US20160257441A1 - Combination Bottle and System - Google Patents
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Abstract
A combination bottle and system for devising combination bottles for the retention of liquids and other pliable items is provided. A base container unit with an open mouth is configured to retain liquids and exhibits a base unit perimeter lip with an attachment configuration and the base container unit may be combined with various capacity-adding units which have perimeter lips with a variety of attachment configurations that allow attachment between the base unit and the capacity-adding unit(s). The base container unit may be combined either alone or with various numbers of capacity adding units with one or more top units that have top unit perimeter lips with top unit attachment configurations mateable with the various constituent members of the combination bottle system. Various top units are provided which exhibit functional end selected from the group of: sippy cup functional end, straw functional end, and nipple functional end. By varying the size of perimeter lips and projection aspect, necks may be created in constituted bottles providing convenient hand-holds.
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- The present invention relates to combination bottle systems that provide flexible capacity and function for containers.
- A variety of styles and configurations of bottles and containers are used to hold liquids and foods ranging, for example, from baby formula and milk to consumables oriented for more adult tastes such as, for example, nutritional or energy drinks consumed on long commutes, vacation shores or the high vistas of the Rocky Mountains.
- Millions of bottles are discarded each year. For example, of the large variety of bottles used in tending growing babies and children, approximately 70 million end in landfills across the US each year. A part of this disposal load results when babies “outgrow” both the size and function of their bottles. For example, they outgrow their nipple-topped bottles and move up the maturity ladder to what are often called “sippy cups” and then finally to bottles topped by lids configured to securely include a straw.
- Fixed capacities also reduce the utility of bottles and containers. Small babies can more readily hold a smaller bottle while the grasp as well as appetite of large children is better suited to bottles of greater capacity.
- Hikers sometimes include a mix of bottles in their equipment to allow adaptation to the dry conditions of desert hiking with 1500 cc water bottles while in cooler mountain environments they may employ standard 1 liter bottles. Yet, for some foods and recreational drinks, a 1 liter capacity bottle may be too much and a separate smaller bottle is required for smaller amounts of drink and food if valuable pack space is to be conserved.
- Further, many bottles are still constructed from potentially mutagenic materials that may raise the risk of some cancers and birth defects.
- What is needed, therefore, is a bottle and container system that provides capacity and function flexibility in an integrated system constructed from safe materials and which adapts to the age, abilities and interests of the user.
- A base unit is combined with various capacity-adding units and/or top units having various functional ends to provide a combination bottle and system of wide flexibility and use. Various capacities may be devised by combining one or multiple capacity-adding units to a base unit while various functions for the combined bottle may be implemented through various functional ends for the employed top unit. In some embodiments, combinations of attachment configurations of various perimeter lips of the constituent bottle units create neck features in devised combination bottles. Various configurations of attachment configurations may be combined to impose particular stacking or combination rules on constituted combination bottles devised from various embodiments of the combination bottle systems provided.
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FIG. 1A depicts an exemplar base unit employed in a combination bottle system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. -
FIGS. 1B-1F each depict various example configurations for functional ends of top units that may be employed with various embodiments of a combination bottle system in accordance with the present invention. -
FIGS. 2A, 2B, and 2C each depict various example attachment configurations employed in a top unit embodiment for use with various embodiments of the present invention. -
FIG. 3 depicts an embodiment from a combination bottle system employing multiple capacity adding units and a coffee style top unit. -
FIG. 4 depicts another embodiment from a combination bottle system employing an open lip top unit. -
FIG. 5 depicts another embodiment from a combination bottle system. -
FIG. 6 depicts another embodiment from a combination bottle system employing a sippy cup top unit. -
FIG. 7 illustrates a few example attachment configurations employed in an embodiment of a combination bottle. -
FIG. 8 depicts yet another embodiment of a combination bottle. -
FIG. 9 depicts a combination bottle in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention in which a double walled construction is employed by various units of the combination bottle. -
FIG. 1A depicts aspects of anexemplar bottle system 10. As shown inFIG. 1A ,base unit 20 is acontainer having capacity 21 and anopen end 22 with aperimeter lip 24 configured with an attachment configuration 26 X.Base unit 20 may be any of a variety of configurations, such as, for example, round, square, faceted or oval. Attachment configuration 26 X is preferably, although not necessarily, round. - Various exemplar top units are shown in
FIGS. 1B-1F with each being depicted with afunctional end 28.FIG. 1B showstop unit 30 1 having, for example, afunctional end 28 that is anipple end 32. In these Figs,reference 28 refers to any functional end while particular types of functional ends are identified by their own unique reference. -
Top unit 30 1 is shown having ashell 31 and aseparable nipple 32 as its functional end.Top units 30 that employ separablefunctional ends 28 are comprised from ashell 31 and a separable functional end. InFIG. 1C ,top unit 30 2 is shown having afunctional end 28 which in this particular embodiment, is a sippy cup lipfunctional end 34 while inFIG. 1D ,top unit 30 3 exhibits afunctional end 28 which is a strawfunctional end 36 with an optional ferrule orbulb 37 to retainstraw 36 intop unit 30 3.Top unit 30 4 is shown with afunctional end 28 which is a push-pull access sports type functional end 29 (FIG. 1E ). InFIG. 1F anotherfunctional end 28 which is a sports typefunctional end 29 adapted for bicycling is shown. The nipplefunctional end 32, sippy cupfunctional end 34, integrated strawfunctional end 36, push-pull access sportsfunctional end 29 1 and flip over sports typefunctional end 29 2 are just examples of various types offunctional ends 28. These examples should not be considered limiting however. It should be appreciated thatfunctional ends 28 may be either integrated, such as shown by an integrated sippy cupfunctional end 34 inFIG. 1C or separable fromshell 31 oftop unit 30 such as is shown inFIG. 1B . It should be appreciated that as with other various functional ends, nipplefunctional end 32 may be separable fromshell 31 or integral withtop unit 30. As shown inFIGS. 1A-1F ,top units 30 X include an attachment configuration 26 Y that mates with an attachment configuration 26 X ofbase unit 20 or later shown capacity-addingunit 50. As will be appreciated,top unit 30 may havefunctional ends 28 that provide substantially covered tops to the combination bottle as shown inFIG. 3 for use with hot liquids while another type of functional end may merely be an open lipped functional end such as that shown inFIG. 4 . It will be further appreciated that these are merely examples of a few of the many different types of top units that may be employed in a bottle system in accordance with preferred embodiments of the present invention. -
FIGS. 2A, 2B, and 2C depict from a top down view abase unit 20 with a semi-rectangular configuration devised for convenient stacking, shipment and use in suitcases or packs where space is at a premium. As those of skill will appreciate,base unit 20 as well as thecapacity adding units 50 may display any of a variety of configurations such as circular or rectangular to name just a couple of examples. -
Base unit 20 is depicted as configured with various exemplar types of attachment configurations 26 X provided to illustrate, without limiting, a variety of example types of attachment configurations employable with various units of the combination bottle andsystem 10.FIG. 2A illustrates an attachment configuration 26 XA in which aslot 40 is part of an attachment configuration 26 X that may be part of a base unit or a capacity-addingunit 50 such as those shown in later figures.Slot 40 is configured to accept a tab from attachment configuration 26 Y of a correspondingtop unit 30 or capacity-addingunit 50 and a slopingchannel 42 is provided to allow mating between various units ofsystem 10.FIG. 2B depicts a screw thread attachment configuration 26 XB withthreads 44 that are internal to theperimeter lip 24.FIG. 2C depicts a screw thread attachment configuration 26 XC havingthreads 46 that are external onperimeter lip 24. These are just a few exemplars of attachment configurations 26 X that may be used to provide one of the pair of attachment configurations 26 X and 26 Y that mate to provide attachment amongstbase units 20, capacity-addingunits 50, andtop units 30. -
FIG. 3 depicts anexemplar combination bottle 60 with multiple capacity-addingunits 50 each havingcapacity 52 and afirst perimeter lip 24 with an upper attachment configuration 26 X and asecond perimeter lip 24 with a lower attachment configuration 26 Y. It should be appreciated that thecombination bottle 60 shown inFIG. 3 is illustrated with three capacity-addingunits 50 and abase unit 20 and atop unit 30 5 shown configured as with “coffee top”functional end 28 useful for drinking liquids that may be spilled, but a variety oftop units 30 as well as capacity-addingunits 50 of a variety of configurations may be employed with the depicted embodiment. It should also be appreciated that the upper and lower attachment configurations 26 X and 26 Y respectively, of a particular capacity-adding unit may be of the same type such as, for example, both screw configurations, or different types such as, for example, tab and slot connective configuration for upper attachment configuration 26 X and screw configuration for lower attachment configuration 26 Y, for example. Further, the upper and lower attachment configurations of a particular capacity-adding unit may both be of the same type (e.g., screw) yet one may exhibit internal threads while the other external threads or, both upper and lower attachment configurations may exhibit the same character of threads. Further, theperimeter lips 24 of a particular capacity-addingunit 50 orbase unit 20 ortop unit 30 may be of either “gender” (e.g., male or projecting) or in units having two perimeter lips such as, for example, exemplar capacity-addingunits 50, the perimeter lips may be of different gender (e.g., one male and the other female or accepting) or the same gender. - A variety of materials are preferably employed in the construction of preferred embodiments of
combination bottle 60 including, for example, materials such as stainless steel, aluminum, PET, copolyester, glass, PS, AS, bio based polymers, PE, PP, PPSU, BPA, PES, acrylic, bamboo, melamine, or PA. As those of skill will recognize, these materials are typically less toxic and more inert than many other materials and therefore are recommended for use in bottles and containers for foods and liquids. - As shown in
FIG. 3 , attachment configuration 26 X and attachment configuration 26 Y are mateable with each other to combine the various units ofcombination bottle 60. There need not be uniformity between the first and second lip gender nor in the attachment configurations of said perimeter lips. In combination bottles devised fromunits constituent units -
FIG. 4 depicts acombination bottle 60 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention in which abase unit 20 is combined through the mating of attachment configuration 26 Y ofperimeter lip 24 ofbase unit 20 with attachment configuration 26 Y exhibited byperimeter lip 24 of capacity-addingunit 50 and the mating of attachment configuration 26 Y of theperimeter lip 24 oftop unit 30 6 with attachment configuration 26 X of capacity-addingunit 50 to create an open lipped cupvariant combination bottle 60. -
FIG. 4 depicts variousexemplar units combination bottle 60. It should be understood that the illustrations of the present disclosure are merely exemplars and the combinations available are not in any way limited to those shown whether in combinations shown or in dimensions relative or absolute. As illustrated inFIG. 4 , multiple units such asbase unit 20 and capacity-addingunits 50 with diameter A may be combined into amulti-piece bottle 60 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. Varioustop units 30 may be chosen for employment incombination bottle 60 as those of skill will understand after appreciating this disclosure. -
FIG. 5 depicts acombination bottle 60 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention in which abase unit 20 is combined through the mating of attachment configuration 26 X ofperimeter lip 24 ofbase unit 20 with attachment configuration 26 Y exhibited byperimeter lip 24 of capacity-addingunit 50 and the mating of attachment configuration 26 Y of theperimeter lip 24 oftop unit 30 2 with attachment configuration 26 X ofupper perimeter lip 24 of capacity-addingunit 50 to create a larger sippy cupvariant combination bottle 60 for extended car trips, for example. -
FIG. 6 illustrates the combination of anexemplar base unit 20 having attachment configuration 26 X on a projecting (e.g., “male”)perimeter lip 24 configured for mating to an attachment configuration 26 Y configured on a corresponding lower projecting perimeter lip of acapacity adding unit 50. When the present disclosure refers to a perimeter lip without specifying that it is projecting or accepting/receiving it should be understood that such perimeter lip may be either. - In some of the provided views, attachment configuration 26 X is configured on a projecting
perimeter lip 24 andattachment configuration 26 y is configured on an acceptingperimeter lip 24 but as those of skill will understand after appreciating this disclosure, some embodiments may exhibit attachment configurations 26 X and 26 Y with each found on projectingperimeter lips 24. It will be noted thatupper perimeter lip 24 ofcapacity adding unit 50 creates a diameter A2 incapacity adding unit 50 that is smaller than diameter A1 of thebody 55 ofcapacity adding unit 50. - As shown in
FIG. 7 , configured in the upper-most capacity-addingunit 50 of the figure isperimeter lip 24 configured with an attachmentconfiguration exhibiting slot 40 andchannel 42 to accepttab 54 on either another capacity-addingunit 50 or, as shown, atop unit 30 as shown inFIG. 7 . Depictedtop unit 30 includes afunctional end 28 which is asports top nozzle 29 and a finger ring 41 although no particular configuration should be implied as this should be understood to be merely an example of one of the many configurations of functional tops used withcombination bottle 60. -
FIG. 8 depicts abase unit 20 withcapacity 21 having an attachment configuration 26 X exhibited on itsperimeter lip 24. Depictedcombination bottle 60 includesbase unit 20 and capacity-addingunit 50 withcapacity 51 and, as illustrated,top unit 30 having attachment configuration 26 Y that mates with attachment configuration 26 X ofunit 50.Top unit 30 is configured with afunctional unit 28 which is an adult suctionfunctional end 33 to provide a sealed container until suction is applied totop unit 30. - It will be appreciated that because diameter B is less than diameter A1 this results in combination bottle 60 a neck of smaller diameter and shown height C which may provide a convenient hand-hold in
bottle 60.Surface 54 of mid-level capacity-addingunit 50 ofFIG. 8 is shown in a planar configuration which creates a bottom surface on that capacity-addingunit 50 which provides added stability between the constituent units. For added leak prevention, an optional washer may be employed to enhance the fit between capacity-addingunit 50 andbase unit 20 or another capacity-addingunit 50 with which it is mated through the mating of respective attachment configurations 26 X and 26 Y. -
FIG. 8 depicts a double-walled construction that may be employed in configurations employed with fluids that are preferably maintained in temperature.Space 51 betweenwalls 53 is preferably air but may be partial vacuum or even filled with argon or other insulative gas as those of skill will appreciate. Thus, combination bottles that provide improved thermal stability with safe materials while offering flexible capacities and utility are provided by such embodiments.
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1. A combination bottle system comprising:
a base container unit configured to retain liquids, the base container unit having an open mouth with a base unit perimeter lip having an attachment configuration;
a capacity-adding unit configured to retain liquids, the capacity-adding unit having a first perimeter lip having a first attachment configuration, the first attachment configuration of the first perimeter lip and the attachment configuration of the base unit perimeter lip being mateable with each other, the capacity-adding unit having a second perimeter lip having a second attachment configuration; and
a top unit having a top unit perimeter lip having a top unit attachment configuration mateable with the second attachment configuration of the second perimeter lip of the capacity-adding unit.
2. The combination bottle system of clam 1 in which each of the top unit, the base container unit and the capacity adding unit are comprised from a group of materials including: stainless steel, aluminum, PET, copolyester, glass, PS, AS, bio based polymers, PE, PP, PPSU, BPA, PES, acrylic, bamboo, melamine, and PA.
3. The combination bottle system of claim 1 in which the top unit exhibits a functional end selected from the group of: sippy cup functional end, straw functional end, nipple functional end, sports functional end, coffee top functional end and open lipped functional end
4. The combination bottle system of any of claim 1 in which the attachment configuration of the base unit perimeter lip, the first attachment configuration of the first perimeter lip of the capacity-adding unit and the second attachment configuration of the second perimeter lip of the capacity-adding unit are each of the same type.
5. The combination bottle system of claim 2 in which the attachment configuration of the base unit perimeter lip, the first attachment configuration of the first perimeter lip of the capacity-adding unit and the second attachment configuration of the second perimeter lip of the capacity-adding unit are each of the same type.
6. The combination bottle system of claim 1 in which the top unit comprises a shell and said top unit exhibits a nipple functional end separable from the shell of the top unit.
7. The combination bottle system of claim 1 in which the top unit exhibits an integral nipple functional end.
8. The combination bottle system of claim 1 in which the first perimeter lip of the capacity-adding unit and the base unit perimeter lip of the base unit are each configured with a projecting configuration so that when the first attachment configuration of the first perimeter lip of the capacity-adding unit and the attachment configuration of the base unit perimeter lip are mated, the combination bottle exhibits a neck having a neck diameter smaller than the diameter of the base unit.
9. A combination bottle system comprising:
a base container unit configured to retain liquids, the base container unit having an open mouth with a base unit perimeter lip having an attachment configuration; and
first and second top units, each of said first and second top units having a top unit perimeter lip having an attachment configuration mateable with the attachment configuration of the base unit perimeter lip, said first and second top units each exhibiting a different functional end, each of the
10. The combination bottle system of claim 8 in which the functional ends of the first and second units are selected from the group of: sippy cup functional end, straw functional end, nipple functional end, sports functional end, and open lipped functional end.
11. The combination bottle system of claim 8 in which the first top unit exhibits a nipple functional end that is separable from a shell of said first top unit.
12. A combination bottle system comprising:
a base container unit configured to retain liquids, the base container unit having an open mouth with a base unit perimeter lip having an attachment configuration;
a first capacity-adding unit configured to retain liquids, the first capacity-adding unit having a first perimeter lip having a first attachment configuration and a second perimeter lip having a second attachment configuration, the attachment configuration of the base unit perimeter lip being mateable with the first attachment configuration of the first perimeter lip or the second attachment configuration of the second attachment lip; and
a second capacity-adding unit configured to retain liquids, the second capacity-adding unit having a primary second capacity-adding unit perimeter lip having a third attachment configuration, the third attachment configuration being mateable with the attachment configuration of the base unit perimeter lip or the first or second attachment configurations of the respective perimeter lips of the first capacity-adding unit.
13. The combination bottle system of claim 12 in which the first and second capacity adding units are comprised from materials from a group of materials: stainless steel, aluminum, PET, copolyester, glass, PS, AS, bio based polymers, PE, PP, PPSU, BPA, PES, acrylic, bamboo, melamine, and PA.
14. The combination bottle system of claim 13 further comprising
a top unit, the top unit having a top unit perimeter lip, said top unit having a top unit attachment configuration mateable with the attachment configuration of the base unit perimeter lip or the first attachment configuration of the first perimeter lip or the second attachment configuration of the second perimeter lip of the first capacity-adding unit.
15. The combination bottle system of claim 14 in which the top unit exhibits a functional end, said functional end being selected from the group of: sippy cup functional end, nipple functional end, and straw functional end.
16. The combination bottle system of claim 14 in which the top unit comprises a shell and a separable functional end.
17. The combination bottle system of claim 12 further comprising:
first and second top units, the first top unit having a first top unit perimeter lip having a first top unit attachment configuration mateable with the attachment configuration of the base unit perimeter lip or the first, second, or third attachment configurations and said second top unit having a second top unit perimeter lip having a second top unit attachment configuration said first and second top units each exhibiting a functional end.
18. The combination bottle system of claim 17 in which said first and second top units each have a functional end selected from the group of functional ends including sippy cup functional end, straw cup functional end and nipple cup functional end.
19. The combination bottle system of claim 18 in which the functional ends of the respective first and second top units each exhibit a different function.
20. A combination bottle system comprising:
a base container unit configured to retain liquids, the base container unit having an open mouth with a base unit perimeter lip having an attachment configuration; and
first and second top units, the first top unit having a first top unit perimeter lip having a first top unit attachment configuration mateable with the attachment configuration of the base unit perimeter lip and said second top unit having a second top unit perimeter lip having a second top unit attachment configuration, said first and second top units each exhibiting a functional end selected from the group of: nipple functional end and sippy cup functional end and straw cup functional end, the base container unit and the first and second top units each being comprised from materials selected from: stainless steel, aluminum, PET, copolyester, glass, PS, AS, bio based polymers, PE, PP, PPSU, BPA, PES, acrylic, bamboo, melamine, PA.
21. A combination bottle system comprising:
a base container unit configured to retain liquids, the base container unit having an open mouth with a base unit perimeter lip having an attachment configuration; and
a first capacity-adding unit configured to retain liquids, the first capacity-adding unit having a first perimeter lip having a first attachment configuration and a second perimeter lip having a second attachment configuration, the attachment configuration of the base unit perimeter lip being mateable with the first attachment configuration of the first perimeter lip or the second attachment configuration of the second attachment lip, the first perimeter lip of the capacity-adding unit and the base unit perimeter lip of the base unit being each configured with a projecting configuration so that when the first attachment configuration of the first perimeter lip of the capacity-adding unit and the attachment configuration of the base unit perimeter lip are mated, the combination bottle exhibits a neck.
22. The combination bottle of claim 19 further comprising a top unit having a functional end.
23. The combination bottle of claim 19 in which the base unit has a base unit diameter and the neck has a neck diameter and the base unit diameter is larger than the neck diameter.
24. The combination bottle of claim 20 in which the capacity-adding unit exhibits a flat floor surface.
25. A combination bottle system comprising:
a base container unit configured to retain liquids, the base container unit having an open mouth with a base unit perimeter lip having an attachment configuration;
a capacity adding unit configured with first and second attachment configurations, the first attachment configuration being mateable with the attachment configuration of the base container unit;
a first top unit having a functional end and a first top unit perimeter lip having a first top unit attachment configuration mateable with the attachment configuration of the base unit perimeter lip and the second attachment configuration of the capacity adding unit, each of the capacity adding unit and the base container unit having double walled construction.
26. The combination bottle system of claim 25 further comprising a second top unit having a function end that provides a function distinct from the function provided by the first top unit.
27. The combination bottle system of claim 25 in which the capacity adding unit and the base container unit are each comprised from materials selected from the list of: stainless steel, aluminum, PET, copolyester, glass, PS, AS, bio based polymers, PE, PP, PPSU, BPA, PES, acrylic, bamboo, melamine, and PA.
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