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US 9,744,545 B2Granted
Pressurizable fluid container apparatus
AssigneeLunatec, Inc.
InventorsNick Rhea, Eric Young
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Abstract
A bottle cap assembly for pressurizing a water bottle is described herein. The bottle cap assembly comprises a cap, a teeter valve coupled to the top of the cap, a pressurizing plunger, a hollow pump shaft receiving the plunger, a hollow uptake adapter, a relief tube extension and a flexible conduit.
Claims1
A bottle cap assembly for pressurizing a bottle, the bottle cap assembly comprising:
- a cap comprising;
- a threaded portion for securing the cap to the bottle,
- a threaded pump shaft connector on a bottom surface of the cap,
- a hollow shaft guide with a top opening and a bottom opening,
- a relief housing on the bottom surface of the cap adjacent to the threaded pump shaft connector,
- a spray nozzle, and
- two holes on the cap wherein the two holes are on opposite sides of the cap and are coplanar with one another;
- a teeter valve with two pivot flanges, wherein the pivot flanges are on opposite sides of the teeter valve and are coplanar with one another, and wherein one of the pivot flanges is mated with one of the holes on the cap and the other pivot flange is mated with the other hole on the cap, and wherein the teeter valve has a hole through which the hollow shaft guide is inserted;
- a plunger with a top end having a handle, a middle portion comprising of a plunger shaft, and a bottom portion comprising a stopper, wherein the plunger shaft is disposed through the hole in the teeter valve and through the hollow shaft guide on the cap;
- a hollow pump shaft that receives the stopper of the pressurizing plunger, the hollow pump shaft having a bottom end with a pump valve, and a top end, wherein the top end has a threaded portion that mates with the threaded pump shaft connector on the bottom surface of the cap;
- a hollow uptake adapter with an open top end that fits into the relief housing and an open bottom end, wherein the bottom end comprises a hose seat and an intake indentation below the hose seat with an intake hole centered within the intake indentation and communicating with a hollow core of the uptake adapter;
- a relief tube extension with a top end and a bottom end, wherein the top end is fitted over the bottom end of the uptake adapter;
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- a flexible conduit, wherein one end of the flexible conduit is in sealed fluid communication with the relief housing and the other end of the flexible conduct is coupled to the spray nozzle and wherein the teeter valve pinches the flexible conduit when the teeter valve is at rest and unpinches the flexible conduit when the teeter valve is depressed.
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