# US 5,702,009 A · Bottle holder

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- Number: US 5,702,009 A
- Document ID: US5702009A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 08/618,802
- Filed: 1996-03-20
- Granted: 1997-12-30
- Earliest claimed: 1995-09-18
- Inventors: Gilles Ouellet; Debra Ouellet
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5702009A

## CPC

- A47G 23/0241: {for bottles; Decanters}
- B67C 9/00: Devices for emptying bottles, not otherwise provided for {(during preparation of alcoholic beverages except beer C12G1/00)}
- A47G: HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT (book-ends A47B5/00; knives B26B)
- B67C: CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS

## Abstract

A bottle holder, for holding the neck of an inverted bottle while emptying the bottle or concentrating the bottle contents in the neck, is made as a cube-shaped hollow body having a sidewall on each of five sides defining a cavity which is open at a sixth side. Several of the sidewalls each have a single centrally situated aperture which differs in size from apertures in other sidewalls. The holder is capable of resting on a level surface with a selected one of the apertured sidewalls uppermost, this latter sidewall having an aperture capable of holding the neck of a particular bottle clear of an opposed sidewall. The different sizes of aperture allow the holder to be used with bottles of widely different sizes. The holder may also include an open-topped container suitable for being inserted into the cavity to receive liquid from a bottle.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A bottle holder for holding the neck of an inverted bottle while emptying the bottle or concentrating the bottle contents in the neck, comprising a cube-shaped hollow body having a sidewall on each of five sides defining a cavity which is open at a sixth side, and wherein at least three of said sidewalls each have a single centrally situated aperture which differs in size from apertures in other sidewalls, the holder being capable of resting on a level surface with a selected one of said apertured sidewalls uppermost, said last-mentioned sidewall being selected to have a size of aperture capable of holding the neck of a particular bottle clear of an opposed sidewall; said different sizes of aperture allowing the holder to be used with bottles of widely differing sizes; said bottle holder further comprising an open-topped container suitable dimensioned for being inserted into said cavity and capable of receiving fluid from a bottle held by said uppermost sidewall.

### Claim 2

Apparatus for draining fluid from a bottle, comprising:
a bottle holder for holding the neck of said bottle when inverted, comprising a square sided hollow body having a sidewall on each of five sides which sidewalls define a cavity which is open at a sixth side, and wherein several of said sidewalls each have an aperture which differs in size from apertures in other sidewalls, the holder being capable of resting on a level surface with a selected one of said apertured sidewalls uppermost, said uppermost sidewall being selected to have a size of aperture capable of holding the neck of a said bottle clear of the opposed lowermost sidewall; and
an open-topped container suitably dimensioned for being inserted into said cavity and capable of receiving fluid from said bottle while held inverted by the uppermost sidewall.