Portable cooler with drawers

Abstract

A portable food storage chest comprising an open topped rectangular container body comprising a bottom wall, a rear wall, a front wall, and two sidewalls. The bottom wall, rear wall, front wall and two sidewalls are attached along peripheral edges thereof. The interior of the body is segmented into four sections: first and second wet compartments; a dry compartment located intermediate between the first and second wet compartments; and a third wet compartment located between the first and second wet compartments and between the dry compartment and the rear wall of the body. The dry compartment has slidable drawers that are capable of containing a variety of food items. Preferably, there are three slidable drawers in the dry compartment. Each of the slidable drawers are insertable into a drawer body, which has a bottom wall, top wall, rear wall and two side walls, thereby forming a watertight drawer enclosure.

Description

[0001] This invention relates to a cooler that includes drawers. More specifically, the present invention relates to BACKGROUND AND PRIOR ART [0002] Portable coolers, or ice chests, typically comprise a single insulated chamber where ice is placed in the chamber in direct contact with items to be cooled. A major disadvantage of such portable coolers is that food items are in direct contact with melting ice, often ruining the food items since not all food items survive immersion in water. Further, not all food items need to be kept at ice temperatures or below. Frequently all that is needed is a gentle cooling, such as found in the interior of a household refrigerator. [0003] These problems have been recognized in the prior art and various configurations of ice chests have been used for separating food from melting ice. However, cooling units designed to solve this problem generally have been constructed in an elaborate manner and are often clumsy to transport and too expensive for c...

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