Patent Application
20250145334
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The disclosure relates to alcohol container devices and more particularly pertains to a new alcohol container devices for when a driver of a vehicle is consuming an alcoholic beverage. The device includes an alcoholic beverage container and a reflector attached to a bottom of the alcoholic beverage container which reflects light from headlights of oncoming traffic when the alcoholic beverage container is tipped by a driver in a vehicle to drink from the alcoholic beverage container.
The prior art relates to alcohol container devices including a variety of beverage bottle illumination devices that each employs various means is emitting light into a beverage bottle to enhance the ornamental appeal of the beverage bottle. In no instance does the prior art disclose an alcoholic beverage container device that has a reflector attached to a bottom of an alcoholic beverage container for reflecting light from headlights of oncoming traffic when the alcoholic beverage container is tipped for consuming contents of the alcoholic beverage container by a driver of a vehicle.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising an alcoholic beverage container which contains an alcoholic beverage. A reflector is applied to the alcoholic beverage container and the reflector is substantially comprised of a light reflecting material to reflect light. The reflector is exposed when the alcoholic beverage container is tipped for drinking. In this way the reflector can reflect the light from headlights of oncoming traffic when a driver of a vehicle is drinking and driving. In this way oncoming drivers and police can be visually alerted that the driver is drinking and driving.
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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The reflector 16 comprises an adhesive layer 18 that has a first surface 20 and a second surface 22; the first surface 20 is adhered to a bottom wall 24 of the alcoholic beverage container 12. The second surface 22 of the adhesive layer 18 has a recess 26 which extends toward the first surface 20. As is most clearly shown in
The reflector 16 includes a reflective panel 30 which is secured in the recess 26 in the second surface 22 of the adhesive layer 18 such that an exposed surface 32 of the reflective panel 30 lies flush with the second surface 22 of the adhesive layer 18. The exposed surface 32 is directed forwardly when the alcoholic beverage container 12 is tipped while drinking from the alcoholic beverage container 12. Furthermore, the exposed surface 32 of the reflective panel 30 is comprised of a light reflecting material which may comply with the United States Department of Transportation regulations for reflective tape and signage. In this way the exposed surface 32 of the reflective panel 30 can reflect light from headlights of oncoming traffic at a sufficient intensity to be clearly visible to drivers of the oncoming traffic when the alcoholic beverage container 12 is tipped for drinking.
In use, the light emitted from headlights 34 of a first vehicle 36 is intensely reflected by the reflector 16 on the bottom wall 24 of the alcoholic beverage container 12 when a driver 38 of a second vehicle 40 tips the alcoholic beverage container 12 to drink from the alcoholic beverage container 12 while the first vehicle 36 is approaching the second vehicle 40 on a roadway. In this way the driver 42 of the first vehicle 36 is visually notified that the driver 38 of the second vehicle 40 is consuming an alcoholic beverage 14 while driving. Thus, the driver 42 of the first vehicle 36 can notify law enforcement to a potentially impaired driver operating a vehicle. Furthermore, law enforcement officers are facilitated to quickly and easily visually identify a driver that is consuming an alcoholic beverage 14 while the driver is operating a motor vehicle on a public roadway.
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, device 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.
