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An improved shock absorbing insulated shipping container including an external corrugated cardboard box, receiving an insulated body having a cavity for holding a one or more breakable glass bottles, which bottles may contain high value liquid product being shipped, such as medicine or wine, and als

An improved shock absorbing insulated shipping container including an external corrugated cardboard box, receiving an insulated body having a cavity for holding a one or more breakable glass bottles, which bottles may contain high value liquid product being shipped, such as medicine or wine, and also receiving an especially configured and constructed, shock-absorbing filling structure or partition system for separating the glass bottles from one another, and from one or more receptacle cavities for holding phase change coolant or temperature control material in a predetermined relationship to the glass bottles. The container also includes an insulating and cushioning cover adapted to engage into a top opening of the insulated body after the bottles and coolant are received in the cavity thereof. The insulated body is preferably formed from injection molded polyurethane, wrapped in a plastic film.

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1. An insulated and shock absorbing shipping container comprising:a shape retaining insulated body formed of expanded polyurethane foam, said insulated body having a bottom wall and plural side walls cooperatively defining a cavity, and said side walls defining an opening to said cavity, a shape ret

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An insulated and shock absorbing shipping container comprising:a shape retaining insulated body formed of expanded polyurethane foam, said insulated body having a bottom wall and plural side walls cooperatively defining a cavity, and said side walls defining an opening to said cavity, a shape retaining and also yieldable and crushable filling structure received into said cavity, said filling structure including a grid of interlocking walls cooperatively defining an array of plural parallel receptacles extending between said bottom wall and said opening, and said filling structure including cushioning and spacing structure extending outwardly there from toward said side walls of said insulated body, said cushioning and spacing structure defining a cushioning space extending about said array of plural receptacles; wherein said filling structure includes a first plurality of substantially similar walls extending in a first direction, and a second plurality of substantially similar walls extending in a second direction substantially perpendicularly to said first direction, and said first plurality of walls and said second plurality of walls interlocking with one another to form a shape retaining grid of walls, and said spacing structure including each of said first and said second plurality of walls including an outwardly extending end portion disposed outwardly of said array of receptacles and extending toward a side wall of said insulated body, and said end portions of said first and second plurality of walls each being shape retaining and each also being selectively crushable to absorb shock; wherein said container also includes within said cavity alongside of said filling structure a support structure forming in cooperation with an adjacent side wall of said insulated body a trough for receiving a temperature control pack, and said support structure including an upstanding wall section confronting and engaged by end portions of one of said first plurality and said second plurality of walls, whereby said upstanding wall section is interposed between said end portions of said walls and a temperature control pack placed in said trough. 2. The insulated shipping container of claim 1, wherein said support structure includes a piece of corrugated cardboard folded on itself to form a box section disposed in a lower extent of said cavity and upward from which extends paid upstanding wall section.3. The insulated shipping container of claim 2, wherein said support structure box section is shape-retaining and also is crushable to cushion shock.4. The insulated shipping container of claim 3, wherein said box section of said support structure includes an internal wall portion extending across said box section at a diagonal in order to achieve a controlled crushability for said box section.5. The insulated shipping container of claim 1, wherein each of said first plurality of walls and of said second plurality of walls is formed of a piece of corrugated cardboard folded double on itself at an upper extent thereof so as to provide an upwardly disposed rounded edge for each of said plurality of walls.6. An insulated and shock absorbing shipping container, especially for shipping fine wine in breakable and delicate glass bottles, for preventing external scuffing of the bottles and their labels, for preventing breakage of the bottles in transit, and for maintaining the wine within a predetermined temperature range during transit, said shipping container comprising:an external cardboard box defining an upwardly disposed opening to an internal space having a height dimension, and said box including flaps for closing said opening; a chambered insulated body formed of foamed polymer which is shape retaining and only slightly yieldable, said insulated body including a bottom wall, and plural side walls having a height dimension substantially matching the height dimension of said internal space, and said side walls and bottom wall cooperatively defining a cavity within said insulated body, and said side walls defining an upwardly disposed opening matching said cavity in plan view, said insulated body being slidably received into said cardboard box; a filling structure slidably received into said cavity and having a grid of vertically and horizontally extending walls interlocking to define at least one vertically extending receptacle for receiving a delicate and breakable glass bottle containing fine wine; said filling structure including a peripheral shape-retaining crushable structure portion extending between said receptacle thereof and said insulated body and defining a peripheral cushion space extending about said receptacle; and a shape retaining and resilient insulated cover member adapted to engage into the open end of the insulated body, and to receive embedded therein an upwardly extending neck portion of the glass bottle; further including a trough for receiving a temperature control pack, said trough being defined along one side of said filling structure, and an upstanding wall section interposed between said filling structure and said trough so at to protect said temperature control pack from perforation or tearing by said filling structure. 7. The shock absorbing and insulated shipping container of claim 6 wherein said filling structure includes a support member received in said cavity and defining said trough and including said upstanding wall section.8. The shock absorbing and insulated shipping container of claim 7 wherein said support member includes a base portion defining a box section extending within said cavity along side of said filling structure.9. The shock absorbing and insulated shipping container of claim 7 wherein said base section includes a diagonal wall extending alongside of said filling structure, and said base portion having a controlled crushability to further cushion shock applied to said shipping container.