U.S. patent application number 11/232700 was filed with the patent office on 2007-04-19 for bottle carrying trousers.
Invention is credited to Jessie Kay Lewellen, Charles Maxwell Wagenknecht, Samuel James Wagenknecht, Terry Lee Wagenknecht.
Application Number | 20070083984 11/232700 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 37946792 |
Filed Date | 2007-04-19 |
United States Patent
Application |
20070083984 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Wagenknecht; Terry Lee ; et
al. |
April 19, 2007 |
Bottle carrying trousers
Abstract
A human user's bottle carrying trousers, and including those
with shortened and/or cut-off legs; which retains a beverage bottle
adjacent an exterior surface of said pants via at least one bottle
retaining element; wherein a flexible and limitedly extractable
bottle neck gripping device is permanently affixed to said
trousers; and in a location at, and/or near to, and/or within a
placket, a pocket, a belt loop, or waistband of said trousers;
wherein said device may be substantially concealed from another
human's view; and wherein said device is mostly undetectable from a
user's view and sensory feelings; and wherein said device is always
available for a human user to carry a beverage bottle with said
user's hands being free.
Inventors: |
Wagenknecht; Terry Lee;
(Rockford, IL) ; Wagenknecht; Samuel James;
(Rockford, IL) ; Wagenknecht; Charles Maxwell;
(Rockford, IL) ; Lewellen; Jessie Kay; (Rockford,
IL) |
Correspondence
Address: |
TERRY LEE WAGENKNECHT
6693 HEATHER LANE
ROCKFORD
IL
61114
US
|
Family ID: |
37946792 |
Appl. No.: |
11/232700 |
Filed: |
September 22, 2005 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
2/227 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A41D 1/08 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
002/227 |
International
Class: |
A41D 1/06 20060101
A41D001/06 |
Claims
1. A human user's trouser pants, and including those with shortened
and/or cut-off legs, which retains a beverage bottle adjacent an
exterior surface of said pants; (i) whereas at least one element of
said pants is a bottle retaining element which retains said bottle
via means of a bottle neck gripping device; wherein said means
generally grips said bottle just vertically beneath said bottle's
cap stop rim; and wherein said means is approximately located in an
area at, and/or near, and/or within a placket, a pocket, a belt
loop, or waistband of said pants; (ii) and whereas said means is
permanently affixed to said pants at, and/or near, and/or within at
least one of said areas; wherein said means may be concealed within
at least one of said areas when not in use; wherein said means is
limitedly extractable from and/or replaceable to said location of
concealment; and wherein said means may be permanently tethered at,
and/or near, and/or within said location of concealment; whereby
the improvement is a substantially undetectable, yet always readily
available said bottle retaining element for carrying said beverage
bottle hands-free from said location of permanent attachment with
said user's option of easy concealment of said bottle retaining
element when not in use.
2. A human user's trouser pants, and including those with shortened
and/or cut-off legs, which retains a beverage bottle adjacent an
exterior surface of said pants; (i) whereas at least one element of
said pants is a bottle retaining element which retains said bottle
via a flexible bottle neck gripping device; wherein said flexible
device generally grips said bottle at a location just vertically
beneath said bottle's cap stop rim; and wherein said flexible
device is approximately located in an area at, and/or near, and/or
within a placket, a pocket, a belt loop, or waistband of said
pants; (ii) and whereas said flexible device is permanently affixed
to said pants at, and/or near, and/or within at least one of said
areas; wherein said flexible device may be concealed within at
least one of said areas when not in use; wherein said flexible
device is limitedly extractable from and/or replaceable to said
location of concealment; and wherein said flexible device may be
permanently tethered at, and/or near, and/or within said location
of concealment; whereby the improvement is a substantially
undetectable, yet always readily available said bottle retaining
element for carrying said beverage bottle hands-free from said
location of permanent attachment with said user's option of easy
concealment of said bottle retaining element when not in use.
3. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 1, further including a
means wherein a portion of said bottle neck gripping device
comprises a bottle neck gripping aperture wherein material
substrate surrounding said aperture retains at least some degree of
residual memory.
4. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 1, further including a
means wherein a portion of said bottle neck gripping device
comprises an elongate planar shaped polymer plastic substrate
wherein a bottle neck gripping aperture is located near one
elongate end.
5. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 1, further including said
bottle retaining element wherein a degree of said permanently
affixed is relative to a user's age and therefore a user's
strength; wherein said degree is accordingly relative to a type of
said bottle carrying trousers being manufactured; whereby said
degree of permanently affixed may be predetermined at a time of
said affixing accordingly to a manufacturer's chosen method of said
affixing.
6. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 1, further including a
means wherein said bottle neck gripping device comprises a
permanently affixed flexible rubber-like o-ring; wherein material
substrate surrounding said o-ring's aperture retains at least some
degree of residual memory.
7. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 1, further including a
means wherein a portion of said bottle neck gripping device
comprises a permanently affixed flexible rubber-like sheet wherein
said sheet comprises at least one bottle neck gripping aperture
with material substrate surrounding said aperture retaining at
least some degree of residual memory.
8. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 1, further including a
means wherein a portion of said bottle neck gripping device
comprises a permanently affixed flexible polyethylene plastic
substrate wherein said substrate comprises at least one bottle neck
gripping aperture with material surrounding said aperture retaining
at least some degree of residual memory.
9. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 1, further including a
means wherein a portion of said bottle neck gripping device
comprises a permanently affixed flexible polyurethane plastic
substrate wherein said substrate comprises at least one bottle neck
gripping aperture with material surrounding said aperture retaining
at least some degree of residual memory.
10. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 1, further including a
means wherein a portion of said bottle neck gripping device
comprises a permanently affixed flexible polypropylene plastic
substrate wherein said substrate comprises at least one bottle neck
gripping aperture with material surrounding said aperture retaining
at least some degree of residual memory.
11. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 1, further including a
means wherein a portion of said bottle neck gripping device
comprises a permanently affixed flexible polymer plasticized cloth
fabric substrate wherein said substrate comprises at least one
bottle neck gripping aperture with material surrounding said
aperture retaining at least some degree of residual memory.
12. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 1, further including a
means wherein a portion of said bottle neck gripping device
comprises a permanently affixed flexible rubberized cloth fabric
substrate wherein said substrate comprises at least one bottle neck
gripping aperture with material surrounding said aperture retaining
at least some degree of residual memory.
13. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 1, further including a
bottle retaining element comprising a monofilament type cord.
14. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 1, further including a
bottle retaining element comprising a braided filament type
cord.
15. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 5, further including
said bottle retaining element wherein said element is permanently
affixed via sewn thread.
16. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 5, further including
said bottle retaining element wherein said element is permanently
affixed via riveting.
17. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 5, further including
said bottle retaining element wherein said element is permanently
affixed via grommeting.
18. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 5, further including
said bottle retaining element wherein said element is permanently
affixed via a tensioned snap fastener.
19. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 5, further including
said bottle retaining element wherein said element is permanently
affixed via glueing.
20. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 5; further including
said bottle retaining element wherein said element is permanently
affixed via a tether.
21. A bottle carrying trousers as in claim 5; further including
said bottle retaining element wherein said element is permanently
affixed via cloth fabric.
Description
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] TABLE-US-00001 5,810,218 September/1998 Falcaro 224/148.4
6,045,017 April/2000 Connell 224/148.7 6,082,600 July/2000 Angus
224/269 6,131,779 October/2000 Gendala 224/148.1 6,182,872
February/2001 Six 224/148.5 6,202,911 March/2001 Freer 224/684
6,497,348 December/2002 Forsman 224/148.2 6,598,770 July/2003 Bolts
224/148.2 6,612,471 September/2003 Sellars 224/230 6,626,733
September/2003 Knutson 224/148.1 6,659,321 December/2003 Hartranft
224/230 6,695,371 February/2004 Simkins 224/148.4 6,739,754
May/2004 Moor 224/680 6,837,472 January/2005 Beutz 224/148.4
ADDITIONAL RELATED PATENT PENDING APPLICATIONS FILED
[0002] short description TABLE-US-00002 10/846,965 May/2004
Wagenknecht 224/148 closing slit bottle carrier utility application
11/028,137 January/2005 Wagenknecht 224/148 standoff bottle carrier
utility application 11/131,154 May/2005 Wagenknecht 224/148
multi-size bottle carrier utility application 29/222,883
February/2005 Wagenknecht 224/148 trophy and fire flame aperture
design application ER 195025060 US September/2005 Wagenknecht
224/148 wineglass shape cup aperture design application DOC 584976
September/2005 Wagenknecht 224/148 letter of disclosure concerning
this present application
REFERENCE TO SEQUENCE LISTING
[0003] Not applicable.
STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT
[0004] Not applicable.
BACKGROUND
[0005] 1. Field of Invention
[0006] A bottle carrying trousers comprising a permanently attached
bottle retaining element with a means of gripping and retaining a
beverage bottle; wherein said element's properties are preferrably
flexible; and wherein said bottle is held adjacent to an exterior
surface of said trousers, and wherein said means is concealable
from another human's view when not in use, and wherein said means
is generally undetectable by feelings and touch sensories of a
human user's skin.
[0007] 2. Description of Prior Art
[0008] Previous items used to attach a plastic beverage bottle to a
human user's trouser pants, or any other part of a user's clothing,
were formed from hard plastics, metal clips, nylon straps, flexible
rubber o-rings, or various flexible plastic substrates. All were
devised to retainingly grip a plastic bottle in an area located
just vertically beneath its cap stop rim. All previous methods
required separate storage from a user's clothing when not in use;
as most were bulky in size or shape, and were mostly cumbersome to
carry conveniently in a pocket.
[0009] Those found which would fit into a pocket were also able to
fall out of the same pocket, or were able to be misplaced or
forgotten by the user.
[0010] None of those searched were found to include a bottle neck
retaining means which was permanently affixed to and/or within a
trouser pants material itself for a user's constant availability of
use of said means;
[0011] None of those searched were found to include a bottle neck
retaining means which was permanently affixed within a trouser
pants material's placket and/or pocket's waistband area for quick
and easy concealment by the user.
[0012] None of those searched were found to include a bottle neck
retaining means which was devised to be permanently attached to a
user's pants at a time of manufacturing of said pants; nor were any
found to include a bottle neck retaining means which was devised to
be permanently attached to said pants material for
post-manufacturing and/or retrofitting an entire line of a slow
selling trouser.
[0013] None of those searched were found to provide a trouser's
permanently attached bottle neck retaining means which were
purposed to be permanently affixed to said trousers in a method
which is mostly undetectable to a user's skin sensories.
SUMMARY
[0014] A bottle carrying trousers with a permanently attached means
of gripping and retaining a beverage bottle in an area just
vertically beneath said bottle's cap stop rim; whereas said bottle
is held adjacent to an exterior surface of said trousers; and
wherein said means is concealable from another human's view when
not in use; and wherein said element is substantially located in an
area at and/or near a placket, a pocket, a belt loop, or waistband
of said pants; and wherein said means is limitedly extractable from
its area of concealment or permanently tethered adjacent to said
area; with the improvement being a user's constant availability and
option of carrying a bottled beverage hands-free with an easy-quick
concealment of said means when not in use.
OBJECTS AND ADVANTAGES
[0015] This invention of a bottle carrying trouser pants may
utilize several different means of bottle gripping devices; yet, a
flexible said means will increase a user's comfort to a degree
where said means is almost undetectable. A plurality of methods
exist for permanently affixing said means to and/or within a
material of said pants; and with several ways to achieve
concealment of said means.
[0016] Accordingly, besides any objects and advantages previously
described, more objects and advantages of this present invention
are;
[0017] (i) To provide a pair of bottle carrying trousers, and most
particularly a pair of blue jean type trousers, which give users
the constant option of carrying a bottled beverage at their side;
and with their hands being free to carry other objects.
[0018] (ii) To provide bottle carrying trousers which give event
active users no chance to misplace, lose, or even to forget to
bring a bottle carrying device.
[0019] (iii) To provide bottle carrying trousers which keep their
style and fashioned look by easily concealing a bottle gripping
device from another human's view.
[0020] (iv) To permanently combine a pair of trousers with a
flexible bottle neck gripping device which conforms to a human
user's body contours, and where said device is concealed from view
and almost undetectable by any feeling or touch sensories of a
human user's skin.
[0021] (v) To provide trousers which may be assembled to a flexible
bottle neck gripping device at a time of initial manufacturing, or
at a time of post-manufacturing for retrofitting an entire line of
slow selling trousers which need an additional selling point
boost.
[0022] (vi) To provide trousers with a plurality of said gripping
devices to aid military troops and emergency workers when giving
aid or liquids to others; wherein any concealment of said device(s)
for appearance's purpose, changes in purpose to multiple emergency
utility tools which are in constant and easy reach of a user.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0023] In the drawings, closely related figures may have the same
number, but different alphabetic suffixes.
[0024] FIG. 1 is a front view of a preferred embodiment and while
retaining a bottle.
[0025] FIG. 2,a is a front view of a preferred embodiment with its
bottle retaining element in a same position as in FIG. 2, and
without showing a bottle.
[0026] FIG. 2,b is a side view of a preferred embodiment without a
bottle, and without attachment to trousers, and positioned as if it
were attached and as if it were retaining a bottle.
[0027] FIG. 2,c is a front view of a preferred embodiment without
showing a bottle, and as its bottle retaining element begins to
retract back to its position of permanent attachment within a
pocket.
[0028] FIG. 2,d is a front view of a preferred embodiment without
showing a bottle, and fully returned to its position of permanent
attachment within a pocket.
[0029] FIG. 3 is a front view of an alternative embodiment showing
a cord tethered, plastic polymer bottle neck gripping element while
concealed within a pocket.
[0030] FIG. 4 is a front view of two alternative embodiments; one
with a plasticized cloth bottle neck gripping element, and one with
a rubberized said element; and also showing two different methods
of permanent attachment.
[0031] FIG. 5,a is a front view of an alternative embodiment
utilizing a cord tethered, rivet affixed, rubber-like o-ring bottle
neck gripping element shown concealed within a miniature size
pocket.
[0032] FIG. 5,b is a front view of an alternative embodiment as in
FIG. 5,a; but is shown with its bottle neck gripping element
limitedly extracted from a pocket, and ready for use.
[0033] FIG. 6 is a front view of two alternative embodiments
utilizing cords for bottle neck gripping elements, and while one is
shown retaining a bottle, another is shown concealed within a
trouser's waistband.
[0034] FIG. 7 is a front view of two alternative embodiments
utilizing cords for permanently tethering bottle neck gripping
elements of rubber-like o-rings from within belt loops, and with
one retaining a bottle, and with one being concealed.
[0035] FIG. 8,a is a front view of an alternative embodiment of a
polymer plastic bottle neck gripping element with a cloth tether,
and being concealed within a pocket-like cloth sleeve.
[0036] FIG. 8,b is a front view showing said pocket-like cloth
sleeve of FIG. 8,a; and shown permanently affixed within a trousers
pocket.
REFERENCE NUMERALS IN DRAWINGS
[0037] 30--trouser pocket [0038] 32--pocket insert [0039]
34--miniature pocket [0040] 36--placket-like opening [0041]
38--waistband [0042] 40--belt Loop [0043] 42--flexible planar
polymer plastic means for gripping a bottle's neck [0044]
44--flexible plasticized cloth means for gripping a bottle's neck
[0045] 45--flexible rubberized cloth means for gripping a bottle's
neck [0046] 46--substrate's memory retensioned aperture of bottle
neck gripping means [0047] 47--affixment accommodating aperture
[0048] 48--cord means for gripping bottle neck [0049] 50--cord
tether which retains bottle neck gripping means [0050] 52--cloth
tether which retains bottle neck gripping means [0051] 54--flexible
rubber-like o-ring [0052] 56--beverage bottle [0053] 58--bottle's
cap stop rim [0054] 60--locational point of affixing a tether
[0055] 62--locational point of affixing a bottle neck gripping
means via sewing [0056] 64--locational point of affixing a bottle
neck gripping means via tensioned fastener [0057] 66--locational
point of affixing a bottle neck gripping means via adhesive
Preferred Embodiment
[0058] A preferred embodiment of a bottle carrying trousers is
illustrated in FIG. 1, and comprises; [0059] at least one bottle
neck gripping element 42 which is permanently affixed to said
trousers via a tensioned fastener 64, and in this preferred
embodiment, a specific rivet type of said tensioned fastener, 64
and in an area near one elongate end of said element's elongate,
planar, and flexible polymer plastic substrate body. Said riveting
permanently affixes said one elongate end to an interior surface of
a pocket 30 of said trousers, and at a location near said pocket's
placket-like 36 opening. A bottle neck gripping aperture 46 is
located near an opposite end of said body from an affixment
accommodating aperture 47 location which accommodates said specific
rivet type of said tensioned fastener 64. Said element is shown
looped slightly more than invertedly from its original position of
said affixing; wherein said aperture is located in an exterior
position from said pocket's interior. A bottle 56 is shown as it is
being retained by said aperture; and wherein said aperture
surrounds said bottles neck, and in an area located just vertically
beneath its cap stop rim 58. Said bottle is shown being retained in
an area of said trousers which is near to said pocket's
placket-like opening, and adjacent to an exterior surface of said
trousers.
Operation
[0060] A bottle carrying trousers as in FIG. 1 can be made by
permanently affixing a bottle neck gripping device to an interior
surface of at least one of said trouser's pockets 30 at a location
shown, and via a type of tensioned fastener 64. In this embodiment
of FIG. 1, a specific rivet type of tensioned fastener 64 is used;
and wherein said rivet extends completely through an affixment
accommodating aperture 47, and completely through said trouser's
material.
[0061] Said bottle neck gripping device is preferably made from a
flexible polymer plastic substrate 42 with soft rubber-like
properties, yet of a type which has at least some degree of memory
retension; and with said retension at least being located in an
area surrounding its bottle neck gripping aperture 46.
[0062] This particular bottle neck gripping device as in FIG. 1 is
of a shape which is a generally planar and elongate flexible
polymer plastic material which can be repeatedly bent without
fracturing. Low density polyethylene or LDPE is preferred, yet
other materials will also work as well; such as a high density
polyethylene, a polyurethane, or polypropylene, or polymer plastic
saturated cloth, or rubberized impregnated cloth. Thickness of
material chosen can range from a few thousandths of an inch to
whatever said thickness functions well in gripping a bottle's neck,
and whatever fits comfortably within a user's pocket.
[0063] A plurality of said material's properties such as said
thickness, and said type of polymer plastic, said degree of memory
retention, and a material's elasticity, and a material's hardness,
and a bottle's 56 dimensional diameter located just below its cap
stop rim 58, and said rim's dimensional diameter itself; will all
combine to determine an appropriate diameter size needed for said
aperture 46 to easily be applied and yet retainingly grip a
bottle's neck just vertically below said rim 58.
[0064] A manufacturer needs only to balance a degree of ease or
difficulty of a user's application and removal of said bottle
gripping device to and from said bottle, versus an ability of an
area surrounding said aperture 46 to grip and retain said bottle.
Said balancing also applies to most alternative embodiments, such
as those which may use a rubber-like o-ring, or said plasticized
cloth, or a rubber-like sheet material, or most any other substrate
which has at least some degree of memory retension surrounding said
aperture 46. Said balancing is accomplished through said
manufacturer predeterminedly using a chosen dimensional interior
size of said aperture; and accordingly to said substrate's said
degree of retained memory surrounding said aperture 46. [0065] said
aperture to attain said
[0066] Said aperture 46 shown in FIG. 1 is circular in shape; yet
is not necessary to be circular or any other particular shape to
functionally grip said bottle's neck; wherein a manufacturer needs
only to be concerned with said aperture gripping and retaining said
bottle in said area just vertically below said cap stop rim 58, and
said balancing between said gripping ability and said ease of
application to and from said bottle 56.
[0067] Said bottle gripping aperture 46 as shown in FIG. 1 is
located near one elongate end of said generally planar and elongate
flexible polymer plastic material 42. Said affixment accommodating
aperture 47 for accomodating said rivet type tensioned fastener 64
is located at an opposite end of said elongate material from said
bottle gipping aperture's 46 location. Said aperture 47 is
referenced as an affixment accommodating aperture 47 for clarity
purpose, as it may consist of different sizes and/or shapes to
accommodate various types of fasteners or tethers. Said rivet is
located in an area near a placket-like opening 36 of a trouser's
pocket; and with said device located within said pocket; and with
said bottle gripping aperture 46 being located vertically below
said riveting location 64, and when said device is in a position of
concealment. note FIG. 2,d.
[0068] Numeric references to location of said tensioned fastener 64
may also refer to alternative and similar means of affixing via
tensioned fasteners and comprising; one piece grommets, two piece
grommet sets, mandrels within finishing washers, pop rivets, and
tensioned snap-on buttons or tensioned snap fasteners; of which
most are metallic in composition; yet not exclusively, and not
excluding any polymer plastic tensioned fastener materials.
[0069] In further reference to FIG. 2, FIG. 2,a shows said device
in a same position as shown in FIG. 1, and with said bottle
removed. FIG. 2,b shows a side view of said device closely similar
to said same position to further clarify an invertedly looped
position as in FIG. 2,a.
[0070] FIG. 2,c shows a front view of said device as it is
partially retracted back into said pocket. FIG. 2,d shows a front
view of said device as it is retracted completely back into said
pocket, and in its initial position after said affixing 64.
[0071] Said bottle gripping element is now concealed within said
pocket as shown in FIG. 2,d until a user reaches in and pulls out
said bottle neck gripping aperture until it loops invertedly from
its original position of concealment, and loops vertically upwards
until said aperture and its surrounding substrate material
protrudes outwardly from said pocket's interior.
[0072] A user then forces a bottles cap, neck, and cap stop rim
through said aperture for said bottle's retention; wherein said
substrate's memory retension surrounding said aperture grips and
retains said bottle.
[0073] Said gripping aperture and said element's outer perimeter
shape may be completely cut through said substrate by hand with
most any cutting tool, or may be machine die cut in multiples for
large quantities, or plastic mold injected for a dimensionally
shaped form of said substrate's normally planar surface.
[0074] In assembly, said rivet type fastener is positioned through
said aperture 47 and said trouser material as previously described;
and is compressed to a manufacturer's satisfaction for their chosen
degree of tensioning of said rivet, and for their chosen degree of
permanence of said permanent affixing.
[0075] After permanently riveting said device, said device becomes
at least one element of said trousers; and wherein said element is
a bottle neck gripping element. Said trousers are now bottle
carrying trousers.
[0076] When using said element to carry a bottle of liquid; a small
child user or an adult user with no pants belt will most likely
carry less liquid than others would.
[0077] In example; [0078] a prepared mountain hiker or National
Guard Trooper will normally have their trousers fairly well secured
with a belt, suspenders, or other means.
[0079] A degree of said permanent affixing is relative to a user's
age, strength, degree of said belt securement of trousers, or said
amount of liquid being retained; and wherein said degree of
permanent affixing is accordingly relative to a size and/or type of
said bottle carrying trousers being manufactured.
[0080] Whereby, said degree of permanence of affixing may be
predetermined at a time of said affixing; and accordingly to a
manufacturer's chosen said degree of permanence necessary, and
therefore said method of said affixing.
[0081] In example; [0082] a tensioned snap fastener which is
accomplished through a standard riveting type method, would be a
very permanent affixing to a small child or an elderly user; and
whereas a same said fastener may be very temporary to a National
Guardsman Trooper who weighed 200 pounds or more. All references to
any said permanent affixing and/or said degree of permanence of
said element's affixing are therefore relative to said type of
user, said degree of trouser securement, said volume of liquid
being retained, and/or said degree of a user's strength.
Alternative Embodiments
[0083] FIG. 3 is a front view of an alternative embodiment showing
a cord tethered 50, plastic polymer bottle neck gripping element 42
while concealed within a pocket 30.
[0084] While again, said element's bottle neck gripping aperture 46
is circular in shape; yet does not depend on any particular shape
to function in this embodiment, but only to grip a bottle's neck in
said area just vertically beneath a bottle's said cap stop rim, and
only to a degree of said gripping which functionally retains a
bottle.
[0085] Said cord tether 50 shown needs only to be a dimensional
length from its locational point of attachment 60 to allow said
aperture 46 to extend or protrude a short distance from said
pocket's 30 placket-like opening 36.
[0086] FIG. 4 is a front view of two alternative embodiments with
plasticized cloth bottle neck gripping elements, and also showing
two different methods of said permanent affixing.
[0087] Shown at the viewer's right side of the drawing is a cloth
tether 52 which retains a flexible plasticized cloth means for
gripping a bottle's neck, 44 and is shown as it protrudes from a
pocket's 30 placket-like opening 36. Said flexible cloth tether 52
allows said a bottle neck gripping means 44 to hang parallel and
adjacent to said pocket's 30 exterior surface. Said gripping
aperture 46 is shown as it is ready to accept and carry a bottle.
Said affixment accommodating aperture 47 is of an elongate shape to
accept and retain said cloth tether 52, which is threaded through
said aperture 47. A locational point 60 of affixing said tether 52
may be affixed most anywhere within said pocket 30 according to a
manufacturer's discretion, and also accordingly to a length of said
tether 52.
[0088] Said bottle gripping element 44 and its said cloth tether 52
are shown ready to be re-concealed within said pocket 30, and yet
without protruding outwardly as in said preferred embodiment.
[0089] A second alternative embodiment is shown within FIG. 4 to
clarify any references to, or claims of; at least one bottle
retaining element; wherein said at least one bottle retaining
element may refer to a plurality of different types and/or methods
of said elements within one pair of bottle carrying trousers for
the purpose of allowing a user choices of using any one, and/or a
plurality of said elements within said trousers.
[0090] Shown at the viewer's left side of said drawing is a
flexible rubberized cloth means for gripping a bottle's neck, 45
and is shown as it is concealed within a pocket 30, and wherein is
also shown a locational point of affixing said bottle neck gripping
means via sewing 62. Its gripping aperture 46 is also shown.
[0091] FIG. 5,a is a front view of an alternative embodiment
utilizing a cord tethered, 50 grommet-like tensioned fastener, 64
and rubber-like o-ring bottle neck gripping element, 54 shown
concealed within a miniature size pocket 34.
[0092] FIG. 5,b is a front view of said alternative embodiment as
in FIG. 5,a; but is shown with said bottle neck gripping element 54
limitedly extracted from said miniature pocket 34, and ready for
use.
[0093] FIG. 6 is a front view of two alternative embodiments,
wherein both utilize cords for bottle neck gripping elements 48,
48', and while one is shown retaining a bottle, 56 and another is
shown concealed within a trouser's waistband 38.
[0094] Shown at the viewer's left side of said drawing is said
concealed embodiment; wherein said cord 48 is affixed at a location
60 within said trouser's waistband 38. Also shown is a placket-like
opening 36 within said waistband 38, and wherein said cord 48 is
extracted from said placket-like opening 36 of said waistband 38
when ready for use.
[0095] Also shown within FIG. 6, and at the viewer's right side of
said drawing is said second of said embodiments, wherein said cord
48' is shown extracted from said placket-like opening 36' of said
waistband 38' and tied around a bottle's 56 neck in an area just
vertically below its cap stop rim 58. A belt loop 40 is also shown
to help a viewer to distinguish said placket-like opening 36' from
said loop(s).
[0096] FIG. 7 is a front view of two identical alternative
embodiments utilizing cords 50, 50' for permanently tethering
bottle neck gripping elements of rubber-like o-rings 54,54' from
within belt loops, 40 and with one said o-ring retaining a bottle,
56 from a belt loop 40' and with another said o-ring and said cord
tether being concealed within another belt loop 40. A placket-like
slit 36 of said loop 40 is also shown adjacent to said concealed
o-ring 54. A bottle's cap stop rim 58 is also shown just vertically
above said bottle retaining o-ring 54'.
[0097] FIG. 8,a is a front view of an alternative embodiment of a
polymer plastic bottle neck gripping element 42 with a cloth
tether, 52 and being concealed within a pocket-like cloth sleeve
insert 32. Also shown is said element's gripping aperture, 46 and
said cloth tether's location of its affixing, 60 and an affixment
accommodating aperture 47 wherein said cloth tether is threaded
through.
[0098] FIG. 8,b is a front view showing said pocket-like cloth
sleeve insert 32 of FIG. 8,a; and wherein said insert is shown
permanently affixed within a trousers pocket 30 via glueing 66,
66', 66', 66'.
Conclusion, Ramifications, and Scope
[0099] Accordingly, the reader will see that the scope of this new
bottle carrying trousers goes beyond it's many advantages over
previous trousers;
[0100] This new bottle carrying trousers gives any user the
constant option of carrying most any beverage bottle size chosen by
a manufacturer.
[0101] The ability of a permanently attached flexible bottle
carrying device to be withdrawn from its substantially concealed
location is new in concept, and will not detract from said user's
clothing's appearance.
[0102] This said trousers has a built in tool which is always
there; unseen by another human's view; unfelt by a user's skin and
touch senses; and almost totally weightless when not in use, and
yet is still there; and always there.
[0103] Event active users from on-sight sports viewing, to
walk-a-thon participants will all have the option of using this
bottle carrying trousers at their discretion.
[0104] Emergency workers in the act of distributing food and water,
construction workers at locations far from the company water
canteen, National Guard troops out in the field of activity, and
many more categories of busy people will all have said constant
option of said bottle carrying trouser's use. With all the many
other important tools to remember to bring with them, this is one
tool which they will not have to even think about, as it will
always be there at their side.
[0105] This bottle carrying trousers will always be there for users
such as school children and college students alike, as they have
their hands freed up to carry more books and such, and with their
beverage bottle at their side. Their bottle carrying trousers
include an element which will always be there; while providing said
constant option to carry their beverage with hands being free.
[0106] This bottle carrying trousers will allow both music concert
attenders and praise and worship event attenders to put both hands
in the air; and wherein are able to clap their hands with the
music, or place both hands in the air for praise and worship; and
wherein are able to keep their beverage directly at their side.
[0107] In acknowledging that a trouser's means for gripping a
bottle neck's cap stop rim is permanently affixed at, and/or near
to, and/or within, and/or tethered near to, and/or tethered within
an area of concealment; and wherein a degree of said permanence is
relative to previously described variables of a user's age or
strength, a degree of belt securement, and such; and wherein said
degree may be determined via a sewn thread's strength, or via a
heavy duty versus light duty snap fastener, or via its method of
glueing and type of glue, or via its size and weight of rivet
and/or grommet used for said affixing.
[0108] And also acknowledging that the scope of this new bottle
carrying trousers is not limited to any particular specifics or any
specific combinations of; its means for gripping a bottle's neck;
nor specifically to the preferred embodiment's aperture shape, nor
said embodiment's general perimeter shape, nor said embodiment's
method of affixing to trousers, and neither said embodiment's
location of said affixing.
[0109] The specific intent of this application is to provide a
human user's trouser pants which provides a constant option to
carry a beverage bottle with an option of concealment of its bottle
neck gripping means element for appearances sake, and for busy
people who don't need another thing to remember to bring with in
their daily routine.
[0110] These new bottle carrying trousers utilize a new principle
of operation of its bottle neck gripping means element; whereby it
blazes a new trail in trousers clothing wear, and of which no one
else has previously utilized.
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