Patent ID: 6935067

Claim:
An ice fishing hole cover device for use in minimizing ice formation over an existing open ice fishing hole and for use in convenient rapid disassembly of said device, said device comprising: a pair of upper panels, each upper panel having a generally rectangular shape with two opposing horizontal side edges, an inside edge, and an outside edge, said horizontal side edges of each upper panel are substantially parallel to each other, each horizontal side edge of each upper panel having a width; a plurality of quick release locks, each lock comprising a first part and a complementary matching second part, wherein said first and second parts of each lock are releaseably interlocked together; a pair of end panels, each end panel having a generally rectangular shape with two vertical edges and two horizontal edges, each vertical edge of each end panel having a width and having at least one of said first parts of said plurality of locks attached to each vertical edge of each end panel, whereby each end panel having at least two of said first parts of said plurality of locks attached to each end panel; and a pair of side panels slidably attached to said pair of end panels and slidably attached to said pair of upper panels forming said device having a centrally disposed hollow chamber, each side panel having a generally rectangular shape, each side panel including: a pair of vertical dados entrenched into opposing vertical side edges in a common face of each side panel, said pair of vertical dados in each side panel are substantially parallel to each other, each vertical dado having a width equal to or greater than the width of each vertical edge of each end panel, each vertical dado having at least one of said second parts of said plurality of locks attached to each vertical dado, whereby each side panel having at least two of said second parts of said plurality of locks; and a horizontal dado entrenched into a horizontal top edge into the common face of each side panel, said horizontal dado of each side panel is substantially perpendicular to said pair of vertical dados of each side panel, said horizontal dado of each side panel having a width equal to or greater than the width of each horizontal side edge of each upper panel; wherein when said pair of side panels are slidably attached to said pair of end panels then said first and second parts of each lock of said plurality of locks are interlocked together.