Beverage container serving apparatus including movable gate and related methods
AssigneeONA Creative, LLC.
InventorsAdrian De Sanctis, Ofer Fridfertig
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Abstract
A beverage container serving apparatus for beverage containers may include a floor and at least one sidewall extending upwardly from the floor and including a curved base segment and a pair of parallel arms extending from the curved base segment. The beverage container serving apparatus may further include an inner wall extending upwardly from the floor between the pair of parallel arms defining a container channel having a container inlet into which beverage containers are input and a container outlet from which the beverage containers are served. A movable gate may be adjacent one of the container inlet and container outlet and configured to maintain a given beverage container within the container channel.
Claims22
A beverage container serving apparatus for a plurality of beverage containers, the beverage serving apparatus comprising:
- a floor;
- at least one sidewall extending upwardly from the floor and comprising a curved base segment and a pair of parallel arms extending from the curved base segment;
- an inner wall extending upwardly from the floor between the pair of parallel arms defining a container channel having a container inlet into which the plurality of beverage containers is input and a container outlet from which the plurality of beverage containers is served;
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- a movable gate adjacent one of the container inlet and container outlet and configured to maintain a given beverage container from among the plurality thereof within the container channel.
A beverage container serving apparatus for a plurality of beverage containers, the beverage serving apparatus comprising:
- a floor;
- at least one U-shaped sidewall extending upwardly from the floor and comprising a curved base segment and a pair of parallel arms extending from the curved base segment;
- an inner wall extending upwardly from the floor between the pair of parallel arms defining a container channel having a container inlet into which the plurality of beverage containers is input and a container outlet from which the plurality of beverage containers is served;
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- at least one resilient protrusion adjacent one of the container inlet and container outlet and configured to maintain a given beverage container from among the plurality thereof within the container channel.
A method of making a beverage container serving apparatus for a plurality of beverage containers, the method comprising:
- forming a floor;
- forming at least one sidewall extending upwardly from the floor and comprising a curved base segment and a pair of parallel arms extending from the curved base segment;
- forming an inner wall extending upwardly from the floor between the pair of parallel arms defining a container channel having a container inlet into which the plurality of beverage containers is input and a container outlet from which the plurality of beverage containers is served;
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- forming a movable gate adjacent one of the container inlet and container outlet and configured to maintain a given beverage container from among the plurality thereof within the container channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.