Fabric Surround and Method of Use

Abstract

A cylindrical fabric surround including a flexible fabric material which stretches during disposing of the surround over a cylindrical item, such as a bottle, causing a releasable attachment of the bottle surround with the bottle. This cylindrical fabric surround has a cylindrical, or annular surround geometry, whereby a cavity is formed therein by the internal wall of the cylindrical surround, providing a receptacle area or volume for any cylindrical item the cylindrical surround is disposed thereunto. The internal wall of the cavity provides a first wall of the cylindrical surround and the external wall of the cylindrical surround provides a second wall of the cylindrical surround. The surround also has at least one pocket, for storing at least one article, such as a phone, keys or any sundry. The pocket is generally facing upwards, but could have a plurality of pockets with at least one of with varied geometries, orientations, or placement. Bands, such as elastic bands, may be formed thereon the top and bottom of the cylinder, as well as on the top portion of the pocket surface to provide a portion of the releasable attachment to the bottle. The bands may have a diameter that is less than surround wall diameter to provide in the releasable attachment. A friction agent, such as a nonslip fabric coating, may also be applied to the first wall or inside diameter of the surround to aid in improving the releasable attachment of a cylindrical item, such as a bottle, with a first wall of the fabric cylinder surround apparatus 100 when disposed thereunto.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

The present application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62/929,925 filed on Nov. 3, 2019, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a cylindrical stretchable fabric surround for a cylindrical object, such as a bottle.

Background

The present invention relates generally to a cylindrical fabric surround or annular sleeve, likely fabricated from a stretchable material, including at least one pocket, such as an external pocket, made from at least one piece of fabric. The invention is a fabric surround for items such as at least one bottle, beverage container, cylindrical item, whereby the at least one pocket provides a convenient place to store any item such as at least one cell phone, a key, credit card, money, others not mentioned here.

The benefits of this current invention include the ability to bring a bottle and at least one stored item, such as a cell phone to any location, such as a weight room, exercise area or other public area. The benefits of this current invention include the ability to releasably store at least one item, such as a phone, upon a freestanding item, such as a water bottle, to avoid placing the phone in your pocket, or upon a local surface which may contain any number of contagions.

The fabric material used to develop the fabric surround or annular sleeve may include at least one of a thin fabric, stretchable thin fabric, knit, a jersey knit, spandex, a spandex blend, a polyester blend, a polymer, neoprene, elastomers, elastic. The user can easily store any item by placing or tucking it in between the flexible, and stretchy, material of the sleeve and the bottle.

The innovative design of the fabric surround provides for the releasable tucking of an item for storage into the pocket of the surround, which also provides easy access to the stored article. The releasable tucking and untucking of at least one stored item may be performed using only one of the user's hands. This stored item is held in the pocket of the fabric surround by at least one of force such as a tensile, compression, torsion, radial, imparted by at least one pocket and the fabric surround upon the stored article.

Other technology and products related to this application use at least one of a strap, zipper, Velcro, or other buckling features to hold the phone, making the stored item less releasable and accessible.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

This Summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description. This Summary is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used to limit the scope of the claimed subject matter.

In one embodiment, the present invention is a cylindrical surround apparatus made from fabric, disposed over a cylindrical item, such as a bottle. This cylindrical fabric surround may be flexible or made from flexible fabric, and has an annular surround geometry whereby a cavity is formed therein the cylindrical surround providing a receptacle area for any cylindrical item the cylindrical surround is disposed upon or thereunto. The internal wall of the cavity provides a first wall, or internal wall, of the of the cylindrical surround. The external wall of the cylindrical surround provides a second wall, or external second wall, of the cylindrical surround. Other common names for a device providing a cylindrical surround apparatus made from fabric may include at least one of an annular sleeve, surround, sleeve, sock, encapsulation, others not mentioned here. Additionally, the fabric surround is generally releasable connected with at least one bottle, water bottle, can, thermos or similar, but can be used interchangeably with any generally round or cylindrical item. In fact, the surround could be used with an item of any geometry that provides a releasable attachment with the fabric surround apparatus. The fabric surround provides a cylindrical annular surround for the cylindrical item, such as a bottle, by being disposed over the cylindrical item. Once the cylindrical surround apparatus is disposed thereunto the cylindrical item, the cylindrical item resides in the internal cavity or receiving space formed by the geometry of the cylindrical surround apparatus. The cylindrical surround apparatus may be formed from at least one of a flexible, stretchable fabric or material. The fabric surround is generally formed from at least one fabric article, and can be formed from two articles of fabric sewn to develop a seam at the top and bottom of the surround, as well as around three sides of the pocket of the fabric surround. In addition, a band, such as an elastic band, is attached at the top and bottom of the surround, as well as at the top of the pocket opening. The disposing of the surround may typically be performed by pulling the fabric surround over a cylindrical item, such as a bottle, to create a releasable attachment such as an interference fitted, compressive fitted, or frictionally fitted assembly. This interference fit or compressive fit is the result of the compression, or interference or overlap between the diameter of the bottle, or other cylindrical item, and the diameter of the fabric surround apparatus. The stretchable material provides at least one force, such as a compressive, tensile, radial or other force on the at least one cylindrical item, as a result of the interference fit, causing a releasably connected system between the fabric surround and cylindrical item assembly. The design of the fabric surround releasable attachment also provisions the surround to be rotatable or rotatably mounted upon the cylindrical item, such as a bottle, or relative to the cylindrical item. To rotate the fabric surround around the cylindrical item, or relative to the cylindrical item, a radial force or torsion is applied to at least one of the fabric surround and cylindrical item in opposite directions to overcome the at least one attachment of a frictional or interference fit between the fabric surround and the cylindrical item. The stitching, materials of construction, and sizing of the fabric surround aid in the rotatable aspect of the fabric surround around the cylindrical item.

Similarly, a force, such as a tensile, compressive, radial, or other force may act upon an item located in any pocket of the fabric surround due to at least one of the stretch, flexibility and expansion of at least one portion of the pocket and the fabric surround. This at least one force is beneficial for gripping or holding an item being stored between the fabric surround and the cylindrical item, as well as between the pocket and any item placed in the pocket. Optionally, at least one friction agent, such as a frictional coefficient improvement coating, anti-slip fabric coating, nonslip fabric coating, friction agent may be adhered to any wall of the fabric surround, including any portion of any wall or any portion of a pocket of the surround. This friction agent provides at least one of additional grip, friction, an increase in frictional coefficient, an increase in frictional coefficient while still providing a releasable attachment.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Other aspects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become more fully apparent from the following detailed description, the appended claims, and the accompanying drawings in which like reference numerals identify similar or identical elements.

FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a fabric surround apparatus, with a stored item, according to a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of a fabric surround partially disposed over a cylinder according to a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 shows a perspective view of a fabric surround disposed over a cylindrical item according to a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 shows a side view of a fabric surround; according to a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 shows an alternative perspective view of fabric surround for use with a cylindrical item.

FIG. 6A shows a sketch showing a first band according to the current exemplary invention;

FIG. 6B shows a sketch showing a second band according to the current exemplary invention;

FIG. 6D shows a first fabric article for a current exemplary invention;

FIG. 6C shows a sketch showing a second fabric article for a current exemplary invention;

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In the drawings, like numerals indicate like elements throughout. Certain terminology is used herein for convenience only and is not to be taken as a limitation on the present invention. The terminology includes the words specifically mentioned, derivatives thereof and words of similar import. As used herein, the term “inner” or “internal” means a direction toward an axially central portion of the inventive device and the term “outer” or “external” means a direction away from the axially central portion of the inventive device. The embodiments illustrated below are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise form disclosed. These embodiments are chosen and described to best explain the principle of the invention and its application and practical use and to enable others skilled in the art to best utilize the invention.

Reference herein to “one embodiment” or “an embodiment” means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of the invention. The appearances of the phrase “in one embodiment” in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments necessarily mutually exclusive of other embodiments. The same applies to the term “implementation.”

As used in this application, the word “exemplary” is used herein to mean serving as an example, instance, or illustration. Any aspect or design described herein as “exemplary” is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other aspects or designs. Rather, use of the word exemplary is intended to present concepts in a concrete fashion.

Additionally, the term “or” is intended to mean an inclusive “or” rather than an exclusive “or”. That is, unless specified otherwise, or clear from context, “X employs A or B” is intended to mean any of the natural inclusive permutations. That is, if X employs A; X employs B; or X employs both A and B, then “X employs A or B” is satisfied under any of the foregoing instances. In addition, the articles “a” and “an” as used in this application and the appended claims should generally be construed to mean “one or more” unless specified otherwise or clear from context to be directed to a singular form.

Although the subject matter described herein may be described in the context of illustrative implementations to process one or more computing application features/operations for a computing application having user-interactive components the subject matter is not limited to these particular embodiments. Rather, the techniques described herein can be applied to any suitable type of user-interactive component execution management methods, systems, platforms, and/or apparatus.

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, each numerical value and range should be interpreted as being approximate as if the word “about” or “approximately” preceded the value of the value or range.

The use of figure numbers and/or figure reference labels in the claims is intended to identify one or more possible embodiments of the claimed subject matter in order to facilitate the interpretation of the claims. Such use is not to be construed as necessarily limiting the scope of those claims to the embodiments shown in the corresponding figures.

It should be understood that the steps of the exemplary methods set forth herein are not necessarily required to be performed in the order described, and the order of the steps of such methods should be understood to be merely exemplary. Likewise, additional steps may be included in such methods, and certain steps may be omitted or combined, in methods consistent with various embodiments of the present invention.

Although the elements in the following method claims, if any, are recited in a particular sequence with corresponding labeling, unless the claim recitations otherwise imply a particular sequence for implementing some or all of those elements, those elements are not necessarily intended to be limited to being implemented in that particular sequence.

Also for purposes of this description, the terms “attached,” “sewn,” “adhered,” “seam,” “binding,” “to bind,” “bound,” “to band,” “banded,” “bound,” “couple,” “coupling,” “coupled,” “connect,” “connecting,” or “connected” refer to any manner known in the art or later developed in which energy is allowed to be transferred between two or more elements, and the interposition of one or more additional elements is contemplated, although not required. Conversely, the terms “directly coupled,” “directly connected,” etc., imply the absence of such additional elements.

Referring to the FIGS. 1 through 6, a fabric surround apparatus 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is shown. Fabric surround apparatus 100 can be used as at least one surround, fabric surround, protective surround, storage element, for at least one bottle, beverage container, thermos, can, cylindrical item, others not mentioned here. Fabric surround apparatus 100 may include at least one pocket, whereby the at least one pocket may provide a portable and convenient place to store an item such as at least one of a cell phone, a key, a credit card, money, others not mentioned here. Any item can be releasably stored, releasably attached, releasably engaged, releasably bonded, connected to apparatus 100 by tucking or placing it between the flexible material of the surround and the at least one of a bottle, beverage container, cylindrical item, a larger diameter cylindrical item, thermos, others not mentioned here. By being tucked into the pocket, the at least one stored article is releasably held in place by at least one of tensile, frictional, compression, torsion, and any other force developed by the at least one pocket and acting upon thereunto the at least one item stored article. At least one item may also be at least one of releasably attached, releasably connected to fabric surround apparatus 100 by at least one of clipping, clamping, adhering, attaching, connecting, sewing, others not mentioned here.

Referring to FIG. 1, fabric surround apparatus 100 is comprised of an external wall, or second wall such as wall 5, in addition to stitch 10, seam 15, stitch 16, seam 17, an external wall such as wall 20, top 25, band 30, article 35, user link 40, link 45, pocket 50, wall 52, wall 53, wall 55, bottom 60, band 61, others not mentioned here. A first wall, an internal wall, is provided on the internal portion or cavity portion of the fabric cylinder surround. The external wall of the cylindrical surround provides a second wall, such as wall 5 of the cylindrical surround. Fabric surround apparatus 100 is formed generally in a cylindrical annular fashion, with the top portion of fabric surround apparatus 100 bound by band 30, the bottom portion bound by band 61, the radial portion bound by stitch 16 and seam 17, where stitch 16 and seam 17 are shown here as a longitudinal stitch and seam, respectively, for illustrative purposes. As contained in this disclosure, bound may be used in correlation to bind, or the act of binding, where one binds an article of fabric at least one of together and providing a boundary thereto. This cylindrical fabric surround may be flexible or made from flexible fabric, and has an annular surround geometry whereby a cavity is formed by the internal first wall or first wall of the cylindrical surround. This cavity provides at least one of a receiving space and a receptacle space for any cylindrical item, such as a bottle or larger diameter cylinder, the cylindrical surround is disposed thereunto. Larger diameter cylinder, as contained herein, is any generally cylindrical item with a diameter greater than at least one of the first and second wall, a band such as band 30 and band 61, any diameter of fabric surround apparatus 100. At least one of band 61 and band 30, in the current exemplary embodiment, may have a radius that is less than a radius of at least one of wall 20, wall 5, any wall of fabric surround apparatus 100, any internal wall of fabric surround apparatus 100.

Fabric surround apparatus 100 contains at least one through opening, internal space such as a hollow internal portion indicated by opening 26 and opening 62 in FIG. 1. Through opening 26 on the top, and through opening 62 on the bottom indicate a hollow opening that runs the entirety of at least one of the length and height of fabric surround apparatus 100, such as therefrom top 25 through bottom 60. This at least one through opening, annular internal space, and a hollow internal portion of fabric surround apparatus 100 provides a receiving space or a receptacle space for a cylindrical article, such as bottle, when fabric surround apparatus 100 is disposed over such a cylindrical item or bottle. Fabric surround apparatus 100 is at least one of flexible, stretchable, elastic, semi-rigid, semi-flexible, able to expand radially or diametrically to conform to the diameter of an article such as a cylindrical item or bottle with a diameter equal to or greater than the at least one through opening, annular internal space, and a hollow internal portion of fabric surround apparatus 100, during disposing fabric surround apparatus 100 over the larger diameter cylindrical item. Fabric surround apparatus 100 may be disposed onto a bottle or cylindrical item by inserting at least one portion of the top and bottom of a cylindrical item into through opening 26 or through opening 62, and by pushing or pulling the cylindrical item thereinto one of opening 26 and opening 62, and through at least one of fabric surround apparatus 100 via through opening 26 or through opening 62.

Referring FIG. 1, when a cylindrical article, such as a bottle, is placed into fabric surround 100, a first end of the cylindrical article may extend therethrough top 25 of fabric surround apparatus 100, and a second end of the cylindrical article may extend therethrough bottom 60 of fabric surround apparatus 100. During the disposing of fabric surround apparatus 100 over a cylindrical item, force may be applied to at least one of a portion of fabric surround apparatus 100 and the cylindrical item, such as through at least one of holding, pulling, pushing, wiggling. The at least one force may be applied in a generally opposing fashion, such that the force applied to the fabric surround apparatus 100 is applied in a direction generally or somewhat opposite to the direction of force applied to the cylindrical item. Other methods of disposing fabric surround apparatus 100 over a cylindrical item include at least one of pulling on one side of fabric surround apparatus 100, expanding any flexible diameter of fabric surround apparatus 100, pulling on any portion of fabric surround apparatus 100, applying force to any portion of fabric surround apparatus 100, pulling or applying force to at least one portion of user link 40, applying force to any appendage of fabric surround apparatus 100, others not mentioned here.

Fabric surround apparatus 100 may be at least one of flexible, generally flexible, stretchable, elastic, semi-rigid, and may have the ability to provide an acting force such as a tensile force, radial force, centrifugal force, centripetal force, compressive force upon any article place thereunto fabric surround apparatus 100. Similarly, fabric surround apparatus 100 may generally provide one of an inward bias, radial force, an inward radial force, upon any item place thereunto fabric surround apparatus 100, and provide a radially inward force upon any item placed thereunto the internal wall of fabric surround apparatus 100. Fabric surround apparatus 100 may have at least one inside diameter, first wall, internal wall, second wall, external wall, any diameter, a nominal diameter, any dimension, any radius, at least one of designed and sized to provide a snug fit unto any article tucked or placed in the interior annular space or interior wall of fabric surround apparatus 100.

Referring to FIG. 1, wall 5 is a fabric wall bound by stitching as shown in FIG. 1, such as by at least one of stitch 16, stitch 10, stitch 65. Stitch 16 is considered generally vertical or longitudinal in the current exemplary embodiment. Stitch 10 and stitch 65 are considered to be one of radially positioned, and horizontally running around the general perimeter or circumference of fabric surround apparatus 100.

Referring to FIG. 1, fabric surround apparatus 100 includes pocket 50, which extends generally radially outward from at least one of fabric surround apparatus 100, wall 5, and wall 20. Pocket 50 includes at least one outward face, such as wall 52, which is the shown as the outermost portion of pocket 50 in the current exemplary embodiment. Pocket 50 is shown as generally bound by band 51 at the top of pocket 50, stitch 16, seam 17 on one side of pocket 50, with a seam and stitch and similar to stitch 16 and seam 15 provided for binding the other side of pocket 50 of fabric surround apparatus 100. Pocket 50 may have at least one band, such as band 51, formed at the top of pocket 50 with a radius less than that of the radius of at least one portion of pocket 50, such as wall 52, others not mentioned here. This at least one band may provide at least one of a minority, an equal share, the majority, and all of the holding force upon any article, such as a phone, positioned thereunto at least one of pocket 50 and band 51. A radius and diameter, as used herein, is generally described with a center or origin located at least one of at the center of the fabric surround apparatus 100 and the center of any cylindrical item placed thereupon fabric surround apparatus 100.

Referring FIG. 1, pocket 50 in this first exemplary embodiment is generally shown with at least one outward wall such as wall 52, a side wall such as wall 53, a bottom wall 55. Wall 56 is shown on pocket 50 as a transition area from at least one of wall 53 to wall 52, and wall 52 to wall 55, others not mentioned here. At least one of wall 53, wall 52, wall 56, wall 55, pocket 50 may at least one of correspond, conform, shape to, assume the shape of an any article tucked or placed into pocket 50, such as article 35 or a cell phone, as shown in FIG. 1. At least one of wall 53, wall 52, wall 56, wall 55, pocket 50 may be of at least one of a different shape, different geometry, more rigid, more flexible, others not mentioned here, compared with the illustrative concept of FIGS. 1 through 6.

Pocket 50 in this illustration of FIG. 1 is shown with at least three sides such as wall 53, wall 52 and bottom wall 55, and with the opening of opening 54 of FIG. 4, shown facing generally upwards or towards the top of fabric surround apparatus 100 to receive an article or item for storage. Pocket 50 could vary in arrangement, orientation, size, the number bounded sides, the number of bindings, the number of openings, could include a zipper, could include a button, could include Velcro, others not mentioned here.

Pocket 50 may generally provide at least one of flexibility, stretchability, elasticity, a compressive force acting on an item placed into pocket 50, the ability to develop a tensile force to act on an item placed inside fabric sleeve apparatus 100, the ability to impart a force upon any item placed into or unto pocket 50. Similarly, at least one of band 51 and pocket 50 may provide a force, such as an inward radial force thereupon any item place in pocket 50, and any item located in pocket 50 which expands any portion of pocket 50. Band 51 may provide a major portion of any holding force upon any item stored in pocket 50.

While pocket 50 of FIG. 1 is shown with as at least one pocket of fabric surround apparatus 100, fabric surround apparatus 100 may contain a plurality of pockets. At least one pocket and a plurality of pockets, may be arranged on at least one surface of fabric surround apparatus 100, such as wall 5, wall 52, wall 20, wall 53, band 30, band 61, pocket 50, others not mentioned here.

Pocket 50 may have at least one internal diameter, internal wall diameter, nominal diameter, any diameter, any dimension, any radius, external diameter, outer diameter sized such as to provide a fit that is at least one of snugly, an interference fit, a frictional fit, an elastic fit, with any article stored in one of pocket 50 and fabric surround apparatus 100.

User link 40 as shown in FIG. 1 is shown connected to at least one of pocket 50, wall 52, union 45, and band 51 in the current exemplary embodiment, but could be located on any surface of any portion of fabric surround apparatus 100. Using link 40 may include applying force onto link 40 during disposing fabric surround apparatus 100 onto any cylinder, a means of hanging and connecting fabric surround apparatus 100 to any other item, a means to expand any diameter of fabric surround apparatus 100, used to expand any diameter or portion of pocket 50, used to apply force to band 41, used to access opening 54 opening bounded by band 51, others not mentioned here.

Now referring to FIG. 2, fabric surround apparatus 100 is at least one of partially disposed and disposed over at least one portion of cylinder 70, such as a bottle. Cylinder 70 possesses wall 71, diameter 72, and bottom 73. Wall 71 will generally possess a diameter that is larger than the diameter of at least one wall of fabric surround apparatus 100, band 61, band 30, others not mentioned here. During disposing fabric surround apparatus 100 thereupon cylinder 70, at least one portion of cylinder 70 may have at least one force applied to cylinder 70 causing cylinder 70 to remain sufficiently immobile to allow fabric surround apparatus 100 to dispose onto cylinder 70. In addition, to dispose fabric surround apparatus 100 thereupon cylinder 70, at least one force may be applied to at least one portion of fabric surround apparatus 100, link 40, bottom 60, band 61, wall 5, pocket 50, band 30, top 25, external wall 20, others not mentioned here.

Referring to FIG. 2, the distance fabric surround apparatus 100 is disposed unto an article such as cylinder 70, a bottle, is determined by managing the application of force during the disposing fabric surround apparatus 100 thereupon cylinder 70.

In the case of partial disposing of fabric surround apparatus 100 upon cylindrical item 70, such as shown in FIG. 2, an action such as at least one of disposing fabric surround apparatus 100 onto cylindrical item 70, and removing fabric surround apparatus 100 from and to cylindrical item 70 may occur. As an example relating to the at least one of an interference, frictional, and elastic fit providing a releasable attachment, an outer diameter of cylinder 70, such as diameter 72 of FIG. 2, may be larger than any internal portion of at any portion of fabric surround apparatus 100, such as any wall of apparatus 100, through opening 62 in FIG. 1, through opening 26, band 61, and bottom 60, others not mentioned here. This dimensional difference or interference, such as between the diameter of cylindrical item 70 and any portion of fabric surround apparatus 100, provides at least one interference fit, elastic fit, compressive fit, frictional fit between cylindrical item 70 and any portion of fabric surround apparatus 100. This interference or frictional fit serves the purpose of allowing fabric surround apparatus 100 to releasably engage an item such as cylindrical item 70. This releasable engagement serves a purpose of keeping fabric surround apparatus 100 releasably disposed over cylindrical item 70, until cylinder 70 is removed from fabric surround apparatus 100. The removal of fabric surround apparatus 100 from cylinder 70 may be performed by applying at least one force to at least one a portion of fabric surround apparatus 100 and cylindrical item 70. The application of force to remove fabric surround apparatus 100 from cylindrical item 70 may be at least one force applied to fabric surround apparatus 100 in a general pulling or tensile effort with at least one force applied to cylindrical item 70 in a generally, or somewhat, opposing direction.

Also referring FIG. 2, in a current exemplary embodiment, while a partial disposing of fabric surround apparatus 100 over cylindrical item 70 is shown, the continued disposing of fabric surround apparatus 100 over cylindrical item 70 would result in the full disposing or installation of fabric surround apparatus 100 over cylindrical item 70.

Referring FIG. 3, fabric surround apparatus 100 is shown fully disposed over cylindrical item 70, with item 35 such as a cell phone, shown at least one of placed, tucked, releasably inserted, and inserted into at least one of band 51 and at least one portion of pocket 50. Cylindrical item 70, as shown in FIG. 3, is illustrated with top 73, wall 71, bottom 73, and diameter 72.

Also shown in FIG. 3, the full disposing of fabric surround apparatus 100 over cylindrical item 70 leaves at least one portion, such as at least one of cap 73 and bottom 73 of cylindrical item 70, extending at least one of therefrom and therethrough fabric surround apparatus 100. At least one portion of the first wall of apparatus 100, and the second wall of apparatus 100 such as wall 5, and a first band such as band 30 and band 61, releasably attaches to the larger diameter cylinder during the disposing of the flexible annular cylinder surround thereupon the larger diameter cylinder, such as cylindrical item 70.

While at least one of a frictional, elastic, compressive and interference fit may exist between at least one portion of fabric surround apparatus 100 and cylindrical item 70, fabric surround apparatus 100 is at least one of rotatable and rotatably mounted thereupon an item such as cylindrical item 70. This at least one of rotatable and rotatably mounted fabric surround apparatus 100 allows rotation of fabric surround apparatus 100 relative to cylindrical item 70, upon the application of at least one force, moment, and torsion upon at least one portion of fabric surround apparatus 100 and cylindrical item 70. This rotatable and rotatably mounted fabric aspect of surround apparatus 100 upon cylindrical item 70 may be included in at least one of the dimensional sizing of any portion of apparatus 100, the overwhelming the at least one frictional and elastic and interference fit, be a product of the material of fabrication of fabric surround apparatus 100, be a product of any material to develop at least one of fabric surround apparatus 100, stitch 16, stitch 10, stitch 65, band 30, band 61, wall 5, opening 62, others not mentioned here.

While FIG. 3 as illustrated is shown with fabric surround apparatus 100 disposed over bottle 70, any generally cylindrical item could reasonably be used with fabric surround apparatus 100, such as an item of at least one of any reasonable shape, geometry, size, diameter, height, a cup, a thermos, a bottle, a can, others not mentioned here. As an example, a fabric surround diameter, may be used on bottles in range of 2.75″ to 5″ in diameter. Also as an example the diameter of the fabric surround may be in range of 1.75″ to 3.5″ for the current exemplary embodiment.

Now referring to FIG. 4, a side view of a fabric surround apparatus 100 is shown with the illustration of a second wall 5, band 30, top 25, an external wall such as wall 20, opening 54, user link 40, wall 53, pocket 50, wall 52, bottom 60, band 61, stitch 65, others not mentioned here. A first wall is provided on the internal wall of the cylinder. Opening 54 is the opening of pocket 50, with the storage space of pocket 50 extending generally downwards thereunto pocket 50. Wall 5 is shown extending from seam 15 radially around fabric surround apparatus 100 to create the external second wall of the fabric surround apparatus 100 cylinder. Wall 5 may extend from seam 15 at least one of around a portion of the circumference of fabric surround apparatus 100, around the full circumference of fabric surround apparatus 100, around at least one radial portion of fabric surround apparatus 100, others not mentioned here. While wall 5 is shown illustratively to extend from at least one of band 30, top 25, and stitch 10 to at least one of stitch 65, band 61, bottom 60, an external wall or surface of fabric surround apparatus 100, such as external wall 5, could be formed by more than at least one section, divide, surface and material.

Now referring FIG. 5, fabric surround apparatus 100 with a plurality of pockets is shown releasably disposed over cylinder 75. Cylinder 75 is provided with an outer surface or diameter such as wall 81, top 80, bottom 82. Fabric surround apparatus 100 is shown with seam 57, pocket 50, secondary pocket 53, item 35, an external wall such as wall 5, pocket opening 54, bottom 60, top 25, tertiary pocket 63, and tertiary pocket opening 58. This is an illustration of additional storage areas or pockets on fabric surround apparatus 100 or an external surface such as surface 5. At least one friction agent, such as a frictional coefficient improvement coating, anti-slip fabric coating, nonslip fabric coating, friction agent may be applied to any wall of the fabric surround, including any portion of any wall or any portion of a pocket of the surround. This friction agent provides at least one of additional grip, friction, an increase in frictional coefficient, an increase in frictional coefficient while still providing a releasable attachment.

Referring FIG. 6A through 6D, at least one portion of a method of at least one of making, manufacturing, fabricating at least one portion of fabric surround apparatus 100 is shown.

In FIG. 6A, band 51 is shown in a basic form for at least one of fabrication and manufacture. The band is made from at least one of forming, selecting and cutting a band, such as an elastic band, to desired size and length. Band 51 may attach to the top of a first formed fabric article, such as top 99 of FIG. 6C. Band 51 may be provided in a length that is less than the length of top 99 of FIG. 6C to develop an increased elastic force of band 51 upon any article stored in pocket 50.

In FIG. 6B, a band such as band 30 and band 61 are shown in a basic form for at least one of fabrication and manufacture. The band may be made from selecting and cutting a band, such as an elastic band, to desired size, and length, and forming thereunto to at least one edge, such as top 25 and bottom 60 of a first formed fabric article, such as a first formed fabric article 95 of FIG. 6D. At least one of band 61 and band 30 may be provided in a length that is less than the length of top 30 of FIG. 6D to develop an increased elastic force of at least one of band 61 and band 30 upon any cylindrical item placed thereunto fabric surround apparatus 100.

In FIG. 6D, at least one first formed fabric article 95 with a wall, such as wall 5, is shown with a second formed fabric article 50 attached to at least one of one portion of the first fabric article 5, such as wall 5, edge 90, bottom 60 and band 61. Band 30 and band 61 are shown formed thereunto top 25 and bottom 60. To produce fabric surround apparatus 100 from the basic form as shown in FIG. 6D, at least one edge, such as edge 90 may be attached to an opposing edge, such as edge 18 to develop the cylindrical form of fabric surround apparatus 100, with pocket 50 disposed on the external portion of fabric surround apparatus 100, such as on wall 5.

In FIG. 6C, at least one second formed fabric article 50 is illustrated in a basic form for manufacture. This second formed fabric article 50 is formed to provide pocket 50 in a completed fabric surround apparatus 100. Once formed, this second formed fabric article 50 of FIG. 6C, may attach by at least one of bottom 96, edge 98, and edge 97 of fabric second formed article 50, to at least one of bottom 60, band 61, surface 5, edge 90, and others not mentioned here of a first formed fabric article 95.

This cylinder surround, or bottle surround, may be manufactured from a first quadrilateral fabric material whereby the sides and bottom of a second fabric material are attached to the first quadrilateral fabric material, typically in a corner of the first quadrilateral fabric material, to form a pocket thereupon the first quadrilateral fabric material. An elastic band may be attached to at least one of the top and bottom of the first, generally quadrilateral, fabric material. While positioning the pocket formed by the second fabric material on the outer portion of the bottle surround apparatus, a first end edge of the first quadrilateral fabric may be attached to the second end edge of the first quadrilateral fabric to form a generally cylindrical or annular fabric apparatus with an elastic band at the top and bottom, and a pocket on the external or second wall of the apparatus. At least one of the elastic bands and the inside wall of the bottle surround provide a releasable attachment between at least one of the fabric bottle surround apparatus and the bottle, as well as between any surface of the pocket and an item placed in the pocket.

Optionally, apparatus 100 could have at least one of a radio frequency identification also called RFID, global positioning system, GPS, spatial coordinate system, spatial coordinate locating system, others not mentioned here, used to locate at least one portion of fabric surround apparatus 100. This could also include means of tracking, locating, tracking for exercise purposes, tracking motion, and also transmitting data to computers either wired or wireless.

Also, while the current exemplary embodiment is illustrated herein, the addition of at least one additional device may be at least one of mounted on and located around an outer perimeter or periphery of either of fabric surround apparatus 100, wall 5, pocket 50, others not mentioned here.

Claims

1. A cylindrical surround apparatus comprising:

a flexible annular cylinder surround having a first wall provided by the internal wall of the cylinder;

a second wall provided by the external wall of the cylinder;

a cavity formed therein by the first wall of the cylinder;

at least one pocket formed thereupon the second wall;

at least one seam on at least one of the first wall and second wall;

at least one first band formed thereupon at least one of the top and bottom of at least one of the first wall and the second wall;

at least one second band formed thereupon one portion of the pocket.

2. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one portion of the first wall and second wall and first band releasably attaches to a larger diameter cylinder when the cylindrical surround apparatus is disposed thereupon the larger diameter cylinder.

3. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the pocket has at least one seam binding at least one of one side of the pocket and the bottom of the pocket whereby the pocket opening faces the top portion of the second wall and the pocket is bound by a second band of a lesser radius compared with the radius of the pocket.

4. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least two bands bind the bottle surround apparatus at the top and at the bottom the first wall and the second wall, where by the diameter of at least one of the at least two bands is less than diameter of the cylindrical surround apparatus.

5. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 1 whereby at least one friction agent is applied to at least one portion of the first wall and any portion of a pocket formed thereupon the second wall.

6. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 1 whereby a user link is provided thereupon at least one of any wall and pocket thereof the cylindrical surround apparatus.

7. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the at least one first band formed thereupon at least one of the top and bottom of at least one of the first wall and second wall is elastic and of smaller diameter than the diameter of one of the first wall and second wall.

8. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 2, wherein at least one of a releasable frictional fit, a releasable compressive fit, a releasable attachment is formed between any portion of at least one of the first wall and second wall and first band and any surface of any larger diameter cylinder during disposing of at least one of the first wall and second wall and first band thereupon any larger diameter cylinder compared with the diameter of the first wall of the cylindrical surround apparatus.

9. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the first wall and second wall and first band imparts at least one force, radial force, compressive force, inward radial force, and reaction force upon any larger diameter cylinder placed therein at least one of the first wall and the second wall of the cylindrical surround apparatus.

10. The apparatus according to claim 2 whereby at least one friction agent is adhered to at least one of at least one portion of the first wall and second wall and the pocket formed thereupon the second wall.

11. The bottle surround apparatus according to claim 2, whereby the at least one pocket formed on the second wall of the flexible annular cylinder surround has a band formed thereunto the top seam of the pocket.

12. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the pocket has at least one seam binding at least one of one side of the pocket and the bottom of the pocket whereby the pocket opening faces the top portion of the second wall and the pocket is bound by a second band of a lesser radius compared with the radius of the pocket.

13. The apparatus of claim 3 whereby the binding is at least one of combined and integral to any other binding seam on at least one of the first wall and the second wall.

14. The apparatus of claim 4 whereby at least one of the first wall and the second wall is at least one of polyester, a knit, jersey knit, and spandex.

15. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the pocket has at least one seam binding at least one of one side of the pocket and the bottom of the pocket whereby the pocket opening faces the top portion of the second wall and the pocket is bound by a second band of a lesser radius compared with the radius of the pocket.

16. A cylindrical surround apparatus comprising:

a flexible fabric cylinder surround with a top and bottom having a through-opening formed therethrough;

a first wall provided by the internal cylinder surround wall;

a second wall provided by the external cylinder surround wall;

a pocket formed on the second wall bound by a first side and a second side and a top and bottom;

a circular elastic band formed thereon the top and bottom of the cylinder;

an elastic band formed thereon the top of the pocket;

a circumferential seam binding formed thereon the top and bottom of the cylinder surround extending the periphery thereof, and binding the elastic bands on the top and bottom of the cylinder;

a seam binding on the first and second side of the pocket, spanning the cylinder longitudinally;

a user link attached to a portion of the pocket;

17. The apparatus of claim 16 disposed over a larger diameter cylinder providing a releasable attached configuration between the fabric cylinder surround and an outer diameter of the larger diameter cylinder.

18. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the pocket has at least one seam binding at least one of one side of the pocket and the bottom of the pocket whereby the pocket opening faces the top portion of the second wall and the pocket is bound by a second band of a lesser radius compared with the radius of the pocket.

19. The apparatus of claim of 18 whereby at least one of the first fabric and the second fabric article are at least one of polyester, spandex, a knit, a jersey knit.

20. The apparatus of claim 19 wherein a friction agent is applied to the first wall providing an increased friction coefficient thereunto.

21. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the larger diameter cylinder is at least one of a bottle and thermos and cup and water bottle.

22. A cylindrical surround apparatus comprising:

an elastic cylinder surround having a first wall provided by the internal wall of the cylinder;

a second wall provided by the external wall of the cylinder;

a cavity formed therein by the first wall of the cylinder;

a pocket formed thereupon the second wall;

at least one seam on at least one of the first wall and second wall;

23. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 22, wherein at least one portion of the first wall and second wall releasably attaches to a larger diameter cylinder when at least one of the first wall and second wall is disposed thereupon the larger diameter cylinder.

24. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 22, wherein the pocket has at least one seam binding at least one of one side of the pocket and the bottom of the pocket whereby the pocket opening faces the top portion of the second wall and the pocket is bound by at least one band of a lesser radius compared with the radius of the pocket.

25. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 23, wherein the at least one first wall and second wall are at least one of elastic and of smaller diameter than the diameter of the larger cylinder.

26. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 25, wherein at least one of a releasable frictional fit, a releasable compressive fit, a releasable attachment is formed between any portion of at least one of the first wall and second an any larger diameter cylinder placed thereunto at least one of the first wall and second wall.