The Koozie Exchange Traditional Cache
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Located off of a City of North Augusta maintained trail and should be easily accessible for all ages.
The Krazy Koozie
In 2007, Kyle Brandon Jones of Glen Rose, Texas, was granted a U.S. patent for the Krazy Koozie. In his patent application, he describes the Krazy Koozie as a device that is similar to a wide variety of other products on the market. Like those other products, the Krazy Koozie wraps around beverage containers and protects the hands from hot drinks and insulates cold beverages. but Jones' Koozie also expands and contracts to hold a variety of different sizes and shapes of beverage containers. Jones' patent application is a useful guide to the history of Koozies because it contains references to related patents that date back to 1921.
The Earliest Koozies
David and Russell Duncan patented the earliest known Koozie in 1921 for a "cozy for portable gas generators." The United States granted another related patent in 1929 for a linoleum jacket to William Waggoner.
The First Beverage Koozie
The first owner of a patent on a beer Koozie was Bonnie McGough of Caldwell, Idaho. She received her patent in October 1981 for a device she called the "insulated beverage cozy." This insulated cozy was made for use with 12-oz. cans. The cozy had inner and outer fabric walls with a chamber in between for insulating material and an elastic band at the top for holding the beverage snugly inside the cozy.
Improving on Mcgough's Design
In 1987, Scott Henderson of Plano, Texas, received a patent for a product he described as a fold-up insulated beverage container holder with a stabilizing support base. This Koozie offered a specially designed base that could collapse with the rest of the Koozie, but which also added stability so that when someone put their Koozie-covered drink down on a flat surface it wouldn't wobble or fall over.
Today's Koozie Market
There are so many different Koozies on the market today, it's hard to say who invented what. There is not even any agreement on how to spell the Koozie. It has been referred to as a Koozie, koozy, cosy, cozie, cozy and any other spelling you can imagine. They come in all manner of shapes, colors and sizes. Some have sports team logos on them. Some have beer brewery logos. Some have zippers. Some have buttons. The only thing we can say for sure is that we know a Koozie when we see one.
Parking area for the trail located at:
N 33 34.197'
W081 57.030
This is my first Cache hide and I wanted to do something a bit different that would also be easily accessible. I got the idea as a variation off of the T-Shirt Exchange by thefourfreys.
I noticed awhile back that I had a ridiculous amount of random koozies scattered in various locations because I am notoriously bad for picking up koozies wherever they may be available: weddings, conferences, salesmen, giveaways, etc. I even have an ongoing contest with a buddy of mine where we battle to who can collect the most wedding koozies since handing out wedding koozies as a party favor is such a huge fad now. So, here is a place where you can exchange that koozie that keeps popping up in your kitchen drawer, glove box or garage. The cache is a 9"x7"x7" Lock-It Container that contains the following:
Starbucks Gift Card for FTF
Hilton Head Koozie
Baby's Away of Charleston Koozie
Byerly Park of Hartsville, SC Koozie
South Carolina Palmetto Koozie
Regions Bank Koozie
South Carolina Churchich Recreational Designs Koozie
"The Wrap" Magnetic Koozie
Jim DeMint Koozie
Heather & Brad Wedding Koozie (Beaufort, South Carolina)
Stirrup Cup Lounge of Thomson, GA Koozie
Coleman's Glow in the Dark Koozie
Grizzly Grill of Anchorage, Alaska Koozie
Please feel free to exchange a koozie or trade other traditional items. Cache also contains log book and pen.
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