Insulated container

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FOR USE IN TEMPORARILY STORING AND CARRYING AND OTHERWISE HANDLING HOT AND COLD COMMODITIES FOR READY USE; A PORTABLE CONTAINER COMPRISING AN INSIDE CONTAINER PROVIDING A COMMODITY RECEPTACLE AND CLOSED AT ITS BOTTOM AND OPEN AT ITS TOP, SAID RECEPTACLE HAVING A CYLINDRICAL SIDE WALL, AN OUTSIDE JACKET ENCASING AND SPACED FROM SAID CONTAINER AND LIKEWISE HAVING A CLOSED BOTTOM AND OPEN TOP, THE SPACE BETWEEN THE CONTAINER AND JACKET BEING PACKED WITH INSULATING MATERIAL, THE UPPER OPEN ENDS OF SAID JACKET AND CONTAINER BEING COPLANAR AND THEREFORE FLUSH WITH EACH OTHER, A PACKING RING SANDWICHED BETWEEN THE UPPER END PORTIONS OF THE CONTAINER AND JACKET, SAID RING RESTING ATOP AN UNDERLYING UPPER PORTION OF SAID PACKING MATERIAL AND THE TOP OF THE RING BEING FLUSH WITH THE UPPER ENDS OF THE CONTAINER AND JACKET, SAID JACKET BEING CONSTRUCTED FROM SHEET MATERIAL AND BEING PROVIDED ON ONE SIDE PORTION THREREOF WITH A LENGTHWISE INDENTATION PROJECTING INWARDLY INTO THE SPACE BETWEEN THE JACKET AND THE CONTAINER WITHOUT INTERFERING WITH THE CYLINDRICAL CONTOUR OF THE RECEPTACLE PROVIDED BY SAID CONTAINER, SAID INDENTATION PROVIDING A CHANNEL-LIKE GROOVE AT THE OUTSIDE OF THE JACKE, SAID GROOVE BEING CLOSED AT ONE END, OPEN AT THE OTHER END AND THE BOTTOM THEREOF HAVING HEADED RIVETS, A BEER CAN PUNCH HAVING A SLOTTED SHANK OPERATIVELY CONNECTED WITH THE RIVETS AND SLIDINGLY MOUNTED IN SAID GROOVE, SAID PUNCH HAVING COOPERATING OBLIQUE ANGLED PUNCH AND HOOK COMPONENTS AT THE OTHER END, THE COACTING BOTTOM PORTIONS OF SAID GROOVE ADJACENT THE OPEN END OF THE GROOVE HAVING INNER AND OUTER OBLIQUE ANGLED SURFACES DEFINING ABUTMENTS, THE LATTER PROGRESSIVELY SLANTED SO THAT THEY CONFORMINGLY YIELDINGLY AND FRICTIONALLY COOPERATE WITH THEIR RESPECTIVELY COACTING PUNCH AND HOOK COMPONENTS AND SERVE TO RETAIN THE PUNCH IN A RETRACTED OUT-OF-USE POSITION BUT ALLOW THE PUNCH AND HOOK COMPONENTS TO BE SLID WHOLLY OUT THROUGH THE ADJACENT OPEN END OF THE GROOVE FOR UNRESTRICTED USE.