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1. Field of Invention
A bottle carrying trousers comprising a permanently attached bottle retaining element with a means of gripping and retaining a beverage bottle; wherein said element's properties are preferrably flexible; and wherein said bottle is held adjacent to an exterior surface of said trousers, and wherein said means is concealable from another human's view when not in use, and wherein said means is generally undetectable by feelings and touch sensories of a human user's skin.
2. Description of Prior Art
Previous items used to attach a plastic beverage bottle to a human user's trouser pants, or any other part of a user's clothing, were formed from hard plastics, metal clips, nylon straps, flexible rubber o-rings, or various flexible plastic substrates. All were devised to retainingly grip a plastic bottle in an area located just vertically beneath its cap stop rim. All previous methods required separate storage from a user's clothing when not in use; as most were bulky in size or shape, and were mostly cumbersome to carry conveniently in a pocket.
Those found which would fit into a pocket were also able to fall out of the same pocket, or were able to be misplaced or forgotten by the user.
None of those searched were found to include a bottle neck retaining means which was permanently affixed to and/or within a trouser pants material itself for a user's constant availability of use of said means;
None of those searched were found to include a bottle neck retaining means which was permanently affixed within a trouser pants material's placket and/or pocket's waistband area for quick and easy concealment by the user.
None of those searched were found to include a bottle neck retaining means which was devised to be permanently attached to a user's pants at a time of manufacturing of said pants; nor were any found to include a bottle neck retaining means which was devised to be permanently attached to said pants material for post-manufacturing and/or retrofitting an entire line of a slow selling trouser.
None of those searched were found to provide a trouser's permanently attached bottle neck retaining means which were purposed to be permanently affixed to said trousers in a method which is mostly undetectable to a user's skin sensories.
A bottle carrying trousers with a permanently attached means of gripping and retaining a beverage bottle in an area just vertically beneath said bottle's cap stop rim; whereas said bottle is held adjacent to an exterior surface of said trousers; and wherein said means is concealable from another human's view when not in use; and wherein said element is substantially located in an area at and/or near a placket, a pocket, a belt loop, or waistband of said pants; and wherein said means is limitedly extractable from its area of concealment or permanently tethered adjacent to said area; with the improvement being a user's constant availability and option of carrying a bottled beverage hands-free with an easy-quick concealment of said means when not in use.
This invention of a bottle carrying trouser pants may utilize several different means of bottle gripping devices; yet, a flexible said means will increase a user's comfort to a degree where said means is almost undetectable. A plurality of methods exist for permanently affixing said means to and/or within a material of said pants; and with several ways to achieve concealment of said means.
Accordingly, besides any objects and advantages previously described, more objects and advantages of this present invention are;
(i) To provide a pair of bottle carrying trousers, and most particularly a pair of blue jean type trousers, which give users the constant option of carrying a bottled beverage at their side; and with their hands being free to carry other objects.
(ii) To provide bottle carrying trousers which give event active users no chance to misplace, lose, or even to forget to bring a bottle carrying device.
(iii) To provide bottle carrying trousers which keep their style and fashioned look by easily concealing a bottle gripping device from another human's view.
(iv) To permanently combine a pair of trousers with a flexible bottle neck gripping device which conforms to a human user's body contours, and where said device is concealed from view and almost undetectable by any feeling or touch sensories of a human user's skin.
(v) To provide trousers which may be assembled to a flexible bottle neck gripping device at a time of initial manufacturing, or at a time of post-manufacturing for retrofitting an entire line of slow selling trousers which need an additional selling point boost.
(vi) To provide trousers with a plurality of said gripping devices to aid military troops and emergency workers when giving aid or liquids to others; wherein any concealment of said device(s) for appearance's purpose, changes in purpose to multiple emergency utility tools which are in constant and easy reach of a user.
In the drawings, closely related figures may have the same number, but different alphabetic suffixes.
A preferred embodiment of a bottle carrying trousers is illustrated in
A bottle carrying trousers as in
Said bottle neck gripping device is preferably made from a flexible polymer plastic substrate 42 with soft rubber-like properties, yet of a type which has at least some degree of memory retension; and with said retension at least being located in an area surrounding its bottle neck gripping aperture 46.
This particular bottle neck gripping device as in
A plurality of said material's properties such as said thickness, and said type of polymer plastic, said degree of memory retention, and a material's elasticity, and a material's hardness, and a bottle's 56 dimensional diameter located just below its cap stop rim 58, and said rim's dimensional diameter itself; will all combine to determine an appropriate diameter size needed for said aperture 46 to easily be applied and yet retainingly grip a bottle's neck just vertically below said rim 58.
A manufacturer needs only to balance a degree of ease or difficulty of a user's application and removal of said bottle gripping device to and from said bottle, versus an ability of an area surrounding said aperture 46 to grip and retain said bottle. Said balancing also applies to most alternative embodiments, such as those which may use a rubber-like o-ring, or said plasticized cloth, or a rubber-like sheet material, or most any other substrate which has at least some degree of memory retension surrounding said aperture 46. Said balancing is accomplished through said manufacturer predeterminedly using a chosen dimensional interior size of said aperture; and accordingly to said substrate's said degree of retained memory surrounding said aperture 46.
Said aperture 46 shown in
Said bottle gripping aperture 46 as shown in
Numeric references to location of said tensioned fastener 64 may also refer to alternative and similar means of affixing via tensioned fasteners and comprising; one piece grommets, two piece grommet sets, mandrels within finishing washers, pop rivets, and tensioned snap-on buttons or tensioned snap fasteners; of which most are metallic in composition; yet not exclusively, and not excluding any polymer plastic tensioned fastener materials.
In further reference to
Said bottle gripping element is now concealed within said pocket as shown in
A user then forces a bottles cap, neck, and cap stop rim through said aperture for said bottle's retention; wherein said substrate's memory retension surrounding said aperture grips and retains said bottle.
Said gripping aperture and said element's outer perimeter shape may be completely cut through said substrate by hand with most any cutting tool, or may be machine die cut in multiples for large quantities, or plastic mold injected for a dimensionally shaped form of said substrate's normally planar surface.
In assembly, said rivet type fastener is positioned through said aperture 47 and said trouser material as previously described; and is compressed to a manufacturer's satisfaction for their chosen degree of tensioning of said rivet, and for their chosen degree of permanence of said permanent affixing.
After permanently riveting said device, said device becomes at least one element of said trousers; and wherein said element is a bottle neck gripping element. Said trousers are now bottle carrying trousers.
When using said element to carry a bottle of liquid; a small child user or an adult user with no pants belt will most likely carry less liquid than others would.
In example;
A degree of said permanent affixing is relative to a user's age, strength, degree of said belt securement of trousers, or said amount of liquid being retained; and wherein said degree of permanent affixing is accordingly relative to a size and/or type of said bottle carrying trousers being manufactured.
Whereby, said degree of permanence of affixing may be predetermined at a time of said affixing; and accordingly to a manufacturer's chosen said degree of permanence necessary, and therefore said method of said affixing.
In example;
While again, said element's bottle neck gripping aperture 46 is circular in shape; yet does not depend on any particular shape to function in this embodiment, but only to grip a bottle's neck in said area just vertically beneath a bottle's said cap stop rim, and only to a degree of said gripping which functionally retains a bottle.
Said cord tether 50 shown needs only to be a dimensional length from its locational point of attachment 60 to allow said aperture 46 to extend or protrude a short distance from said pocket's 30 placket-like opening 36.
Shown at the viewer's right side of the drawing is a cloth tether 52 which retains a flexible plasticized cloth means for gripping a bottle's neck, 44 and is shown as it protrudes from a pocket's 30 placket-like opening 36. Said flexible cloth tether 52 allows said a bottle neck gripping means 44 to hang parallel and adjacent to said pocket's 30 exterior surface. Said gripping aperture 46 is shown as it is ready to accept and carry a bottle. Said affixment accommodating aperture 47 is of an elongate shape to accept and retain said cloth tether 52, which is threaded through said aperture 47. A locational point 60 of affixing said tether 52 may be affixed most anywhere within said pocket 30 according to a manufacturer's discretion, and also accordingly to a length of said tether 52.
Said bottle gripping element 44 and its said cloth tether 52 are shown ready to be re-concealed within said pocket 30, and yet without protruding outwardly as in said preferred embodiment.
A second alternative embodiment is shown within
Shown at the viewer's left side of said drawing is a flexible rubberized cloth means for gripping a bottle's neck, 45 and is shown as it is concealed within a pocket 30, and wherein is also shown a locational point of affixing said bottle neck gripping means via sewing 62. Its gripping aperture 46 is also shown.
Shown at the viewer's left side of said drawing is said concealed embodiment; wherein said cord 48 is affixed at a location 60 within said trouser's waistband 38. Also shown is a placket-like opening 36 within said waistband 38, and wherein said cord 48 is extracted from said placket-like opening 36 of said waistband 38 when ready for use.
Also shown within
Conclusion, Ramifications, and Scope
Accordingly, the reader will see that the scope of this new bottle carrying trousers goes beyond it's many advantages over previous trousers;
This new bottle carrying trousers gives any user the constant option of carrying most any beverage bottle size chosen by a manufacturer.
The ability of a permanently attached flexible bottle carrying device to be withdrawn from its substantially concealed location is new in concept, and will not detract from said user's clothing's appearance.
This said trousers has a built in tool which is always there; unseen by another human's view; unfelt by a user's skin and touch senses; and almost totally weightless when not in use, and yet is still there; and always there.
Event active users from on-sight sports viewing, to walk-a-thon participants will all have the option of using this bottle carrying trousers at their discretion.
Emergency workers in the act of distributing food and water, construction workers at locations far from the company water canteen, National Guard troops out in the field of activity, and many more categories of busy people will all have said constant option of said bottle carrying trouser's use. With all the many other important tools to remember to bring with them, this is one tool which they will not have to even think about, as it will always be there at their side.
This bottle carrying trousers will always be there for users such as school children and college students alike, as they have their hands freed up to carry more books and such, and with their beverage bottle at their side. Their bottle carrying trousers include an element which will always be there; while providing said constant option to carry their beverage with hands being free.
This bottle carrying trousers will allow both music concert attenders and praise and worship event attenders to put both hands in the air; and wherein are able to clap their hands with the music, or place both hands in the air for praise and worship; and wherein are able to keep their beverage directly at their side.
In acknowledging that a trouser's means for gripping a bottle neck's cap stop rim is permanently affixed at, and/or near to, and/or within, and/or tethered near to, and/or tethered within an area of concealment; and wherein a degree of said permanence is relative to previously described variables of a user's age or strength, a degree of belt securement, and such; and wherein said degree may be determined via a sewn thread's strength, or via a heavy duty versus light duty snap fastener, or via its method of glueing and type of glue, or via its size and weight of rivet and/or grommet used for said affixing.
And also acknowledging that the scope of this new bottle carrying trousers is not limited to any particular specifics or any specific combinations of; its means for gripping a bottle's neck; nor specifically to the preferred embodiment's aperture shape, nor said embodiment's general perimeter shape, nor said embodiment's method of affixing to trousers, and neither said embodiment's location of said affixing.
The specific intent of this application is to provide a human user's trouser pants which provides a constant option to carry a beverage bottle with an option of concealment of its bottle neck gripping means element for appearances sake, and for busy people who don't need another thing to remember to bring with in their daily routine.
These new bottle carrying trousers utilize a new principle of operation of its bottle neck gripping means element; whereby it blazes a new trail in trousers clothing wear, and of which no one else has previously utilized.
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