Patent Application
20240382384
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The disclosure relates to infant bottles and more particularly pertains to a new infant bottle for indicating a selected time.
The prior art relates to infant bottles and includes a variety of infant bottles including a time indicator coupled to the bottle. Known prior art does not include an infant bottle including the time indicator coupled to a collar of the infant bottle.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a bottle configured for containing a perishable liquid. A nipple is removably positioned upon the bottle and is configured for providing an access for a mouth of a user to suck the perishable liquid out from the bottle. A collar removably secures the nipple to the bottle and a time indicator is coupled to the collar and displays a selected time of day, wherein the selected time of day corresponds to using the perishable liquid within the bottle.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A nipple 28 is removably positioned upon the bottle 12 and is configured for providing an access for a mouth of a user to suck the perishable liquid 14 out from the bottle 12. The nipple 28 has a base ring 30 and an outer wall 32 couples to the base ring 30 and tapers upward from the base ring 30 to a tip 34. The tip 34 is normally a bulb and has an aperture 36 extending therethrough.
A collar 38 removably secures the nipple 28 to the bottle 12. The collar 38 normally comprises a continuous loop having a top end 40, a bottom end 42, and a perimeter surface 44. The top end 40 couples to the base ring 30 of the nipple 28 and the bottom end 42 removably secures to the opening 22 of the bottle 12. The bottom end 42 will normally have an interior threading 46, wherein the interior threading 46 of the bottom end 42 removably engages by threading to the exterior threading 26 of the opening 22 of the bottle 12.
A time indicator 48 is coupled to the collar 38 and displays a selected time of day 50, wherein the selected time of day 50 corresponds to when to use the perishable liquid 14 within the bottle 12. For example, the selected time of day 50 can either represent when the bottle 12 was filled with the perishable liquid 14, or the selected time of day 50 can represent when the perishable liquid 14 within the bottle expires. The time indicator 48 includes a first portion 52 and a second portion 54. The first portion 52 mounts to the perimeter surface 44 of the collar 38 and the second portion 54 is rotatably attached to the first portion 52, wherein the second portion 54 rotates about the first portion 52. The first portion 52 normally has a first indicia 56 displaying an indicator and may comprise an arrow pointing towards the second portion 54. The second portion 54 has a second indicia 58 displaying hours of the day including a plurality of variable markings representing fifteen minutes between each other.
In use, the interior space 24 of the bottle 12 receives the perishable liquid 14 through the opening 22. The collar 38 then secures by threading to the opening 22 of the bottle 12. The time indicator 48 is then set to a selected time of day 50 for the user to be able to determine when to use the perishable liquid 14 before it becomes spoiled.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
