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US 11,708,199 B1Granted
One time use bottle
AssigneeQuicky Sippy LLC
InventorsDuane Sawyer, Bob Holmes
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Abstract
A one-time use bottle. The bottle is filled with a drinkable liquid and then a liner is sealed on top of the bottle. A lid contains lid assembly threads which cooperate with neck assembly threads located on the neck of the bottle which enable the lid to be screwed onto the bottle in a sealed position. The lid also contains lid opening threads which cooperate with neck opening threads located on the neck of the bottle which enable the lid to be screwed into the neck further thereby cutting into the liner and exposing the drinkable liquid. The drinkable liquid can now be drank via a spout in the lid. The lid cannot be removed from the neck and hence once used, the apparatus would have no further use and would be disposed of.
Claims24
An apparatus, comprising:
- a bottle comprising a neck;
- a lid comprising a cutting apparatus;
- a pair of cooperating assembly threads comprising lid assembly threads on an upper part of the lid and neck assembly threads on an upper part of the neck;
- and
- a pair of cooperating opening threads comprising lid opening threads on a lower part of the lid and neck opening threads on a lower part of the neck,
- wherein the lid and the neck are not a same piece,
- wherein the pair of cooperating assembly threads are structured to lower the lid on the neck in a first rotational direction, and the pair of cooperating opening threads are structured to lower the lid on the neck in a second rotational direction, the second rotational direction being opposite the first rotational direction.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a bottle comprising a neck and a liner sealed over the neck;
- a lid comprising cutters;
- a pair of cooperating assembly threads comprising lid assembly threads on an upper part of the lid and neck assembly threads on an upper part of the neck, the pair of cooperating assembly threads configured to lower the lid onto the neck and attach the lid to the neck;
- and
- a pair of cooperating opening threads comprising lid opening threads on a lower part of the lid and neck opening threads on a lower part of the neck, the pair of cooperating opening threads configured to lower the lid on the neck causing the cutters to cut into the liner,
- wherein the lid and the neck are not a same piece
- wherein a rotational direction used by the pair of cooperating assembly threads to lower the lid on the neck is an opposite direction from a rotational direction used by the pair of cooperating opening threads to lower the lid on the neck.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a bottle comprising a neck and a liner sealed over the neck;
- a lid comprising cutters;
- a pair of cooperating assembly thread comprising lid assembly threads on an upper part of the lid and neck assembly threads on an upper part of the neck, the pair of cooperating assembly threads configured to lower the lid onto the neck and attach the lid to the neck;
- and
- at pair of cooperating opening threads comprising lid opening threads on a lower part of the lid and neck opening threads on a lower part of the neck, the pair of cooperating opening threads configured to lower the lid on the neck causing the cutters to cut into the liner,
- wherein the lid and the neck are not a same piece;
- and
- anti-backoff notches on the neck and an anti-backoff ratchet on the lid both configured to prevent the lid from being removed from the neck by preventing rotation in a rotational direction used by the pair of cooperating assembly threads.
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A method, comprising:
- possessing:
- a bottle comprising a neck;
- a lid comprising a cutting apparatus;
- a pair of cooperating assembly threads comprising lid assembly threads on an upper part of the lid and neck assembly threads on an upper part of the neck;
- a pair of cooperating opening threads comprising lid opening threads on a lower part of the lid and neck opening threads on a lower part of the neck,
- wherein the lid and the neck are not a same piece;
- wherein a rotational direction used by the pair of cooperating assembly threads to lower the lid on the neck is an opposite direction from a rotational direction used by the pair of cooperating opening threads to lower the lid on the neck;
- filling the bottle with a liquid;
- sealing a seal onto the neck;
- and
- rotating the lid onto the neck thereby causing the lid to be in a sealed position.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a bottle comprising a neck and a liner sealed over the neck;
- a lid comprising cutters;
- a first means for lowering the lid onto the neck and attaching the lid to the neck;
- and
- a second means for lowering the lid onto the neck thereby cutting into the liner with the cutters,
- wherein a rotational direction used by the first means to lower the lid on the neck is an opposite direction from a rotational direction used by the second means to lower the lid on the neck.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.