U.S. patent application number 10/846965 was filed with the patent office on 2004-12-02 for beverage bottle clothing clip.
Invention is credited to Wagenknecht, Charles Maxwell, Wagenknecht, Samuel James, Wagenknecht, Terry Lee.
Application Number | 20040238578 10/846965 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 33479725 |
Filed Date | 2004-12-02 |
United States Patent
Application |
20040238578 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Wagenknecht, Samuel James ;
et al. |
December 2, 2004 |
Beverage bottle clothing clip
Abstract
A beverage bottle clothing clip for attaching a plastic bottle
container to a person's belt, pants pocket or waistband; being
particularly purposed for cost effective mass production and
disposable use. Two apertures; one primary and gripping aperture,
and one secondary aperture, and a connecting slit are located at
one end of an elongate, flexible, planar plastic substrate; with a
locking bend formed perpendicularly to and within the immediate
area of said slit and secondary aperture. Said primary gripping
aperture of said bent flexible substrate is controllably sizeable
for easy application to, and removal from the underside of a
bottleneck cap stop rim. As the user straightens the bent clip by
hand, the directionally planar axis of said gripping aperture
begins to merge with that of said slit and secondary aperture,
wherein both apertures and connecting slit combine to form an
aperture larger than said primary aperture. As user releases the
straightening hold, said primary aperture returns to its own and
original perimeter size, as the residual memory of substrate
returns said substrate to the state of its previously bent form.
Said substrate's elongate opposite end from the aperture area is
tucked into a pocket or opening in clothing, wherein said bottle's
fluid weight pulls downward, and tighteningly retains said locking
bend, and also said primary aperture's grip on bottleneck, even
more securely.
Inventors: |
Wagenknecht, Samuel James;
(Rockford, IL) ; Wagenknecht, Terry Lee;
(Rockford, IL) ; Wagenknecht, Charles Maxwell;
(Rockford, IL) |
Correspondence
Address: |
Samuel James Wagenknecht
6693 Heather Lane
Rockford
IL
61114
US
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Family ID: |
33479725 |
Appl. No.: |
10/846965 |
Filed: |
May 14, 2004 |
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Application
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Filing Date |
Patent Number |
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60496243 |
Aug 19, 2003 |
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60476927 |
Jun 9, 2003 |
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60474251 |
May 28, 2003 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
224/148.4 ;
224/269; 224/666 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A45F 3/16 20130101; A45F
5/10 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
224/148.4 ;
224/666; 224/269 |
International
Class: |
A45F 003/16; A45C
001/04; F41C 033/02; F42B 039/02 |
Claims
We claim:
1. A beverage bottle clothing clip is formed from a flexible planar
polymer substrate with a bottle cap stop rim gripping aperture
located near one elongate end; whereas said gripping aperture is
sized accordingly to snugly fit the diameter size of the area
immediately and vertically below said bottle cap stop rim; whereas
a secondary aperture is located further inwardly from said elongate
end of said polymer substrate, and determinedly spaced from said
gripping aperture, and determinedly sized accordingly to the
diameter of said gripping aperture, and also determinedly sized
accordingly to the total dimensional length of a connecting through
cut slit between said apertures; whereas a said connecting through
cut slit is formed between said apertures, having a said
dimensional length accordingly to a chosen, yet functional, total
perimeter size of said two apertures, after merging by means of
said slit. whereas said gripping aperture is determinedly
expandable in size accordingly to the total of the circumferencial
perimeter dimensions of said apertures and dimensional length of
said slit. whereas an aperture locking bend of approximately 45 to
90 degrees is made in said polymer substrate from planar edge to
edge, and perpendicularly crossing the general elongate path of
both said apertures and connecting slit; wherein said bend
perpendicularly crosses said general path over said slit, or over
said secondary aperture, or both; wherein said bend changes the
planar axis of said apertures, and so prevents merging of
perimeters of said apertures; wherein said bend prevents said
gripping aperture from expanding in size to said determinedly
expandable size when axial planar surface surrounding said gripping
aperture is bent to said 45 to 90 degrees to axial planar surface
surrounding said secondary aperture; whereas hand straightening of
said flexible substrate and said bend allows for merging of planar
axis surrounding said apertures, and so the merging of both said
aperture perimeters into a larger and said determinedly expandable
size; whereas said flexible substrate of any nominal amount of
residual memory, will return to said 45 to 90 degree bent shape,
and will also restore the original perimeter size of said gripping
aperture; and whereby said gripping aperture of said bent flexible
substrate is controllably sizeable for application to and removal
from said area immediately below bottleneck cap stop rim; and
whereby with the elongate opposite end from aperture area being
positioned into and retained by a pocket or opening in clothing,
where the bottle's fluid weight pulls downward, and tighteningly
retains said locking bend, and therein tighteningly retains said
perimeter of primary gripping aperture even more securely.
2. we claim A BOTTLE CAP CLOTHING CLIP as in claim 1; using a black
plastic polymer substrate for hand bending in cold weather
climates.
3. we claim A BOTTLE CAP CLOTHING CLIP as in claim 1; using a white
plastic polymer substrate for hand bending in warm weather
climates.
Description
[0001] BEVERAGE BOTTLE CLOTHING CLIP in reference to provisional
applications; No. 60/496,243 filing date Aug. 19, 2003; No.
60/476,927 Jun. 9, 2003; and No. 60/474,251 May 28, 2003
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0002]
1 5,695,232 January 1997 Tipp . . . 294/87.2 5,960,973 October 1999
Markson . . . 215/386 6,019,335 February 2000 Schati . . . 248/312
6,131,779 August 1997 Gendala . . . 224/148.1 6,279,794 B1 August
2001 Miyazaki . . . 224/148.7 6,352,235 B2 March 2002 Cizek . . .
248/692 6,394,329 B1 May 2002 Magee . . . 224/678 6,394,517 May
2002 Borg . . . 294/31.2 6,533,148 B1 March 2003 Dahl . . .
224/148.6 6,626,333 B2 September 2003 Levesque et al. . . .
224/148.6 6,695,371 B1 February 2004 Simkins . . . 294/33
09/731/293 June 2000 Fadal . . . 224/148.7 2002/0046984 A1 April
2002 Cheatwood . . . 215/399
STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT
[0003] Not applicable.
REFERENCE TO SEQUENCE LISTING
[0004] Not applicable.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0005] 1. Field of the Invention
[0006] The present invention relates generally, to beverage bottle
holders and bottle carrying devices and clips.
[0007] 2. Description of Prior Art
[0008] Previous methods used to attach a bottle of water or soft
drink on a human's clothing, would require a pants belt or strap
that would thread through a separate holding container. Each
version of a beverage bottle holding or clip device includes
specialized parts; some with moving parts, detachable parts, metal
ferrules, nylon or rope strings, hinged parts, or mold injected
polymer parts; all of which require expensive tooling and setup
costs.
[0009] All of these most recent versions have expensive startup
costs for the die-molds, with expensive follow up costs of
production and assembly; and require specialized and very expensive
and high tech machinery to produce. In today's global market,
production cost and end pricing is crucial for making the final
sale; and whereas none of said previous versions are cost effective
for mass sales of disposable clips.
SUMMARY
[0010] It is the object of this invention of a BEVERAGE BOTTLE
CLOTHING CLIP to; easily clip onto a standard plastic bottle neck
by means of a controllably sizeable bottleneck gripping
aperture;
[0011] remain securely attached to said bottle;
[0012] easily attach to and hang from various openings of a
person's clothing;
[0013] have indicia space for low cost computer label printing and
adhering;
[0014] be optionally fabricated by the user;
[0015] and be mass produceable without the need for expensive
high-tech machinery;
[0016] Whereas said clip is purposed to be disposable, it still
remains removable for re-use on multiple types of beverage
containers with the same standardized type and diameter size of
bottleneck.
[0017] It is also an advantage of this invention over previous
patents, to be fabricated from a low cost material substrate;
[0018] whereas this bottle clip may be die-cut stamped from
polyethelene, styrenol, polybutylethylene, or similar planar
polymer substrates; requiring only one heat bend, yet with some
types of substrates, said necessary bend is easily made with human
hands in temperatures above 65 degrees. This ability for some
substrates to be bent by hand reduces fabrication to one single
step of die-cut stamping, and permits easier handling, storage, and
shipping.
[0019] The ability for this invention of a bottle clip to be
die-cut is key to it's superiority over previous bottle attachment
devices. The expensive and high tech machinery is not required; as
a user may obtain a low cost steel rule die; either one up, or by
the dozen; with cutting done in house or contracted out. Cost
effective alternatives in fabrication are possible with this
version over previous designs. Hand die-cut machines for cutting
out "one-up" of small shapes have recently entered the marketplace,
now allowing users to fabricate their own items.
[0020] And whereby it is the object of this invention to make
available a low cost and disposable beverage bottle clothing clip,
using die-cut fabrication, by means of a controllably sizeable
bottleneck gripping aperture, and secured by a single aperture
locking bend.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Numerals in Drawings
[0021]
2 10 primary and gripping aperture 12 secondary aperture 14
aperture connecting slit 16 enlarged and combined aperture 18
aperture locking bend 20 pocket insert tab 22 main body of clip
substrate 24 diameter of bottleneck cap stop rim 26 beverage bottle
28 bottleneck cap stop rim 30 functional locations of locking bend
32 restricting and aperture locking position
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0022] FIG. 1; an overhead view showing primary gripping aperture
in smallest and original state before locking bend is formed.
[0023] FIG. 2; an overhead view as if substrate were being applied
onto and over a bottleneck; showing primary gripping aperture
merging with secondary aperture to form a newly combined and
enlarged aperture.
[0024] FIG. 3; an overhead view after locking bend is formed, and
as if substrate has already been positioned under bottleneck cap
stop rim, showing isolated primary aperture in it's original
perimeter size and state, and isolated slit and secondary aperture
in their original states after said locking bend is formed.
[0025] FIG. 4; an angular side view showing said gripping aperture
in it's original state and perimeter size, just before being
positioned onto and over bottle neck.
[0026] FIG. 5; an angular side view showing said combined and
larger aperture, while being pushed onto and over said bottle
neck.
[0027] FIG. 6; an angular side view showing said gripping aperture,
again isolated and reduced to it's original state and perimeter
size, after it has been positioned underneath said bottleneck cap
stop rim, with bottle partially removed for clarity.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0028] Fabrication of the two apertures FIG. 1;10,12 and completely
cut through slit FIG. 1;14 at one elongate end of the flexible
planar polymer substrate FIG. 1;22 is best accomplished by first
sizing the diameter FIG. 1;24 of the bottleneck cap stop rim
gripping aperture FIG. 1;10 to just slightly and dimensionally more
than said diameter dimension FIG. 1;24 located immediately beneath
said rim FIG. 2;28 of bottleneck, so as to not place any extra and
unneeded stresses on said substrate. The size of the secondary
aperture FIG. 1;12 and the length of said slit are interdependent
upon said diameter size of bottleneck, and chosen size wanted for
the combined and larger aperture FIG. 2;16, all keeping within any
limits of retaining the functionality of the next step; the
aperture locking bend FIG. 3;18, and FIG. 4:18. Said bend is
approximately 45 to 90 degrees, and is formed across said planar
substrate from edge to edge, and perpendicular to the direction of
said slit, and either crossing said slit, or crossing said
secondary aperture FIG. 5;30. Some polymer substrates will allow
forming of said bend by hand in temperatures of 65 degrees and up;
whereas user may carry said clip flatly in a pocket, then hand-bend
just before using. The choice of shape and size of said secondary
aperture FIG. 1;12 will help control the ease of bending, as said
substrate will bend at the point of least resistance, yet keeping
within limits of functionality, and noting that it is best for all
interior perimeter aperture shapes to have one or a plurality of
circular perimeter edges to prevent tearing of said substrate to
it's outer and perimeter edge of said main body.
[0029] Operation of said bottle clip is the hand straightening FIG.
5 of said locking bend, as user pushes said clip downward and onto
a beverage bottleneck, until past said cap stop rim FIG. 4;28, then
releasing hold on clip, where residual memory of said clip
substrate returns to or near its bent position. After positioning
the opposite elongate end FIG. 5;20 into pocket of clothing, the
fluid contents of said bottle will pull downward and tighten up
said locking bend to an approximate 90 degrees which retains said
gripping aperture from merging with said secondary aperture, and so
retains said gripping aperture to it's original perimeter size.
[0030] FIG. 1; is an overhead view showing primary gripping
aperture in smallest and original state before locking bend is
formed. Notice dotted lines of said diameter of bottleneck FIG.
1;24 as compared to FIG. 2;24, wherein said gripping aperture has
merged perimeters with secondary aperture and has enlarged to fit
over said rim.
[0031] FIG. 2; is an overhead view as if substrate were being
applied onto and over a bottleneck, showing the newly combined and
enlarged aperture FIG. 2;16, and the general area where said
locking bend is to be formed FIG. 2;30.
[0032] FIG. 3; is an overhead view after locking bend FIG. 3;18 is
formed, and as if substrate has already been positioned over said
bottleneck, and downwardly past said cap stop rim, showing the
isolated primary aperture in it's original perimeter size and
state, and isolated slit and secondary aperture in their original
states after said locking bend is formed.
[0033] FIG. 4; is angular side view showing said gripping aperture
in it's original state and perimeter size, just before being
positioned onto and over bottle neck, whereas
[0034] FIG. 5; shows said aperture perimeters merging to form said
combined and larger aperture FIG. 5;16, just as said clip is being
pushed downward and over said bottleneck cap. The palm of a users
hand makes this action fast and easy.
[0035] FIG. 6; is an angular side view showing said gripping
aperture, again isolated and reduced to it's original state and
perimeter size, after it has been positioned underneath said
bottleneck cap stop rim, and after said retained memory has
returned said substrate to its bent position. Description numerals
referring to any aperture in FIG. 6 have changed from ones shown in
FIG. 5, whereas three FIG. 5;16 numerals representing a said
combined aperture, now represent two apertures and a slit FIG.
6;10,12,14.
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