Beverage container accessory

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2008-09-02

2008-09-02

Ngo, Lien T (Department: 3754)

Dispensing

With illuminator or burner

C362S145000

Reexamination Certificate

active

11156188

ABSTRACT:
An illuminate-able beverage-ware device includes a bottle-supporting component with a base and a bottle-gripping sidewall that cooperatively define an upwardly opening space for receiving a bottle or other beverage container. An actuator arrangement actuates a battery-powered light source that transmits lights upwardly toward the false bottom, outwardly through the sidewall, and downwardly toward the base, while inwardly extending protrusions on a circularly shaped sidewall of one embodiment hold the device on the bottle when the bottle is lifted (e.g., to a drinking position). The false bottom, sidewall, and base are all at least partially transparent to light so that light is transmitted upwardly through the false bottom toward the bottle (e.g., to illuminate a beverage within the bottle), outwardly through the sidewall, and downwardly through the base (e.g., to illuminate information on the underside of the base for a highly visible additional display of information to a bystander when the bottle is raised to a drinking position).

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