Disposable collapsible beverage bottle
OwnerAbdolhamid Saghriinventor
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Abstract
A disposable collapsible beverage bottle is disclosed which includes a plurality of flexible straps extending along the bottle's exterior from a collar surrounding the neck of the bottle to a ratcheting arrangement at the bottom of the bottle. When the ratcheting arrangement is actuated, the straps are shortened causing the bottle to collapse. In this way, the volume of air in the bottle is controlled.
Claims16
A collapsible bottle of the type including a base portion, a top portion having a bottle neck and cap, and a pleated central body portion joining the base and top portions, the improvement comprising:
- a circular collar received about the neck of said bottle;
- a plurality of flexible straps extending from said collar to said base portion;
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- means provided at said base portion, and secured to said straps, for selectively applying force to said bottle causing the central portion to compress.
A collapsible bottle of the type including a base portion, a top portion, and a pleated central body portion joining the base and top portions, wherein the central body portion is pleated along fold lines spaced substantially equally along the length, adjacent fold lines being arranged so that they alternately fold inwardly toward a longitudinal axis of said bottle and outwardly away from said axis, the inwardly folding fold lines having a wall thickness less than a wall thickness of said outwardly folding fold lines and deformed at radially spaced intervals in alternately opposite sense relative to the direction of the longitudinal axis of the bottle, the outwardly folding fold lines located in parallel planes normal to the longitudinal axis of the bottle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.