Chest cooler accessory

Abstract

A chest cooler accessory for maintaining food items above a level of ice and water within the chest cooler that includes a rectangular elastic net that is maintained around three sides to the undersurface of the chest cooler lid to be open along the elastic net side that is adjacent to the lid latching side to pass food items into the elastic net that flexes to support them above the water and ice level during transport, and which elastic net attachment to the lid undersurface is with fasteners that do not effect the lid internal integrity.

I claim: 
     
         1 . A chest cooler accessory for maintaining food items above a level of ice and water in the chest cooler comprising, a rectangular elastic net for attachment to a lid undersurface of a lid that is hinge connected along one edge to the chest cooler; a support border for attachment around three sides of said rectangular elastic net such that the side of said rectangular elastic net is open along a lid edge that is opposite to said lid hinge connection to said chest cooler; and means for securing said rectangular elastic net to said lid undersurface. 
     
     
         2 . The chest cooler accessory as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the rectangular elastic net is formed from elastic straps that are positioned to cross one another forming essentially right angles with one another, and the junctions of which said elastic straps are secured together. 
     
     
         3 . The chest cooler accessory as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the support border is formed from three sections of flexible straps that are secured together at their ends, at right angles, forming a U shape to fit over said three sides of the rectangular elastic net. 
     
     
         4 . The chest cooler accessory as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the means for securing the rectangular elastic net to the lid undersurface are push to lock fasteners that each have a broad head end to be engaged by an operator's thumb or finger, have a shaft extending at a right angle from said broad head undersurface that includes a pointed end and have spaced teeth formed there along that each slope towards said head end undersurface, and which said push to lock fasteners shaft pointed ends are to fit through spaced aligned holes formed through the support border and through holes formed through the lid undersurface, into a space between said lid and the lid undersurface.