Illuminating beverage cooler

Abstract

An illuminating beverage container cooler. The sleeve of the cooler is made of a flexible thermally insulating material, such as neoprene, and the base of the cooler is made of a rigid material with lights and necessary batteries installed within a containment compartment in said base. The lights, when turned on, result in the portion of the bottle above the insulating cylindrical sleeve sidewalls being illuminated. The illuminating cooler also functions as a flashlight when the beverage container is removed.

1 . An illuminating beverage cooler for a bottled beverage container comprising:
 A base made of a rigid plastic material shaped in the form of a disc having a top and bottom surface and a circumferential edge containing standard direct current batteries within said base and light emitting diodes on the top surface of said base with means for activating and deactivating the light emitting diodes, and a cylindrical sleeve made of flexible insulating material attached to the circumferential edge of said base and projecting upward;   said base having a diameter approximately equal to the bottom diameter of a typical twelve ounce bottled beverage container and a thickness sufficient to enclose standard AAA batteries when the batteries are oriented parallel to and between the top and bottom surfaces of said base;   said cylindrical sleeve being attached to said base at the bottom of said sleeve and open at the top and dimensioned to snugly receive a bottled beverage container in sleeve-like fashion;   said cylindrical sleeve having a length of approximately forty to sixty percent of the length of a typical bottled beverage container when the sleeve is attached to the illuminating base and the bottled beverage container is placed in the cooler with the container bottom resting on the top surface of the base to facilitate light from the base of the cooler illuminating and passing through the bottled beverage container when the light is activated.   
     
     
         2 . The illuminating beverage cooler as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the cooler functions as a typical flashlight when the light on the top surface of the base is activated and the bottled beverage container is removed. 
     
     
         3 . The illuminating beverage cooler as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the base and cylindrical sleeve are dimensioned to accommodate smaller and larger diameter typical bottled beverage containers through the approximate range of eight to forty ounces. 
     
     
         4 . The illuminating beverage cooler as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the base is made of any polymeric rigid material. 
     
     
         5 . The illuminating beverage cooler as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the flexible insulating material is made of neoprene. 
     
     
         6 . The illuminating beverage cooler as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the outer surface of the cylindrical sleeve is adorned with indicia. 
     
     
         7 . The illuminating beverage cooler as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the batteries are of any direct current type. 
     
     
         8 . The illuminating beverage cooler as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the batteries are of a rechargeable direct current type. 
     
     
         9 . The illuminating beverage cooler as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the flexible insulating material is made of foam rubber. 
     
     
         10 . The illuminating beverage cooler as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the base and the sleeve are enclosed within a rigid metallic shell. 
     
     
         11 . The illuminating beverage cooler as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the beverage container is a typical drinking glass.