Infrastructure for Portable Cooler

Abstract

A soft thermally insulated padded shell housing a rigid infrastructure with a series of horizontal shelves forming compartments which are vertically aligned, and includes a pair of opposing vertical and vented walls with shelve support brackets. The pair of vertical and vented walls has a paired series of mating horizontal tracks to receive horizontal slide-in shelves in a spaced vertical array. Each of the pair of tracks are horizontally aligned to form complementary ledges that receive and support the outer edges of the slide-in shelves. The shelves may be releasably attached within tracks of the side walls of the compartment, having snapping receptacles to ensure a snug fit. When the shelves are not in use as being placed within the receiving tracks, the space within the infrastructure is substantially unobstructed and can be used to store various items. Also, the infrastructure and insertable shelves are easily and conveniently removable so that the bag may be folded for storage. Narrow side compartments, immediately adjacent to the vertical, vented walls, house coolant containers. Further, the top section of the infrastructure has segmented compartments arrayed in a horizontal fashion to accommodate a variety of food supplements in pill and powder form. Separate from the rigid infrastructure, but adjoined to the soft thermal insulated padded shell, are other soft compartment housing beverage containers, fruit, silverware, and bulk protein powder storage.

1 . A removable cooler infrastructure system comprising:
 a) an open-sided, main frame structure including a back wall, a top wall, a bottom wall, and two opposed side walls, said two opposed side walls having a plurality of horizontally paired guiding tracks, arrayed vertically, and extending from the fore of the opposed side walls to the back wall, each pair of guiding tracks capable of accommodating a removeably insertable shelf;   b) a top tray, resting on the upward exterior of the top wall, comprising a horizontal array of compartments for storage of supplement pills, nuts, dried fruit, and the like; and   c) two cooler packs, each of said cooler packs being nestled within the outwardly exterior confines of each of the two side walls of the infrastructure system.   
     
     
         2 . The cooler infrastructure system of  claim 1  wherein:
 said main frame structure comprises molded plastic construction. 
 
     
     
         3 . The cooler infrastructure system of  claim 1  wherein:
 each of said shelves comprises molded plastic construction. 
 
     
     
         4 . The cooler infrastructure system of  claim 1 , further including:
 being surrounded by a main central compartment comprising: soft padded thermally insulated fabric; hard-shell thermally insulated plastic.   
     
     
         5 . The cooler infrastructure system of  claim 4 , wherein:
 said main central compartment is laterally adjoined by a side compartment on either end of the main central compartment, said side compartment comprising: a removeably insertable divider made of soft padded thermally insulated fabric and having a Velcro® attachment to the interior side walls of the side compartment.   
     
     
         6 . The cooler infrastructure system of  claim 4 , wherein:
 said main central compartment comprises a front cover panel, extending over the majority of external forward-facing area of the central main compartment, said front cover panel comprising: being adapted for opening to access the interior of the main central compartment and the cooler infrastructure residing therein; being adapted for closing with an airtight seal using a zipper, mating hook and loop fasteners or other means around the two sides and the bottom edge with the bottom edge sewn to the bottom ridge of the main central compartment to form a flexibly hinged connection enabling the front cover panel to open downwardly.   
     
     
         7 . The cooler infrastructure system of  claim 5 , wherein:
 said main central compartment and said side compartments comprise: the outer soft shell container has a nylon outer layer; a padded layer of thermal insulation material, such as a thermal foam, an inner PVC backed foil lining, or colored PVC.