Sport fisherman's ice chest with integrated cutting board

a technology for ice chest coolers and fisherman's ice chests, which is applied in the field can solve the problems of cutting on fingers and hands, dangerous to use cutting surfaces, and lack of top/cover lids of ice chest coolers today, and achieves the effect of saving valuable ice and space, increasing the available “walking space” and effectively doubling or tripling the amount of coolers

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-01-29
AZZARA THOMAS
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[0007]The invention and method described herein allows the consumer/fisherman to save valuable ice and space—effectively doubling or tripling the amount

Problems solved by technology

Manufacturers of ice chest coolers today do not have a top/cover lids that are flat and perfectly smooth enough for quartering/filleting/skinning fish.
It can actually be dangerous to use a cutting surface that is inadequate—often leading to cuts on fingers and hands.
It also is a “clean up” problem, as blood dries in crevices on the lid.
Lids on ice chest coolers are not designed to have fish filleted, quartered or skinned on them.

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[0010]The embodiment of the cover / top cooler design need only be made perfectly flat and smooth with rounded corners—i.e., without any “lip” to catch the blood which might dry and make clean up more of an effort. No other modification to the cooler's lid is warranted in the preferred embodiment. See drawings FIG. 1 vs. FIG. 2.

[0011]Wash the cooler top clean with your wash down pump or throw a bucket of water on the cooler top, and the blood and fish pieces will go out the boat's “scuppers”. Larger pieces can then be picked out of the boat “scuppers” and thrown into the sea for fish and marine life to feed on.

[0012]There are several reasons why being able to “cut” fish at sea is highly desirable; and highly undesirable at the marina cutting station, or at your dock by your house, or dragging a heavy cooler full of whole fish and much ice home for the “cutting”; and all these heretofore latter methods are highly undesirable—even stupid.

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Abstract

A cutting board that is integrated into the top lid of any size ice chest coolers manufactured by Igloo, Coleman, Rubbermaid and others. The cooler top lid must be a perfectly smooth and flat surface with no “markings”, imprints, or fish measuring scale. The perceived cutting board is not an “add-on” after market device, but an integral part of the cooler lid and integrated into the “top” during the manufacturing process—not added on by the “after market”.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims priority to United States Provisional Application filed on Jul. 24, 2007 and assigned Ser. No. 60 / 935,048. In Barentine et al. (U.S. Pat. No. 6,726.050) (Apr. 27, 2004) the inventor suggested using “Velcro” to hold down an “add-on” cutting board to an Igloo cooler top. Velcro has been tried in the mid to late 1990s by this inventor (Azzara) to hold down cutting boards in various transom areas of a “fishing craft”, and has proved to be inadequate. The Velcro would sometimes breakaway and the cutting board would fly over board and be lost. The Velcro would also lose its ability to hold tight in prolonged saltwater applications. The use of Velcro also leads to sanitation and cleaning problems as fish blood and other particles stick to Velcro and dry in the sun attracting bugs, bacteria, etc. In the Barentine embodiment the Velcro would be an “add-on” expense in the manufacturing process. More significantly, a cutting ...

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IPC IPC(8): F25D3/08B65D51/24
CPCA01K97/00A01K97/20A47J47/005A45C11/20A22C25/06
Inventor AZZARA, THOMAS
Owner AZZARA THOMAS
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