WO2005113378A1

WO2005113378A1 - An enclosed bottle

Info

Publication number: WO2005113378A1
Application number: PCT/IN2005/000128
Authority: WO
Inventors: Mahesh Thadani
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2004-05-10
Filing date: 2005-04-25
Publication date: 2005-12-01
Anticipated expiration: 2006-11-10

Abstract

An Enclosed Bottle (6) characterized by the combination of a reusable, threaded closure capped, polymer Bottle (7, 8) having a petalloid shaped bottom (16), and an adapted, storing, rigid polymer Receptacle which is insulatory, portable, standable and non-permanently assembled, said Receptacle comprising a cylindrical, hollow, outer shaped, inner bottom specifically formed, flat open upper end Body (9), a securing Dome with a central opening (10) and a Cup (11), said Bottle being stored in an upright, non-rotatable, mostly spaced apart manner, said petalloid bottom (16) interlocking onto said inner bottom specific form (27) to makes said Bottle non-rotatable, said Body’s outer (20) and flat top (22) giving visual guidance for said Bottle's correct entry and placement, unitedly, said Body and said Dome enclosing and restraining only body of said Bottle, alternatively said Body and said Dome together enclosing an upright, standard 12 oz can (37).

Description

AN ENCLOSED BOTTLE

TECHNICAL FIELD:

The present invention generally relates to the combination of a Bottle and an insulatory Receptacle for it, and more particularly, is concerned with a reusable, petalloid shaped bottom, polymer Bottle closed with a screw Cap and stored non-rotatably but removably within a rigid, portable, standable Receptacle in a base interacting, body mostly spaced apart manner, and where, when the Bottle is secured within Receptacle Body, the screw Cap affixed on the exposed neck of Bottle can be opened and closed without the stored Bottle rotating.

BACKGROUND ART:

Chilled Beverages are now commonly sold in closure capped plastic Bottles of various sizes. Petalloid shapes on the Bottle bottom have been found useful during Bottle filling, transporting and storing. The PRIOR ART had developed various types of insulative Covers or covering Holders to prevent a thin walled bottle containing a cold Beverage from absorbing heat quickly in hot weather. However, they focused only on reducing heat absorption and not on a

Bottle with a petalloid shaped bottom not rotating within its cover when the screw Cap on exposed neck was opened while Bottle was within its storing Body. My application 133/MUM/2003 a.k.a. PCT/IN 03/00045 was for an Insulated Bottle wherein the body style of Bottle was specific to the invention. This invention is for a Bottle of any regular type but with a petalloid shaped bottom. DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION:

The object of the present invention is to provide a reusable, insulative. Enclosed Bottle Device for containing liquids, where a threaded closure capped polymer Bottle with a petalloid shaped bottom is to be kept enclosed, upright, body mostly spaced apart yet non-rotatable within an adapted, rigid, portable, standable, insulatory Receptacle. The Bottle's bottom rests on and interacts with the Receptacle's inner bottom. When the Bottle is secured within the Receptacle Body, the screw Cap affixed on the exposed neck of the Bottle can be opened and closed without the stored Bottle rotating.

It is a first objective of the invention that the Bottle of varied wall thickness is securely contained within the assembled Receptacle by utilizing the Bottle's stronger and thicker wall portions as seating and holding points.

It is a second objective of the invention that the Receptacle Body and Body secured Dome accept and seat the Bottle in a manner which leaves the Bottle's closure capped, narrow neck above Dome's central open end. This allows the screw Cap to be easily opened and closed without removing the stored Bottle from the storing Body and Body secured Dome.

It is a third objective of this invention is that since the stored Bottle body is not gripped by the rigid Body and the Receptacle is mostly spaced apart from stored Bottle, the Bottle bottom shape and the Body inner bottom interact to restrain the rotational movement of stored Bottle when the exposed, affixed screw Cap on neck is opened or closed with rotational force.

In another objective of the invention, the Body of the Receptacle is made single walled and either fully clear or opaque or, double walled and fully opaque with incorporated reflectivity.

In a further objective of the invention, if the Bottle secured screw Cap has an openable top spout for drinking Bottle enclosed water, the Device arrangement will still be totally functional.

Another objective of the Device is that the Device design has a visual confirmation system to confirm that the Bottle has been correctly placed within the Body.

It is an alternative use objective of the Device that instead of the Bottle, the Receptacle Body and Body secured Dome are able to take an upright, standard 12 oz beverage can. Below the enclosed 12 oz can, a limited amount of ice cubes could be put for chilling the can.

Briefly, the invention provides an Enclosed Bottle based on the coordinated combination of a reusable, petalloid shaped bottom, polymer Bottle with a closure capped neck, and an adapted, rigid polymer Receptacle which is insulatory, portable, standable, and non-permanently assembled. The Bottle is enclosed within the Receptacle in an upright, secured, non-rotatable, mostly spaced apart manner. The

Receptacle comprises a cylindrical, hollow, flat open upper end Body for containing the Bottle body, a securing Dome with a central opening to hold the Body stored Bottle down, and a Cup. The Bottle's bottom has indents and feet; the Body's inner bottom has wedges and depressions. The Bottle bottom fits interactingly onto the Body inner bottom form to make the stored Bottle non-rotatable. The Body's outer ribs, outer bottom, and top give visual guidance to Bottle's correct entry and placement into Body. The Receptacle can be either fully clear or fully opaque with incorporated or applied reflectivity. The Body and Body secured Dome can hold alternatively to the Bottle, an upright, standard 12 oz can along with a small amount of ice cubes.

Brief description of Drawings:

Fig 1 is a longitudinal, sectional view of the Device showing its components.

Fig 2 is an outer shape view of the upright, closure capped Bottle.

Fig 3 is an outer shape view of the upright Body.

Fig 4 shows the interaction of Body stored Bottle's petalloid shaped base with Body inner bottom form as on line 4-4 of Fig 1.

Fig 5 shows the alternative use of the Receptacle, by indicating the placement of an upright 12 oz. can within the longitudinal, sectional view of the double co-axial walled Body and Body secured Dome. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS:

Fig 1 denotes the Device by the numeral 6, and the components of the Device, as shown in Fig 1 are:

a) The Bottle 7. b) The screw "Cap 8. c) The Body of the Receptacle 9. d) The Dome of the Receptacle 10. e) The Cup of the Receptacle 11.

The Device has two major components, the closure capped Bottle that will contain the liquids and the Receptacle, which will store the closed Bottle. The Bottle 7 with neck secured screw Cap 8 forms the closure capped Bottle and assembling the Body 9 with its adapted Dome 10 and the adapted Cup 11 forms the Receptacle. The upright, externally threaded, open neck end of Bottle 7 takes the adapted circular, internally threaded screw Cap 8. Closure capped Bottle 7 (+8) has to be seated upright in Body 9, and then the Dome 10 will be affixed onto Body 9. The Cup 11 is then secured onto the Body to complete the insulatory Receptacle. The stored Bottle is removable and reusable.

The Bottle 7 is of Polyethylene Terepthalate or Poly Carbonate. The bottle is machine blown from a smaller, injection moulded preform, wherein the preform already has external threads moulded on its open end's outer, such threads becoming the external threads on open neck of formed bottle. When a preform is blown into a bottle shape, the Bottle wall thickness will vary. To avoid confusion, the drawings do not show this variance. In the drawings, the wall thickness of the Bottle is shown as uniform. Actually, the formed Bottle's neck portion will be the thickest, followed by a less thick shoulder portion and a thinner body portion. The base portion will be stronger than the body portion. These are all used in the Device concept.

The formed Bottle 7 has a first upright, externally threaded, circular, open neck end 12, a widening shoulder portion, an upright body portion 13, and a body end closing bottom portion, all shown in Fig 1. 14 is the start of the distinct change in upper shape of Bottle. The vertical ribs on the Bottle's upright body portion are 15.

The body end closing bottom portion has a specific petalloid shape 16, shown in side cross-section in Fig 1, in side view in Fig 2 and in top downward cross-section in Fig 4. This petalloid shape is composed of a plurality of alternating feet 17 and indents 18, as shown more clearly in Fig 2 (side view) and Fig 4 (top downward cross- sectional view) . The shape of an indent is different from the shape of a foot. The indents shape creation largely determines the shape of the feet; fundamentally, the feet are the portions left in the bottom shape after removal of indent forms from bottom portion. Every indent 18 has a peak center 19 (Fig 2), which, is directly below the lower end of a vertical rib 15.

The Bottle 7 will contain within itself, the chilled beverage. The Bottle's open neck end 12 will take the non- permanently fixed, removable, and reusable screw Cap 8. Screw Cap 8 has a top portion with a depending, internally threaded, downwards skirt. The top portion of the screw Cap can be flat or with an openable spout. The Receptacle arrangement can accommodate both styles of screw Cap. The Bottle 7 can be of any common size, say within the range of Vz litre to 1 litre capacity.

The Receptacle Body 9 is an injection moulded, rigid polymer form. It is cylindrical, hollow, with a flat open upper end, a shaped outer, and a specifically formed inner bottom. It can be single walled or, double co-axial walled with the space between the walls filled with insulative foam. The Body 9 will accept, seat, and enclose the Bottle's bottom and upright body portion, leaving the Bottle's shoulder and neck above itself, as shown in Fig 1.

The Dome 10 has a central opening, which is wider than Bottle affixed screw cap and Bottle neck. The Bottle's closure capped neck goes upwardly through this opening in the Dome when the Dome is secured onto Body containing the Bottle. The Cup 11 comes on top of the Dome.

In Fig 3, 20 is the outer form shape of the Body 9, 21 is its open upper end, 22 is the flat top of open upper end

21, and 23 is Body outer bottom shape. The outer bottom has formed indents 24, also shown in top downwards cross- section in Fig 4. 25 is the center of the peak of every indent 24. Every such peak center is directly below the lower end of a vertical rib 26 on Body outer.

In Fig 4, 27, the Body inner bottom form, is shown in top downward cross-section, whereas in Fig 1 the same is shown in side cross-section. 27 has a plurality of wedges 28 and. a depression between each wedge. Each internal wedge 28 is inwards of and directly behind but higher than the external indent 24. Hence, the number of external indents 24 is equal to the number of internal wedges 28. 24 and 28 are in an immovable position in relation to each other, and the vertical, centrally dividing line of both are in the same plane. These wedges 28 will enter into the placed Bottle's bottom indents 18. Between these wedges 28 are the

I depressions (not given a number) into which the placed Bottle bottom's feet 17 will enter. A positional relationship is designed into every one set of each of a Bottle bottom indent 18, a Body inner bottom wedge 28, and a Body outer bottom indent 24. As seen in Fig 4, when the Bottle is placed correctly inside the Body, every 18 is directly in front of a 28, which, is always directly in front of a 24, and both, 18 and 24, have their peak centers on the same vertical plane.

In Fig 4 also, 29 is the depressed, upward rib shapes in inner bottom. These act as vents for any air blocked' inside Body when the Bottle bottom is placed onto the Body inner bottom.

The Body 9 is shown in single walled mode in Fig 1 by 30 whilst the Body's double co-axial walled mode is shown in Fig 5. In Fig 5, 31 is the inner wall and 32 is the outer wall of the double co-axial walled Body. 33 is the hollow space between the two walls 31 and 32, and 34 is the insulative foam filled in the hollow space 33. 35 in Fig 1 is the strap attachment place on Body 9 while 36 in Fig 5 is the alternative integrated Handle on Body 9. The strap can take a nametag to show owner's name. In Fig 5 also, The Body and Body attached Dome are shown in alternative use mode with the placement of an upright 12 oz beverage Can, 37 within them.

When Body 9 is single walled, it can be clear or opaque. When it is clear, external circular viewing of beverage level in the Bottle within enclosing Body is possible. When the single walled Body is opaque, it can have incorporated or applied reflectivity by the application of a reflective film, resin, metal, or polymer. When Body is double walled, the inner wall can be so reflective.

The Bottle petalloid bottom shape is an interacting fit on the Body inner bottom form. The number of feet 17 on the petalloid bottom are equal to the number of depressions in Body inner bottom and the number of indents 18 on petalloid bottom are equal to the number of wedges 28 in Body inner bottom. The feet 17 are slightly smaller than the depressions and the wedges 28 are slightly smaller than the indents 18. On correct placement of Bottle in Body, each of the Bottle feet 17 will enter individually into a individual depression in Body inner bottom and each of the Bottle bottom's individual indents 18 will accept one individual wedge 28 in Body inner bottom. Thus, the placed Bottle 7 becomes non-rotatable in Body 9. It should be noted here that the feet 17 cannot enter the wedges 28 nor accept them.

The number of indents 18 on Bottle are equal to the number of wedges 28 in Body inner which in turn, are equal to the number of indents 24 on Body outer. Further, each indent 18 has one vertical rib 15 above its peak center, and each indent 24 has one vertical rib 26 above its peak center. Therefore, the number of vertical ribs 15 on Bottle body will be equal to the number of vertical ribs 26 on Body outer. Further, the positioning of every vertical rib 15 is similar to the positioning of every vertical rib 26 since both are above the peak center of an indent in their respective components .

For use, the Bottle 7 is filled with the cold beverage, closed with the screw Cap 8, and then put into the Body 9. To ensure correct placement, one has to hold closure capped Bottle 7 (+8) upright and totally above Body open upper end 21. Then one has to align Bottle body's any vertical rib 15 • to be in a visually corresponding line with Body's any outer vertical rib 26; this automatically aligns Bottle bottom indents 18 firstly to be above Body inner bottom wedges 28 and secondly to be in a visually corresponding line with Body outer indents 24. The Bottle should be lowered into the Body through its open upper end without changing this alignment. The downward arrow on the right side of Figures 2 and 3 shows this alignment and subsequent procedure.

When Body is opaque, one cannot visually see the correct placement of Bottle bottom on Body inner bottom. Since it is always possible that there be a shift in the alignment of the Bottle while placing Bottle into Body, the Device has an inbuilt system to cross check correct placement. When the Bottle is placed correctly in Body, the Bottle 7 has the start of a distinct change in the shape of its portion that is above Body 9 become level matched with the flat top of the open upper end of Body 9. This is shown in Fig 1 where 14, the start of the change of Bottle shape in the portion that is above Body, is level with 22, the flat top of the open upper end of the Body. This level matching will only occur when Bottle is placed correctly within Body, and any incorrect placement will show a misalignment between 14 and 22.

To drink water from the Receptacle stored Bottle, the Cup has to be separated from Body. This gives access to stored Bottle's closure capped neck. If the screw Cap is a flat top type, then horizontal, rotational, anticlockwise movement has to be applied to open the cap. This will not result in the stored Bottle rotating, because of interaction of Bottle bottom shape with Body inner bottom form. If the Screw Cap has a spout, upward pull force will open the spout but not remove the bottle from Body since the Body attached Dome will restrict the Bottle to Body and Dome.

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Claims

1. An Enclosed Bottle characterized by the combination of a reusable, threaded closure capped, polymer Bottle having a petalloid shaped bottom, and an adapted, storing, rigid polymer Receptacle which is insulatory, portable, standable and non-permanently assembled, said Receptacle comprising a cylindrical, hollow, outer shaped, inner bottom specifically formed, flat open upper end Body, a securing Dome with a central opening and a Cup, said Bottle being stored in an upright, non-rotatable, mostly spaced apart manner, said petalloid bottom interlocking onto said inner bottom specific form to make said Bottle non-rotatable, said Body's outer and flat top giving visual guidance for said Bottle's correct entry and placement, unitedly, said Body and said Dome enclosing and restraining only body of said Bottle, alternatively said Body and said Dome together enclosing an upright, standard 12 oz can.

2. The Body of an upright Bottle storing Receptacle in accordance with claim 1, said Body accepting said Bottle through its open upper end only up to a predefined height, said Body's inner bottom portion having a plurality of alternating depressions and wedges, said depressions and said wedges form being a covering, interlocking fit of the feet and indents form on said stored Bottle's bottom portion, said depressions being slightly larger than and covering said feet and said wedges being slightly smaller than and fitting into said indents, said Body outer bottom having one indent in front of each said internal wedge, said Body's outer having longitudinal ribs in line with said outer indents peaks for indicating correct entry way for said Bottle, said Body inner bottom having upright depressions, said open upper end's outer having threads to take a Dome and Top Cup securably but releasably, said Body being single walled or double co-axial walled and insulative foam filled, and said Body being holdable by a strap or integrated handle.

3. A sized, specific bottom shaped, screw capped Bottle meant to be stored in a Receptacle made for it, in accordance with claim 1, said Bottle having a first upright, externally threaded, circular open neck, a widening shoulder portion, an upright body portion with a closed, petalloid shaped bottom portion, said bottom having a plurality of alternating, specifically shaped feet and indents, jointly said feet and said indents being a non- rotatable fit onto the inner bottom form of seating Body, and said body having longitudinal ribs in line with peaks of said indents on said bottom.

4. A method of visually confirming that a Bottle with feet and indents on its bottom is correctly seated within an adapted Body whose inner bottom form is a covering, interlocking fit of said Bottle bottom, in accordance with claim 1, whereby when said Bottle is lowered into said Body and said feet and indents have correctly fitted with the depressions and wedges on said inner bottom of said Body, said Bottle has the start of a distinct upward change in its said Body external upper shape become level matched with the start level of the flat top of the open end of said storing Body.