Greetings device having loop for securement to a bottle
OwnerLinda Bradleyinventor
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Abstract
The device comprises a sheet of paper or card, having a slit formed therein. The slit makes an inverted U-shape, having left and right leg portions, and a cross-bar. The slit divides the sheet into a front panel, on which a greetings message can be written or printed, and a fixing-loop, which slips over the neck of the bottle. The vertical length of the legs of the slit is shorter than the width between the legs, whereby the device comes to rest on the bottle, with the neck of the bottle touching the inside of the front panel and the back of the fixing-loop. The bottle does not touch the legs of the slit. An envelope for the device is also disclosed.
Claims16
Greetings device, comprising a sheet of thick paper or card material, wherein:
- the sheet has a top edge, a bottom edge, and left and right side-edges;
- tho sheet includes a slit, which extends right through the material of the sheet;
- the slit is of an inverted U-shape, having a cross-portion of the slit that lies adjacent to and alongside the top edge of the sheet, and having left and right leg-portions of the slit, which lie adjacent to and alongside the left and right side edges of the sheet, and which extend down to respective left and right bottom ends of the leg portions;
- the configuration of the slit is such as to create a front-panel portion of the sheet and a fixing-loop portion of the sheet;
- the fixing loop portion of the sheet, thus configured, comprises a cross-bar portion, which is marginal with respect to the top-edge of the sheet, and left and right side-arm portions, which are marginal with respect to the left and right side-edges of the sheet;
- the configuration of the sheet with the slit therein is such that the device is suitable for fitment over the neck of a bottle, the front-panel portion in front of the bottle, and the fixing-loop portion around and behind the neck of the bottle;
- a distance D is the distance from a line joining the left and right bottom-ends of the slit to the furthest point on the cross-portion of the slit;
- a width W is the width between the left and right leg-portions of the slit;
- and the width W, plus ½-inch, is greater than the distance D.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.