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A pair of cooler inserts may be used as single units when immersed in a beverage in a container or as a pair when positioned in a cooler of the type designed to hold multi-pack beverage containers. Each insert has a flat top wall, a flat bottom wall, a pair of sidewalls and a pair of flat end walls.

A pair of cooler inserts may be used as single units when immersed in a beverage in a container or as a pair when positioned in a cooler of the type designed to hold multi-pack beverage containers. Each insert has a flat top wall, a flat bottom wall, a pair of sidewalls and a pair of flat end walls. Plural concavities are formed in each side wall to accommodate cylindrical surfaces of beverage cans when the inserts are used as a pair to cool multi-pack beverage containers. Posts are formed in the top wall of each insert and post-receiving recesses are formed in the bottom wall of each insert so that a pair of inserts are easily interlocked to one another when a first insert is positioned in overlying relation to a second insert. The flat top and bottom walls ensure that the concavities abut the respective cylindrical surfaces of the multi-pack beverage cans along the entire vertical extent of the cans so that the cans are cooled to the maximum extent possible.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A device for keeping beverages cool, comprising:a first insert of hollow, elongate construction having a longitudinal extent substantially equal to a longitudinal extent of a multi-pack beverage container;said first insert having a flat top wall, a flat bottom wall, a pai

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A device for keeping beverages cool, comprising:a first insert of hollow, elongate construction having a longitudinal extent substantially equal to a longitudinal extent of a multi-pack beverage container;said first insert having a flat top wall, a flat bottom wall, a pair of side walls, and a pair of flat end walls;a first engagement means formed in said top wall;a second engagement means formed in said bottom wall;said first and second engagement means having a preselected complementary structure so that said first and second engagement means engage one another when the flat top wall of said first insert is disposed in underlying relation to a flat bottom wall of a second insert of similar construction and when the flat bottom wall of said first insert is placed into overlying relation to a flat top wall of said second insert;both of said sidewalls having a plurality of concavities formed therein, each concavity adapted to receive a cylindrical surface of a beverage can;said side walls and said end walls having a common height so that when said first and second inserts are stacked in vertical relation to one another, said side walls collectively form a solid wall so that a beverage can abutting said side walls is contacted by said side walls along its entire vertical extent;whereby a beverage in said beverage can is efficiently cooled; andwhereby a single insert is insertable into a beverage container and immersable in a beverage contained within said beverage container when said first and second inserts are in unengaged relation to one another.