Patent ID: 6601728
Filing Date: 2003-08-05
Classification: A47G,B65D

Abstract:
A thermal cup protector comprising a cup enveloping sleeve with an elongated hand-gripping cup-engaging body of truncated cylindrical configuration and with opposed open top and bottom ends, said cup-engaging sleeve comprising:(a) a flexible body with opposed top and bottom edges; (b) a plurality of arcuately spaced apart arrays of radially projecting ribs are formed in said cup-engaging body and extend continuously between said top and bottom edges; and (c) an array of reticulated radially inwardly extending projections positioned between each mutually adjacent pair of said rib arrays with said reticulated projections being segmented to define circumferentially extending land areas between mutually adjacent segments of each elongated projection with one circumferentially extending land area being positioned adjacent each of said top and bottom edges and extending continuously between each mutually adjacent array pair of said elongated ribs.