Transmitter to bottle attachment means

• US 20070120701A1
• Filed: 11/25/2005
• Published: 05/31/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David Teller
• Original Assignee: David Teller
• Inventors: Teller, David
• Application Number:
  US11/286,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20070120701A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/693.900
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0017 Anti-theft devices, e.g. tags or monitors, fixed to articles, e.g. clothes, and to be removed at the check-out of shops
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0041 for essentially round objects, e.g. bottles or racket handles
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/149 with electric, magnetic, capacitive switch actuation
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 23/00 Advertising on or in specific articles, e.g. ashtrays, letter-boxes on or in vehicles G09F21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 23/08 with tableware
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/14 by strings, straps, chains, or wires

Abstract

Transmitter housing to bottle attachment assembly where the housing can be removed and replaced from the attaching member. In a preferred embodiment, a bottle neck attachment platform includes outwardly extending longitudinal ribs that can slidably engage L shaped members located on the back of the housing. The platform also includes a semi-rigid tab having an aperture capable of receiving a protrusion located on the back side of the housing so that the housing can be removed after contents of the bottle is used up. The platform has an integral standard cable tie strap protruding from one side which can be inserted into a mating aperture located in the platform. The transmitter housing includes accommodation for either a mechanical switch or hall effects magnetic switch that engages with the surface of the bottle neck thereby turning the transmitter on.

Claims

1. Transmitter housing to bottle attachment means comprising:

a transmitter housing;

a housing attachment means; and

said housing capable of being removable and replaceable from a beverage bottle.

2. Transmitter housing to bottle attachment means as claimed in claim 1 wherein a first method of attachment includes a bottle neck attachment assembly including sliding said housing onto a mating platform;

said platform being approximately rectangular and terminating at opposing sides by outwardly extending longitudinal ribs;

said platform also including a semi-rigid tab having an aperture capable of receiving a protrusion located on the back side of said housing so that said housing can be removed after contents of said bottle is used up;

said platform being flat on its housing receiving surface and being radially curved on its bottle neck receiving surface;

said platform ribs capable of slidably engaging L shaped brackets located on said housing back;

said platform having an integral standard cable tie strap protruding from one side;

said cable tie strap capable of being inserted into a mating aperture located in said platform;

said transmitter housing including accommodation for either a mechanical switch or hall effects magnetic switch that engages with the surface of said bottle neck thereby turning said transmitter on.

3. Transmitter housing to bottle attachment means as claimed in claim 2 wherein, in an alternate embodiment, said platform includes an aperture that can accept a standard independent cable tie rather than said integral cable tie.

4. Transmitter housing to bottle attachment means as claimed in claim 1 wherein a second method of attachment includes a bottle cap attachment assembly including a C shaped cap holding arm integrally attached to said transmitter housing;

said C shaped arm ends tapering downwardly to allow room for a standard bottle cap opener to engage said bottle cap;

said C shaped arm including a perpendicular lower ledge that can engage the bottom edge of a standard bottle cap;

said C shape being slightly over one hundred and eighty degrees internally so that it can lock onto said bottle cap;

said C shape capable of flexing outward during attachment and then returning to original shape thereby retaining said bottle cap.

5. Transmitter housing to bottle attachment means as claimed in claim 1 wherein a third method of attachment includes a platform similar to that of the one claimed in claim 2 but where said housing pushes onto said platform;

said platform including an upwardly facing finger having a barbed tip that removebly engages a ledge located in the side wall of said housing.

6. Transmitter housing to bottle attachment means as claimed in claim 1 wherein a fourth method of attachment includes an integral radially curved back surface capable of removably engaging a standard beverage bottle neck;

said back area including an aperture capable of retaining an elastic band;

said housing back also including outwardly extending band retaining fingers so that the user can slide said band over the neck of a bottle and then rotate said housing one hundred and eighty degrees causing said band to tighten and said band portions to engage with said band retaining fingers so that said band remains extended thereby holding said housing firmly on said bottle neck;

7. Transmitter housing to bottle attachment means as claimed in claim 1 wherein a fifth method of attachment includes a transmitter housing having a radially curved back surface capable of mating with the neck of a standard beverage bottle and where a parallel pair of elastic bands are retained by said housing;

said bands also being retained by a curved shaped plastic panel that opposes said housing back so that when a person pulls back on said curved panel, it causes said bands to be stretched so that a person can place said bands over a standard bottle top and then release said curved panel so that said bands retract to hold said housing firmly onto said bottleneck.

8. Transmitter housing to bottle attachment means as claimed in claim 1 wherein a sixth method of attachment includes a transmitter housing having a flexible band protruding from one side that terminates in a buckle assembly and a flexible band protruding from the opposite side that includes a plurality of equally spaced retaining ribs so that when a person wraps said buckle side around a standard bottle neck, said buckle can engage with one of said retaining ribs and be tightened to cause said housing to lock firmly onto said bottle neck.

9. Transmitter housing to bottle attachment means as claimed in claim 1 wherein a seventh method of attachment includes a spring metal C shaped clip that can be pushed onto the neck of a standard beverage bottle.

10. Transmitter housing to bottle attachment means as claimed in claim 1 wherein an eighth method do attachment includes a cable tie assembly as claimed in claim 1 however, said housing is removably attachable by means of a centrally located bayonet type engaging means where said housing includes a circular aperture having a pair of opposing rectangular cutouts that can accept an opposing pair of outwardly facing tabs that are molded onto a circular post mounted to the top surface of said platform area.