US 12,358,711 B2
Multi-vessel insulator and carrier
Trevor Tollefsbol, Couer D'Alene, ID (US); Ian Scott, Spokane Valley, WA (US); Kurt Gauss, Spokane, WA (US); Don Scott, Spokane, WA (US); and Tom Hathaway, Spokane, WA (US)
Assigned to GSI Outdoors, Inc., Spokane, WA (US)
Filed by GSI Outdoors, Inc., Spokane, WA (US)
Filed on Dec. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/073,963.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/285,356, filed on Dec. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0174292 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. B65D 81/38 (2006.01); B65D 51/14 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 81/3881 (2013.01) [B65D 51/14 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for containing, positioning and thermally insulating plural axially aligned beverage containers, the apparatus comprising:
a body that is elongate and has a first end portion, a second end portion, and an exterior diameter, and an opening defined at the first end portion and a closed bottom at the second end portion, the body further defining a tubular chamber that defines an interior diameter and a length between the opening and an interior surface of the closed bottom, and threads are defined in an outer circumferential surface at the first end portion;
a retention collar that threadably engages with the threads defined in the first end portion of the body, the retention collar further defining and axially aligned hole that has an interior diameter that is smaller than the interior diameter of the tubular chamber;
a puck that is axially movable within the tubular chamber between a first position adjacent to the opening defined at the first end portion of the body, and a second position completely within the tubular chamber and immediately adjacent to the interior bottom surface; and wherein
the puck comprises a body that has a top portion and an interconnected bottom portion, and the top portion of the puck includes an upper gasket compressing ledge and the bottom portion of the puck includes a lower gasket compressing ledge; and
a compressible gasket between the upper gasket compressing ledge and the lower gasket compressing ledge.