Device for accelerating consumption of liquid from bottles
OwnerMichael Randalinventor
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Abstract
A flexible cylindrical body tube adapted to sealingly engage a beer bottle at one end and mounting a side-venting hose of a length selected to extend into the beer bottle and down into the bottle to a position adjacent the bottom of the bottle. When so placed, the bottle and hose may be inverted with a finger placed over the vent hose, the open end of the body tube brought to the mouth, the bottle and tube inverted and the finger removed, resulting in rapid continuous discharge of the fluid from the bottle into the mouth of the user.
Claims22
A fluid flow enhancing device for use with a container having a neck comprising:
- a body tube formed entirely of flexible material, and having a passageway of uniform cross-section from an attachment end to an imbibing end thereof, said cross-section being selected such that said attachment end sealingly engages the neck of the container while at the same time said imbibing end fits within the mouth of a user so as to conduct flow of the contents of the bottle from the attachment end to the imbibing end, said body tube having an opening in a side surface thereof;
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- a vent hose passing through said opening and having a side pipe portion extending outside said body tube and an interior portion of a length selected to extend through said side surface of said body tube into said container for venting the bottom of said container upon inversion of said container to thereby accelerate the discharge of fluid out of said container through said body tube and into the mouth of a user.
The apparatus comprising:
- a container having a neck;
- a flexible body tube having a passageway of uniform cross-section from an attachment end to an imbibing end thereof, said cross-section being selected such that said attachment end sealingly engages the neck of the container while at the same time said imbibing end fits within the mouth of a user so as to conduct flow of the contents of the bottle from the attachment end to the imbibing end;
- said body tube having an opening in a side surface thereof;
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- a vent hose passing through said opening in said side surface and having a side pipe portion extending outside said body tube and an interior portion of a length selected to extend through said body tube into said container for venting the bottom of said container upon inversion of said container to thereby accelerate the discharge of fluid out of said container through said body tube and into the mouth of the user.
A fluid flow enhancing device for accelerating fluid flow from the neck of a bottle into the mouth of a user, said device comprising:
- a hollow flexible cylindrical body tube having a passageway of uniform cross-section from an attachment end to an imbibing end thereof, said cross-section being selected such that said attachment end sealingly engages the neck of the container while at the same time said imbibing end fits within the mouth of a user so as to conduct flow of the contents of the bottle from the attachment end to the imbibing end;
- said body tube having an opening in a side surface thereof, said opening lying at least 11/2 inches above said attachment end;
- a flexible plastic vent hose passing through said opening in said side surface and having a side pipe portion extending outside said body tube and an interior portion of a length selected to extend through a wall of said body tube into said container for venting the bottom of said container upon inversion of said container to thereby accelerate the discharge of fluid out of said container through said body tube and into the mouth of the user;
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- a seal located between the side surface of said body tube and said vent hose.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.