Bottled water dispenser insert

A device for dispensing liquid beverages having a bottle-supporting, liquid-receiving vessel having dispensing means permitting liquid to be conducted therethrough and drawn therefrom as desired, and having an upper end opening for receiving the neck of an inverted bottle and having ann orifice in said upper end opening for receiving liquid from the inverted bottle, said device comprising;

• a liquid-containing bottle having a neck and a neck opening, adapted to be inserted into the upper end opening of the vessel and to have said neck opening terminate proximate the orifice of the upper end opening, said bottle having a puncturable seal affixed to the bottle about said neck opening said seal maintaining the bottle closed even after the bottle has been inverted;
• a seal-puncturing device adapted to puncture the bottle's seal as the bottle is lowered into the upper end opening and to project through the seal and into the neck opening of the bottle, the seal and the seal-puncturing device being constructed so that after the seal has been punctured, a flow opening will be formed between the punctured seal and the seal-puncturing device to permit liquid to flow freely from the bottle into the vessel's orifice, an improvement to the seal-puncturing device comprising:
• a piercing member;
• and
• a plurality of rib members which guide and center the neck opening of the bottle into substantialy co-axial alignment with the piercing member, wherein the plurality of rib members frictionally grasp the puncurable seal so that, upon separation of an expended bottle from the vessel, the seal-puncturing device remains attached to the bottle against the force of gravity which tends to cause said member to remain proximate to the upper end opening of the vessel.