
A spigot 40 is attached to the beverage cooler 12 and the spigot 40 is aligned with a low point of the sloped floor 14 of the beverage cooler 12 such that the spigot 40 receives the beverage 16 in the beverage cooler 12. The spigot 40 has a stem 42 and a spout 44 that is perpendicularly oriented with the stem 42. The spout 44 includes a lever 46 for urging the spout 44 between an open condition and a closed condition. The stem 42 extends through the hole 36 in the perimeter wall 20 of the beverage cooler 12 having the spout 44 is positioned outside of the beverage cooler 12 to direct the beverage 16 into the spout 44. The spout 44 dispenses the beverage 16 when the lever 46 is manipulated to urge the spout 44 into the open condition to facilitate the beverage 16 to be consumed. Conversely, the spout 44 retains the beverage 16 in the beverage cooler 12 when the lever 46 is manipulated to urge the spout 44 into the closed condition. As is shown in
A lid 48 is removably positionable on the beverage cooler 12 for closing the beverage cooler 12. The lid 48 has a bottom surface 50 and the lid 48 has a channel 52 extending into the bottom surface 50. The channel 52 extends around a full circumference of the lid 48 and the channel 52 is aligned with an outside surface 54 of the lid 48. The channel 52 has an upper bounding surface 56 and the upper bounding surface 56 lies on the upper edge 22 of the perimeter wall 20 of the beverage cooler 12 having the bottom surface 50 of the lid 48 lying on the lower bounding surface 34 of the groove 30 in the perimeter wall 20 of the beverage cooler 12 when the lid 48 closes the beverage cooler 12. In this way the lid 48 forms a seal to inhibit thermal communication between the beverage 16 and ambient air when the lid 48 is positioned on the beverage cooler 12. Additionally, the lid 48 is comprised of a thermally insulating material for further inhibit thermal communication between the beverage 16 and ambient air.
In use, the beverage 16 is poured into the beverage cooler 12 and the lid 48 is placed on the beverage cooler 12 for storing the beverage 16. The lever 46 on the spigot 40 is manipulated to urge the spout 44 into the open condition for dispensing the beverage 16. Furthermore, the sloped floor 14 of the beverage cooler 12 ensures that all of the beverage 16 can be dispensed from the beverage cooler 12 without having to tip the beverage cooler 12 as is commonly required with existing beverage coolers. In this way the beverage 16 can be completely dispensed from the beverage cooler 12 without the risk of the beverage cooler 12 falling over and spilling the beverage 16.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled obey the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
