Patent ID: 7393032
Filing Date: 2008-07-01
Classification: F25C,F25D

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for retrieving a beverage container from an ice chest, wherein the beverage container has a tubular body of a first selected diameter terminating at one end thereof with a coaxial tubular neck of a second selected diameter, the first selected diameter being greater than the second selected diameter, the apparatus comprising: a basket providing: the legs and ribs sized, shaped, and positioned so as to provide low resistance when the basket is drawn through a fluid and for enabling ice cubes to pass through the basket; the longitudinal legs each providing a curved portion of such size and position that with the beverage container positioned in a lateral orientation within the basket and with the tubular body of the beverage container abutting the cross ribs, the curved portion of one of the longitudinal legs abuts the tubular neck of the beverage container.