Patent Application
20080197104
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a bottle stopper, particularly to one composed of a cover body, a shaft rod and a rotatable member. The shaft rod is inserted and fixed in the interior of the cover body and the rotatable member is secured on the cover body by means of an insert pin, which leans on and across two oblique faces of the projecting base of the cover body. When the rotatable member is rotated, the insert pin will be actuated to slide upward along the oblique faces of the projecting base of the cover body and drive the shaft rod to move upward and have its bottom stopping member squeezing a soft clogging member to expand outward and closely clogging the bottle mouth. The bottle stopper of this invention can closely clog up the bottle mouth, and its shaft rod and soft clogging body are hidden in the cover body not exposed to the outside, meeting sanitation, convenient in use and able to be placed horizontally for facilitating storing.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Generally, after a bottle of wine is uncorked, the contents in the bottle, such as grape wine, champagne or the like, cannot entirely be drunk up at one time; therefore, it is necessary to cover up the bottle mouth with a bottle stopper so as to keep its contents fresh. A conventional bottle stopper 1 to be clogged in the bottle mouth 19, as shown in
By so designing, however, the conventional bottle stopper has the following defects.
1. When the bottle stopper 1 covered on bottle mouth 19 is to be clogged in the bottle mouth 19, a user has to apply a great force to pull and press the pull lever 16 sideward and downward, thus likely to make the bottle may fall flat and let the interior contents flow out due to unstable center of gravity.
2. The sealing cover 14 is only covered on the upper edge of the bottle mouth 19 so it is unable to be tightly fitted with the bottle mouth 19 and hardly to be held stably for applying force.
3. The shaft rod 10, the two elastic bodies 11, 13 and the positioning block 12 of the conventional bottle stopper 1 are exposed to the outside of the sealing cover 14 so they are likely to be soiled with dirt when they are not used.
4. The conventional bottle stopper 1 cannot be placed horizontally, inconvenient to be stored.
The objective of this invention is to offer a bottle stopper able to really clog a bottle mouth and whose rod body and clogging body are not exposed to the outside, meeting sanitation, convenient in use and able to be placed horizontally.
The bottle stopper in the present invention includes a cover body, a shaft rod and a rotatable member. The cover body has its lower portion formed with a recessed chamber provided therein with a lengthwise pillar bored with a shaft hole in the interior. Further, the cover body has its upper inner circumference bored with an annular recess and its upper central portion provided with a projecting base having its circumferential wall reversely cut with two oblique faces opposite to each other. The shaft rod inserted in the shaft hole of the cover body has its lower end secured with a stopping member having its topside thereon with a soft clogging member and has its upper end transversely and oppositely bored with two insert holes. The rotatable member fitted on the cover body has its lower portion provided with an accommodating chamber and its circumferential wall bored with two insert holes aligned to each other for an insert pin to be inserted therein, and further has its upper side mounted with a handle.
This invention will be better understood by referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
A preferred embodiment of a bottle stopper in the present invention, as shown in
The cover body 2 has its lower portion formed with a recessed chamber 20 provided therein with a lengthwise pillar 21 bored inside with a shaft hole 22 extending through the topside of the cover body 2. The cover body 2 further has its upper inner circumference bored with an annular recessed groove 23 and its upper center disposed with a projecting base 24 having its circumferential wall reversely cut with two oblique faces 25 opposite to each other. The two oblique cross sections 25 respectively have the apex provided with an engage groove 26.
The shaft rod 3 inserted in the shaft hole 22 of the cover body 2 has its lower end secured with a stopping member 30 having its topside mounted thereon with a soft clogging member 31 and further has its wall near the topside bored with two insert holes 32 aligned to each other.
The rotatable member 4 fitted on the topside of the cover body 2 has its lower portion provided with an accommodating chamber 40 and its circumferential wall bored with two insert holes 41 aligned to each other for an insert pin 42 to be inserted therein. The rotatable member 4 further has its topside fixed with a handle 43.
In assembling, as shown in
In using, as shown in
To sum up, this invention has the following advantages.
1. The cover body 2 of the bottle stopper can be closely covered on the outer side of the bottle mouth 50, able to be fitted tight and convenient to be held.
2. The force applying point for covering the bottle stopper on the bottle mouth 50 is right in the center; therefore, when the bottle stopper is operated to be clogged in the bottle mouth 50, the bottle can easily be held stably not to fall flat.
3. The shaft rod 3 and the soft clogging member 31 of the bottle stopper are hidden in the recessed chamber 20 of the cover body 2 so they can always be kept clean, meeting sanitation.
4. The bottle stopper of this invention can be horizontally placed on the top of a table, convenient to be stored.
While the preferred embodiment of the invention has been described above, it will be recognized and understood that various modifications may be made therein and the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications that may fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.
