US20130015185A1

US20130015185A1 - Interlocking Cap or Screw Cap

Info

Publication number: US20130015185A1
Application number: US13/361,381
Authority: US
Inventors: Gilberto Eugenio Galvan Leal; Adrian Moreno Alvarado
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2011-07-13
Filing date: 2012-01-30
Publication date: 2013-01-17

Abstract

The current invention is a cap or screw cap with an aggregation at least in its top surface allowing it to be used with other caps or screw caps to make assemblies with the purpose of making figures or indefinite assemblies by person with entertainment, educational, or any other purposes.

Description

This invention refers to a cap or screw cap which has been modified from its top surface to make join or fit between them at least two caps or screw caps in an easy, secure and simple way with the intention of creating figures, designs or creations that such joints form between them and with that, reuse the caps or screw caps which are commonly disposed and use them as a toy or any model to be assembled, or for any other purpose that it may be applied.

SUMMARY

Caps or screw caps have been used since a long time ago with a direct application, but they are usually discarded. Nevertheless, a cap or screw cap has never been developed with a modified top surface which would allow the joining of one with another in different positions to put them together. With this we can change the simple use of conventional caps or screw caps to avoid the disposal of them and help the environment by giving them another use.
Therefore the current invention implements a cap or screw cap to be assembled in different positions according to a design that varies in the way and kind it can be assembled, for caps or screw caps of the same or different size in an easy and simple way.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS

FIG. 1 is an isometric front view of a cap or screw cap, showing the protrusions top configuration.

FIG. 2 is an isometric front view of two caps or screw caps assembled between them by its surface middle part.

FIG. 3 is an isometric front view of two caps or screw caps but one of them has been modified to have a square shape and still make them assembled between them.

FIG. 4 is a top view of a cap or screw cap, showing the assembly of two more caps or screw caps.

FIG. 5 is an isometric bottom view of a cap or screw cap, showing the perimeter wall that will be located inside the protrusions.

FIG. 6 is an isometric bottom view of a screw cap with an external square configuration, showing the internal perimeter wall.

FIG. 7 is an isometric front view of four caps or screw caps assembled between them showing the protrusions top configuration.

FIG. 8 is an isometric front view of six caps or screw caps assembled between them showing the protrusions top configuration.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The current invention is related to any kind of cap or screw cap with a determined structure, which allows them to be assembled at least one to another in order to reuse them at the time they are discarded. This caps or screw caps can be used with entertainment purposes, as a constructive system or any other mean through the attachment, of at least at its top surface, by a material made up the same as the cap or screw cap, or any other material strategically accommodated.
The caps or screw caps have a series of protrusions on its top surface 1, from the same manufacturing as the cap, being an integral part of it, with a configuration that allows its interlocking with another cap or screw cap, with a height of at least one third of the total original size of the cap or screw cap, which allows them to interlock properly, with the conventional configuration of a regular cap or screw cap out there in the market in its bottom and inner part, being these either by pressure or screwing connection.
The interlock of each one of the caps or screw caps is achieved by positioning them either vertically or horizontally, placing one on top of the other with the desired configuration, as long as the perimeter wall, formed by the diameter difference between the internal and external wall, is placed between the protrusions formed in the top surface of each one of the caps or screw caps.
In the same way, the caps or screw caps have at least one guide 3, placed in the perimeter wall 2, making it easy to align one on top of the other.
The caps or screw caps will preferably have a circular external configuration, nevertheless, there is a possibility to have any geometric shape, keeping the protrusions on its top surface to be interlocked.

Claims

1. An interlockable cap having an inner region structured for pressure or screwing attachment with a container, the interlockable cap comprising:

a perimeter wall in the shape of a circle;

a top member situated on the perimeter wall and having a top surface;

a plurality of protrusions situated on the top surface;

at least a portion of the plurality of protrusions being structured to be interlocked with a perimeter wall of another interlockable cap; and

the perimeter wall being structured to be interlocked with at least a portion of a plurality of protrusions of yet another interlockable cap; and

a guide situated on the perimeter wall and structured to facilitate alignment of the perimeter wall with respect to the plurality of protrusions of the yet another interlockable cap.

2. An interlockable cap having an inner region structured for pressure or screwing attachment with a container, the interlockable cap comprising:

a perimeter wall;

a top member situated on the perimeter wall and having a top surface;

a plurality of protrusions situated on the top surface;

the perimeter wall being structured to be interlocked with at least a portion of a plurality of protrusions of yet another interlockable cap;

wherein the plurality of protrusions are formed integrally with and from the same manufacturing as the cap.

3. The interlockable cap of claim 1 wherein the at least a portion of the plurality of protrusions comprises at least a pair of protrusions that are structured to interlockingly receive between them a portion of the perimeter wall of the another interlockable cap.

4. The interlockable cap of claim 1 wherein the at least a portion of the plurality of protrusions has a space disposed therebetween, the perimeter wall of the another interlockable cap being receivable in the space to interlock the interlockable cap and the another interlockable cap.

5. The interlockable cap of claim 4 wherein the space is in the shape of a segment of a circle.

6. The interlockable cap of claim 5 wherein another at least a portion of the plurality of protrusions has another space disposed therebetween, and wherein the another space is in the shape of a segment of a circle and is structured to interlockingly receive therein a perimeter wall of a further interlockable cap that is in the shape of a circle.

7. The interlockable cap of claim 5 wherein another at least a portion of the plurality of protrusions has another space disposed therebetween, and wherein the another space is straight and is structured to interlockingly receive therein a perimeter wall of a further interlockable cap that is in the shape of a square.

8. (canceled)

9. The interlockable cap of claim 1 wherein the perimeter wall comprises a thread formed on an inner region thereof.