Universal grip device particularly for generic bottles and the like container

• US 4,667,359 A
• Filed: 12/31/1985
• Issued: 05/26/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Enzo Polotti
• Original Assignee: Enzo Polotti
• Inventors: Polotti, Enzo
• Primary Examiner(s): PARKER JR, ROSCOE
• Application Number:
  US06/814,950
• Time in Patent Office: 511 Days
• Field of Search: 7/151, 81/3.09, 81/3.15, 81/3.4, 81/3.07, 81/3.36, 294/28, 294/30, 294/31.2, 294/33
• US Class Current: 7/151
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 23/0241 for bottles; Decanters
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 23/106 the gripping region of the handle extending between the neck and the base of the bottle or jar and being located in a radial plane comprising the axis of the bottle or jar
• 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

The universal grip device comprises a handgrip element provided, at one end thereof, with an engagement body which can be snap fitted onto the neck portion of a bottle. With the handgrip element there is associated, at the other end, a band element which is clampable ring-like and engageable with a portion of the lateral surface of said bottle.

Claims

1. A universal grip device particularly for bottle-like containers with a cylindrical body portion and a neck formation at one end thereof, the device comprising:

A handgrip element having an elongate handle like shape extending in a first plane and having a first free end and an opposite second free end thereof longitudinally at a distance from said first free end,

a split ring formation on said first free end for snap engagement with the neck formation of the bottle-like container,

a supporting formation on said second free end,

a band element adapted to encircle the cylindrical body portion of the container and having closure means for maintaining a ring-like configuration defining a second plane of the band element,

pivot means for pivotally connecting said band element to said supporting formation, said pivot means defining a pivot axis lying both in said first plane and in said second plane thereby allowing said band element and said handgrip element to assume relative angular positions ranging from a relative angular position in which said first and said second planes are parallel to each other up to a ralative angular position in which said first and said second planes are perpendicular to each other.

2. A device according to claim 1, wherein said split ring has said split thereof facing in a direction transverse to said first plane.

3. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said supporting formation includes an internally scored cup formation means for bottle opening operation.

4. A universal grip device particularly for bottle-like containers with a cylindrical body portion and a neck formation at one end thereof, the device comprising:

A handgrip element having an elongate handle like shape extending in a first plane and having a first free end and an opposite second free end thereof longitudinally at a distance from said first free end,

a split ring formation on said first free end for snap engagement with the neck formation of the bottle-like container,

a supporting formation on said second free end,

a band element adapted to encircle the cylindrical body portion of the container and having closure means for maintaining a ring-like configuration defining a second plane of the band element,

pivot means for pivotally connecting said band element to said supporting formation, said pivot means defining a pivot axis lying both in said first plane and in said second plane thereby allowing said band element and said handgrip element to assume relative angular positions ranging from a relative angular position in which said first and said second planes are parallel to each other up to a ralative angular position in which said first and said second planes are perpendicular to each other and

wherein said split ring has said split thereof facing in a direction transverse to said first plane and

wherein said supporting formation includes an internally scored cup formation means for bottle opening operation.