Tools – Receptacle closure remover – Levering or prying type
Reexamination Certificate
2001-08-24
2004-07-13
Smith, James G. (Department: 3723)
Tools
Receptacle closure remover
Levering or prying type
C081S003550
Reexamination Certificate
active
06761088
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to bottle openers and more particularly pertains to a new bottle opener for opening a bottle in an efficient manner.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of bottle openers is known in the prior art. More specifically, bottle openers heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,805,238;
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While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new bottle opener. The inventive device includes a substantially rigid panel having a first surface, a second surface, a third surface and a fourth surface wherein the first and second surfaces are opposite surfaces. The third and fourth surfaces have a length greater than a length of the first and second surfaces. The panel has a first portion, a middle portion and a second portion wherein the first portion is adjacent to the first surface and the second portion is adjacent to the second surface. The panel has a first opening therein positioned in the middle portion. The first opening has a generally rectangular shape. A bottle cap is positioned in the opening and the panel biased against the bottle cap to remove the bottle cap.
In these respects, the bottle opener according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of opening a bottle in an efficient manner.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of bottle openers now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new bottle opener construction wherein the same can be utilized for opening a bottle in an efficient manner.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new bottle opener apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the bottle openers mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new bottle opener which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art bottle openers, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a substantially rigid panel having a first surface, a second surface, a third surface and a fourth surface wherein the first and second surfaces are opposite surfaces. The third and fourth surfaces have a length greater than a length of the first and second surfaces. The panel has a first portion, a middle portion and a second portion wherein the first portion is adjacent to the first surface and the second portion is adjacent to the second surface. The panel has a first opening therein positioned in the middle portion. The first opening has a generally rectangular shape. A bottle cap is positioned in the opening and the panel biased against the bottle cap to remove the bottle cap.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new bottle opener apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the bottle openers mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new bottle opener which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art bottle openers, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new bottle opener which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new bottle opener which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new bottle opener which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such bottle opener economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new bottle opener which provides in the apparatuses and methods, of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new bottle opener for opening a bottle in an efficient manner.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new bottle opener which includes a substantially rigid panel having a first surface, a second surface, a third surface and a fourth surface wherein the first and second surfaces arc opposite surfaces. The third and fourth surfaces have a length greater than a length of the first and second surfaces. The panel has a first portion, a middle portion and a second portion wherein the first portion is adjacent to the first surface and the second portion is adjacent to the second surface. The panel has a first opening therein positioned in the middle portion. The first opening has a generally rectangular shape. A bottle cap is positioned in the opening and the panel biased against the bottle cap to remove the bottle cap.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new bottle opener that allows a user, such as a bartender, the ability to open up a plurality of bottles in a quick manner with little risk of injury.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new bottle opener that has an adjustable strap for fitting many sized hands for allowing the user to use the leverage of their entire arm when opening a bottle.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with pa
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