Patent Application
20210138825
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The disclosure relates to marker devices and more particularly pertains to a new marker device for making a multicolored mark on a bingo card.
The prior art relates to marker devices.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a bottle that has a plurality of chambers being integrated therein. Each of the chambers contains a fluid pigment of a respective color. An applicator is removably coupled to the bottle and the applicator is comprised of a fluid permeable material to absorb the fluid pigment contained in each of the chambers. Additionally, the applicator releases the fluid pigment in each of the chambers when the applicator is pressed against a surface to make a mark comprising a plurality of colors. A cap is positionable over the applicator to inhibit the applicator from releasing the fluid pigments.
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
As best illustrated in
The bottle 12 has a dividing wall 30 extending between the top end 18 and the bottom end 20. The dividing wall 30 is centrally positioned in the bottle 12 to define the chambers 14 and each of the chambers 14 is fluidly discrete from each other. The outer wall 22 has an inside surface 32 and the inside surface 32 has a lip 34 extending outwardly therefrom. The lip 34 is spaced from the top end 18 and the lip 34 extends around a full circumference of the inside surface 32.
An applicator 36 is provided and the applicator 36 is removably coupled to the bottle 12. The applicator 36 is comprised of a fluid permeable material to absorb the fluid pigment 16 contained in each of the chambers 14. Additionally, the applicator 36 is comprised of a resiliently compressible material such that the applicator 36 releases the fluid pigment 16 in each of the chambers 14 when the applicator 36 is pressed against a surface 38. In this way the applicator 36 can make a mark comprising a plurality of colors. The surface 38 may be a bingo card or any other surface on which a user wishes to make a mark.
The applicator 36 has a bottom side 40 and a top side 42. The bottom side 40 is flattened and the top side 42 is concavely arcuate with respect to the bottom side 40 such that the applicator 36 has a dome shape. The applicator 36 is positioned in the top end 18 of the bottle 12 having the bottom side 40 engaging the lip 34 on the inner surface 38 of the outer wall 22 of the bottle 12 and a platform 44 on the dividing wall 30. The applicator 36 comprises a first half 46 and a second half 48 that each extend between the top side 42 and the bottom side 40. The first half 46 is comprised of a first material and the second half 48 is comprised of a second material. Each of the first half 46 and the second half 48 is aligned with a respective one of the chambers 14 to absorb the fluid pigment 16 contained in the respective chamber 14.
A cap 50 is provided and the cap 50 is positionable over the applicator 36. Thus, the cap 50 inhibits the applicator 36 from releasing the fluid pigment 16. The cap 50 is concavely arcuate for conforming to the curvature of the applicator 36. Additionally, the cap 50 is comprised of a fluid impermeable material. In an alternative embodiment 52 as is most clearly shown in
In use, the bottle 12 is gripped while playing bingo and the applicator 36 is pressed against the appropriate bingo box on a bingo card when the bingo numbers are called. Thus, the applicator 36 leaves a multicolored mark on bingo card. In this way the bottle 12 and the applicator 36 as disclosed enhances the experience of playing bingo compared to markers that leave a mark of a single color. The cap 50 is positioned over the applicator 36 when the applicator 36 is not being used for marking.
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.
