Bottle opener and stabilizer

• US 10,640,353 B2
• Filed: 06/26/2018
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: John W. Kole
• Original Assignee: John W. Kole
• Inventors: Kole, John W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shakeri, Hadi
• Application Number:
  US16/018,693
• Publication Number:
  US 20190002261A1
• Time in Patent Office: 679 Days
• Field of Search: 81 309
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 23/104 Handles formed separately
• CPC Class Codes: B67B 7/18 for removing threaded caps B67B7/14 takes precedence; wrenches B25B13/00
• CPC Class Codes: B67B 7/44 Combination tools, e.g. comprising cork-screws, can piercers, crowncap removers combinations of opening devices with cutting tools B26; with devices serving other purposes, see appropriate subclasses, e.g. B25F; B43K29/00

Abstract

A dual bottle opener and stabilizer is provided comprising a single manufactured unit that forms three individual sections, wherein the first section comprises a handle, the second section configured to engage a bottle cap of a bottle for removing and holding the bottle cap, and a third section for placing over a bottle neck and engaging a bottle neck of the bottle for lifting and pouring from the bottle by the handle.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a first section defining a handle configured to lift a bottle when a bottle neck is snapped into the apparatus;

a second section coupled on a first side to the first section and defining a dual bottle cap remover and holder configured to engage and remove a cap of the bottle and hold the cap in the second section when the apparatus is moved from a cap removal orientation to a bottle pouring orientation;

a third section extending from a second side of the second section and defining a bottle stabilizer configured to engage the bottle neck when the apparatus is in the bottle pouring orientation, and further configured to stabilize the bottle when the first section is lifted and a liquid is poured from the bottle;

a pair of stabilizing members proximate to a tip of the third section;

wherein the pair of stabilizing members are raised bumps that engage a surface of the bottle while the liquid is poured from the bottle to provide bottle stability during pouring of the liquid; and

wherein the second section further comprises three recessed areas along a longitudinal axis, a first one of the recessed areas sized to fit over the cap and adapted to engage the cap and remove the cap when the apparatus is twisted and the apparatus is in the cap removal orientation and hold the cap when the apparatus is in the bottle pouring orientation, a second one and a third one of the recessed areas, each on either side of the first one of the recessed area along said axis, reduces a weight of the apparatus and provides balance to ensure that the bottle when empty does not tip over while the third section is engaged with the bottle neck of the bottle by distributing an apparatus weight for the apparatus.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the cap remover is further configured to firmly hold the cap once removed from the bottle.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the apparatus is in a first orientation with respect to the bottle during removal of the cap and in an opposite orientation when the liquid is poured from the bottle, and wherein the cap remains firmly held in the cap remover while the apparatus is in the opposite orientation.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the handle is a hollow rectangular cone of plastic material.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the rectangular cone has a diameter of approximately 1 3/16 of an inch.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein an inner circumference surface of the rectangular cone includes protruding ridges evenly spaced from one another along the inner circumference surface.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein each ridge is approximately 4/16 to 5/16 of an inch from an adjacent ridge.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein each ridge is approximately less than 1/16 of an inch.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the handle and the bottle stabilizer extend at an angle from opposing ends of the cap remover to form the apparatus.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the apparatus is a single piece of injection molded plastic.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the bottle stabilizer includes two holed areas with a first holed area configured to fit over the neck of the bottle, and the second holed area configured to snap onto and hold the neck when the apparatus is moved with the neck of the bottle in the first holed area towards the second holed area.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the second holed area has a diameter of approximately 1 inch and the first holed area has a diameter of approximately 1% of an inch.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the bottle stabilizer extends from a first side of the dual bottle cap remover and holder at approximately 140 degree angle to an underside surface of the dual bottle cap remover and holder relative to an orientation of the apparatus when the dual bottle cap remover and holder is engaged with the cap for removal of the cap from the bottle.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the handle extends from an opposing and second side of the dual bottle cap remover and holder at approximately 140 degree angle to the underside surface of the dual bottle cap remover and holder relative to the orientation of the apparatus when the dual bottle cap remover and holder is engaged with the cap for removal of the cap from the bottle.

15. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus is manufactured as a single piece of injection molded plastic material comprising the first section, the second section, and the third section.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the second section extends from the first section at an angle of approximately 140 degrees relative to an underside surface of the first section when the apparatus is in the cap removal orientation, and wherein the third section extends from the first section at an angle of approximately 140 degrees relative to the underside surface of the first section when the apparatus is in the cap removal orientation.