Dispensing – Collapsible wall-type container – With casing or support
Patent
1990-08-15
1992-01-21
Huppert, Michael S.
Dispensing
Collapsible wall-type container
With casing or support
222106, 222192, B65D 2500
Patent
active
050821458
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to restraining accessories for use with wine casks and other "bag-in-box" packages having a dispensing valve which projects through an opening in an outer container.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Wine casks, and particularly large wine casks, occasionally develop a problem in which the valve is displaced inwardly of the container in use. This often occurs after a cask has been in a refrigerator for a long period, thereby softening the cardboard surrounding the valve.
It is also sometimes difficult to restrain a cask on a table top while the valve is actuated since one hand must hold the glass to be filled while the other hand must be used to acutate the valve. This difficulty often results in the cask slipping inwardly of the table edge thereby resulting in inconvenient spillages.
While Australian Patent Application AU-A51077/85 overcomes the first mentioned problem, it does not overcome the second mentioned problem. Other cask clamping plates for use with wine cask coolers, for example as shown in Australian Registered Design 92558, also overcome the first mentioned problem but do not overcome the second mentioned problem.
SUMMARY OF INVENTION AND OBJECTS
It is an object of the present invention to provide a wine cask accessory which overcomes or ameliorates the second mentioned problem.
The invention accordingly provides a device for restraining a wine cask or the like having a dispensing valve projecting through an opening in an outer container, said device having a portion or portions which extend below the bottom of the outer container when the device is in use, whereby the portions may engage the edge of a supporting surface to prevent movement of the cask with respect to the supporting surface.
The device preferably has a further portion which in use engages the dispensing valve of the cask to inhibit withdrawal of said valve into said outer container, said further portion being positioned such that said portion(s) extend below the bottom of said outer container when engaged with said dispensing valve.
In one form the device comprises a substantially flat plate having an opening dimensioned to receive the valve of the cask whereby portions of the plate around the opening engage behind the valve in use, said plate being shaped to provide said portions which extend below the bottom of said outer container when said opening is aligned with said valve.
In its simplest form, the flat plate may be generally rectangular in shape and has an elongate generally rectangular opening formed centrally therein, said rectangular opening having a depth such that when the plate engages behind the dispensing valve, portions of the plate on either side of the opening extend below the bottom of the cask to enable engagement between such portions and the edge of a supporting surface.
In a preferred form of the invention, the flat plate is formed with means for opening crown seal bottle caps, and for opening twist-off bottle caps and may also support a cork screw as well as a device for opening and closing screw caps.
While it is presently intended that the device be used as an accessory for use with wine casks and the like, it should be appreciated that the invention is equally applicable to devices which form part of or are attached to or inserted in the outer container of the cask.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
A presently preferred form of the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a front elevation of an accessory embodying the invention, and
FIG. 2 is a side elevation of the accessory in use restraining a wine cask.
DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
Referring firstly to FIG. 1 of the drawings, the cask accessory embodying the invention will be seen to comprise a shaped plate 1 having a pair of depending leg portions 2,3 disposed on either side of a shaped opening 4 having an innermost portion 5 which is shaped to receive the most common sizes of wine cask valve, which are shown in broken outline in
REFERENCES:
patent: 4143795 (1979-03-01), Casebier
patent: 4974748 (1990-12-01), Rae
Huppert Michael S.
Pomrening Anthoula
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