CANTILEVER-STYLE WINE BUCKET AND BOTTLE HOLDER

• US 20150374155A1
• Filed: 06/30/2014
• Published: 12/31/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JEK2, LLC
• Original Assignee: JEK2, LLC
• Inventors: Krumwiede, Judi, Krumwiede, James
• Granted Patent: US 9,398,824 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 55/02 made of wire
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 73/002 Racks made of wire
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/01 made of tubes or wire A47F5/0807 takes precedence foldable or adjustable A47F5/13
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 2023/0283 for one glass or cup
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 23/0225 attachable to a plate, table, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 23/0241 for bottles; Decanters
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 7/044 Hanging flower-pot holders, e.g. mounted on walls, balcony fences or the like on windows or doors A47H27/00
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 7/045 the flower-pots being suspended therefrom by wires or the like
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/022 repositionable

Abstract

A cantilever-style wine server for mounting to a table has a unitary frame composed of shaped metal bars, such as shaped rods with circular cross-sections. The frame includes a holder that serves as a receptacle for a wine bucket, insulator, and/or a bottle, and a mount/handle that serves as both a cantilever mount to the side of a table and as a handle to transport the server. The holder and mount/handle are unified as a single frame, such as by multiple welds. The frame has a flat base, enabling the server (even when fully loaded) to be set down on a flat surface. A removable cover may center a wine bottle in the holder.

Claims

1. A table-mountable server comprising:

a unitary frame, the unitary frame having a flat base and comprising a holder portion connected to a mount portion,

the holder portion comprising;

a ring;

a first support comprising a first inside leg and a first outside leg, each connected at one end to the ring and connected at the other end to a section of the first support forming part of the flat base;

a second support, laterally spaced from the first support and comprising a second inside leg and a second outside leg, each connected at one end to the ring and connected at the other end to a section of the second support forming part of the flat base; and

at least one crossbar, each crossbar connected at one end to the first support and at the other end to the second support; and

the mount portion comprising;

a first arm partially abutting and connected to the first inside leg;

a second arm, laterally spaced from the first arm, partially abutting and connected to the second inside leg;

a top bracket comprising a first contact bar and portions of the first arm and the second arm extending away the ring of the holder portion, the first contact bar connecting a first end of the first arm to a first end of the second arm; and

a bottom bracket comprising a second contact bar and portions of the first arm and the second arm extending away from the holder portion along the flat base, portions of each arm forming part of the flat base and before curving away from the flat base, the second contact bar connecting a second end of the first arm to a second end of the second arm,

wherein the bottom bracket extends further away from the holder portion than the top bracket.

2. The table-mountable server of claim 1, wherein the ring, the first support, the second support, the at least one crossbar, the first arm, the second arm, the first contact bar, and the second contact bar are composed of metal bars with circular cross-sections.

3. The table-mountable server of claim 2, wherein the first arm is connected to the first inside leg by a first plurality of welds, and the second arm is connected to the second inside leg by a second plurality of welds.

4. The table-mountable server of claim 1, wherein a first distance between the first contact bar and the second contact bar is approximately equal to a diameter of the ring.

5. The table-mountable server of claim 4, wherein a second distance between the first contact bar and a nearest edge of the ring is approximately one-half the diameter of the ring.

6. The table-mountable server of claim 1, wherein:

the section of the of the first support of the holder forming part of the flat base is parallel to the section of the second support of the holder forming part of the flat base, and

the portions of the first arm and the second arm of the bottom bracket that form part of the flat base are parallel to each other.

7. The table-mountable server of claim 1, wherein the first contact bar and the second contact bar are coated with a nonslip material.

8. The table-mounted server of claim 7, wherein the nonslip material is selected from the group consisting of natural rubber, synthetic rubber, latex, vinyl, elastic polymer, and silicone.

9. The table-mountable server of claim 1, wherein the first arm and the second arm flare outwards proximate to the second ends, a length of the second contact bar being longer than a distance between the first arm and the second along the flat base.

10. The table-mountable server of claim 1, wherein a first distance from the first contact bar of the top bracket to the flat base is greater than a second distance from the ring of the holder portion to the flat base.

11. The table-mountable server of claim 1, wherein proximate to the first ends, the first arm and the second end bend toward the bottom bracket.

12. The table-mountable server of claim 1, wherein proximate to the second ends, the first arm and the second arm are oriented at an obtuse angle relative to a plane of the flat base.

13. The table-mountable server of claim 1, further comprising a cover attached to the ring of the holder portion, the cover comprising:

a cover ring that is concentric with the ring of the holder portion; and

a first cover arm and a second cover arm, symmetric to each other and connected to opposite sides of the cover ring.

14. The table-mountable server of claim 13, wherein the cover removably attaches to the ring of the holder portion, each of the first cover arm and the second cover arm having a first end that is hooked to clasp around an outside of the ring of the holder portion, and a second end that is bent to secure an opposite side of the cover to the ring of the holder portion.

15. The table-mountable server of claim 1, further comprising a cover attached to the ring of the holder portion, the cover comprising:

a disk-shaped lid having a middle hole concentric with the ring of the holder portion and sized to receive and locate a bottle standing vertically within the holder, the disk abutting the top bracket of the holder portion; and

an outer edge having one or more depending parts engaging the ring for removably attaching the cover to the holder portion.

16. The table-mountable server of claim 1, further comprising a bucket that is received in the holder portion between the inside and outside legs, under ring, the bucket comprising flanges that abut an underside of the ring on opposite sides of the holder portion.

17. The table-mountable server of claim 1, further comprising a bucket that removably nests between the inside and outside legs through the ring of the holder portion, a top edge of the nested bucket opposite the flat base flush with a top edge of the ring opposite the flat base, a bottom of the bucket interlocking with the holder portion.

18. A table-mountable server comprising:

a frame, the frame having a holder portion connected to a mount portion,

the holder portion comprising;

an upper ring;

a base spaced under the ring and connected to the ring, the base presenting a generally level interior surface to support an article placed thereon, with a first support member comprising a first inside leg and a first outside leg and a second support member, laterally spaced from the first support member, comprising a second inside leg and a second outside leg, with the ends of each leg connected to the ring on opposed sides thereof; and

at least one crossbar, each crossbar connected at one end to the first support and at the other end to the second support and forming the base; and

the mount portion comprising;

a first arm partially abutting and connected to the first inside leg;

a second arm, laterally spaced from the first arm, partially abutting and connected to the second inside leg;

a top bracket which engages an upper surface of a table in use, comprising upper portions of the first arm and the second arm extending away the ring of the holder portion and terminating in a contact part which will engage the upper surface in use; and

a bottom bracket which engages a lower surface of a table in use, comprising lower portions of the first arm and the second arm extending away from the holder portion and terminating in another contact part which will engage the lower surface in use, the bottom bracket extending further away from the holder portion than the top bracket such that the holder portion is suspended in a cantilever fashion from the table when the server is engaged with the table.

19. The table-mountable server of claim 18, further comprising a cover attached to the ring of the holder portion, the removable cover comprising:

a cover ring that is concentric with the ring of the holder portion; and

a first cover arm and a second cover arm, symmetric to each other and connected to opposite sides of the cover ring.

20. The table-mountable server of claim 18, further comprising a cover attached to the ring of the holder portion, the cover comprising:

a disk-shaped lid having a middle hole concentric with the ring of the holder portion and sized to receive and locate a bottle standing vertically within the holder, the disk abutting the top bracket of the holder portion; and

an outer edge having one or more depending parts engaging the ring for removably attaching the cover to the holder portion.

21. The table-mountable server of claim 18, wherein the first and second inside legs extend generally straight downwardly from the ring, and the first and second arms extend generally along the entire length of the first and second inside legs, with the inside legs and first and second arms rigidly attached at one or more points along that length.