Portable Cooler for Wine and Other Liquids

This invention relates generally to bottle coolers.

A principal object of the present invention is to provide a bottle cooler of improved construction in order to keep a chilled beverage cool while being served without the expense, inconvenience and mess of ice or water.

Another object is to provide a bottle cooler which accordingly will aid in preserving a glass bottle placed therein from breaking in case the cooler is bumped, dropped or knocked over.

Other objects are to provide a bottle cooler which is simple in design, inexpensive to manufacture, rugged in construction, easy to use, efficient in operation and which is portable.

Further objects of the invention will appear as the description proceeds.

To the accomplishment of the above and related objects, this invention may be embodied in the form illustrated in the accompanying drawing, attention being called to the fact, however, that the drawings are illustrative only, and that changes may be made in the specific construction illustrated and described within the scope of the appended claims.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the invention.

FIG.2 is a cross section on line 2--2 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a view on line 3--3 of FIG. 2.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, the reference numeral 10 represents a portable cooler for wine and other liquids which includes a vertically upright cylindrical side wall 11 and a circular bottom wall 12; the upper end of the cooler having an opening 13 so that a bottle 14 of wine or other liquids can be lowered therethrough into a central chamber 15.

The side and bottom walls are made with a thick insulation 16 located between a thin plastic inner liner 17 and thin plastic outer plastic shell 18. The insulation may comprise fibre glass or urathane, or the like, and the inner liner 17 is preferably made in one piece. The outer shell is preferably made of two parts 19 and 20 so that they are connected together at the cooler lower peripheral edge by being rolled over together in order to form a sidewardly extending head 21 which is flush with the underside of bottom wall 12, and which serves as a sideward bumper.

Upon an upper edge of the side wall 11, there is secured a collar 22 made of wood, or the like and which has a downwardly tapering central opening 23 that is of convex curved shape when cross sectionally viewed as shown in FIG. 2. A lower end of the opening 23 projects inwardly at a smaller diameter than an inner diameter of the side wall 11 so to form an inwardly projecting lip 24 all around. An outer peripheral side 25 of the collar extends outwardly at a larger diameter than an outer diameter than the side wall 11 so to include an upper sidewardly projecting lip 26 and a lower sidewardly projection lip 27 with an annular concaved depression 28 therebetween. The lower lip 27 projects also downwardly around the outer side of side wall upper edge so that the collar construction includes an annular corner 29 formed by a large diameter counterbored opening 30 made in a lower side of the collar so that the upper end of the side wall 11 fits snuggly therein and is secured thereto fixedly by suitable means such as an adhesive or by other means.

It is now evident that sidewardly projecting bead 21 and collar 22 both serve as bumpers so to protect the cooler sidewall intermediate portion from being hit if the cooler is bumped with another object.

The downwardly constricting opening 23 guides a lowering bottle from striking the inner side of side wall 11.

Thus there is provided an improved bottle cooler. While certain novel features of this invention have been shown and described and are pointed out in the annexed claims, it will be understood that various omissions, substitutions and changes in the forms and details of the device illustrated and in its operation can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the invention.