A portable cooler includes an insulated body that defines a main interior storage space, and a lid structured to at least partially cover the main interior storage space. The lid includes an integrated blender or an integrated blender drive. Components of the blender may include a source of electrical power, an electric motor, and a blender spindle mounted through a surface of the lid and coupled to the electric motor. The integrated blender may also include a blender jar structured to hold food items for blending and one or more blending blades. The lid may further include a blender recess shaped in a negative mold of a collar of the blender jar to prevent the blender jar from rotating during operation.

Methods, processes, apparatus, kits and systems for chilling and cooling closed bottled or canned beverages, desserts, and food items to selected desired temperatures by rapidly rotating and counter-rotating the bottled or canned beverages, desserts, and food items that are immersed in cooled liquids in short time spans to a super cooled temperature wherein an effect can cause slush-on-demand.

The invention involves an insulation device comprising of a pad defined by a length and a width suitable for fitting snuggly within a cavity of a cooler. In exemplary embodiments, the pad comprises a closed-cell polyvinyl chloride nitrile butadiene rubber foam, also known as PVC/NBR, the pad defined by dimensions including a certain thickness such that the pad may be compressed against the interior walls of the cooler cavity without collapsing or folding over. The edges of the pad may be pressed against the interior walls of the cooler cavity to form a compression seal throughout the perimetrical edge of the pad against the interior walls of the cooler cavity; the compression-sealed edge prolongs a period during which low temperatures may be maintained. The pad is preferably water resistant, lightweight, washable, sufficiently flexible and can be easily trimmed or cut to a desired size.

Grips for striking implements, e.g., baseball bats, that adjust the position of the implement in the user's hand such that the implement can be held in a preferred position relative to the user's forearm without the user needing to radially deviate their wrist from its neutral position are disclosed.

Certain embodiments are suited for placement on a standard bat by the user. Other embodiments are more suited for placement on a modified bat during manufacture.

Use of the disclosed grips increases user comfort and lessens the risk to injuries associated with radial deviation of the wrist and with movement of the user's hand in relation to the striking implement, e.g., the bottom of the batter's palm striking against the knob of a bat.

A disposable cup has a tamper evident removable membrane secured at or near a rim of an open end of the cup so as to seal off the interior surface of the cup. The membrane is cup-shaped and has a radially-extending rim corresponding to a radially-extending rim of the cup, a substantially axially-extending sleeve corresponding to an inner-side surface of the cup and a radially extending disc-shaped base substantially spanning the diameter of the cup. The cup further includes a plurality of compartments in an operatively bottom region thereof, which are at least partially filled with a consumable product. The bottom region of the cup is at least partially deformable under externally applied force to facilitate dislodgement of the consumable product from the compartments.

The cylindrical cooler is an insulated, bucket-type cooler for storing and transporting cans, bottles and the like. The cylindrical cooler includes a thermally insulating receptacle having a base, a cylindrical sidewall and an open upper end. A drainage port is formed through the base, and a circular rim is formed about an upper end of the cylindrical sidewall. A thermally insulating lid is pivotally secured to the cylindrical sidewall by a hinge mounted on the circular rim. A latch is positioned diametrically opposite the hinge for selectively locking the thermally insulating lid in a closed configuration for selectively covering and sealing the open upper end of the thermally insulating receptacle. Additionally, a plurality of feet extend from the base. Adjacent ones of the feet are spaced apart with respect to one another to define drainage passages therebetween.

A portable cooler includes a cooler body formed of an insulating shell defining an interior storage section, a lid mating surface formed at a first angle relative to a bottom surface of the cooler body, and a cooler lid coupled to the cooler body by a hinge. The cooler lid includes a body mating surface formed at a second angle that is a supplementary angle to the first angle so that a first surface of the cooler lid extends generally horizontally from the cooler body when the lid is fully opened. Some embodiments may include two lids, each of which opening in opposite direction. An internal reinforcement within the cooler body allows the cooler to resist deflection in the lid contact region when the lid is opened and in contact with the cooler body.

The insulated container having a support that separates the ice, food, and drinks from the melted ice water to prevent damage to the food items. The ice, food, and drinks are placed on top of the flat upper surface of the removable support. The removable support has an inflatable bladder on the underside designed to look like downwardly positioned semi-cylindrical ridges, having apertures between the ridges in a foldable spine that allows the melting ice water to drain past the top surface, at the edges of the bladder and through the apertures of the removable support into the voids between the semi-cylindrical ridges below.

Methods, processes, apparatus, kits and systems for chilling and cooling bottled or canned beverages, desserts, and food items to selected desired temperatures by rapidly rotating and counter-rotating the bottled or canned beverages, desserts, and food items that are immersed in cooled liquids in short time spans.

The invention relates to a piece of outside furniture (40) comprising a hollow space (405) closed by a door (410); a means (415) for locking the door in position when said door is closed; a transmitter-receiver (430) of an electromagnetic wave, the locking means being configured to unlock the position of the door when a received electromagnetic wave, from a radio frequency identification tag having received an emitted electromagnetic wave, comprises predefined information; and a through-opening (420), this opening being configured to allow the passage of a post planted in the ground.