Beverage cover alarm
OwnerSherifa Gayle, Nikos Montesatosinventors
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Abstract
The beverage cover alarm is a lid for a beverage container that protects the beverage in the container from being tampered with. When the user must leave the beverage unattended, they place the lid onto the container and the lid uses one or more pressure sensors that are in contact with the rim of the container to detect removal. The lid comprises one or more LEDs that visually report that the beverage cover alarm is protecting the beverage or that the lid has been removed. Once the lid is removed a tampering warning is presented visually and the tampering warning cannot be reset without pressing a designated finger of the user against a fingerprint scanner located on the top of the lid.
Claims17
A beverage cover alarm comprising:
- a lid, one or more grooves, one or more pressure sensors, a fingerprint scanner, one or more LED lights, a processor, and a battery;
- wherein the lid is placed on the top of a beverage container which is going to be left unattended;
- wherein the beverage cover alarm is adapted to provide a warning if the lid is removed by an unauthorized person;
- wherein the lid is a disk-shaped covering for the beverage container;
- wherein the fingerprint scanner is located on a top surface of the lid;
- wherein the one or more grooves are located on a bottom surface of the lid;
- wherein the one or more grooves are circular;
- wherein the one or more grooves are concentric if there are at least two of the one or more grooves;
- wherein an individual groove selected from the one or more grooves comprises a pair of O-rings located on an inside wall and on an outside wall of the individual groove;
- wherein the pair of O-rings compress against a rim of the beverage container that is inserted into the individual groove;
- wherein the compression of the pair of O-rings against the rim of the beverage container prevents any liquid, powder, gas, or other material from entering or exiting from the beverage container;
- wherein the compression of the pair of O-rings against the rim of the beverage container assists in retaining the lid on the rim of the beverage container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.