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.
