Combined Or Plural Patents (Class 81/3.09)
  • Patent number: 6295894
    Abstract: A beverage package with incorporated bottle cap opener including a container adapted for holding a plurality of bottles with twist-off caps therein. A removable bottle opener is removably coupled with respect to the container. The bottle opener includes a magnetic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Inventor: Richard Craig
  • Patent number: 6289768
    Abstract: A multipurpose folding tool, for use by picnickers and travelers, including a corkscrew, a crown cap remover, and a can opener, as well as a small fork and a small butter knife. Both the corkscrew and a brace for use together with it fit close to the handles of the tool when the tool is in a compact, folded configuration. A spring in one handle keeps the corkscrew safely folded when not in use, and a spring on the brace keeps it in a desired position relative to the handles. The tool also includes folding pliers and may include folding screwdrivers, knife blades, and scissors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Leatherman Tool Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig J. Anderson, Benjamin C. Rivera
  • Patent number: 6286392
    Abstract: A hitch cover for the hitch tube of a vehicle includes a bottle opener. One illustrated hitch tube cover includes a wire form attached thereto for being inserted into the hitch tube and securing a face plate across the open end of the hitch tube. A lock or pin extends through the conventional hitch tube openings, passing through the wire form to prevent removal of the hitch cover. Also illustrated are face plates which have the bottle opener as an integral part thereof or an insert formed as a part of the face plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Bergamot Incorporated
    Inventor: Kenneth Wayne Smith
  • Patent number: 6263761
    Abstract: An opener for several different types of pill bottle caps and closures. In the preferred embodiment, the opener is molded as one piece of strong, flexible plastic material that can be repeatedly bent without failing. The opener has the shape of an arch, with a thin section at the top of this arch that acts as a hinge and return spring for the two legs of the arch, which are thicker in section and act as handles to react the forces applied by the user's band. The inside of each handle has a curved surface with teeth on its inside face to grip the outside of a bottle cap. The inside surface of each handle also has a triangular shaped lug that applies a downward force on the top of a bottle cap, and also applies an upward wedge force to pry a bottle cap free. At the bottom of each handle is a second curved surface, as viewed from below, which also has teeth for gripping the outside of a bottle cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Inventor: John C. Ryder
  • Patent number: 6240808
    Abstract: An extractor for removing a cork from the inside of a main body of a narrow neck bottle comprises a handle, and at least two generally oval wire loops depending from the handle, the wire loops being deformable so they can fit through the neck and expand and capture a cork. Optionally mesh is provided with the loops for extracting cork fragments. The mesh can be held in place by interlocking the loops together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Inventor: Martin K. Gelbard
  • Patent number: 6227078
    Abstract: An engine oil filter socket wrench with built-in spillage cup contains the oil that normally spills out when an oil filter is removed from an engine. The device consists of a smaller first cylinder for gripping an oil filter base and a larger second cylinder built concentrically around and above the smaller cylinder and forming a cup shaped reservoir capable of containing oil spillage. Protuberances projecting radially inward from the inside surface of the larger cylinder terminate in loose contact at the filter surface to provide alignment of the device about the filter and to provide a second means to grip the filter. The larger cylinder can be constricted of flexible material capable of being squeezed by hand to create a frictional grip on the oil filter body for the purpose of initially loosening the filter from its mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Inventor: Vincent John Lemmo, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6216902
    Abstract: A gas cap contoured cover for use on a motor vehicle gas cap which has a contoured body defining a substantially flat base portion and a rounded portion extending upwardly therefrom. The body has an elongate configuration and includes a pair of lateral portions. A pair of recesses are located on each lateral portion with each of the pair of recesses being at substantially opposite ends of its respective lateral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Inventor: John Hurford
  • Patent number: 6212721
    Abstract: A combined bottle opener and stopper comprises a metal plate with side edges bent downward and inwardly. Opening is performed with the use of a conventional pry off method. Opened bottles are closed with a rubber pad attached to the bottom of a recess on the inner face of the plate. The opener-stopper has three bent edges which have different heights with the difference corresponding to the pitch of the thread on a threaded bottle neck. For temporary closing the bottle, i.e., with beer or carbonated water, the device is screwed onto the threaded bottle neck as a nut until the rubber pad is tightly pressed to the upper face of the bottle to hermetically close the latter. For closing bottles with nonthreaded bottle necks, the device is moved onto the bottle neck by guiding the convergent bent edges over the neck in a direction transverse to the bottle's axis until the device is fixed tightly on the bottle due to convergence of the bent edges with the rubber pad, thereby to seal the bottle's opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Inventors: German Borodulin, Alexander Shkolnik
  • Patent number: 6196086
    Abstract: The invention relates to a foil cutter (12) and such a cutter in combination with a corkscrew (2) and/or a crown cap opener (35). The foil cutter (12) comprises an annular casing (16, 17) having a passage (14) extending axially therethrough and adapted to accommodate the neck of a wine bottle, and a pair of cutting members (22) having cutting edges (23) mounted in the casing so that each extends or is movable to extend into the passage in a plane normal to the axis, one or more of the cutting edges (23) or a guide member (50) aligned therewith being movable relative to the casing radially inwardly of the passage so as to ensure that both cutting edges engage a bottle neck located in the passage. Preferably a push member (25) is connected to each movable member and extends to the outside of the casing for pressing the associated movable member inwardly, and biasing means (27) resists such inward movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Dual Limited
    Inventor: Leslie Alexander Gort-Barten
  • Patent number: 6176154
    Abstract: A manually operated corkscrew for removing a stopper from a mouth of a bottle is described. The corkscrew includes a body and a support arm, with an edge, pivotally connected to the body. A ringlet, for removable insertion into the stopper, is pivotally connected to the body adjacent to where the body and support arm are pivotally connected. A mechanism, providing at least two intermediate and graduated points along the edge of the support arm for engagement with the mouth of the bottle to permit removal of the stopper without having to further insert the ringlet into the stopper is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Inventors: Ramon Brucart Puig, Marta Bonich Linares