Abstract: The wine-pon is the only product of its kind that connects the same ideology between corking a bottle and the functional practice of using a disposable hygiene product. This unprecedented device is uniquely designed to be the exact size and shape of a traditional tampon allowing it to complement any bottle size and it will come in various applicator colors, similar to the tampons available in the market, to appeal to consumer preferences.

Abstract: A bottle stopper contains: a first connection part, a second connection part, an actuation member, an operation unit, a fitting sleeve, and a base. The first connection part includes two opposite cutouts. The second connection part includes an aperture. The actuation member includes an extension sheet, a post, and a threaded portion. The operation unit includes two projections and a drive element, wherein each of the two projections is a cuboid, and two distal ends of the drive element are connected with two eccentric positions of two outer surfaces of the two projections respectively. The fitting sleeve is hollow and is fitted on the post below a bottom of the second connection part. The base includes a screwing orifice for screwing with the threaded portion of the actuation member, and the fitting sleeve is fitted on the base.

Abstract: A beverage vessel having an upper opening and a closure element with a locking mechanism and an actuation element, a light distribution element arranged at the closure element, and a light emitter positioned such that the light emitted by the light emitter passes at least a part of the volume of the beverage container before entering the light distribution element. The light emitter may display information relating to the beverage including temperature and fill level. The beverage vessel may be utilized in a method of monitoring a beverage consumption and a consumption of minerals.

Abstract: A closure system for a drinking bottle or other container is disclosed. The closure system comprises a bottle and a bottle closure. The bottle closure, in turn, comprises among its components a cap interface manipulated directly by the user's hand, a platform that translates vertically in relation to the cap interface, and a flexible annular stopper body directly manipulated by the platform. When the bottle closure is placed on the open bottle neck and the cap interface is pushed downward toward the bottom of the bottle, a lever-based mechanism forces opposite upward movement of the platform. The platform squeezes the stopper body, and at the end of the downward pushing motion, the system is locked in a static position. The squeezed stopper body forms a liquid-tight seal with the bottle, while holding potential energy via elastic deformation. From this sealed position, the cap interface may be radially twisted relative to the bottle, releasing the locked platform and the stopper's potential energy.

Abstract: A locking stopper component has lower, upper and central extents. The lower extent includes a stick. A frusto-conical cam shoulder is formed in a central extent of the stick. The upper extent includes a lock rotatable between locked and unlocked positions and an upper shaft. The central extent operatively coupling the upper and lower extents includes a reciprocating assembly and a rotatable assembly whereby rotating the lock rotates the rotatable assembly and raises the reciprocating assembly to secure the component in a tubular member.

Abstract: An expansible bottle stopper includes a body, a resilient member, and a movable member that is longitudinally movable relative to the body. The resilient member is caused to expand radially by a first-stage longitudinal displacement of the movable member relative to the body or to shrink radially by a second-stage longitudinal displacement of the movable member relative to the body.

Abstract: The invention relates to a closure for a liquid container, comprising a plug manufactured from at least partially flexible material with a recess which is arranged at least substantially in axial direction in the plug and which is accessible on at least one side, and an operating member protruding outside the plug and displaceable in the recess such that a force exerted by the operating member on the recess in the plug can be modified by displacing the operating member. The invention also relates to methods for placing such a closure into a liquid container and removing thereof from a liquid container.

Abstract: A bottle stopper includes a cover body, a shaft rod and a rotatable member. The shaft rod is fixed inside the cover body and the rotatable member is secured on the cover body by means of an insert pin, which leans on two opposite oblique faces of the projecting base of the cover body. When the rotatable member is turned clockwise, the insert pin will be actuated to slide upward along the oblique faces of the projecting base and drive the shaft rod to move upward and squeeze a soft clogging member to expand outward and clog the bottle mouth of a bottle. The bottle stopper of this invention can be closely clogged in the bottle mouth, and its shaft rod and soft clogging member are hidden in the cover body, meeting sanitation, convenient in use and able to be placed horizontally for facilitating storing.

Abstract: A method for opening an opening (10) using an elastic plug (2, 2?) whose outside diameter in a static state (rL), is larger than diameter (rp) of opening (10), and which plug has a cavity (12) at its end. An extending device (4, 4?) is inserted into plug cavity (12) so that the plug is tightly pressed around extending device (4, 4?). Plug (2, 2?) is extended by inserting extending element (20) of extending device (4, 4?) into plug cavity (12) so deeply that outside diameter (rV) of plug (2, 2?) is equal to, or smaller than, diameter (rp) of opening (10). The extended plug is inserted into opening (10), and its extension is reduced such that plug (2, 2?) closes opening (10) and adheres to it so tightly that extending device (4, 4?) is detachable from plug (2, 2?). A method for opening the opening (10) when closed by plug (2, 2?) is also disclosed.

Abstract: A container stopper adapted to seal the mouth of a container is disclosed to include a hollow elastic stopper body insertable into the mouth of a container, and a plug rod inserted into the axially extended center through hole of the stopper body and vertically moved between a first position, where the stopper body is radially expanded by the plug rod against the periphery of the mouth of the container to seal the mouth of the container, and a second position, where the plug rod released the pressure from the stopper body, for enabling the stopper body to be removed from the mouth of the container.

Abstract: A bottle stopper is constructed to include a stepped tubular stopper body, a split inner cap capped on a split bottom shank of the stopper body, a flexible outer cap capped on the inner cap, a press member mounted in the stopper body and movable between a first position where the press member gives no pressure to the inner cap and the outer cap and a second position where the press member forces the split bottom shank of the stopper body to stretch the inner cap and the outer cap radially outwards against the periphery of the bottle neck of the bottle in which the bottle stopper is inserted, and a return member adapted to return the press member from the second position to the first position after the stopper body been biased relative to the inner cap and the outer cap.

Abstract: The present invention is the bottle stopper which mainly includes a body, a plug and a jacket. The body has an expansion spread by the plug and outwardly confronting with the jacket. The plug comprises two necks for two different engagements alternatively engaged with the body to provide a locking means and a resealing means for bottle neck. The body is structurally retained between the plug and the jacket being assembled as a unit to form the bottle, stopper. When the bottle stopper is initially inserted into a bottle neck and pressed to position at the first engagement, the locking means provides a maximum expansion to lock around the bottle neck. And it has an appearance and a function of indicating whether the bottle neck has previously opened or the stopper has been used. When the bottle stopper is pressed downward positioning at the second engagement, the resealing means provides a slightly expansion for allowing to initially release and reseal the bottle neck.

Abstract: A bottle stopper for sealing and resealing a bottle neck. The bottle stopper includes a body, a plug and a jacket. The body includes legs and axially guiding grooves thereof provided on its inner circumference. The plug includes axially positioning ribs adapted to engage with the corresponding axially guiding grooves in order to increase reliability of the combined structure. A combined body and plug member is inserted into the jacket to form a bottle stopper. When the radially inner flange is engaged with the groove, the plug cannot be removed from the body. As the plug is axially pressed into the body, the radial inner flange is then disengaged with the groove, and the outer circumference of the jacket may radially expand to seal or to reseal a bottle.

Abstract: An improved stopper featuring an o-ring. The o-ring is sandwiched between two cylindrical bodies. The surfaces that contact the o-ring are chamfered. The lower cylindrical body has a boss that extends through the center of the o-ring. The cylindrical bodies are rigidly connected by a connecting link that travels through the center of the upper body and is rigidly attached to the lower body. A portion of the connecting link has external threads that mate with an internally threaded hole that extends through the center of the upper cylindrical body. By rotating a handle attached to the connecting link, the chamfered surfaces compress the o-ring, forcing it to expand outward and increase in diameter. Once inside a bottle, the handle is rotated, the o-ring expands and presses against the inner wall of the bottle and the bottle is sealed.

Abstract: A bottle stopper for sealing and resealing bottle neck is disclosed. The present invention is the bottle stopper which mainly includes a body, a plug and a jacket. The body comprises a plurality of legs and axially guiding grooves thereof provided on its inner circumference. The plug comprises a plurality of axially positioning ribs being adapted to engage with the corresponding axially guiding grooves in order to increase reliability of structurally combining. A combined body and plug member is inserted into the jacket to form a bottle stopper. When the radially inner flange is engaged with the groove, the plug cannot be removed from the body. As the plug is axially pressed full-scale into the body and the radially inner flange is then disengaged with the groove, the outer circumference of the jacket may radially expanded to seal or to reseal a bottle neck.

Abstract: A bottle plug having a body, a plug and an elastomer member. The body defines a space having an inner circumference that forms a retracted surface that projects inwardly with respect to an axis of the body to define an expansion portion. The plug includes a leg adapted to engage the retracted surface of the body. The elastomer member is configured to receive the combination of the body and plug and further includes an outer circumference which is arranged to be received by a bottle neck. Insertion of the plug into the expansion portion urges the outer circumference of the elastomer member to expand radially to thereby seal the inner circumference of the bottle neck.

Abstract: The invention disclosed and claimed is an improved plug with an internal anchor. The plug has particular utility in masking openings in parts to be coated. Generally, the plug comprises a compressible, resilient plug body and a compression mechanism. The compression mechanism compresses the plug body between an internal plug anchor and an opposed plug compression surface. The compressive force causes the plug circumference to increase forming a tight seal between the plug and walls forming the opening. The internal anchor design and absence of any axial opening through the entire plug body prevent fluids and other coating materials from passing through the internal plug body and into the interior of the part to be coated thereby avoiding costly damage to the part.

Abstract: An obturator for an aperture (8) produced in a metal sheet (9) has a central dome (1), a peripheral lip (3) and an annular part (3) extending between the dome (1) and the lip (2). The annular part (3) has a shoulder (4). The dome (1) is adapted to deform between a starting position and a locking position of the obturator in which the dome (1) is turned inside out in relation to the starting position. The annular part is adapted to expand between the starting position and locking position and is maintained expanded by the inverted dome (1) in the locking position. The lip (2) is adapted to come into abutment against a face (9a) of the aperture (8) and the shoulder (4) is adapted to be in abutment against an opposite face (9b) of the aperture (8) in the locking position.

Abstract: A convenient stopper for a bottle including a plug slidably retained in a cylinder by a connecting pin. The cylinder is sized to be received in an opening of the bottle. In a contracted mode of the stopper, the plug is disposed at the top of the connecting pin and away from the cylinder, whereby an outer wall of the cylinder contracts from the neck of the bottle, to allow easy removal from the bottle, without use of a corkscrew. In an expanded mode of the stopper, the plug is urged into the cylinder whereby the outer wall of the cylinder tightly seals the opening of the bottle. The stopper can be re-used to permit storage of remaining contents of the bottle to be consumed later.

Abstract: A housing assembly (20) for protecting electronic components. An enclosure (21) is open at one end (22). Electronic components are housed in the enclosure. A bung member (25) is insertable into the open end of the enclosure to seal the enclosure. The member defines a channel (27) and a spreader element (28) is insertable into the channel. The spreader element is formed to cause the bung member to expand upon insertion of the spreader to seal the enclosure against moisture and contaminants.

Abstract: This invention is a new device that can be used to plug perforations in materials. This plug comprises a cylinder plug with a tapered bore partially extending through the plug from one end. A cylinder pin that is tapered substantially the same as the plug will fit in the plug after installation is complete. A shear flange surrounds the pin so that when the pin is installed in the plug, the shear flange is against a plug flange. The pin is adhered to the plug by means such as a thin layer of epoxy or glue which allows the pin and plug to be handled as a single component. The pin is designed so that while in this position, there is no significant radial expansion of the plug. The pin has a pattern of holes or grooves that extend the entire length of the pin in order to allow for the expansion of any trapped fluids in the bore of the plug. The pin can have a groove along the outer diameter to allow for easier handling of the pin.

Abstract: A bung hole plug formed of resilient synthetic material interfitted between a front and back plate. A threaded post is attached to the back plate, and used, in conjunction with a lock washer and nut, to draw the front and back plates together, thereby squashing the resilient plug against the side walls of the bung hole to maintain a fluid tight seal.

Abstract: A method and device (10) for positioning a probe (14), such as a temperature sensor, in a flask (12). A stopper adapted to be secured to an open end of the flask (12) is provided having an opening (32) through which a tube (34) extends. A clamping mechanism (40) is connected to the tube (34) to secure the probe (14) to the stopper. The clamping mechanism (40) comprises a first flange (44), and a second opposing flange (46) spaced slightly apart from the first flange (44). An O-ring (50) positioned around the flanges (44, 46) causes them to flex inward to engage and secure the probe (14) between them.

Abstract: A stopper for a bottle mouth includes a hollow body closed at its lower end and defining a cylindrical cavity, into which a plug of relatively soft material is placed. A cap having a core portion sized to fit within the cavity, and external helical threads engaged with the internal threads within the body, can be turned to advance the core against the plug, causing the plug to expand the hollow body against the mouth. The cap may have a peripheral flange provided with threads for engaging like threads on the bottle, and these threads may be driven radially together by a band clamp.

Abstract: A plug for medical use includes a plug body having a column member made of a soft resilient material, and a core made of a material harder than the soft material of the plug body and disposed in the column member. The core displaces a portion of the column member outwardly and forming an outwardly bulging portion on the column member. The plug is inserted in a female opening of a BCP port of an extracorporeal blood circulation apparatus, for example, to prevent blood from leading from the BCP port.

Abstract: A closure device for a receptacle is provided with a first generally annular member adapted to be fixed to the receptacle across the opening thereof. A second generally annular member is substantially coaxial with the first annular member and is adapted to be axially moved between an inward closed position and an outer open position. An elastically deformable annular membrane member has one end fixed relative to the first annular member and another end for retaining the second annular member. A fluid passageway in the closure communicates with the container interior when the first annular member is in the open position. Valve means cooperates with valve seat for closing off the passageway when the first annular member is in a closed position.

Abstract: A bottle closure device having a stem member with an enlarged top portion, a collar resiliently biased away from the top portion, a retainer member on the end of the stem, and an O-ring between the retainer member and the collar. When the end of the stem is placed within the mouth of a bottle, the biasing means acts to cause the retainer member to press the O-ring radially outward against the collar to form a fluid-tight seal with the mouth of the bottle.

Abstract: A stopper for bottles, especially for closing uncorked wine and champagne bottles which comprises an elastic deformable sleeve member to be inserted into the bottle neck to be closed, which sleeve member has a mantle section and a closed bottom section and an open top section through which extends a connecting rod rigidly connected to a cap or hood which in inserted position of the stopper surrounds the upper neck portion of the bottle to be closed. The cap or hood forms a handle which is adapted to force the sleeve member into the bottle neck to be closed by stretching the sleeve member. The outer diameter of the piston is slightly less than the inner diameter of the bottle neck portion to be closed by the stopper, and the wall thickness of the sleeve mantle section in non-deformed condition of the sleeve member is greater than the thickness of the annular gap between the outer periphery of the piston and the bottle neck section of the bottle to be closed by the stopper.