Bottles and jars – Attachment or adjunct – Container support
Patent
1996-07-24
1999-11-30
Garbe, Stephen P.
Bottles and jars
Attachment or adjunct
Container support
141319, 215228, 220630, 2221851, B65D 2524, B65D 2538
Patent
active
059926627
ABSTRACT:
A stand adapter holds containers, such as bottles, in inverted positions for facilitating pouring of viscous contents. The stand adapter is a one-piece structure that includes a mounting plate having a central opening, side walls extending from the inner surface of the mounting plate and an open base defined by distal free edges of the side walls. The opening in the mounting plate has dimensions for receiving a bottle neck and for frictionally engaging surface features of the outer walls of the neck portion of the bottle. The side walls of the adapter have sufficient width and thickness so that the bottle is sturdily supported in an inverted position. Opposing side walls are spaced such that a person's fingers and thumb easily extend between the side walls for twisting, pulling or flipping open the bottle cap. The side walls may form a continuous ring or may have cutout regions for allowing lateral access to the bottle cap and for facilitating non-vertical pouring of the contents of the bottle. The adapter may have any shape, size and width and may be integral with or separable from the bottle. The connection of the adapter may be inward of the cap or may connect directly to the cap so that the cap/adapter combination may be unscrewed as a unit. To connect the stand adapter to a bottle, the bottle cap is removed and the neck of the bottle is urged through the opening in the mounting plate of the adapter. The edges defining the opening engage the walls of the neck, securely connecting the stand adapter to the neck.
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Gelardi Anthony L.
Holt Roberta J.
Monahan Walter J.
Roenker, Jr. Raymond A.
Creighton Wray James
Dakota Enterprises, LLC
Eloshway Niki M.
Garbe Stephen P.
Narasimhan Meera P.
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