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US 5,630,523 AGranted
Interconnected fluid containers
AssigneeNovotrend Ventures, Inc.
InventorEarl K. Wright
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Abstract
Two separate containers are secured together by their respective bottoms. One container has a cavity in its bottom which has an annular frictional shoulder. The other container has a protruding shoulder on its bottom comparable in size to the cavity on the other container. That shoulder has an annular recess therein adapted to engage frictionally the annular shoulder in the other container. The cavity in the one container and the protruding shoulder on the other are of oval shape.
Claims5
The combination of two separate containers containing separate contents secured together, comprising,
- a first container having a top, a bottom, and a continuous side wall,
- a second container having a top, a bottom, and a continuous side wall,
- one of said containers having a cavity in the bottom thereof,
- the other of said containers having a protruding portion thereon,
- said containers being secured together at their respective bottoms by having said protruding portion on the bottom of one container frictionally and detachably held within the cavity on the bottom of said other container,
- said cavity and said protruding portion being oval in shape and being non-rotatable with respect to each other when assembled together to prevent said containers from being assembled together in an infinite number of different orientations.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.