Method and apparatus for pouring liquid from a bottle
OwnerArganious E. Peckelsinventor
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Abstract
A liquid pourer for pouring liquid from a bottle, most likely liquor, has a new sealing cork enabling much easier insertion and extraction of the pourer into and out of a bottle, a new cork and collar combination enabling similar easier insertion and extraction, and a new dump cap for portion control pouring wherein a new assembly and sealing method and structure is provided, and numerous new improvements making the pourer provide higher quality pouring.
Claims11
A method of installing and extracting a liquid pourer to and from a liquid bottle, comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a relatively rigid plastic pourer body having a pouring spout, an inlet pipe, a liquid bore through said spout and said pipe, and a gripping surface;
- b) securing a relatively soft and pliable tubular plastic sealing cork to said body;
- and providing said cork with an annular flange having a lip at a peripheral surface that overlaps said gripping surface;
- c) pushing said cork and body together into the throat of a liquid bottle, and subsequently;
- d) extracting said cork and body from the bottle by grasping and squeezing said lip against said gripping surface to increase the frictional engagement between the cork and body and pulling on said body and said cork.
A method of inserting and extracting a liquid pourer to and from a liquid bottle, comprising the steps of
- a) providing a relatively rigid plastic pourer body having a pouring spout, an inlet pipe, and a liquid bore through said spout and said pipe;
- b) slipping a relatively rigid collar onto said inlet pipe and up against a backside of said pouring spout, said collar being freely rotatable with respect to said body;
- c) securing a relatively soft and pliable tubular plastic sealing cork to said body, and providing said cork with an annular flange;
- d) holding said collar adjacent the backside of the pouring spout with said cork annular flange;
- e) providing interconnecting positive radial engagement between an underside of said collar and said cork annular flange;
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- f) inserting and/or extracting the pourer from the bottle by grasping the collar and turning the cork there within the bottle, while either pushing the pourer into the bottle or pulling the head out of the bottle.
A method of providing a liquid pourer for pouring liquid from an inverted bottle, comprising the steps of
- a) providing a relatively rigid plastic pourer body, said body having a pouring spout, and inlet pipe, a rearward facing distal end on said inlet pipe, and forward facing retainers on said distal end;
- b) providing a plastic dump cap which is softer than and relatively pliable with respect to said body, with mechanical sealing means for fluid tight sealing engagement with said distal end, and with retainer acceptors for accepting said retainers;
- c) placing a shut-off valve in said inlet pipe;
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- d) pushing said dump cap onto said distal end, and pliantly sealing said dump cap to said distal end, and then pliantly engaging said retainers and said retainer acceptors and thereby mechanically locking said dump cap to said body in a fluid tightly sealed assembly, without solvent, adhesives, sealant, or welding.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.