Bowling ball carrying container

Claim 1

A bowling ball carrying container, comprising, in combination, a hollow beer can shaped main body having a cylindrical side wall and a circular bottom wall, said bottom wall including an inwardly extending frustro-conical outer portion around a central outwardly extending rounder portion for mating a spherical contour of a bowling ball that is rested thereupon, an upper end of said main body having a full opening for receiving said bowling ball, a bowler's shoes and other accessories into said container, a removable lid for closing said opening, a pair of spaced apart, inwardly extending annular flanges around said opening for retaining said lid therebetween, a pair of radially outwardly extending projections on diametrically opposite side edges of said lid, a pair of diametrically opposite notches in an upper of said flanges for passage of said projections therethrough and a pair of diametrically spaced-apart recesses on an underside of said upper flanges for locking said projections therein, a spring-biased pin extending downwardly from each said projection for bearing against a top side of a lower of said flanges and raising said projections into said recesses for said locking; a handle upon a top of said lid, and a beverage brand name being printed on an outer side of said main body.