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US 9,845,233 B1Granted
Adaptive universal funnel pourer
OwnerGabor Alex Stibingerinventor
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to funnels, specifically, funnels made to supportably adapt to containers with varying neck opening dimensions and configurations. Disclosed herein is a funnel that can be used to both funnel substances into varying sized containers as well as used to neatly pour the substances within the container back out, wherein the particular dimensions and configurations of the neck opening of that container is unimportant.
Claims6
A funnel comprising:
- a frustoconical top portion having a wide mouthed top opening tapering down to a concentrically smaller bottom opening, the whole of which has an inner surface and an outer surface;
- a stem bottom portion with a top opening and a bottom opening the whole of which has an inner surface and an outer surface wherein the top outer surface of the stem is the same size and connected to the bottom outer surface of the frustoconical top portion and further that the bottom opening of the stem outer surface is smaller in circumference and tapering from the top portion outer surface of the stem;
- a ring collar positioned on the lower outer surface of the frustoconical top portion comprising a ring extending vertically downward from said outer surface of the frustoconical top portion further comprising at least one resilient tab positioned on the bottom portion of the ring collar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.