Beverage container assembly

Claim 1

A beverage container assembly attachable to a person's clothing comprising: a vertically elongated flexible panel adapted to lie against a person's hip and leg area; means (at 13) for attaching said panel to the person's belt; a strap means (16) connected to a lower section of said panel for encirclement of the person's pant leg area to thereby retain the panel in a stabilized position on the person's hip and leg area; a vertically elongated beverage container unit located in close adjacency to an outer face of said flexible panel; means pivotably attaching said beverage container unit to said panel, whereby the container unit is pivotable between a normal vertical upright position and a forwardly tilted pouring position; said pivotable attaching means comprising first and second engaged pivot members rotatable on one another around a pivot axis extending normal to the panel at a point just below the belt attaching means (13); said first pivot member being affixed to said panel; said second pivot member being affixed to said beverage container unit; said beverage container unit comprising a hollow rigid casing (30), a bottle disposed within the casing, and a rigid closure for the bottle; said hollow casing comprising a bottom wall, and an annular side wall terminating in an open mouth (37) at a point just above the pivot axis, when the beverage container unit is in its normal upright position; said bottle having a reduced diameter neck section that projects beyond the mouth of the hollow casing when the bottle is fully inserted into the casing; said bottle closure comprising an end wall engageable with the bottle neck section to prevent liquid outflow from the bottle, and an annular side wall that terminates in an annular mouth surface (41) that is in close adjacency to the mouth of the hollow casing when the closure is installed on the bottle; said bottle closure being adapted to serve as a drinking cup when it is removed from the bottle; said hollow casing and bottle closure having thermal insulating properties to thereby provide a complete thermal barrier around the bottle.