Bottle storage for refrigerator
AssigneeCompagnie Gervais Danone
InventorChristophe Martin
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Abstract
A storage device for bottles with a neck, comprising at least one coupling member suitable for suspending the device beneath a shelf of a domestic refrigerator, and a hollow dispensing guide extending longitudinally from a rear end to a front end having a dispensing opening. The dispensing guide has a top face provided with the coupling member, a bottom face and a C-shaped cross section with an opening into the bottom face. The opening has a width suitable for allowing the narrowed portion of the neck of a bottle to slide freely and so that the longitudinal rims of the opening oriented toward the inside form bearing rails of a length more than twice the diameter of the widened portion of the neck of the bottle, on which this widened portion rests when the bottle is suspended.
Claims9
A storage device for bottles with a neck, comprising:
- a hollow dispensing guide, extending longitudinally from a rear end to a front end and having a dispensing opening,
- said dispensing guide having a top radial face provided with a coupling member, a bottom radial face, and a generally C-shaped cross section with an opening into said bottom face, and
- said opening having a width configured to allow the narrowed portion of the neck of a bottle to slide freely, and having longitudinal rims oriented toward the inside of said dispensing guide, the longitudinal rims forming bearing rails configured such that a top widened portion of the neck of the bottle rests on said bearing rails when the bottle is suspended in the storage device, said bearing rails having a length more than twice the diameter of the widened portion of the neck;
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- at least one adapter element, having i) a connection member insertable into said coupling member of the dispensing guide and ii) an engagement member configured to engage with the shelf of said refrigerator,
- wherein said coupling member is formed as a groove having an opening oriented upwardly and configured to be snap-fitted onto the connection member of the adapter element,
- wherein said top face of the dispensing guide is a continuous and convex surface, and wherein the opening of the groove is situated in the surface of the top face.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.