Patent Application
20130153609
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1. Field of this Embodiment
The present embodiment relates to bottle pourers and more particularly pertains to a new liquid pouring device incorporated with a miniature replica of an official football helmet with detailed color and graphics depicting the owner's favorite professional or collegiate team.
The present embodiment is in the sports memorabilia field. More particularly, and in its preferred intended use, the present embodiment relates to the technical field of portable liquid pouring devices.
2. Description of Prior Liquid Pourer Inventions
The use of bottle pourers is known, more specifically, bottle pourers heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
The prior use of liquid pourers includes having spouts inserted into a bottle with hoses connected to the spouts for allowing air into the bottle, and also includes pourers having a pouring element with a pouring duct. While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned devices do not disclose a new miniature football helmet liquid bottle pourer.
The general purpose of the present embodiment, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is based on the fact that Americans are obsessed with sports. For those merchandisers who sell licensed sports apparel or sports memorabilia, the craze is big business, and it is growing fast. Collecting sports memorabilia is much like collecting art. People do it more because they love what they are buying, not so much because they expect it to grow in value. Although collectibles, and even sports items that no one considers at the time to be collectibles, can definitely appreciate. Conventional liquid pouring devices, such as those used in bars, restaurants and coffee shops are nondescript and only serve one function, to pour liquid from a container.
The present embodiment is a liquid pouring device designed to provide a sports memorabilia fan a liquid pouring tool (which has many of the advantages of the bottle pourers mentioned heretofore incorporated) with a miniature replica of an official football helmet with detailed color and graphics depicting the owner's favorite professional or collegiate team. None of the prior liquid pourers includes the combination of the elements of the present embodiment. There is none anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior bottle pourers, either alone or in any combination thereof. There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the miniature football helmet liquid bottle pourer 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 this embodiment that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of this embodiment in detail, it is to be understood that this embodiment is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. This embodiment is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
It is an object of the present embodiment to provide a new miniature football helmet liquid bottle pourer which has many of the advantages of the bottle pourers mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new miniature football helmet liquid bottle pourer which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of prior bottle pourers, either alone or in any combination thereof.
Still another object of the present embodiment is to provide a miniature football helmet liquid bottle pourer for easy pouring of liquids.
Still yet another object of the present embodiment is to provide a miniature football helmet liquid bottle pourer that pours freely while reducing aeration and dripping of the liquid from a bottle once pouring has stopped.
Even still another object of the present embodiment is the unique design of the pourer engine which connects the miniature football helmet liquid bottle pourer to the helmet and liquid emitting device such as but not limited to a bottle.
These together with other objects of this embodiment, along with the various features of novelty which characterize this embodiment, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of this embodiment, its operating advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there are illustrated preferred embodiments of this embodiment.
The present embodiment is a functional memorabilia device in the form of a miniature replica football helmet [001] of approximately, but not limited to, one-tenth the size of an official football helmet [001] with a pouring spout assembly [003] adapted to be employed in a pour opening of a container such, but not limited to, as a bottle, said assembly comprising: a pouring passage [003] defined through said assembly for conducting liquid out from said container. Replica helmet [001] body: molded plastic, polycarbonate, fiberglass, aluminum alloy, metal, stainless steel, or other sturdy material, preferably polycarbonate formed in shape of approximate, but not limited to, one-tenth football helmet [001] with hole in top (20) (slightly larger than the diameter of the tip of the liquid pourer [003] device). Helmet [001] body has interference fit for the uniquely designed liquid pourer [003] device to dispense liquid once the entire assembly is in an inverted position. Replica facemask [002] rubber, vinyl or plastic-coated metal, metal, stainless steel, fiberglass or plastic array, preferably polycarbonate, molded to represent an official football helmet [001] facemask [002] of same scale as previously mentioned replica helmet [001] body.
