Attached To Receptacle Or Closure Patents (Class 81/3.15)
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Patent number: 11873132Abstract: A double container has an outer layer body and an inner layer body mainly made of a polyester resin and is formed by biaxial stretch blow molding, and includes: a mouth portion; a shoulder portion, gradually increasing in diameter in a downward direction, and having an outward protruding curved shape over a length in a vertical direction in a longitudinal section; a barrel portion; and a bottom portion, wherein the mouth portion has an outside air introduction port for introducing outside air between the outer layer body and the inner layer body, and the double container includes a shoulder rib that is concave or convex as seen from outside and at least extends from an upper end of the shoulder portion to the lower end of the shoulder portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaaki Sasaki
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Patent number: 11597566Abstract: A seal box with a good sealing effect and easy to open comprises a box body and a sealing cover, wherein the box body is formed with an opening, a sealing mechanism is disposed between the opening of the box body and the sealing cover, the sealing cover is detachably mounted at the opening of the box body, and the sealing mechanism is in a locked and sealed state; and a quick opening mechanism is further disposed between the box body and the sealing cover. By means of the quick opening mechanism, users can easily and quickly operate the operating end of an opening element to force the parts, between the area where the opening end is located of the sealing cover and the opening of the box body, of the sealing mechanism to be separated.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Inventor: Qinghe Yu
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Patent number: 8960487Abstract: A beverage can with an integral tab lifter includes a cylindrical can body with a tab-style pop-top opening along an upper surface. A tab lifting flange feature is located along a bottom edge of the can body. The tab of another pop-top beverage can is opened by lifting upwardly on a tab by utilizing the tab lifting flange of a beverage positioned above the lifting tab. The tab lifting flange is an inwardly-protruding lip which extends over a short plane parallel to the lower surface of the beverage can. To open the can, the tab lifting flange of a first can is placed upon the top surface of a second can. The first can is motioned such that the tab lifting flange captures and lifts the tab and opens the second can. In this manner, each can acts as a tab-opener for other cans.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Inventor: William Holt Parke
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Publication number: 20140166672Abstract: A thermal core includes a hollow body with at least one engagement element for engaging a corresponding engagement element on a container, a central portion for heat-transfer with a container base, a thermal medium within the hollow body, a bottom wall on the hollow body, and at least one pocket in the bottom wall with at least one of twist-off features or pry-off features. A product to remove a closure from a container includes a wall, and a multi-functional pocket in the wall that includes laterally spaced and diametrically overlapping semi-circumferential pockets including a first pocket having container closure pry-off features and a second pocket having container closure twist-off features.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.Inventor: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
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Patent number: 8453858Abstract: A closure cap for containers has a cap mantle, a circular head portion with a central axis and a pivoting member (4). The cap mantle extends in the same general direction as the central axis, and in which, the cap mantle has a ripping-open-section extending circumferentially with respect thereto. The pivoting member (4) is attached to the ripping-open-section and extends in the same general direction as the central axis. Towards the head portion, the ripping-open-section comprises a thin region, which extends circumferentially with respect to the central axis and which forms a rotational axis. The pivoting member comprises a stop member, which extends in the same general direction as the central axis at least up to the rotational axis. The form of the stop member and its relative, spaced position with respect to the head portion are such that pivoting of the pivoting member around the rotational axis causes the stop member to lie against the head portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Capartis AGInventor: Herbert Wohlgenannt
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Patent number: 8245600Abstract: An insulated container for holding a beverage container, such as a bottle or a can, is disclosed. An insulation liner is provided in the container. The insulated container incorporates a bottle opener into the sidewall of the container. The bottle opener has a lip and a leverage surface. A magnet is provided on the leverage surface, to hold the cap after it has been removed from the bottle.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Inventor: Richard L. Beard
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Patent number: 8196221Abstract: A wearable garment with a stitched or otherwise secured accessory, which is preferably a one piece PVC or injection molded plastic accessory. The accessory includes a base for attachment to the garment and a disk in the general shape of a bottle cap and bottle flange. The disk is attached together with the base by a flexible tether. The base unit is glued, stitched or otherwise attached to the wearable garment and the, bottle cap shape, is snapped onto the base unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2009Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Inventors: Michelle J. Fuwausa, Michael F. Houtkin
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Patent number: 8118185Abstract: A closure for a container comprises a circular closure plate (2, 4), integral with the outer edge of which is a depending skirt (8), integrally connected to the lower end of which by means of a resilient annular integral hinge (10) is an annular flange (12), which extends generally upwardly and inwardly. The closure also includes a cutter assembly which includes a cutting blade (38) and is mounted to rotate about the center of the closure plate (2, 4). The integral hinge (10) has a hole formed in it through which the cutting blade (38) extends. Rotation of the cutter assembly about the center of the closure plate thus results in cutting of the integral hinge (10) and thus in release of the closure plate (2, 4) and the depending skirt (8) from the annular flange (12).Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2007Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Carbonite CorporationInventors: Matthew Eric Smith, Karl Mondszein
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Patent number: 8002131Abstract: A stopper apparatus for closing wine bottles and like receptacles having an elongated stopper body of flexible material adapted for insertion into the neck of the bottle so as to create a water-tight and air-tight seal between the media contained within said bottle and the outside environment. The stopper body has a generally cylindrical shape with a slight taper near the base of the cylinder and features a cavity near the top of the cylinder. The cavity features a concealed apparatus therein. At least one self revealing handle is attached to the stopper body for extracting said stopper from the neck of the bottle, wherein extracting said stopper body from the neck of said bottle exposes said concealed apparatus contained therein.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2007Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Inventor: Walter Karabin
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Publication number: 20110107878Abstract: A tobacco tin can include a container portion further comprising a main body and a hook member, and a lid further comprising a major portion and an engagement member. The lid is sized to fit over the container portion so that the lid is removably attachable to the container portion. The hook member extends outwardly so that the outermost point of the hook member extends towards the lid and the engagement member extends outwardly so that the outermost point of the engagement member extends towards the container portion when the lid is removably attached to the container portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventor: William David Gust
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Publication number: 20110079110Abstract: A mountable bottle opener and a removable bottle cap holder. The holder hangs from the bottle opener on an angled portion of the opener. The holder may be removed by pulling it off the opener to empty its contents. The holder has a slot into which is fitted further a curved portion of the opener and then the angled portion. The opener also has a flat portion mounted to a flat surface. The angled portion projects forward from a top end of the flat portion. The curved portion projects from the angled portion. The curved portion includes edges that define an open window that enable bottle caps to be pried off. The holder is arranged with its mouth beneath where the prying occurs to catch pried off caps.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2010Publication date: April 7, 2011Inventor: Christopher John Previte
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Patent number: 7918147Abstract: A removal device for removing an internal seal from a pour top spout, which includes a body having a curved central portion disposed between a first end portion and a second end portion that forms an included angle of less then one hundred and eighty degrees therebetween. At least a portion of the body has a cross section substantially formed in a shape of a closed plane curve and the outer surface of the body is dimensioned to fit within the opening of the ring of the internal seal of the pour top spout along the entire length of the body.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2008Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Inventor: Robert A. Andersen
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Patent number: 7784633Abstract: A device used to aid in the opening of a container that further protects against the inadvertent opening of the container, as well as provides greater hoop strength when compared to similar containers for use in, among other things, the containment, storage, transport and/or handling of a material, is described herein.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2007Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Ropak CorporationInventor: Frano Luburic
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Publication number: 20100187196Abstract: A cover for caps of the plastic threaded variety typically associated with beverage bottles, the apparatus being comprised of two primary components, namely 1) a hollowed body sized and shaped for the receipt of promotional or advertising indicia or other visually distinctive personalizing indicia on its exterior surface and adapted for frictional engagement with a bottle cap, and 2) optional three-dimensional personalization means integrally formed with or mounted to the top of said hollowed body. By means of this construction is provided a combination bottle identification apparatus and bottle cap removal apparatus which may be used in conjunction with an ordinary beverage bottle equipped with a threaded cap for purposes of facilitating removal of the cap from the bottle, 2) personalizing the bottle so as to avoid the unintended consumption of its contents by another, and 3) serving as a media upon which organizations may impart various promotional and advertising indicia.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Inventor: Brandy Wasenda
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Publication number: 20100147114Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a beverage container is provided which includes an external indication that the beverage container includes a bottle opener or other food opener inside. Such external indication can be in the form of words, or a pictorial or symbolic representation of a bottle opener. When the consumer purchases the container of beverages, they can open the container to remove the bottle opener, and then use the bottle opener to open the individual bottles. This eliminates the need to purchase separately or find a previously-owned bottle opener, and can encourage sales of certain bottled beverages over others that do not include their own bottle opener.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2009Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventor: Prasad Peddada
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Publication number: 20100078404Abstract: A bottle opener for a closure cap for a bottle neck, includes a hood equipped with a first hook including a contact surface with a lower surface of the closure cap, and a transmission lever hinged onto the hood and provided with a gripping section and a working section able to come to bear against an upper surface of the closure cap. It is also provided with two other hooks which include a contact surface with the lower surface and which are offset in the circumferential direction on both sides of the position diametrically opposite the first hook, by an angle of less than 90°, typically ranging between 40° and 80°, and preferably ranging between 40° and 50°.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2008Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: ALCAN PACKAGING CAPSULESInventors: Jacques Barange, Jerome Collard, Christian Gonzalez, Laurent Hainon, Nicolas Leduc, Philippe Christophe
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Patent number: 7685908Abstract: A combination device for insulating a beverage vessel and removing a bottle cap is disclosed. This device includes a generally cylindrically-shaped insulating sleeve, a substantially planar and disk-shaped metal insert with a rectangular aperture that pries off a bottle cap, and a ring-shaped structure that stabilizes the insert within the insulating sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2008Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: DesignFluence LLCInventors: Adam Sebastian, Matthew Mayse, Richard J. Regan, III
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Patent number: 7614321Abstract: A maraca is provided with a handle having a first end and a second end, the second end being coupleable to the maraca. A tool configured to engage a bottle cap may be mounted in the handle. The handle further includes a part configured for engaging an opener or a tab of a can.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2005Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Inventor: Wayne Cohen
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Patent number: 7516866Abstract: A device that removably couples with the tab of a beverage container to assist in opening the container and then rotates to close the opening, thus preventing things such as insects and debris from contaminating the beverage.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2006Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Inventors: Tammy Jo Brook, Tamara Monosoff
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Publication number: 20090008355Abstract: A stopper apparatus for closing wine bottles and like receptacles having an elongated stopper body of flexible material adapted for insertion into the neck of the bottle so as to create a water-tight and air-tight seal between the media contained within said bottle and the outside environment. The stopper body has a generally cylindrical shape with a slight taper near the base of the cylinder and features a cavity near the top of the cylinder. The cavity features a concealed apparatus therein. At least one self revealing handle is attached to the stopper body for extracting said stopper from the neck of the bottle, wherein extracting said stopper body from the neck of said bottle exposes said concealed apparatus contained therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2007Publication date: January 8, 2009Inventor: Walter Karabin
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Publication number: 20080296249Abstract: A fully functioning bottle includes a tubular neck portion with an opening closed by a crown cap, a tubular base portion, and a tubular transition portion connecting the neck portion to the base portion. The bottle includes a seamless outer surface having a channel positioned along the length of the bottle body. The surface is also deformed to provide a lip, which projects above the channel to form the opener. The channel has sufficient depth to receive a crown cap positioned at the end of a second container body. The cap frictionally engages the lip, so that cap is removed from second container body when the body is rotated about the capped end.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2007Publication date: December 4, 2008Inventors: Nicolas S. Lockerman, Scott G. Lockerman
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Publication number: 20080245191Abstract: A device for opening and re-sealing a flip-tab beverage can lid includes a pull handle connected with a base portion. The base portion is tapered and further comprises an upper and lower base portion. The pull handle facilitates the opening of the lid and the base portion is configured to cover and optionally seal the lid opening. A sleeve portion is contained within the base portion and is configured to receive the flip-tab of a beverage can lid. The beverage can lid is opened by lifting the pull handle away from lid surface to cause a tab lip of the flip-tab to rotate towards the lid surface and act as a lever to punch out a swinging seal in the lid surface that is defined by a scored area. The pull handle further facilitates rotation of the base portion about the lid surface and into a covering position that covers the lid opening and keeps the can contents free from outside contaminants.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2007Publication date: October 9, 2008Inventor: Robert Bailly
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Patent number: 7343834Abstract: A combination beverage holder and container opener having a tubular body that includes an open upper end sized for receipt of a beverage container, a lower end, and a wall that defines an inner receptacle and a lower inner surface for receiving the beverage container. The lower end includes an orifice designed to receive and remove a twist open bottle cap. A bottom surface of the lower end includes first and second sections. The first section includes a cavity member designed to engage and remove a conventional bottle cap from a beverage bottle. The second section includes a tab member designed to slip between the pull tab and top surface of a beverage container and releasably open the container's pull tab.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2006Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Inventors: Marc K. Howlett, Todd S. Avery
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Patent number: 7296498Abstract: The present invention provides an opener that attached to the side of the conventional crimped metal bottle cap. The high strength metallic bottle cap can be easily opened in safe shape by just pulling out outwardly using two fingers. Using by thermosetting plastic material, it can be attached to the bottle cap without a mechanical retention or adhesive agent. This opener is formed to the outline of the bottle cap and the upper bottle third. The ideal position of the fulcrum and the resistance portions of the present invention make the bottle cap to be opened within 20? degrees from the bottle neck and it causes below 20? degrees bent bottle cap that remains inside of the disposable opener. The present invention also can be formed in various ornamental designs within functional range.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2006Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Inventor: Il Koo Kim
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Patent number: 6763960Abstract: A closure and container combination provide a child resistant package. The closure has a top wall and a skirt depending downwardly from a peripheral edge of the top wall. The container has a bottom, a cylindrical sidewall extending upwardly from the bottom and an open top. An annular flange projects outwardly from the outer surface of the cylindrical sidewall of the container proximate the top of the container. This annular flange has a flexible tab and is positioned below the skirt when the closure and container are mated together. To remove the closure from the container, the flexible tab is pushed upwardly against the skirt thereby lifting the closure off of the container. The flexible tab prevents undesired access through the annular flange and provides leverage to aid removal of the closure. In addition, a child is inhibited by the inflexible flange from using his or her teeth or fingernail to pry open the closure from the container.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2002Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Delta Plastics, Inc.Inventor: Jack S. Oh
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Patent number: 6729491Abstract: A lid for use with an open top container threadably engages with the open head container to secure the lid to the container. A seal is located between tapered surfaces of the lid and the container member such that compression of the seal occurs gradually as the lid is threadably secured onto the container member. The lid is equipped with a torquing tool which pivots at along a ridge at the edge of the lid. In a stored configuration, the torquing tool has a handle which is at least partially contained within a chamber in the lid. A base of the torquing tool has a top surface which is coplanar with a top surface of a portion the lid in the stored configuration. To utilize the torquing tool, the handle is rotated about the pivot, to an extended position. The handle may then assist an operator in twisting the lid relative to the container member.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2002Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: M&M Industries, Inc.Inventor: Glenn H. Morris, Jr.
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Publication number: 20040011791Abstract: A closure and container combination provide a child resistant package. The closure has a top wall and a skirt depending downwardly from a peripheral edge of the top wall. The container has a bottom, a cylindrical sidewall extending upwardly from the bottom and an open top. An annular flange projects outwardly from the outer surface of the cylindrical sidewall of the container proximate the top of the container. This annular flange has a flexible tab and is positioned below the skirt when the closure and container are mated together. To remove the closure from the container, the flexible tab is pushed upwardly against the skirt thereby lifting the closure off of the container. The flexible tab prevents undesired access through the annular flange and provides leverage to aid removal of the closure. In addition, a child is inhibited by the inflexible flange from using his or her teeth or fingernail to pry open the closure from the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2002Publication date: January 22, 2004Inventor: Jack S. Oh
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Patent number: 6663149Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a vessel or pipeline closure such as the type used on pipeline pig launching and receiving systems, and closures on access portals for pressurized vessels. A threaded closure 10 is disclosed which may eliminate hammering on hammer-lugs to tighten or loosen the closure from the vessel, thereby improving safety, closure life expectancy and functional operation. A closure 10 according to the present invention may include a hub 12 fixedly and sealingly secured to the vessel, and a cap 30 for threaded engagement with the hub 12. An anchor 22 may be fixedly secured to the hub and a tightening pulling ear 32 and a loosening pulling ear 132 each may be fixedly secured to the cap 30.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2001Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Robins & Myers Energy Systems, L.P.Inventor: Billy W. White
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Publication number: 20030222084Abstract: A lid for use with an open top container threadably engages with the open head container to secure the lid to the container. A seal is located between tapered surfaces of the lid and the container member such that compression of the seal occurs gradually as the lid is threadably secured onto the container member. The lid is equipped with a torquing tool which pivots at along a ridge at the edge of the lid. In a stored configuration, the torquing tool has a handle which is at least partially contained within a chamber in the lid. A base of the torquing tool has a top surface which is coplanar with a top surface of a portion the lid in the stored configuration. To utilize the torquing tool, the handle is rotated about the pivot, to an extended position. The handle may then assist an operator in twisting the lid relative to the container member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2002Publication date: December 4, 2003Inventor: Glenn H. Morris
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Patent number: 6588300Abstract: An apparatus and method for remotely venting or opening a container sealed by a bung. The apparatus comprises a support structure, a means for attachment to the container by a strap, a bung wrench, and means for aligning and rotatably supporting the bung wrench. The alignment means allows the bung wrench to accommodate any deformation of the container face. The bung wrench can include a ratchet for multiple turns of the bung. An extension arm is connected to the bung wrench, and a cable is attachable to the end of the extension arm. The cable is attached to the extension arm, and extended away from the container in a direction whereby pulling the cable sufficient to move the extension arm will produce the desired rotation of the bung, thereby venting the container.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2001Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Inventors: Daniel D. Ford, John S. Gala
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Patent number: 6568549Abstract: A cork extraction device includes a tubular member having a first open end, a second open end and a peripheral wall having an outer threaded surface. The tubular member is positioned over an top end of a bottle. A cover member has a top wall and a perimeter wall extending downward from the top wall. The perimeter wall has an inner threaded surface. The cover member may be positioned over and threadably coupled to the tubular member when the cover member is rotated in a first direction. A corkscrew is elongate and has a first end and a second end. A disc is attached to the first end. The corkscrew is rotated in a second direction such that the second end extends through the top wall of the cover member and into a cork. The cover member is rotated in the second direction and the cork extracted from the bottle.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2001Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Inventor: Stephen J. Miller
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Patent number: 6491178Abstract: An upper cover plate for an air-tight chamber and a tool for removing the upper cover plate from the chamber are introduced. The upper cover plate integrates a chamber body to form the air-tight chamber, in which the chamber body further includes a top surface for air-tightly matching with a bottom surface of the upper cover plate. The upper cover plate further includes a plurality of thread holes engageable respectively with a plurality of the tools. The present invention is characterized on that at least one of the thread holes is formed as a through thread hole connecting to the bottom surface, and that the respective tool for engaging with the through thread hole includes a portion for penetrating the through thread hole and going beyond the bottom surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2000Date of Patent: December 10, 2002Assignee: Mosel Vitelic Inc.Inventors: Philip Liu, Tony Lee, Wentchen Lee, Andrew Cheng
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Patent number: 6458006Abstract: A soda pop ring for kids for providing children with a novelty item. The soda pop ring for kids includes a ring member having ends and being formed in a circular loop with the ends being spaced apart and being in close proximity to one another, and also having a top and a bottom and a central portion and end portions with the central portion having a greater width than the end portions and with selected inscriptions protruding outwardly from the top of the ring member which is removeably secured to the top of a cap of a soda pop bottle.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2000Date of Patent: October 1, 2002Inventor: Anthony Westbrook
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Patent number: 6295894Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 21, 2000Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Inventor: Richard Craig
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Patent number: 6286392Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 24, 2000Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Assignee: Bergamot IncorporatedInventor: Kenneth Wayne Smith
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Patent number: 6230588Abstract: A can opener used with a can having an operating rim and an opening to be covered in an air-tight manner by a cover having an operating flange includes an operating medium for being operated against the operating flange to open the can covered in the air-tight manner by the cover, and an attaching medium secured to the can for always attaching thereto the operating medium in a position ready for opening the can.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 1999Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Inventor: Yang Wan Ran
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Patent number: 6179138Abstract: A combination utensil has a one-piece plastic body with a bottle-cap-removing ring and an elongated bottle stopper projecting substantially radially outwardly from the ring. The ring has inclined end faces tapering toward the stopper and an opening positioned eccentrically thereof and extending therethrough between the end faces and defined by a frusticonical wall, the opening being chamfered at the small-diameter end. A metal plate is insert-molded in the stopper and has a lip which projects radially into the ring opening at the small-diameter end thereof. The inner and outer surfaces of the ring, except for the chamfer, are covered with a frictional cushioning material which defines circumferentially spaced ribs projecting radially inwardly of the frustoconical wall. The stopper is tapered toward a small-diameter distal end and its mid portion is surrounded with a frictional cushioning sheath having radially outwardly projecting circumferential ribs spaced axially of the stopper.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1999Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: General Housewares Corp.Inventor: Cyan Puleston