Lunch boxes with carrier attachments

Claim 1

In combination with a lunchbox having a main body with an upright end wall and having a movable cover meeting the main body on a horizontal line of meeting intermediate the height of the lunchbox, a substantially L-shaped carrier attachment comprising an upright wall positioned against said upright end wall of the lunchbox, said upright wall having opposite side edges and having an integral shelf projecting outwardly from its lower edge; a vacuum bottle supported on said shelf in exposed position at the end of the lunchbox; means spaced above said shelf and below the line of meeting between the cover and main body of the lunchbox connected to said upright wall of the carrier attachment to detachably retain the bottle in position on the shelf and against said upright wall; and attaching means connected to said upright wall of the carrier attachment removably attaching the latter to the lunchbox, there being a pair of spaced cuts extending transversely into each of the opposite side edges of the upright wall of the carrier attachment substantially short of meeting, each pair of cuts defining a portion of an arm, and said arms being bent outwardly over the shelf to conform to the curvature of the sides of the vacuum bottle and to partially surround the bottle together with the portion of the upright wall of the carrier attachment which is between said arms, the means for detachably retaining the bottle in position being connected to the ends of said curved arms.