Cooper Cooler

About Cooper Cooler

The idea of a rapid beverage cooler was born in the summer of 1992 as Greg Loibl completed his undergraduate studies from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. To fulfill his chemical engineering masters thesis, Greg Loibl designed, built and tested a prototype device that proved a beverage in a standard 12 ounce aluminum can could be chilled from room temperature (25C or 77F) to drinking temperature (5C or 40F) in under 45 seconds. It takes approximately three minutes to chill a beverage in a 12 ounce bottle with Loibl’s prototype. In contrast, it takes several hours to chill a beverage in a refrigerator and an hour in a freezer. The process (The Cooper Cooling Process™) is protected by patent number 5,505,054. The patent was filed in August, 1994 and issued on April 9th, 1996. The inventors are Greg Loibl, and his co-advisors, Irv Brazinsky and George Sidebotham, both tenured Cooper Union faculty members.