Patent ID: 6739150
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: A45C

Abstract:
A portable icebox comprisingan icebox body having a top, a base, two opposing short sides and two opposing long sides, an extendable handle located on one of the two long sides and extending perpendicular to the base of the body and housed inside at least one vertical cavity in the body so that, when collapsed, the handle is housed inside said at least one vertical cavity and held by a transverse fitting element on the base of the body, preventing the handle from being fully released, two compartments spaced and recessed in the base of the body along the other of the two long sides of the body, each of the two compartments including four side walls, and a set of only two freely rotating wheels fitted by rotating shafts to flange-like mounts fitted on a support in a bottom of the respective compartments where the wheels are housed, each of the wheels being surrounded by the four sidewalls of each of the two compartments respectively, so that a plane containing a diameter the two wheels lies parallel to the bade of the body in a position of rest, the wheel being swivelled and independently extracted from the compartments to rotate about an axis extending parallel to the base of the body in a position of use with the plane containing the diameter of each of the two wheels extends parallel to the two opposing short sides so that the icebox can be moved along on the freely rotating wheels when the handle on the one of the two long sides and extending perpendicular to the base of the body is grasped and pulled.