Bottle stopper
AssigneeSunlot Bottle Stopper Co., Ltd.
InventorLin Sen-Yih
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Abstract
A bottle stopper for sealing and resealing a bottle neck. The bottle stopper includes a body, a plug and a jacket. The body includes legs and axially guiding grooves thereof provided on its inner circumference. The plug includes axially positioning ribs adapted to engage with the corresponding axially guiding grooves in order to increase reliability of the combined structure. A combined body and plug member is inserted into the jacket to form a bottle stopper. When the radially inner flange is engaged with the groove, the plug cannot be removed from the body. As the plug is axially pressed into the body, the radial inner flange is then disengaged with the groove, and the outer circumference of the jacket may radially expand to seal or to reseal a bottle.
Claims14
A bottle plug comprising:
- a body comprising a plurality of legs which are flexible, an inner circumference of each of the legs providing an inner flange and at least one of the legs is provided with a guiding groove;
- a plug comprising a singular, hollow rod being limited within the guiding groove while the plug is inserted into the body, the singular, hollow rod comprising locking grooves being adapted to engage with the inner flange of the body to lock the plug in the body, and the guide groove prevents rotation of the plug in the body;
- a jacket combined with the body to form a combined body and jacket member, an outer circumference of the jacket providing an expanded portion actuated by radial expansion of the legs;
- when the locking grooves of the singular, hollow rod is correspondingly engaged with the inner flanges of the legs, the outer circumference of the jacket can conveniently be inserted into a bottle neck;
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- when the plug is pressed and the singular hollow rod is engaged with the inner flanges of the legs, the outer circumference of the jacket is expanded to seal the bottle neck.
A bottle plug comprising:
- a body comprising a plurality of legs which are flexible, an inner circumference of each leg comprising a guiding groove and an inner flange;
- a plug comprising a plurality of positioning ribs being limited within the guiding grooves while the plug is inserted into the body, each of the positioning ribs providing a locking groove adapted to engage with the inner flange to lock the plug in the body;
- a jacket combined with the body to form a combined body and jacket member, an outer circumference of the jacket providing an expanded portion actuated by radial expansion of the legs;
- wherein the guiding grooves guide the positioning ribs in order to prevent rotation of the plug in the body;
- when the locking grooves of the ribs correspondingly engage with the inner flanges of the legs, the outer circumference of the jacket can conveniently be inserted into a bottle neck;
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- when the plug is pressed and the ribs are correspondingly engaged with the inner flange flanges of the legs, the outer circumference of the jacket is expanded to seal the bottle neck.
A bottle stopper comprising:
- a body comprising a plurality of legs which are flexible, an inner circumference of each of the legs providing an inner flange and an end flange being adapted to form an inner chamber in which to receive a ball, the end flange further comprising a concave surface being adapted to form an outer concave in which to receive the ball;
- a plug providing a plurality of locking grooves being adapted to correspondingly engage with the inner flanges to lock the plug in the body;
- a jacket combined with the body to form a combined body and jacket member, an outer circumference of the jacket providing a primarily expanded portion and a secondarily expanded portion actuated by radially expanding the legs;
- when the locking grooves of the plug correspondingly engage with the inner flanges of the legs, the outer circumference of the jacket can conveniently be inserted into a bottle neck;
- when the plug is pressed and engaged with the inner flanges of the body, the primarily expanded portion of the jacket is expanded to seal the bottle neck;
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- when the ball is engaged with the outer concave of the body, the secondarily expanded portion of the jacket is expanded to lock the bottle stopper in the bottle neck, the outer circumference of the jacket is capable of converting between a primarily expanded portion and a secondarily expanded portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.