Special receptacle or package – Portable segregating carrier for plural cylindrical...
Patent
1998-11-09
1999-11-02
Ackun, Jacob K.
Special receptacle or package
Portable segregating carrier for plural cylindrical...
206427, 206549, B65D 7100
Patent
active
059752858
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a portable basket for drinking containers or bottles, comprising a body provided with a plurality of compartments for individual bottles in which body a handle device is included.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Portable baskets of the above-mentioned kind are often used in the sports movement, in particular in connection with team matches, e.g. in football, indoor bandy, handball, basketball, ice-hockey, etc. A responsible person within the team, e.g. the storekeeper thereof, has the duty of supplying each individual player with a bottle filled with drink, most often in the form of fresh water. For the purpose, plastic bottles are usually used which are equipped with a screwable cap on which there is a short tube to which a hose piece is connected which the user may stick into his mouth and suck the water out of the bottle (in practice the water is simultaneously pressed out from the deformable plastic bottle). Refilling a plurality of such bottles is a time-consuming and troublesome business in that the bottles have to be handled individually, more precisely in the following way: In a first step, the bottle is taken up from the basket, the cap being screwed off from the bottle-neck. In case stale water is left in the bottle, it has to be emptied and rinsed. Not until then, new, fresh water may be refilled by connecting the neck of the bottle to a water tap. When the bottle is filled, the cap is screwed on again, and thereafter the bottle is again put down into the basket. Then this procedure has to be repeated for all bottles, the number of which in practice often amounts to 8-10 or more.
OBJECTS AND FEATURES OF THE INVENTION
The present invention aims at obviating difficulties in connection with the refill of fresh water in bottles, more precisely by creating an improved carrier-basket for the bottles. Thus, a primary object of the invention is to create a basket in which the bottles may remain during refilling and which enables refilling without need to handle the separate bottles individually. A further object of the invention is to create a basket which is constructionally simple and cheap to produce.
According to the invention, at least the primary object is attained by the features defined in the characterizing clause of claim 1. Preferred embodiments of the invention are furthermore defined in the dependent claims.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE APPENDED DRAWINGS
In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a basket according to the invention made with eight compartments for as many plastic bottles,
FIG. 2 is a partly cut long side view of the basket according to FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is an end view of the same basket,
FIG. 4 is a planar view from below of the basket,
FIG. 5 is a partly cut side view showing a special cap for the plastic bottles in question, the cap being shown in a first state of function,
FIG. 6 is an analogous view showing the same cap in a second state of function.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION
The basket shown in FIG. 1 comprises a body in its entirety designated 1 which in practice may be made of stiff plastic. Compartments 2 are provided in the body for conventional plastic bottles 3 which are equipped with caps 4. In the given example, the basket body includes eight compartments for as many plastic bottles. The body 1 includes a lower tray-like part 5 and a central, protruding wall part 6 which, along the upper edge thereof, has two mutually separated board parts 7, 7', which have cages or sleeves 8, 8' at the top thereof. A tube 9 serving as a main conduit which is closed at the rear end 10 thereof and open at the front end 11 thereof, is mounted in these cages. More precisely, the tube 9 has, at said open end 11, a first quick coupling member 12 arranged to be connected to a second quick coupling member 12' of a hose 13 (see FIG. 2). The central portion 9' of the tube which extends between the two separated cages 8, 8' forms a handle device by means of which the basket may be car
REFERENCES:
patent: 407957 (1889-07-01), Kookogey
patent: 4782945 (1988-11-01), Geiler et al.
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