Patent ID: 6378719
Filing Date: 2002-04-30
Classification: B67D

Abstract:
A housing for receiving, supporting, protecting, and securing a liquid container and adapted to be fixedly mounted upon a vertically extending support structure, the liquid container having a spigot adapted to allow a user access to the liquid within the container, said housing comprising:a base and a lid, said base and lid having a double-wall construction so as to define an inner wall spaced from an outer wall and combining to define four side walls, a bottom wall, and a top wall and exposing the spigot for access by the user to the liquid in the container; at least one of the group including said four side walls and said top wall being rotatable about an axis defined by a hinge formed on said housing to define a closable opening to said housing such that said housing is adapted to receive, support, protect, and secure the liquid container and facilitate the insertion and removal of the liquid container; and a boss depending from said base and adapted to accommodate the support structure so as to fixedly mount said housing to the support structure, said boss being integrally formed with said bottom wall of said housing and defining a channel that is adapted to receive the support structure so as to fixedly mount said housing to the support structure and wherein said base further includes at least two flanges extending between said boss and the bottom of said base so as to strengthen said boss.