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US 5,817,162 AGranted
Method of making a container from a bottle
OwnerSean Cameron Penrithinventor
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The invention relates to a method of forming a goblet from a glass bottle of the type having a base, a body portion extending from the base and converging towards a neck which terminates in a lip defining a mouth. The method comprises the steps of severing the base from the body portion along a first severance plane which is proximate the base and normal to a central axis of the bottle, and removing a waste portion of the body along a second severance plane which is parallel to the first severance plane. The mouth of the bottle is then glued or fused to a center portion of an upper surface of the base so as to form the goblet, with the base of the bottle forming a foot of the goblet, the neck of the bottle forming a stem of the goblet and the body portion of the bottle defining a bowl of the goblet. The method may include the step of plugging the neck of the bottle so as to form a solid stem.
A method of forming a goblet from a glass bottle of the type having a base, a body portion extending from the base and converging towards a neck which terminates in a lip defining a mouth, the method comprising the steps of severing the base to form a severed base from the body portion along at least a first severance plane which is proximate the base and normal to a central axis of the bottle, and affixing the mouth of the bottle to a centre portion of an uppermost interior surface of the base of the bottle so as to form the goblet, said uppermost interior surface including a convex portion which exceeds in height a peripheral rim of said severed base, with the base of the bottle forming a foot of the goblet, the neck of the bottle forming a stem of the goblet and the body portion of the bottle defining a bowl of the goblet.
A method of forming a goblet from a glass bottle of the type having a base, a body portion extending from the base and converging towards a neck which terminates in a lip defining a mouth, the method comprising the steps of severing the base from the body portion along at least a first severance plane which is proximate the base and normal to a central axis of the bottle, forming an annular indent in the centre of the uppermost surface of the base, the indent being profiled to seat the lip of the bottle in a complemental fit, and affixing the mouth of the bottle to a center portion of an uppermost interior surface of the base of the bottle so as to form the goblet, with the base of the bottle forming a foot of the goblet, the neck of the bottle forming a stem of the goblet and the body portion of the bottle defining a bowl of the goblet.
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