Multi-compartment container holder
A multi-compartment insulated container holder includes a body with an upper section for a beverage container or vessel and a lower section configured for receiving a personal item, such as a smokeless tobacco product container. The upper and lower sections are magnetically connected. The upper and lower sections include sidewall extensions with alignment faces, which align upper and lower magnets with the container holder in a closed configuration. The lower section includes multiple pillar wedges in radially-spaced relation on an inner perimeter of a lower section sidewall. The pillar wedges are configured for engaging and releasably retaining a cylindrical container in the lower section compartment.
1. A multi-compartment container holder for a beverage container and a cylindrical container, the holder including:
an upper section including an upper end and a lower end, a sidewall, a receiver open at said upper end and an upper circular panel closing said receiver between said upper and lower ends;
said receiver configured for receiving a beverage container;
said upper section lower end including multiple, radially-spaced extensions with sloping alignment faces and including multiple radially-spaced embedded magnet assemblies;
a lower section including an upper end and a lower end, a sidewall, a compartment open at said lower section upper end and a lower circular panel at said lower section lower end closing a bottom of said compartment;
said lower section upper end including multiple, radially-spaced extensions with sloping lower section extension alignment faces;
said lower section including multiple pillar wedges in radially-spaced relation on an inner perimeter of said lower section sidewall, each of said pillar wedges including an embedded magnet configured for engaging said upper section embedded magnets to releasably retain said cylindrical container in said lower section compartment;
each pillar wedge terminating at an upper end that is flush with said lower section upper end;
said lower section configured to hold said cylindrical container such that said cylindrical container extends above said lower section upper end and allows opening and closing of said cylindrical container with said cylindrical container retained in said lower section compartment; and
said upper and lower section extension alignment faces configured for aligning said embedded magnets of said upper and lower sections when said lower section compartment is in said closed configuration.
2. The container holder according to claim 1 wherein said body is fabricated from an insulative, resilient material.
3. The container holder according to claim 2 wherein said body is fabricated from a material, comprising one of a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), foam rubber or expanded polystyrene material.
4. The container holder according to claim 3 wherein said body is fabricated from a TPE material comprising thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) dynamically vulcanized ethylene propylene diene monomer.