Package and article carriers – Carried by animate bearer – For liquid or liquid-holding container
Reexamination Certificate
1999-07-26
2001-08-28
Vidovich, Gregory M. (Department: 3727)
Package and article carriers
Carried by animate bearer
For liquid or liquid-holding container
C224S148400, C224S148600, C224S250000, C224S248000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06279794
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a container bottle provided with carrying means, and more particularly to a container bottle provided with carrying means, main body of the container bottle being a thin-walled plastic bottle made by stretch blow molding process, to be used for containing a beverage or a non-beverage liquid such as body lotion, and that can be attached to a human body and carried.
BACKGROUND ART
A container bottle, being generally called the PET bottle and widely used for containing a beverage, is made of a thermoplastic resin such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) that is stretched in two directions (biaxial stretching), namely longitudinal and transverse directions, in stretch blow molding process to have thin walls in a body portion and bottom portion except for a neck portion.
Most of the PET bottles have been developed for the purpose of containing drinking water, beverages such as juice and sports drink, edible oil, seasoning liquid or the like, with the place of use thereof being limited to indoors. Therefore capacity thereof has been mostly 1 liter or greater. As a consequence, there has been no need to give consideration to carrying along of the bottles.
However, as a small bottle of capacity of 500 ml or less for containing drinks to be used on tables are being produced, applications of the bottles have been expanding for containing non-beverage liquids such as body lotion and sun-oil with the trend of the decreasing size of the bottles. Particularly the PET bottle, because of its light weight and high impact strength, is used by some people for the purpose of drinking outdoors by carrying the container bottle like a canteen.
Carrying the PET bottle outdoors so far has been limited to such forms as winding a cord around a portion below a support ring of the neck portion that has a thread being formed on the circumference thereof for securing a cap, and passing the cord across the carrying person's neck on the back thereof so that the bottle hangs in front of the person's chest, or the cord is put around a belt so that the bottle hangs around the hip.
When the bottle is carried in such a manner as described above, since an ordinary container bottle having a round body portion is just suspended on a cord, the bottle is unstable and sways as the person carrying the bottle walks, and the appearance is not good to look at. Thus it has been a very limited number of people who carry the bottles with cords.
Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a container bottle body portion of which is formed in a flat configuration for the convenience of carrying, which is provided with carrying means attached to the body portion of the bottle over a back face thereof or from the front face to the back face thereof, which can be used in a carefree manner by many people with stability of the bottle being maintained during physical exercise as well walking simply attaching the container bottle to a belt of the person by means of the carrying means, and the appearance of which is good to look at.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a container bottle provided with carrying means that is not bulky when put in a bag, a shoulder bag or the like together with the carrying means attached thereto, and can be used for containing liquids such as body lotion and sun-oil, as well as beverages.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The present invention comprises; a container bottle made of a plastic by integrally forming a neck portion of thick wall that has a step below a support ring of thick wall formed around a lower portion of the neck portion and projecting therefrom and a ring-shaped groove between the step and the support ring, and a flat body portion of thin wall with a shoulder portion extending to both sides from the base of the neck portion, by stretch blow molding process; and carrying means comprising a rectangular insertion plate having a width at least substantially the same as the outer diameter of the neck portion of the bottle and a fitting portion that is integrally formed at an end of the insertion plate from a flexible thermoplastic material in an L-shape, the fitting portion having a pair of holding pieces of the same shapes with inner circumference thereof having the same diameter as the diameter of the ring-shaped groove and end opening being narrower than the diameter of the ring-shaped groove. The holding pieces are fitted onto the ring-shaped groove from the back face side of the body portion of the bottle, and the insertion plate is provided with the longitudinal direction directed vertically at the center of the back face of the body portion, so that a holding space is formed between the insertion plate and the back face side of the body portion.
The bottle is composed of a flat rectangular parallelepiped that is somewhat elongated in the longitudinal direction with the shoulder portion extending from the base of the neck portion to both sides in a substantially rectangular shape, with the surfaces on both sides warped in the same direction, a convex side being used as front face of the body portion and a concave side used as a back face of the body portion, while a plurality of reinforcing ribs are provided recessedly in an endless manner at equal intervals vertically around a lower portion of the bottle.
The carrying means has bends that are bent at upper and lower positions where the bends extend to the insertion plate and the fitting portion, while the insertion plate is slanted inward from the lower bend downward with an elongated aperture made therein so that the insertion plate has an elastic force.
The insertion plate is bent at a lower position so that a free end thereof is directed outward and a bending portion is pressed against the back face of the body portion to make a strong contact therewith, while a reaction force thereto is concentrated at tips of the pair of holding pieces that form the fitting portion, thereby causing a rear end of the fitting portion to make strong contact with the bottom face of the support ring.
The pair of holding pieces are formed to have an opening with width at the end thereof being smaller than the diameter of the ring-shaped groove, so that the holding pieces fit into the ring-shaped groove and hold onto the wall thereof when being forced therein, or projections are formed to oppose each other on inner edges of the end opening that is formed to have the same width as the diameter of the ring-shaped groove so that the holding pieces fit into the ring-shaped groove and hold onto the wall thereof. Alternatively, projections may also be formed in a configuration like ratchet teeth with inclined surfaces facing toward the opening, so that the projections fit in recesses formed on both sides at the center of the ring-shaped groove in corresponding shapes to oppose each other, with inclined surfaces facing the front face of the body portion.
The carrying means comprises the fitting portion formed at the top end of a support plate, that makes contact with the back face of the body portion, being bent therefrom, and a bottle bottom receiving portion formed at the lower end thereof being bent in the same direction as the fitting portion, wherein an L-shaped insertion plate or a C-shaped belt passage plate is provided at an upper position of the support plate.
Alternatively, the carrying means comprises a strap having such a length that substantially make one turn around the bottle vertically at a position offset from the neck portion, connectors attached at both ends of the strap, a belt holding portion provided at a middle portion of the strap, a bottle shoulder holding portion provided between one of the connectors and the belt attaching portion and a bottom receiving portion provided between the other connector and the belt attaching portion, wherein the neck portion of the bottle is passed through an insertion hole formed in the bottle shoulder holding portion with the belt holding portion being located on the back side of the body portion, while the bottle s
Huang Jiawei
J.C. Patents
Vidovich Gregory M.
Vijay Co., Ltd.
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