Beverage container chilling apparatus and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9823007-B2
Application number	US-201514662076-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 18, 2015
Priority date	Mar 18, 2015
Publication date	Nov 21, 2017
Grant date	Nov 21, 2017

Abstract

A vessel for chilling wine with ice or ice-water mixture has an inner support chamber for standing up wine bottle and separating them from liquid water to avoid over chilling. The inner support as a plurality of perforations in an upper portion of the vessel to facilitate heat exchange. As ice outside the support melts, the water formed will remain below the perforations.

First claim

We claim:

1. A container, comprising: a) a vessel capable of retaining a fluid having a bottom and substantially upright sidewalls connected to and surrounding the bottom, the sidewall having an upward termination at the rim of the vessel, b) an inner support member attached to an interior bottom of the vessel, the inner support member being a wall defining an enclosed volume, the wall having a lower portion and an upper portion in which the lower portion is solid and the upper portion has a plurality of perforation in which the lower portion is the bottom ⅓rd of the height of the inner support member.

2. The container of claim 1 wherein the plurality of spaced apart perforation extend upward to below an upper rim of the inner support member.

3. The container of claim 1 wherein the inner support member is cylindrical in shape.

4. The container of claim 1 wherein the vessel has insulated side walls.

5. The container of claim 1 wherein the inner support member is removable.

6. The container of claims 1 wherein the inner support member engages the bottom of the vessel by magnetic attraction.

7. The container of claim 1 further comprising a lid having a wall and an outer rim for engaging with the rim of the vessel.

8. The container of claim 7 wherein the lid has a central aperture to allow a bottle to extend upward there through.

9. The container of claim 7 wherein the lid wall is insulated.

10. The container of claim 1 wherein the upper portion of the vessel has outward tapering sidewall.

11. The container claim 1 further comprising a lid having an outer rim for engaging with the rim of the vessel.

12. The container of claim 11 wherein the lid has a central aperture to allow a bottle to extend upward there through.

13. The container of claim 11 wherein the lid wall is insulated.

14. The container of claim 13 wherein the upper portion of the vessel has outward tapering sidewall.

15. A method of chilling or maintaining the temperature of a beverage bottle, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing the container according to claim I b) filling a space between the inner support member and the upright walls of the vessel with at least one of ice and a mixture of ice and water, c) inserting a bottle in the inner container.

16. The method of chilling or maintaining the temperature of the beverage bottle according to claim 15 wherein said step of inserting the bottle in the inner container occurs before said step of filling the space between the inner support member and the upright walls of the vessel with the at least one of ice and the mixture of ice and water.

Assignees

• Meyer Intellectual Properties Ltd
• Meyer Intellectual Properties Ltd

Inventors

• Cheng Stanley Kin Sui
• Sherman Edward S

Classifications

• F25D2331/803

  Bottles · CPC title

• F25D2303/0841

  external to the container for a beverage, e.g. a bottle, can, drinking glass or pitcher · CPC title

• F25D3/08 Primary

  portable, i.e. adapted to be carried personally · CPC title

• F25D2303/081

  using ice cubes or crushed ice · CPC title

• A47G23/0241

  for bottles; Decanters · CPC title