US20080083794A1

US20080083794A1 - Coin pocket bottle carrier

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Publication number: US20080083794A1
Application number: US11/545,209
Authority: US
Inventors: Terry Lee Wagenknecht; Charles Maxwell Wagenknecht; Samuel James Wagenknecht; Jessie Kay Lewellen
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2006-10-10
Filing date: 2006-10-10
Publication date: 2008-04-10

Abstract

A removable bottle carrying attachment for a human user's trousers retains a beverage bottle adjacent an exterior surface of a small coin or watch pocket's opening. The tightly confined space within the almost inaccessible pocket defines a retaining sleeve which secures the planar structural integrity of the carrier's thin substrate as it slides vertically and limitedly upwards to sufficiently expose its bottle gripping aperture to surround a bottle's cap stop rim. A preferred embodiment's planar, elongate, flexible polymer substrate body parallels an elongate slot located centeredly near one distal end, and with a bottle gripping aperture located near an uppermost and opposite end. A preferred means for fastening the carrier to an interior area of the pocket is a cloth piercing two part dungaree button which extends through the pocket's exterior cloth and the elongate slot to allow application by a user. The attachment is concealed within the pocket until accessed by a users fingernail, and is removed by laterally squeezing two edges to distort the elongate slot into a more circular shape for removal past the fastening means.

Description


CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

5,695,232	January 1997	Tipp	294/87.2
5,960,973	October 1999	Markson	215/386
6,019,335	February 2000	Schati	248/312
6,131,779	October 2000	Gendala	224/148.1
6,279,794 B1	August 2001	Miyazaki	224/148.7
6,352,235 B2	March 2002	Cizek	248/692
6,394,329 B1	May 2002	Magee	224/678
6,394,517	May 2002	Borg	294/31.2
6,533,148 B1	March 2003	Dahl	224/148.6
6,626,333 B2	September 2003	Levesque et al	224/148.6
6,695,371 B1	February 2004	Simkins	294/33

STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT

Not applicable.

REFERENCE TO SEQUENCE LISTING

Not applicable.

BACKGROUND

1. Field of Invention
This invention relates to an attachment of a beverage bottle carrier within a tightly confined space of a small coin change pocket, or watch pocket, and such as a pocket located on a user's right and front side which may be partially located within another and larger pocket.
2. Description of Prior Art
Coin change pockets within an adult's size of blue jean denim pants are small in size with an opening as small as 1½ inches to 2 inches wide. The depth of a small coin change pocket may also be as small as 2½ to 3½ inches deep. Exact sizes of any pocket may vary from one brand name to another.
A small child or young adult may find any small pocket to be useful for placing a house key or other special item into, and still be able to retrieve the item from the small pocket's tightly confined space.
Adults with larger fingers, or adults with arthritis impaired fingers, or adults with an added waistline will find a small pocket to be almost useless, as retrieving an item back out of the pocket is extremely difficult, if not impossible.
No prior art was found which described the tightly defined space within a small coin change pocket as a tight retaining sleeve for enclosing a flexible beverage bottle carrier, and for retaining the flexible substrate's structural integrity while the defined retaining sleeve and the flexible substrate and a means for fastening the substrate within the pocket cooperate together to support a bottle's liquid weight.
No prior art was found which utilized this semi-useless coin pocket as a defined tight retaining sleeve and as a concealed holding area for a beverage bottle carrier, other than one specific application for patent, and which is application Ser. No. 11/232,700 by Terry Lee Wagenknecht et al, with a file date; Sep. 22, 2005.
One embodiment of Wagenknecht's application shows a bottle carrier within the small coin pocket, but also requires in its art and claim 1 for a carrier to be permanently attached and to be invertedly bent upwards for a user to access it.

SUMMARY

A removable bottle carrier attachment for a human user's pants or trousers, which retains a beverage bottle adjacent an exterior surface of a small pocket's opening. A small coin change pocket may be located partially within another and larger pocket. The tightly confined space of a small pocket defines a retaining sleeve which retains the flexible substrate in a planar position as the carrier limitedly slides vertically upward and out of the pocket until the substrate's bottle gripping aperture is sufficiently exposed to surroundly grip a bottle's cap stop rim.
The attachment's elongate planar and flexible polymer plastic substrate comprises at least one or more apertures. A first said aperture is a bottle neck cap stop rim gripping aperture; while a second aperture if any, retains a means for fastening the carrier to an interior surface of the pocket. A preferred means for fastening is a dungaree button which extends through the pocket's exterior fabric, and through a second aperture which in a preferred embodiment is an elongate slot which parallels the elongate substrate. When not in use, the substrate slides downward and back into the pocket where it may be hidden from view. A carrier stays attached within the pocket, yet may be removed from the shaft and head of the dungaree button by laterally squeezing the pocket and the substrate's edges to distort the slot into a more rounded shaped and larger aperture for removal past the fastening means, and its complete removal from the pocket. Re-application of the same bottle carrier or a new carrier is done in a like manner.
In summary;
a carrier substrate's first aperture retains a bottle exteriorly to the pocket;
a defined tightly confined space of a previously inaccessible pocket retains the planar structural integrity of a carrier's elongate flexible substrate;
a carrier substrate's second aperture, if any, retains a means for limitedly and slideably fastening the carrier's substrate to an interior surface of the pocket;
a carrier's substrate is disengageable from the means for fastening and so removable from the pocket;
and wherein, the improvement is a removable bottle carrying attachment which is both slide-ably accessible and slide-ably concealable.

OBJECTS AND ADVANTAGES

It is both an object and an advantage of this new concept of a removable and slideably accessible and slideably concealable bottle carrier attachment to be;

1. cost effective in its production, and therefore in price, and therefore commercially applicable to even the cheapest of jeans on the market;
2. concealable from another human's view when not in use, and therefore commercially applicable to even the most expensive jeans on the market;
3. alterable and variable in its form and its first and second aperture's shape(s), and therefore commercially adaptable to manufacturing's wide varieties of methods and equipment available for use in the bottle carrier's production;
4. to provide a user a beverage bottle carrying attachment which will always be there with the user whenever a need for carrying a beverage hands free arises;
5. and to take advantage of and make use of a previously inaccessible pocket;

REFERENCE NUMERALS IN DRAWINGS

30 a bottle neck cap stop rim gripping aperture
32 an elongate slot shape means retaining aperture, for retaining a means for fastening
33 a flexible substrate body's laterally projecting appendage snub
34 a four part cloth piercing disengageable snap fastener button
35 a disengageable thread sewn area within a pocket
36 a two part cloth piercing dungaree button
37 a disengageable sewn button
38 a small coin pocket's tightly confined space defining a substrate retaining sleeve
40 a larger pants pocket with no tightly confined space
42 a beverage bottle
44 a beverage bottle's cap stop rim
46 a disengageable cloth band
48 a disengageable decorative chain
50 a disengageable cord
52 a two-part aperture producing cloth piercing grommet
54 a circular shape means retaining aperture, for retaining a means for fastening
55 a plurality of sewing needle produced means retaining apertures, for retaining a means for fastening
56 an invertedly duplicated bottle neck gripping aperture's shape for retaining a means for fastening
58 a pocket's cloth surface
60 a cloth piercing two part threaded fastener
62 a cloth gripping inverted u-shape metal plate
64 an adhesive

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

In the drawings, closely related figures may have the same number, but different alphabetic suffixes.

FIG. 1,a is a front view of a preferred embodiment shown within a small pocket.

FIG. 1,b is a front and exploded view of a preferred embodiment and shown without a small pocket.

FIG. 2,a is a front view of a preferred embodiment shown within a small pocket.

FIG. 2,b is a front view of a preferred embodiment shown within a small pocket.

FIG. 3 is a front view of a preferred embodiment shown within a small pocket.

FIG. 4 is a front view of a preferred embodiment shown within a small pocket.

FIG. 5,a, 5,b, and 5,c are front views of alternative bottle gripping embodiments.

FIG. 6,a, is a front view of a preferred embodiment concealed within a pocket.

FIG. 6,b, is a front view of a preferred embodiment concealed within a pocket.

FIGS. 6,c, 6,d, 6,e, 6,f, 6,g, and 6,h are front views of a preferred embodiment shown partially exposed within a pocket.

FIG. 7 is an exploded perspective view of a preferred embodiment and an alternative means for fastening.

FIG. 8 is an exploded perspective view of an alternative embodiment and an alternative means for fastening.

FIG. 9 is a front view of an alternative embodiment and an alternative means for fastening.

FIG. 10 is a front view of an alternative embodiment and an alternative means for fastening.

FIG. 11 is a front exploded view of a preferred embodiment and an alternative means for fastening.

FIG. 12 is a perspective and partially exploded view of an alternative embodiment and an alternative means for fastening.

FIG. 13,a is a front view of an alternative embodiment shown without a pocket.

FIGS. 13,b and 13,c are front views of an alternative embodiment and alternative means for fastening shown within a pocket.

FIG. 13, d is a side view of an alternative embodiment and an alternative means for fastening shown within a pocket.

FIG. 13, e is a front view of an alternative embodiment and an alternative means for fastening shown within a pocket.

FIG. 14,a is a front view of an alternative embodiment shown without a pocket.

FIG. 14,b is a front view of an alternative embodiment shown within a pocket, and also a plurality of alternative means for fastening.

FIG. 15,a is a front view of an alternative embodiment and an alternative means for fastening and shown without a pocket.

FIGS. 15,b, 15,c, and 15,d are front views of alternative embodiments and alternative means for fastening shown within a pocket.

FIG. 15,e is an overhead view of an alternative means for fastening and shown without a pocket.

FIG. 16,a and 16,b are front views of an alternative embodiment and an alternative means for fastening shown within a pocket.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

A preferred embodiment is shown concealed within a small coin pocket (38) in FIG. 1,a. The small pocket's (38) tightly confined space is shown partially located within a larger pocket (40) of a pair of trousers. Dotted lines represent the flexible plastic substrate's perimeter edges, the substrate's bottle neck cap stop rim gripping aperture (30), and an elongate slot (32). Also shown is a means for fastening the flexible substrate to an interior surface of the small pocket (38), and in this preferred embodiment, the means for fastening is a cloth-piercing two part dungaree button (36). One part of the two part button cloth piercing dungaree button (36) is shown near or just behind a seam of the opening of the larger pocket (40). Also shown in FIG. 1,b is the carrier substrate of FIG. 1,a, but shown before its installation within a small pocket. Also shown is an exploded view of its means for fastening, which is a two part cloth piercing dungaree button (36). Also shown are the substrate's outer edges, a through cut slot (32), a pocket's exterior cloth surface (58), and a bottle neck cap stop rim gripping aperture (30).
In the preferred embodiment, the substrate comprises a planar and flexible polymer plastic material which can be repeatedly bent without fracturing. The flexible substrate may be of a polyethyleneterephthalate PET material, or may consist of any other material which can be repeatedly bent without fracturing, such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polyurethane, polystyrene, vinyl, nylon, rubber impregnated or laminated fibrous materials, and various plasticized materials, etc.
The outer four corners of the carrier are typically beveled or rounded to prevent snagging on a user's body or clothing. Through cut aperture corners are also rounded to help prevent any unnecessary tearing of the substrate.
All dimensional sizes of the substrate may vary and are interdependent on a beverage bottle's diameter located just vertically beneath its cap stop rim, and a size of a tightly confined pocket's interior area, and the substrate's elastic strength.
A substrate's thickness may vary from a few thousandths to a quarter inch thick.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

In the drawings, closely related figures may have the same number, but different alphabetic suffixes.
FIG. 1,a is a front view of a preferred embodiment concealed within a small coin pocket (38) with the pocket (38) being located partially within a larger pocket (40). Shown also is a bottle neck cap stop rim gripping aperture (30), a means for fastening, and in this preferred embodiment is a dungaree button (36), and an elongate slot (32).
FIG. 1,b is an exploded front view of a preferred embodiments planar flexible substrate body, and disclosing a gripping aperture (30), an elongate through cut slot (32), and a two-part dungaree button (36). The button (36) is shown before its cloth piercing nail part is pushed through the exterior cloth of the small pocket (36), and with complete pocket not shown, and also before its piercing nail part extends through the slot, and before entering its locking and mated receiving half (36′).
FIG. 2,a is a front view of a preferred embodiment within a small coin pocket (38) and also showing an exposed bottle gripping aperture (30. The bottle gripping aperture (30) of the carrier's flexible planar plastic substrate is ready to be bent downwards for attachment over a beverage bottles (42) cap, and cap stop rim. (44). Note the elongate slot (32) and the dungaree button (36) fastening means which prevent any further exiting of the carrier from the small pocket (38).
FIG. 2,b is a front view as in FIG. 2,a, but showing a lateral squeezing of the carrier's substrate edges to distort the elongate slot (32) into a more circular shape aperture for removal past the head of the dungaree button (36) inside the pocket for removal of the carrier. A user's squeezing fingers are not shown.
FIG. 3 is a front view of a preferred embodiment within a small coin pocket and in a slightly different position than the view in FIG. 2. The bottle gripping aperture (30) of the carrier's flexible planar plastic substrate is bent vertically downward and ready for attachment over a bottles' cap, and cap stop rim (44).
FIG. 4 is a front view of a preferred embodiment within a small coin pocket (38) while retaining a beverage bottle (42). The bottle's (42) cap and cap stop rim (44) have been forced through the carrier's gripping aperture (30), and with the bottle (42) being shown as it is tightly held next to the small pocket's (38) opening seam.
Note in this drawing how there is minimal stretching of the small pocket (38) or it's seam, as the tightly confined space of the small pocket (38) defines a retaining sleeve for the carrier's substrate body, and with not enough fabric to stretch vertically downward, or possibly inside out, as there would be if the carrier were installed in a larger and less tightly confined space of the larger pocket (40).
FIG. 5,a, FIG. 5,b and FIG. 5,c are front views of alternative embodiments with differently shaped bottle neck cap stop rim gripping apertures (30). These differently shaped apertures are shown for the reader to better understand that the shape of the gripping aperture (30) is not the matter which is being disclosed.
Any one of the basic shapes shown will function as a bottle gripping aperture (30) if properly sized to a bottle's neck diameter just vertically beneath its cap stop rim, and correspondingly to a density and/or elasticity of a carrier's substrate body.
FIG. 6,a through 6,h are all line art drawings superimposed over actual photos to show as much detail as possible of a fabric's stretching or not stretching in areas at, near, and surrounding the tightly confined space of a small coin pocket.
All are front views of a preferred embodiment installed within the small coin pocket (38), and also of progressive stages of applying a carrier to a bottle (42).
In FIG. 6,a the carrier is installed within the tightly confined space of a small coin pocket (38) which is located partially within a less confined space of a larger pocket (40). Note that the entire carrier and the dungaree button means for fastening within the small pocket (38) are both concealed from the viewer.
In FIG. 6,b the opening seam of the larger pocket (40) is pulled back to expose to the viewer, the preferred means for attachment; a dungaree button (36).
In FIG. 6,c, a user is extracting the carrier from the smaller pocket (38) with only one fingernail. Note the dungaree button (36) is now partially exposed, but will re-position behind the opening seam of the larger pocket when the fabric is later relaxed.
In FIG. 6,d, a user is extracting the carrier further than needed for its application to a bottle, and with vertically upward stresses of approximately five pounds being placed on the carrier. Distortions are shown within the small pocket (38), and also distortions upon the pocket's fabric and opening seam.
Note that even here there is nominal distortion of the small pocket's (38) fabric, as there is just not enough material present to be greatly distorted. A larger and less tightly confined space pocket (40) has a better chance of turning inside out with a same amount of stress as shown. Note the position of the dungaree button (36), and how the small pocket (38) is still intact without turning inside out. Also note the distortion-free substrate material surrounding the elongate slot (32), as the tightly confined space of the small pocket (38) defines a retaining sleeve for the substrate.
In FIG. 6,e, the user is shown exerting a lateral stress upon the carrier and the small pocket's (38) seam. Note the nominal amount of fabric distortion.
In FIG. 6,f, the user is just about to apply the carrier's aperture over the bottle's cap and cap stop rim. Note the exposed dungaree button (36) which will move back into position behind the larger pockets opening seam after the bottle is applied, and after the small pocket's (38) fabric is more relaxed.
In FIG. 6,g the user has applied the carrier over the bottle's cap, but not yet fully vertically downward past the bottle's cap stop rim which is hidden from the viewer by the carrier's substrate in this drawing.
In FIG. 6,h, the user has completely applied the carrier over and past the bottle's (42) cap stop rim (44). The user is now carrying the beverage bottle hands-free.
FIG. 7 is an exploded perspective view of a preferred embodiment and an alternative means for fastening using a four-part cloth piercing disengageable snap fastener button (34), and an elongate slot shape (32) as a retaining aperture for the specific means for fastening snap fastener button (34).
FIG. 8 is an exploded perspective view of an alternative embodiment and an alternative means for fastening using a two-part cloth piercing threaded fastener (60) in combination with an invertedly positioned bottle neck gripping aperture's shape for retaining a means for fastening (56).
FIG. 9 is a front view of an alternative embodiment and an alternative means for fastening using two circular shape apertures (54) for retaining a cord (50) means for fastening. Note a large restricting knot or bow-tie in the cord (50). The cord threads through one grommet (52) affixed within a pockets (38) exterior cloth surface. The cord is shown as it then threads into the pocket, and away from the viewer through one of the circular shape apertures (54), and back through another circular shape aperture (54) and toward the viewer, and then back through the same grommet, and toward the viewer, where both distal ends form a large restricting knot or bow-tie. An restricting washer, which is not shown, may also be positioned behind the knotted bow-tie.
FIG. 10 is a front view of an alternative embodiment and an alternative means for fastening using two circular shape apertures (54) for retaining a disengageable decorative chain (48) means for fastening. This combination of circular shape apertures (54) and chain (48) is shown used with two grommets (52) affixed in a pockets cloth surface. The chain threads through one grommet (52), and into the pocket (38), and through one circular aperture (54), and back through another circular aperture (54), and back out of the pocket through the second grommet, where both distal ends of the chain (48) are linked together or clasped exteriorly to the pocket. The chain clasp is not shown.
FIG. 11 is a front exploded view of a preferred embodiment and an alternative means for fastening using a button (37) before threads connect a sewn area (35) within a pocket's cloth surface (58), and extend through a substrate's elongate slot (32) and before the threads extend through the button's (37) apertures. The button is positioned in the pocket's interior, and allows removal of the flexible substrate by laterally distorting two edges as was shown in FIG. 2,b.
FIG. 12 is a perspective and partially exploded view of an alternative embodiment and an alternative means for fastening using a cloth band (46) which is shown sewn to a thread sewn area (35) of a pocket's cloth surface (58), and also shown sewn to a carrier's substrate where a sewing needle has produced a plurality of apertures (55) for retaining the cloth band (46) means for fastening. The cloth band's predetermined length restricts the flexible substrate's gripping aperture (30) from exiting the pocket too far.
FIG. 13,a is a front view of an alternative embodiment with a carrier's substrate having two laterally projecting appendage snubs (33) located at the substrate's most vertically lowest portion. A bottle cap stop rim gripping aperture (30) is also shown.
FIG. 13,b is a front view of the alternative embodiment shown in FIG. 13,a, but shown positioned partly within a pocket (38), and where a bottle cap stop rim gripping aperture (30) is exposed for placement over a bottle's cap stop rim. Also shown are two sewn areas (35), and which are sewn completely through two of the pocket's cloth surfaces at a location at and near each vertically uppermost corner.
The sewn areas are shown sewn adjacent two lateral edges of the substrate, and with just enough clearance for the substrate to remain vertically slideable.
FIG. 13,c is a front view of the same alternative embodiment as that in FIG. 13,b, but with the substrate located completely within the pocket and fully concealed.
The drawing shows the bottle cap stop rim gripping aperture (30), two laterally projecting appendage snubs (33) the two sewn areas (35), and the pocket (38).
FIG. 13,d is a side view of the alternative embodiment of FIG. 13,b, and shows the bottle cap stop rim gripping aperture (30), and the sewn areas (35) within the pocket (38).
FIG. 13,e is a front view of the same alternative embodiment as the vertically uppermost area of the pocket (38) and the vertically lowermost area of the substrate are simultaneously being laterally squeezed to distort the substrate just enough to pass between the two sewn areas (35) for removal of the substrate.
FIG. 14,a is a front view of an alternative embodiment with the substrate having the same laterally projecting appendage snubs (33) as in FIG. 13. Also shown is the bottle cap stop rim gripping aperture (30), and an elongate slot (32) which parallels the elongate length of the substrate as in the preferred embodiments drawing in FIG. 1.
FIG. 14,b is a front view of the art in FIG. 14,a, but shown located partially within the pocket (38), and with the bottle cap stop rim gripping aperture (30) exposed exteriorly to the pocket (38), and also the two laterally projecting appendage snubs (33), and the elongate slot (32). Shown also are three different means for fastening, and including a button (37) which is ready to be sewn to the pocket's interior, a two part cloth piercing dungaree button (37), and the two sewn areas (35). Note how the sewn areas (35) will cooperate with the laterally projecting appendage snubs (33) without obstructing either a button (37) means for fastening, or the two part cloth piercing dungaree button (36) means for fastening.
Also shown are two grommets (52) which may alternatively replace the two sewn areas (35) by a user or a manufacturer's installation. An additional thread sewn area (35) means for fastening is shown sewn through the elongate slot, where the threads sew both cloth surfaces of the pocket together. Various means for fastening which are shown in FIG. 14,b may function individually or in unison with others.
This drawing of FIG. 14,b is purposed to show a viewer how an alternative embodiment with a flexible substrate having a slot (32) and appendage snubs (33) allows a user to make their own choice of several types of means for fastening.
FIG. 15,a is a front view and partially exploded view of a flexible substrate's alternative embodiment as shown in FIG. 14,a, but with a means of fastening which consists of a cloth gripping inverted u-shape metal plate (62). The plate is shown in its planar state before its bending into a u-shape. Dotted lines within the plate represent weakened hinge lines. Also shown within the plate is an elongate slot for the flexible substrate to thread through. Also shown within the plate are several through cut v-shape apertures and bent v-shape projections which will slightly pierce a pockets stitched opening seam. A zoomed in view also shows one of these through cut v-shape apertures.
FIG. 15,b is a front view of an alternative embodiment and alternative means for fastening as that shown in FIG. 15,a, but showing the flexible substrate extending partially through the metal plate's (62) elongate slot.
FIG. 15,c is a front view of an alternative embodiment and alternative means for fastening as that shown in FIG. 15,b, and after a metal plate's (62) bending.
The plate extends vertically downward into a pocket for additional support of the plate's grip to and within the pocket.
FIG. 15,d is a front view of the alternative embodiment and alternative means for fastening shown in FIG. 15,c, but is shown within a pocket (38).
FIG. 15,e is an overhead view of an alternative means for fastening using a metal plate (62), and in a planar state before bending, and without the portion which extends completely into a pocket's interior area. Shown also are the weakened hinge lines and through cut elongate slot as was shown in FIG. 15,a. All metal plates shown in FIGS. 15,a through 15,c cooperate with the flexible substrate's laterally projecting appendage snubs (33) to restrict the substrate's exiting too far from a pocket.
FIG. 16,a and 16,b are front views of an alternative embodiment and alternative means for fastening as in FIG. 14, b, but using an adhesive (64) instead of sewn thread.

DESCRIPTION OF OPERATION—MANUFACTURE AND USE

A forming of this pocket conceal-able and slide-ably accessible bottle carrier is dimensionally interdependent on two sizes; a diameter size of a bottle's neck just vertically below its bottle cap stop rim, and a dimensional size of a pocket's interior area which a carrier is to be fastened within. A resulting, but not necessarily required size of the carrier's substrate is approximately 1¾ inches by 3½ inches.
This size works well on most adult size denim pants which contain a coin pocket (38), or watch pocket which is partially located within another and larger pocket (40).
The substrate comprises a planar and flexible polymer plastic material which can be repeatedly bent without fracturing. The flexible substrate may be of a polyethyleneterephthalate or PET material, or may consist of any other material which can be repeatedly bent without fracturing, such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polyurethane, or a plasticized or plastic impregnated or rubber impregnated cloth, paperboard, etc. The exact size of a bottle neck cap stop rim gripping aperture (30) must also correspond with the strength and elasticity of the flexible substrate's material type chosen by a manufacturer, and a held bottle's approximate liquid weight, and the bottle's cap stop rim diameter size.
A thickness of a carrier's substrate may vary from a blow molded bottle's wall thickness, or up to ¼ inch or more, and depending on the material chosen. The carrier's substrate is elongate and planar with the bottle cap stop rim gripping aperture (30) located centeredly and near one elongate end, and an elongate slot located centeredly and near an opposite end from the gripping aperture's location. The elongate slot (32) also parallels the elongate flexible substrate's elongate direction. The width of the elongate slot (32) should be equal to or slightly more in size than any shaft of, or any cloth penetrating pin's shaft of the chosen means for fastening a carrier to an interior surface of the small pocket (38).
A carrier's substrate perimeter edge, and gripping aperture and slot may be hand cut with an exacto type knife or machine die cut, or plastic injection molded.
A preferred means for fastening is a two part cloth piercing dungaree button (36). The carrier substrate is placed within a small pocket with the substrate's elongate slot (32) being located vertically downwards from the substrate's gripping aperture (30). The cloth piercing half of the dungaree button set extends through the exterior cloth of the small pocket, and then through the elongate slot (32). A second and mated receiving half of the dungaree button set is inserted into the pocket, where it then fastens to the first and cloth piercing button half.
FIGS. 5,a, 5,b and 5,c show several different shapes of bottle gripping apertures that may be used, and are intended to make it clear to the reader that the gripping aperture shape is not what is being disclosed here. Most any aperture shape will retain a bottle just under its cap stop rim if matched accordingly with the diameter size of the bottle located just under its cap stop rim, and also matched with the substrate's material strength and elasticity. Any corner areas within a triangular shaped or square shaped bottle neck cap stop rim gripping aperture as shown in FIGS. 5,b and 5,c should be slightly rounded to prevent tearing of the surrounding substrate material. Whichever aperture shape that is chosen by a manufacturer should correspond with a flexible substrate material's strength, and especially a substrate material's limited elasticity. A more brittle plastic polymer material will require more precision in its bottle gripping aperture's size.
The carrier is concealed within the small pocket, yet is accessible for a user to grip its bottle gripping aperture (30) with one fingernail to slide the carrier vertically upward until the aperture (30) is sufficiently exposed to surround a bottle's cap and then to a location just vertically below a bottle's cap stop rim (44). FIG. 4 shows a bottle being held with nominal stretching of the small pocket's (38) opening seam. If a carrier were in a larger, looser fitting pocket (40), a pocket might turn inside out.
In addition to the small pocket (38) not turning inside out, the bottle carrying attachment's flexible substrate body is held in a planar position within the pocket (38) due to the lack of space within the small pocket's interior. The flexible substrate's material surrounding the elongate slot (32) has no space to buckle or distort. The elongate slot's (32) surrounding material keeps its structural integrity for remaining attached to the means for fastening, and for retaining a bottle's liquid weight.
When a user decides to completely remove or replace a carrier from within the small pocket, they may pull the flexible substrate vertically upwards as far as possible, and laterally squeeze the substrate's edges until the slot (32) distorts into a more rounded aperture to pass over the head portion of the dungaree button half which is located within the pocket. This lateral squeezing is shown in FIG. 2,b, and may be done while the pants are being worn by a user if the entire small pocket and the flexible substrate are laterally squeezed at the same time. This may be more easily accomplished when the pants are not being worn by a user.
Any other additional alternative means for fastening may require different procedures for removal and replacement of a flexible substrate body, and with some being able to be removed in a faster time, and with some taking slightly longer to remove and replace.
A carrier will remain in a pocket through countless machine washings, as there are no extreme stresses placed on a pocket held carrier during regular handling, washing or drying of the pants.

Descriptions of Alternative Embodiments and Alternative Means for Fastening

All alternative embodiments disclosed will comprise at least one or more apertures, and where a first aperture is for gripping a bottle just vertically beneath its cap stop rim (44). Any additional aperture(s), if any, such as in the preferred embodiment are for retaining a means for fastening a bottle carrier's substrate body within a tightly confined space of a small pocket which defines a retaining sleeve for the bottle carrying attachment's flexible substrate body.
The flexible substrate body itself, and the defined retaining sleeve, and a means for fastening the substrate body to an interior surface of the pocket, and any, if any additional aperture(s), will cooperate with each other to retain and/or release the flexible substrate body from the means for fastening and/or the pocket.
As disclosed in FIGS. 5,a,b, and c, the first aperture for gripping a bottle does not require any special shape, but to only bear the liquid weight of a bottle being held. Any additional aperture(s), if any, need(s) to cooperate with and retain the chosen means for fastening to permit the carrier's flexible substrate to slide vertically upwards until the first bottle gripping aperture (30) is sufficiently and exteriorly exposed from the pocket (38) to access a bottle's cap stop rim (44).
Any additional aperture(s), if any, may be in a shape and size which best cooperates with the chosen means for fastening to facilitate the flexible substrate's slide-ability within the pocket, and also the flexible substrate's complete removeability from the means for fastening, and from the pocket for replacement purposes.
Any additional aperture(s) for retaining a chosen means for fastening may be in a shape of an elongate slot as in the preferred embodiment, or one or more circular shapes for threading a cord or a chain or a cloth band through.
An additional aperture may also be in an inverted duplicate shape of the first and bottle neck cap stop rim gripping aperture (30).
In the following descriptions of alternative means for fastening, a reader will understand that various means for fastening may be almost limitless in number, and any which may not be listed do not detract from the scope of this invention.
It also understood that any penetration through the flexible substrate body, or pierced hole or aperture made by a machine's sewing needle is an aperture.
References within these disclosures to a carrier being concealed within a pocket do not infer that a carrier must be totally concealed, but that the carrier may be conceal-able.
The primary goal of this invention is to take advantage of a previously inaccessible and tightly confined space of a coin or watch pocket as previously described; and wherein the defined tight space defines a retaining sleeve for securing the structural integrity of a bottle carrying attachment's thin and flexible polymer plastic substrate.
The bottle carrier should be removable and replaceable to accommodate the long life of a blue jean type of pants material, as most any moving part, and including a carrier's flexible polymer substrate may wear out eventually.
Some methods of remove-ability, such as a snap fastener button, may be quick and easy for a user to replace a carrier. Some alternative means for fastening may take more time to install or disengage or replace a carrier; such as an initial sewing of a button, or re-threading of a cord or chain, or unscrewing a two-part threaded fastener, or removing and re-sewing a band of cloth or sewn threads.
An alternative embodiment is shown in FIG. 7 using a four part cloth piercing disengageable snap fastener button (34), and an elongate slot shape (32) for retaining a means for fastening. This means for fastening should be applied by a pants manufacturer, as special equipment is normally required. The width of the elongate slot (32) needs to be equal to or greater than the width of any shaft or connecting parts of the disengageable snap fastening means (34).
Note where the snap fastening means (34) makes use of both cloth surfaces (58) of the small pocket (38).
An alternative embodiment is also shown in FIG. 8 using a two-part cloth piercing threaded fastener (60) in combination with an invertedly positioned bottle neck gripping aperture's shape for retaining a means for fastening (56).
The purpose of inverting and duplicating the first and bottle gripping aperture is to make it easier for a user who installs the carrier. Using the thin and cloth piercing shaft of the threaded fastener (60) in combination with a larger aperture requires less precision in positioning and installing the fastening means. A user may also easily unscrew and reposition if necessary. When a user notices a first aperture getting a little worn from being constantly forced over a bottle's cap and cap stop rim, they may remove and vertically invert the carrier, and reinsert into the pocket to almost double the life of a carrier.
Also note in FIG. 8, where the threaded fastening means (60) makes use of both cloth surfaces (58) of the small pocket (38). This same cloth piercing fastener (60) may also be used with an elongate slot (32) aperture within the flexible substrate body, and either using two cloth surfaces (58), or one cloth surface. Art drawings showing use of one cloth surface (58) is not shown, as it is so similar to FIG. 1,b.
An alternative embodiment is shown in FIG. 9, and with an alternative means for fastening using two circular shape apertures (54) for retaining a cord (50) means for fastening. A cord (50) is shown as it threads through one grommet (52) affixed within a pockets (38) exterior cloth surface, where it then threads into the pocket, and away from the viewer through one of the circular shape apertures (54), and back through another circular shape aperture (54) and toward the viewer, and then back through the same grommet, and toward the viewer, where both distal ends of the cord form a large restricting knot or bow-tie. The cord may also be threaded through any small closed loop object, and exteriorly to the grommet, such as a house key, a ring of keys etc. for further prevention of the cord's knot to pass completely through the grommet and into the pockets interior. The key is not shown in the drawing. The cord must also have enough slack inside the pocket for the carrier substrate to slide vertically upward just enough for the bottle gripping aperture to be sufficiently exposed to surround a bottle's cap stop rim (44).
FIG. 10 shows an alternative embodiment similar to that in FIG. 9, but with two grommets (52) or eyelets affixed within the pocket's exterior cloth surface. A disengageable decorative chain (48) means for fastening threads through one grommet (52), and into the pocket (38), and through one of the carrier substrate's circular apertures (54), and back through a second circular aperture (54) within the carrier's substrate, and back out of the pocket as the cord threads through the second grommet (52). Both distal ends of the chain are then linked together or clasped together exteriorly to the pocket. The drawing does not show a clasp.
In FIG. 11, a front exploded view of a preferred flexible substrate using an elongate slot (32) and an alternative means for fastening is shown using a button (37) before threads connect a sewn area (35) within a pocket's cloth surface (58), and before the threads extend through a substrate's elongate slot (32) and before the threads extend through the button's (37) apertures. A young adult user may be directed by a parent to use this means for fastening to avoid any sharp points of the dungaree button's cloth piercing tack button part, FIG. 1,b (36). Application and removal of the carrier is accomplished in the same method of the preferred embodiment, and by laterally squeezing two edges of the carrier's substrate to distort the elongate slot (32) into a more rounded shape to pass over the sewn button (37), and as shown in FIG. 2,b (32).
In FIG. 12, an alternative embodiment with an alternative means for fastening is shown using a cloth band (46) which is shown sewn to a thread sewn area (35) of a pocket's cloth surface (58). The cloth band is also shown sewn to a carrier's substrate where a sewing needle has produced a plurality of apertures (55) for retaining the cloth band (46) means for fastening. The band's length must allow the bottle gripping aperture (30) area to slide vertically upward and exteriorly to the pocket for sufficient exposure to surround a bottle's cap stop rim.
In FIG. 13,a, an alternative embodiment of the flexible substrate is shown having two laterally projecting appendage snubs (33) located at the very lowermost portion of the flexible substrate. Also shown is a bottle gripping aperture (30) and located centeredly at the very uppermost and distal end of the substrate. The appendage snubs may cooperate with several types of means for fastening to slidingly retain the flexible substrate within a pocket. A single appendage snub will also retain the flexible substrate, and may include various shapes such as a hooked shape to enable increased retension of the flexible substrate as the snub cooperates with a fastening means. Artwork could be infinite, and so is not shown.
FIG. 13,b shows the same art of FIG. 13,a, but is shown within a small pocket (38), and also with two thread sewn areas (35) which restrict the flexible substrate from exiting the pocket any further than it already has. The small pocket's tightly confined space defines a tight retaining sleeve to prevent buckling and distortion of the flexible substrate, and any further exiting from the pocket (38). The flexible substrate, the pocket, and the sewn means for fastening (35) are all cooperating together to retain the substrate. When a user needs to remove or replace this one apertured embodiment, the pocket and the substrate are simultaneously and laterally squeezed for distortion of the flexible substrate to pass between the two thread sewn areas. This action is shown in FIG. 13,e. FIG. 13,c shows the flexible substrate of this embodiment completely concealed within the pocket. FIG. 13,d is a side view of the same embodiment, and showing a thread sewn area, and with the bottle gripping aperture fully exposed.
In FIG. 14,a, an alternative embodiment is shown comprising the laterally projecting appendage snubs (33), the bottle gripping aperture (30), and an elongate slot (32) which parallels the elongate direction of the flexible substrate. The purpose of this combination of slot and snubs is to give a user more choices in using different fastening means, and is shown in FIG. 14,b. If a parent does not want their child using a sharp pointed tack fastener of the dungaree button (36), they may choose to sew two thread sewn areas (35), or to sew a button (37) within the pocket (38). An additional thread sewn (35) means for fastening is shown in FIG. 14,b with the threads sewn through the elongate slot, where the threads sew both cloth surfaces of the pocket together. This alternative means for fastening may take longer to replace a worn out flexible substrate, but may be preferred by mothers of young children.
Another means shown is two grommets (52) or eyelets, and which may be installed where the thread sewn areas would normally be. The grommets (52) would be inserted through both cloth surfaces of the pocket to engage the appendage snubs (33) as a flexible substrate is pulled vertically upward.
Also shown in FIG. 15,a is an alternative embodiment as shown in FIG. 14,a, and with a same shape of flexible substrate, but with a means of fastening which consists of a cloth gripping inverted u-shape metal plate (62). The plate is shown in its planar state before its bending into a u-shape. Dotted lines within the plate represent weakened hinge or bend lines. An elongate slot is also shown within the metal plate for the flexible substrate to thread through. Also shown within the plate are several through cut v-shape apertures and bent v-shape projections which will slightly pierce a pockets stitched opening seam. A zoomed in view also shows one of these through cut v-shape apertures. With this embodiment, a user does have to squeeze the lower area of the pocket, and laterally wiggle the flexible substrate vertically upwards until it emerges through the slot within the metal plate. The plate is shown in FIG. 15,b with the flexible substrate partially extending through the metal plate's (62) elongate slot, and with the plate still in a flat state before its manufactured bending process. FIG. 15,c shows the same configurement of FIG. 15,b, but after the plate's bending. FIG. 15,d shows the same configurement of 15,c, but after the metal plate and the flexible substrate have been inserted into a small pocket, where the plate extends completely downward into the pocket for additional support of the plate's grip to and within the pocket.
FIG. 15,e is an overhead view of an alternative means for fastening using a smaller sized metal plate (62), without the larger reinforcing portion which extends downward into the pocket. It is also shown in a planar state before bending. Note the area where there are no through cut cloth piercing projections, so as not to impede a flexible substrate's vertical slide-ability. Also shown, are the weakened hinge bending lines and through cut elongate slot as was shown in FIG. 15,a. All metal plates shown in FIGS. 15,a through 15,e cooperate with the flexible substrate's laterally projecting appendage snubs (33) and the pocket's defined retaining sleeve to restrict the substrate's exiting too far from a pocket.
FIG. 16 shows a same alternative embodiment as in FIG. 14,a and 14,b, but is shown using an adhesive (64) instead of a sewn cloth area means for fastening. An adhesive can be a double back tape, a spot of hot melt glue, or two sided glue impregnated fabric adhesive.
It will be understood by the reader that multiple means for fastening may be used either individually or cooperatively in unison, and any means for fastening which may not have been disclosed shall not detract from the scope of this invention, and that the primary disclosure is a retention of the structural integrity of the flexible substrate body, and which is due to a cooperation between the defined tight retaining sleeve of a pocket, and the flexible substrate body itself, and the means for fastening.
The multiplicity of alternative means for fastening which have been disclosed shall give an end user choices in their method of installation according to a user's age, and the value of the user's pants, and therefore added value to the invention.

CONCLUSION, RAMIFICATIONS, AND SCOPE

Accordingly, the reader will see that the scope of this new concept of a removable coin pocket bottle carrier provides many advantages over previous bottle carriers which required rigid parts, straps, buckles or carabiners. This totally concealed bottle carrier is always there when a user needs it, yet is easily removed or replaced when a user chooses to.
In addition, users who weigh more than most will tend to need more hydration, and will tend to carry a larger and heavier beverage or bottle of water. When tighter fitting pants are worn, the interior space within the small pocket further restricts a buckling or distortion of the substrate's material surrounding the elongate slot, and so accordingly increases the structural integrity of most of the entire flexible substrate body.
A small pocket which is rarely used by adults, and especially those with larger fingers, becomes a practical and functional retaining sleeve for a bottle carrier which is always there when a user needs it.
An only disadvantage may be the total concealment and flexibility of the carrier; and where a user may forget about the carrier being there; or as when installed in a new pair of pants by a manufacturer, a user may never know the carrier was there.
The purposed disclosure of the previous alternatives of means for fastening is to also provide several means for an end user to attach their bottle carrying device. As some jeans cost several hundred dollars for one pair, a user would most likely choose a dungaree button instead of a hot melt glue. Yet, a user can remove the carrier attachment from one pair of jeans, and use another type of supplied fastening means for installing the same carrier attachment into another less costly pair of jeans.
The previously disclosed multiple ways for means of fastening is a valued part of this new concept of a bottle carrying attachment, and especially when sold as a kit with multiple carrier attachments and numerous supplied fastening means.

Claims

1. A trouser's pocket attachment is limitedly extractable from within a tightly confined pocket's (38) space which defines a retaining sleeve for securing a planar structural integrity of said attachment's substrate body for retaining a beverage bottle exterior to and adjacent said pocket (38), and comprising;

i. an elongate flexible planar polymer plastic substrate body;

wherein said flexible substrate body's width and height is less than said pocket's width and height interior dimensions, and is greater than said bottle's cap stop rim diameter size;

ii. at least one or more through cut aperture(s);

wherein a first said aperture is centeredly located near one distal end of said flexible substrate body, and wherein said first aperture is a bottle neck cap stop rim gripping aperture (30);

iii. and a disengageable means for fastening said flexible substrate within said said pocket's defined retaining sleeve;

wherein said flexible substrate body and said defined retaining sleeve and said means for fastening cooperatively facilitate said flexible substrate's slide-able securement within said pocket (38) and/or a disengagement of said flexible substrate's body from said pocket (38);

whereas said flexible substrate body limitedly slides vertically upward within said defined retaining sleeve to sufficiently expose said bottle neck cap stop rim gripping aperture (30) to surround and retain said bottle's cap stop rim (44);

whereby the improvement is a removable bottle carrying said pocket attachment with a secured structural integrity via said cooperation between said flexible substrate body and said defined retaining sleeve and said means for fastening, as said attachment remains slide-ably accessible and slide-ably concealable.

2. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; said flexible substrate body comprising said first aperture, and at least one or more fastening means retaining aperture(s) in a shape of an elongate slot(s) (32) and paralleling said elongate flexible substrate body's elongate direction.

3. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; said flexible substrate body comprising said first aperture, and at least one or more fastening means retaining aperture(s) in an approximate shape of a circle(s) (54).

4. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; said flexible substrate body comprising said first aperture, and a fastening means retaining aperture in a vertically inverted and duplicate shape (56) of said first aperture.

5. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; said flexible substrate body comprising at least one or more laterally projecting appendage snub(s) (33) located at a vertically lower portion of said flexible substrate body which cooperate(s) with said flexible substrate body and said pocket and said disengageable means for fastening to slidingly retain said flexible substrate body within said pocket.

6. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; a preferred disengageable means for fastening via a two part cloth piercing dungaree button (36) which cooperates with said flexible substrate body and said pocket to slidingly retain said flexible substrate body within said pocket.

7. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; an alternative disengageable means for fastening via a four part male and female cloth piercing snap fastener button (34) which cooperates with said flexible substrate body and said pocket to slidingly retain said flexible substrate body within said pocket.

8. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; an alternative disengageable means for fastening via a chain (48) which cooperates with said flexible substrate body and said pocket to slidingly retain said flexible substrate body within said pocket.

9. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; an alternative disengageable means for fastening via a cord (50) which cooperates with said flexible substrate body and said pocket to slidingly retain said flexible substrate body within said pocket.

10. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; an alternative disengageable means for fastening via a cloth band (46) which cooperates with said flexible substrate body and said pocket to slidingly retain said flexible substrate body within said pocket.

11. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; an alternative disengageable means for fastening via at least one or more thread sewn areas (35) within said pocket which cooperate with said flexible substrate body and said pocket to slidingly retain said flexible substrate body within said pocket.

12. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; an alternative disengageable means for fastening via a sewn button (37) within said pocket which cooperates with said flexible substrate body and said pocket to slidingly retain said flexible substrate body within said pocket.

13. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; an alternative disengageable means for fastening via a cloth piercing two part threaded fastener (60) which cooperates with said flexible substrate body and said pocket to slidingly retain said flexible substrate body within said pocket.

14. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; an alternative disengageable means for fastening via a cloth gripping inverted alphabetical u-shape metal plate (62) which cooperates with said flexible substrate body and said pocket to slidingly retain said flexible substrate body within said pocket.

15. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; an alternative disengageable means for fastening via an adhesive (64) which cooperates with said flexible substrate body and said pocket to slidingly retain said flexible substrate body within said pocket.

16. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; said pocket comprising at least one or more apertures within said pocket's exterior cloth surface which cooperate(s) with said flexible substrate body and said pocket and said disengageable means for fastening to slidingly retain said flexible substrate body within said pocket.

17. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; a flexible substrate body of polyethyleneterephthalate or PET material.

18. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; a flexible substrate body of polyethylene material.

19. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; a flexible substrate body of polypropylene material.

20. A trouser's pocket attachment as recited in claim 1, and further comprising; a flexible substrate body of polyurethane material.