heats and cools food and beverages and keeps the food and beverages hot or cold application_number US 22497099 A description the preferred embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings for simplicity of description any element numeral in one figure will represent the same element if used in any other figure fig1 illustrates a thermal electric container 1 includes an interior shell 2 and an exterior shell 3 separated by an annular space or volume 4 both the interior shell 2 and the exterior shell 3 are preferably constructed of metallic material such as stainless steel or aluminum having relatively high thermal conductivity a vacuum or alternately an air space is maintained in the volume 4 between the interior shell 2 and exterior shell 3 to provide thermal insulation between the inner shell 2 and the outer shell 3 a thermal electric generator or thermoelectric chip 5 is positioned between the bottom of the interior shell 2 and the bottom or base of the exterior shell 3 the thermal electric generator 5 may be powered by an exterior plug in connection 6 or flush contacts 7 typically used in a cradle or holding device preferably the thermoelectric chip 5 is bonded to both the outer surface of the bottom of the inner wall 2 and to the inner surface of the bottom of the outer wall 3 to ensure efficient thermal connection to those surfaces when heating the thermal electric generator 5 pumps heat from the outer shell 3 to the inner shell 2 the shells 2 and 3 function as cold and hot fins respectively for the thermal electric generator 5 when cooling heat is pumped in the opposite direction from the inner.