Patent ID: 8002143

Claim:
An insulative jacket for a beverage container, comprising: (a) a main body formed of a single sheet of flexible insulative material having at least one face that is fabric covered, where the single sheet is folded to form a double thickness rectangular portion and that further forms a cylinder by joined opposed side edges of the folded rectangular body, forming a single seam, wherein the formed cylinder is sized to encircle the circumference of a beverage container, and wherein the cylinder comprises an exterior surface and an interior surface, a top edge and a bottom edge and where a fabric covered face forms the exterior surface and the top edge of the cylinder to provide a fabric covered, finished upper edge; and (b) an insulative bottom formed at the bottom edge the cylinder, comprising opposed semicircular members each comprising an arcuate edge and a straight diameter edge, wherein each semicircular member is formed as an extension of the lower edge of the cylinder and joined to the other semicircular member at the straight diameter edges to from a circular bottom of the insulative jacket.