Patent ID: 8252224

Claim:
A method of assembling a multi-layered drink-container comprised of at least an inner liquid-container and an outer shell, wherein the inner liquid-container includes a resiliently deformable restrictive-portion having a cross-sectional area bound by an outer perimeter defined within a plane that is transverse to the longitudinal axis of the inner liquid-container, wherein the outer shell includes a restrictive portion having a cross-sectional area bound by an inner perimeter defined within a plane that is transverse to the longitudinal axis of the outer shell, and wherein an orthogonal projection of the cross-sectional area of the resiliently deformable restrictive-portion at least partially overlaps an orthogonal projection of the cross-sectional area of the restrictive portion of the outer shell when the resiliently deformable restrictive-portion of the inner liquid-container is in a neutral, un-deformed state to define a neutral cross-sectional area of the resiliently deformable restrictive-portion, the method comprising: reducing the cross-sectional area of the resiliently deformable restrictive-portion of the inner liquid-container from the neutral cross-sectional area to a reduced cross-sectional area in which an orthogonal projection of the reduced cross-sectional area does not overlap the orthogonal projection of the cross-sectional area of the restrictive portion of the outer shell; after the reducing, positioning the outer shell in an at least partially overlapping, telescopic relation relative to the inner liquid-container such that the inner liquid-container extends at least partially within the outer shell so that the restrictive portion of the outer shell is longitudinally positioned beyond the resiliently deformable restrictive-portion of the inner liquid-container; and after the positioning the outer shell, returning the cross-sectional area of the resiliently deformable portion of the inner liquid-container from the reduced cross-sectional area to the neutral cross-sectional area.