Ballasted, neutrally buoyant floating beverage-container holder which provides floatation, insulation and stability to a beverage container in water

Abstract

This is a floating beverage-container-holder which is ballasted and neutrally buoyant. It provides floatation, insulation and stability to a beverage-container in water. The holder includes a beverage-container receptacle, a floatation member to provide buoyancy and vertical stability, and a weighted ballast chamber containing sufficiently dense material to offset the buoyant force of the portion of beverage container and ballast chamber, which are submerged. The flange of the receptacle has holes to allow the entire holder to be tethered via clips and tether material to the user or any object.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of PPA Ser. Nr. 61 / 988,277, filed May 4, 2014 by the present inventors, which is incorporated by reference.FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH[0002]Not ApplicableSEQUENCE LISTING[0003]Not ApplicableBACKGROUND OF INVENTION[0004]1. Field of the Invention[0005]This invention relates to improvements in a floating beverage holder. More particularly, the improvements relate to a ballasted holder with a floatation member for a drink container, such as a cup or can, which allows the beverage to remain in an upright position, even in the midst of waves, wakes or other turbulent water where the beverage-container-holder is floating. Various types of container holders are proposed in prior art. The following is a tabulation of some prior art that presently appears relevant:U.S. Patents[0006]Pat. No.Issue DatePatentee3,015,406Jan. 2, 1962Nolte4,571,194Feb. 18, 1986Kiss et al.4,887,716Dec. 19, 1989Abraham5,088,948Feb. 18, ...

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Benefits of technology

[0020]It is also an object of this invention to provide a device which will maintain the beverage in appropriate proximity to the person while the person is engaged in activities in a body of water. It is a further object to provide utility to swimmers, floaters, boaters, kayakers, fisherman and hunters in pools, lakes, rivers, oceans, spas, and other bodies of water.

[0021]It is another object of the invention to have pass through holes incorporated in order to allow connection of a tether. It is also an object of this invention to utilize a tether which can be clipped on or connected in a variety of manners with a cord of adequate length to allow p

Problems solved by technology

Of note is that in many of the previous versions, the entire beverage holder must be picked up in order to take a drink, so the bulkiness or size of the holder makes it more cumbersome to consume the beverage.

Although the ballast weight helps to maintain the container in an upright position, when the container is empty, it has no floatation member to provide stability and to keep the container afloat in an upright position in the midst of turbulent water, nor does it include a tether.

U.S. Pat. No. 5,727,709 issued Mar. 17, 1998, to Nobile, for a “Thermally Insulated Floating Beverage Container Holding Device.” This reference has an elongated body for holding a drink container, and it has a weight secured to the bottom of the container in order to provide stability for holding the container upright during depletion of the beverage; however, this reference does not have a floatation ring or member to provide

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