Patent ID: RE42421

Claim:
In combination with a disposable beverage container having a generally inverted frusto-conical side wall and an upper access opening surrounded by a radially outwardly extending peripheral bead adapted to be connected to a disposable container lid by a snap fit within a downwardly and radially outwardly depending peripheral skirt on the lid, a double walled insulating vessel including an inner liner having a frusto-conical inner surface with an upper access opening surrounded by an axially directed edge and shaped to matingly receive said container with said side wall abutting said surface about substantially its entire extent and with said edge abutted against an underside of said bead while leaving a radially outer part of said bead uncovered to be received and snap fitted within the skirt of a disposable lid, and an outer body surrounding, in spaced relation, said inner liner, said inner liner and said outer body being sealingly attached to one another just below said axially directed edge thereby defining an insulating space between said inner liner and said outer body with said outer body being in non-interfering relation to the placement of a lid on the bead of the container.