EP0549604B1 - Zusammensetzung eines Behälters mit einer chemolumineszenzlichtquelle - Google Patents

Zusammensetzung eines Behälters mit einer chemolumineszenzlichtquelle Download PDF

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EP0549604B1
EP0549604B1 EP91914814A EP91914814A EP0549604B1 EP 0549604 B1 EP0549604 B1 EP 0549604B1 EP 91914814 A EP91914814 A EP 91914814A EP 91914814 A EP91914814 A EP 91914814A EP 0549604 B1 EP0549604 B1 EP 0549604B1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21K—NON-ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES USING LUMINESCENCE; LIGHT SOURCES USING ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; LIGHT SOURCES USING CHARGES OF COMBUSTIBLE MATERIAL; LIGHT SOURCES USING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AS LIGHT-GENERATING ELEMENTS; LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21K2/00—Non-electric light sources using luminescence; Light sources using electrochemiluminescence
    • F21K2/06—Non-electric light sources using luminescence; Light sources using electrochemiluminescence using chemiluminescence
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G19/00—Table service
    • A47G19/22—Drinking vessels or saucers used for table service
    • A47G19/2205—Drinking glasses or vessels
    • A47G19/2227—Drinking glasses or vessels with means for amusing or giving information to the user
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G19/00—Table service
    • A47G19/22—Drinking vessels or saucers used for table service
    • A47G19/23—Drinking vessels or saucers used for table service of stackable type
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G7/00—Flower holders or the like
    • A47G7/02—Devices for supporting flower-pots or cut flowers
    • A47G7/06—Flower vases
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G19/00—Table service
    • A47G19/22—Drinking vessels or saucers used for table service
    • A47G19/2205—Drinking glasses or vessels
    • A47G19/2227—Drinking glasses or vessels with means for amusing or giving information to the user
    • A47G2019/2238—Drinking glasses or vessels with means for amusing or giving information to the user with illumination means

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  • the invention relates to an assembly combining a container with at least partially transparent or translucent walls, the bottom of which is adapted to receive a chemiluminescent light source specially designed for this purpose, making it possible to illuminate the drinks or other liquids contained in the container without the light source is in contact with the liquid or modifies the capacity of the container.
  • the technical field of the invention is that of the illumination of liquids contained in containers whose transparency or translucency allows the circulation in their walls and the passage through the latter, towards the contained liquids, of light coming from '' an external light source.
  • the light source used in the invention is that of chemiluminescence.
  • Chemiluminescence is produced by the reaction of an activator with a fluorescent agent and an oxalate.
  • all the formulas for producing chemiluminescent light are acceptable provided that the dimensions, the volume and the weight of the combined reagents can be adapted to allow the object of the present invention to be achieved.
  • Patent US-A-5,010,461 (K. Saotome) (Multicolor pressure-sensitive illuminating display platform) describes a platform illuminating an object whose weight triggers the illumination process in a variable choice of colors created by a filter mobile placed between the exhibition platform and an electric light source placed inside the device.
  • the object and function of this relatively expensive device which is to illuminate, with sufficient electrical power to do so, an object placed on the device itself are different from those of the present invention.
  • chemiluminescent envelopes With regard to the chemiluminescent envelopes , reference is made to the patents of the US, A, No. 3,539,794 of November 10, 1970 (Self-contained chemiluminescent lighting device) and US No. 3,808,414 of April 30, 1974 (Device for the packaging of a three or more component chemiluminescent system).
  • the various proposals for chemiluminescent envelopes which are set out in these patents are, at present, in the public domain. It is only the use of some of their concept with the necessary and timely modifications in conjunction with specially adapted container designs that is claimed in the present invention.
  • the US patent, A 4,814,949 granted to L. Elliott on March 21, 1989 (Chemiluminescent device) and already mentioned above for the chemiluminescent envelopes describes a chemiluminescent device including an absorbent material saturated with a first reagent, and a second reagent contained in a glass bulb.
  • the second reagent is absorbed in the material absorbent and mixes with the first reagent to give the chemiluminescent reaction when the glass ampoule is broken at the time of use.
  • the outer container and the absorbent material can be established in different presentations or forms but the invention relates to a new design of chemiluminescent envelope and does not anticipate the present invention.
  • the mug is provided, in its center, with a hollow tube closed at its upper end and, at its lower end, welded to the edges of a circular opening at the bottom of the mug; through this opening, the Cyalume light-stick is introduced; it has a cylindrical configuration and a length, for the most common model, of 3 inches or 7.5 cm. It comes to rest on the ceiling of the stopper which is used to close the sleeve and whose level is above that of the bottom of the container. This central tube is wide enough for air to circulate between the light-stick which is therefore not in direct contact with the liquid.
  • This arrangement of the device of this invention is necessary because the source of chemiluminescence used is a light-stick intended initially for another use than the illumination of liquids and whose duration of luminescence is more than 3 hours which can go up to double even; its intensity - given this long duration of illumination - is strongly affected by the cold that can bring the liquid contained in the mug; hence the usefulness of having air circulation between the light-stick and the sleeve in contact with the cold liquid so that the envelope containing the reagents (the Cyalume light-stick ”) is not in direct contact with the liquid and be affected as little as possible by the cold of it.
  • the invention overcomes these various drawbacks by the composite assembly claimed in claim 1 and dependent claims 2-19.
  • the container is illuminated by the light source whose envelope is contained in the volume of the bottom at least partially transparent or translucent of the container, the bottom of which it can be made integral, being, in this way, isolated from the liquid contained in the container.
  • the arrangement of the reagent envelope in the base or the bottom of the container is provided in such a way that said envelope does not affect the useful volume of the container.
  • the invention uses chemiluminescent charges specially adapted to its object and not commercial models intended, in fact, initially for other uses than that of the illumination of liquids.
  • chemiluminescent light sources are set out in the following description.
  • the chemiluminescence chemistry allows, by the adequate dosage of the various reagents, to modulate the duration and the intensity of the illumination: it is thus possible to manufacture luminous charges whose duration of luminosity lasts only one hour to an hour and a half, normal consumption time of a drink. Due to the shortening of the duration of the illumination, a much stronger light intensity is obtained and much less sensitive to the cold of the drink, as is the case for a light-stick, such as Cyalume, the duration of which brightness far exceeds the normal time of consumption of a drink since it greatly exceeds 3 hours.
  • the first means or MEDIUM A consists in the use of chemiluminescent light by the use of reagents mixed beforehand but with their reaction producing chemiluminescent light blocked by a cold intense enough to do this. Indeed, it appears in the literature concerning chemiluminescent light that the reaction which creates it is between the limits of -40 C. to +75 C. We can therefore imagine the use of the already executed mixture of reagents and its prior storage at a temperature below -40 C., in carbo-ice, for example.
  • the second means or MEDIUM B consists in the use of chemiluminescent light by the extemporaneous mixture of the reagents which one does not proceed until the light is needed.
  • the formula for making this application would be the creation of small transparent or translucent containers. These small frozen containers which contain the already mixed reagents would therefore be stored at a temperature below that at which the reaction begins. They could be designed to try to avoid, as much as possible, before use by heating, the mixing of the reagents which have become pasty in the cold in which they are stored (see FIGURES 1 and 2). To do this, an internal separating wall, not completely closing the two compartments by a passage in the wall (incomplete wall or hole in the wall), would allow better conservation of the separated reagents.
  • the chemiluminescent light source must contain these two solutions in separate compartments but arranged and designed in such a way that one can easily, at the time of use, the communicate and cause the mixing of the separate reagents.
  • the internal chamber of the extemporaneous mixture chemiluminescent light source would be separated into two compartments by a wall, either made of glass, or of sufficiently rigid plastic material and which can be pierced by one or more sharp points or elements which would be fixed on the face internal of one of the external walls parallel or slightly oblique with respect to the internal separating wall, the latter being able to show zones of fragility expressly desired to facilitate piercing.
  • chemiluminescent light source with extemporaneous mixing similar to the previous ones but where the internal wall is made of a frangible material, such as a glass slide or a high quality plastic slide as it could be. split or break and open under the pressure exerted on the walls, this blade can show areas of fragility specially desired to facilitate the operation.
  • This separation blade could be arranged more or less parallel between two parallel walls of the regular polyhedron, but it could also be placed obliquely between two opposite edges, for example, on the internal diagonal of the polyhedron when it is a cube. see FIGURE 4)
  • chemiluminescent light source with extemporaneous mixing consists of a small container formed by two compartments containing the reagents whose wall of separation shows a hole obstructed by a plug connected to a control rod, the assembly having the appearance of a piston; the plug control rod leaves the container by sliding in a tube internal to the compartment and welded to the external wall from which it leaves. By pressing on this rod, the communication hole between the two compartments is opened and the reagents are therefore mixed (see FIGURES 17 and 17A)
  • the extemporaneous mixture chemiluminescent light source whose design has just been exposed can be modified to become a model of extemporaneous device unscrewable by the thread of the plug control rod; this makes it possible to make it screwable and unscrewable in the also threaded tube which holds it; the plug can thus be allowed, after having closed the communication hole between the two compartments, to go back up and to plug the hole from which it has just come out; this maneuver controls the mixing of the reactants.
  • the plug In order to allow the plug to be re-engaged in the orifice it has just left, it is desirable that the plug has a spherical shape or is in the form of double cones welded by the base. (see FIGURE 18)
  • the small container is also made of two compartments containing the reagents to be mixed separated by a wall in which a hole is made.
  • This hole is closed by a plug in the shape of a sphere or two cones welded by the base, plug through which passes a rod whose median part is threaded, the inside of the corridor of the plug in which the rod passes being itself also threaded.
  • the sphere or the double sealing cone is raised or lowered and the reactants causing the chemiluminescence reaction are thus allowed to mix.
  • the end of the lower part of this rod turns freely in a cavity formed in a local reinforcement of the internal face of the lower wall while the upper part of the rod, at its end which emerges from the upper wall, at the level of the surface shows an enlarged development in the form of a button which makes it possible to rotate it or simply shows a slot in which the edge of a coin can be inserted to rotate it.
  • the upper end of the rod which is not threaded rotates in a sleeve attached to the upper wall, a sleeve which supports it and allows better sealing of the container.
  • a chemiluminescent light source with extemporaneous mixing would be the following: it is here a small container having the shape of a short cylindrical column or of square or polygonal section. The whole is, in fact, a small bottle, transparent or translucent, closed by a stopper which has the same section and the same outside diameter as the base bottle which it extends upwards. Inside the bottle, a partition completely separates it into two compartments containing the reagents. In the middle is the neck into which the threaded part of the plug is screwed. This neck is open at the bottom and this opening at the bottom of the neck is made of two semicircular orifices separated by the top of the upper edge of the interior partition on which the base of the stopper is placed when it is closed.
  • a characteristic of these unscrewable extemporaneous mixture chemiluminescent light sources is that one can initialize the mixing of the reagents, allow a reaction to start, close the communication opening and if desired, prolong the reaction by unscrewing the stopper and allowing the reagents to be mixed again.
  • the stopper part may have a slightly larger diameter than the bottle part; this ledge can extend around the bottle part to form a small circular skirt. This continues to cover the empty interval left between the bottle and the stopper when the latter is slightly unscrewed and kept in this position to allow a reaction to idle (see Figures 16 and 16A).
  • the wall of the elements constituting the chemiluminescent light sources can be colored either in the mass, or superficially to modify the color caused by the chemiluminescence; this wall can also carry different designs of different colors.
  • the elements can also bear inscriptions, advertising marks or logos, either in relief, or in hollow, or in printing.
  • Illuminating bases for transparent or translucent objects to be lit are provided:
  • chemiluminescent light sources constituting, in fact - if desired - supports with a luminous surface making it possible to illuminate various containers, such as bottles of perfumes in displays as well as vases or goblets.
  • the quality of the illumination of a liquid will also depend on its composition: a simply colored solution will light up better than a lemonade containing fruit pulp in suspension. Likewise, certain colors created by chemiluminescence will not go well with those of solutions which, in a way, will neutralize them: a green chemiluminescence, for example, on a red drink. On the other hand, a drink containing reflective glitter, as some liquors have, will give a very pleasant light effect. Also, too much ambient ambient lighting of the place where the illuminated solution is located is, of course, a primordial factor for the success of the pleasant effect of the invention.
  • FIGURES
  • FIGURE 1 is a three-dimensional view of a small frozen and hermetic container which would have here a cubic shape.
  • This device is intended to contain, in two separate compartments C1 and C2, each of the frozen reagents.
  • the inner wall P separates these in order to avoid their contact and their reaction at a temperature where they could still react and cause the start of chemiluminescence.
  • the wall P leaves a free passage I towards the top of the cube when it is closed.
  • the container being frozen it is at the time of its heating that the liquids can come into contact and mix through the slot allowing communication between the 2 compartments C1 and C2.
  • FIGURE 2 is a three-dimensional view of a small frozen and hermetic container similar to that of Figure 1 but where the inner wall P is pierced with a hole T to allow the passage of liquids when they begin to warm up.
  • FIGURE 3 is a three-dimensional view of a small hermetic container, here in the shape of a cube, where the reagents to be mixed extemporaneously are kept in two compartments C1 and C2 separated by a rigid wall P pierced by a point S which is on the inside of the flexible bottom F of the cube.
  • FIGURE 4 is a three-dimensional view of a small hermetic container, here in the shape of a cube, where the reagents to be mixed extemporaneously are kept in two compartments C1 and C2 separated by an oblique wall P breakable by shearing movement of the walls relatively flexible cube.
  • FIGURE 5 shows the three-dimensional section of a sleeve whose upper location M1 open is intended to receive the bottom of the container or the cup or the bottle to be illuminated and whose lower chamber M2 contains the frozen luminescent liquid, the two parts M1 and M2 being separated by a wall P letting the light pass.
  • FIGURE 6 represents a schematic view of a conical cup sleeve consisting of an open upper location M1 making a container or cup and an inner chamber M2 closed containing the chemiluminescent liquid mixed and frozen, the two parts M1 and M2 being separated by a wall P letting the light pass.
  • a similar cup sleeve is fitted in the first to show that it is thus possible to stack and store them in a relatively small volume.
  • FIGURE 7 shows in three dimensions an open sleeve M carrying an inner rim R on which the bottom of the container or bottle comes to rest, with the possibility of previously placing a plate P allowing the light to pass through, thus creating a lower chamber MI in which the activated chemiluminescent device is placed.
  • FIGURE 8 represents a three-dimensional section of a double sleeve made of two compartments M1 and M2, one M1 intended to receive the bottom of the container or cup, the bottle or the vase and the other M2 intended to receive the extemporaneous mixture chemiluminescent device; M1 and M2 are separated by a wall P allowing the light to pass through; the lower chamber M2 is closed by a bottom F fixed by edges A implanting in the wall of the sleeve.
  • FIGURE 9 shows in schematic view a commercial plastic bottle B with rounded bottom F welded at point S to a sleeve M which encloses it intimately so, by its flat bottom P, to keep it vertical, this sleeve being pierced here a hole T through which the chemiluminescent light-stick L can be introduced into the chamber C left empty between the rounded bottom F of the bottle B and the cylindrical wall of the sleeve.
  • FIGURE 10 shows a schematic section of a container or cup identical to Figure 9 except for the upper part (B in Figure 9) which is replaced here by an open chamber forming a glass-cup V; this can be separated from the rounded bottom by a wall P allowing the light to pass through.
  • FIGURE 11 represents a three-dimensional section of a sleeve containing an open upper chamber C intended to receive the bottom of the container or the cup or the bottle and whose base B thick and allowing the light to pass through is hollowed out here by a tunnel T into which the chemiluminescent stick S can be inserted.
  • FIGURE 12 shows schematically in three dimensions a container or cup whose base B is identical to that of FIG. 11 but the upper part V of which constitutes a drinking glass.
  • FIGURE 13 shows a three-dimensional section of a sleeve, the upper open part M1 of which is intended to receive the bottom of the container to be illuminated and is separated by a wall F allowing light to pass through coming from the lower part M2 consisting of two compartments C1 and C2 containing the reagents and separated from each other by a wall P puncture or breakable by a point A located on the flexible impermeable base B of the sleeve.
  • FIGURE 14 shows a three-dimensional view of a sleeve, the upper open part M1 of which is intended to receive the bottom of the container to be illuminated and is separated by a wall F allowing light to pass through coming from the lower part M2 consisting of two compartments C1 and C2 containing the reagents and separated from each other by a wall P, oblique to the vertical, breakable by a lateral or shearing movement of the flexible base B.
  • FIGURE 15 representing a small cubic container constituting an unscrewable extemporaneous device, is a front view of the section, along the plane XY of FIG. Annex 15A, which represents the section of the device seen from above at the level of the plane ST of the same Figure 15.
  • the plug A is extended by the threaded part B in the neck C penetrating the bottle part D divided into two compartments E1 and E2 separated by the wall F.
  • Figure 15 shows the device with its cap closed: the threaded part B of the cap A pushes on the central part of the wall F and therefore hermetically separates the two compartments E1 and E2 from the bottle part thus preventing the mixing of the reagents contained in the compartments.
  • FIGURES 16 and 16A show a small cylindrical container constituting an unscrewable extemporaneous device whose cap has been partially unscrewed.
  • Figure 16 is a three-dimensional view of a section along the plane XY of Figure 16A annex, itself representing a schematic section seen from above along the plane ST of the same device.
  • the plug A is extended by the threaded part B in the neck C penetrating into the bottle part D divided into two compartments E1 and E2 separated by the wall F.
  • the base G of the threaded part B of the plug A now separated from the surface K of the upper edge of the wall F by unscrewing the plug A, here lets the reagents coming from the compartments E1 and E2 pass into the chamber L thus opened.
  • the outside diameter of the stopper A is a little wider than that of the bottle part B and its outer edge descends into a circular skirt M around the bottle D which it continues to cover even when the stopper A is partially unscrewed.
  • This skirt M covers and prevents seeing the open part N which has formed between the bottle and the stopper A by unscrewing the latter.
  • Reliefs R at the top of the bottle D corresponding to hollows U of the cap A allow better airtightness when the cap is closed.
  • FIGURES 17 and 17A represent a small cubic container constituting an extemporaneous device before (Fig. 17) and after (Fig. 17A) the activation of the chemiluminescence, that is to say when the reagents previously isolated have been mixed.
  • Figures 17 and 17A show sections made in a plane parallel to the sides passing through the middle of the container when the latter is held in such a way that the two compartments E1 and E2 are superimposed.
  • the plug A which closes the hole L made in the wall F separating the 2 compartments E1 and E2 is controlled by a rod B which emerges from the container by sliding in the tube C attached to the upper wall of the container. This rod carries edges H preventing the accidental re-entry of the rod into the tube C and the consequent exit of the plug A from the hole L which it closes.
  • FIGURE 18 shows, in the same section as for Figures 17 and 17A, a small cubic container constituting an unscrewable extemporaneous device. It is comparable to that of FIGS. 17 and 17A but differs in that the rod B which controls the plug A to take it out of the hole L which it closes is threaded and moves in the tube C, showing a corresponding thread, by screwing and unscrewing. We can therefore by screwing it out the plug A downwards and thus open the hole L thus allowing the mixing of the reactants. If you unscrew it, you can reassemble the cap A and close the hole L. You can also screw it slightly and limit the mixing of the reagents.
  • the plug A is here formed of two inverted cones joined by their base so as to facilitate its re-entry into the hole L in the event of recapping. Here too the edges H prevent the plug A from coming out of the hole L and from being raised too high.
  • FIGURE 19 shows, in the same section as for Figures 17, 17A and 18, a small cubic container constituting an unscrewable extemporaneous device. It is comparable to those of these figures but here the control of the plug A output from the hole L which it closes, or its reentry, is made by screwing or unscrewing a threaded rod B which turns freely at its lower end in the cavity I formed in the internal face of the bottom wall of the container; the upper part J of this rod B is unthreaded and turns freely in the tube C.
  • the middle part K of the control rod is threaded and passes in the axis also threaded of the plug A. When this rod is rotated by action on its upper end M emerging from the container, the edges H prevent it from going back up and it is the plug A threaded in its vertical axis which leaves or enters the hole L which it closes.
  • FIGURE 20 represents a median section of a container (beaker) having a bottom provided with a recess P with vertical axis open downwards in which is housed a container constituting a chemiluminescent light source U.
  • This container is maintained in place by its own elasticity against the walls of the recess which have edges R operating a positive thrust against the container U to ensure its maintenance.
  • edges S in the ceiling W of the recess touching the light source.
  • These edges S as well as the lateral edges R collect the light towards the walls of the container.
  • a shoulder T carrying an engraved advertising text.
  • FIG. 20A is a section through the base of the container (cup) at the level of the ceiling W of the recess P along the axis AB. There appear the edges S collecting the light and the voids O between these edges.
  • FIG. 20B is a section in the base of the container (cup) along the axis CD showing the recess P and the relief of the lateral edges R pressing on the chemiluminescent container U and collecting its light.

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  1. Ensemble, das ein Behältnis für Flüssigkeiten, dessen Wände zumindest teilweise durchsichtig oder durchscheinend sind, wie eine Vase, eine Flasche, ein Glas oder Becher zur Aufnahme eines Getränks, mit einer chemolumineszierenden Lichtquelle kombiniert, die aus einer wasserdichten und durchsichtigen oder durchscheinenden Hülle besteht, die zur Hervorrufung der Chemolumineszenz geeignete Stoffe enthält, wobei diese Stoffe entweder bereits gemischt sind und bei einer Temperatur aufbewahrt werden, die die Reaktion, die die Chemolumineszenz hervorruft, unterbindet, oder aber die Stoffe werden in unterschiedlichen Abteilen (C1, C2; El, E2) aufbewahrt, die zum Zeitpunkt der Verwendung miteinander in Kommunikation gebracht werden können, wobei das Behältnis eine Basis besitzt, die dazu bestimmt ist, die Hülle aufzunehmen, die ausschließlich vom Material der Basis umgeben ist, so daß der Inhalt des Behältnisses nicht in Mitleidenschaft gezogen wird.
  2. Ensemble der Forderung 1, das dadurch charakterisiert ist, daß die Hülle fest am wenigstens teilweise durchsichtigen oder durchscheinenden Boden des Behältnisses angebracht ist.
  3. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 2, wobei das Behältnis die Form eines an der Basis geschlossenen, zylinderförmigen oder kegelstumpfartigen Stutzens hat, wobei die kegelstumpfartige Form die Stapelung erleichtert, und dies als Trinkbecher dienen kann, wenn die Wände nach oben verlängert sind, hierbei enthält das Gefäß in seinem Boden einen geschlossenen Freiraum, der die gefrorene chemolumineszierende Flüssigkeit enthält, welche durch eine Wand, die das Licht durchscheinen läßt, von dem Teil des Behälters, der die zu erleuchtende Flüssigkeit enthält, getrennt wird, wobei diese zu erleuchtende Flüssigkeit erleuchtet, wenn die lumineszierende, gefrorene Mischung sich erwärmt, nachdem sie aus der Tiefkühlkammer, in der sie aufbewahrt wurde, entnommen wurde.
  4. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 1, wobei das Behältnis aus einem mehr oder weniger hohen, am Boden geschlossenen Stutzen besteht, der dazu bestimmt ist, einen Becher aufzunehmen oder der selbst einen Becher mit durchsichtigen oder durchscheinenden Wänden darstellt, wobei der geschlossene Boden eine dicke, durchsichtige oder durchscheinende Basis darstellt, in die ein Loch eingebracht oder ein Tunnel gebohrt ist, in das/den die eine aktivierte chemolumineszierende Lichtquelle darstellende Hülle eingebracht wird.
  5. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 4, wobei das Behältnis einen Boden besitzt, der in seiner Masse eine in vertikaler Richtung verlaufende Aushöhlung besitzt, die nach unten hin offen ist, und die chemolumineszierende Lichtquelle (U) aufnehmen kann, deren Hülle eine der Aushöhlung entsprechende Form besitzt und durch ihre eigene Elastizität ihren Platz gegen die lateralen Wände der Aushöhlung beibehält, die Kanten (R) aufweisen, die einen positiven Druck gegen den Behälter ausüben, wobei diese Kanten ihren Halt gewährleisten und zudem das chemolumineszierende Licht sammeln und es in die Wände des Bechers weiterleiten.
  6. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 5, dessen Behälter derart verändert wurde, daß die horizontale Wand, die die Aushöhlung nach oben begrenzt und die die genannte Aushöhlung vom Hohlraum des Bechers, der das Getränk enthält, trennt, ebenfalls mit Kanten (S) versehen ist, die in direkten Kontakt mit dem Behälter treten und das chemolumineszierende Licht sammeln sollen.
  7. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 5, wobei das Behältnis so verändert wurde, daß die Aushöhlung im Boden die hohle Form eines Gewindegangs besitzt, in den das chemolumineszierende Element, das speziell in der Form einer großen Schraube hergestellt wurde, damit es in die Basis dieses Bechers paßt, eingeschraubt wird, d.h. daß sein Volumen und seine Oberfläche vollkommen an diese völlige Verbindung mit dem Becher angepaßt sind.
  8. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 1, dessen Behältnis einen derart geformten Boden besitzt, daß er an seinem Mittelpunkt an das Zentrum eines zylindrischen Stutzens geklebt werden kann, dessen Boden glatt ist und dessen Wand das genannte Behältnis nach oben umschließt, bis zu einem Niveau, das ein wenig höher liegt als das, wo die Verringerung des Durchmessers des Behältnisses nach unten beginnt, wobei der Boden desselben Behältnisses eine solche hemisphärische oder andere Form besitzt, daß ein offener Raum zwischen Boden und Wand des Stutzens entsteht, in die eines oder mehrere Löcher gebohrt sind, die sich öffnen und schließen lassen und durch die man eine oder mehrere geeignete chemolumineszierende Hüllen einführt.
  9. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 1 in der Form eines mehr oder weniger tiefen, an der Basis geschlossenen Stutzens, wobei die Hülle mit den chemolumineszierenden Stoffen sich in der Basis befindet und wobei das zu erleuchtende Glas dann in diesen Stutzen gesetzt wird, der an seiner Innenwand mit einem Rand (R) oder Kanten versehen ist, um das Trinkglas und, zuvor, eventuell eine durchsichtige oder durchscheinende Platte (P) abzustützen.
  10. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 2, wobei die Hülle mit den Stoffen in einen Stutzen (M) eingebracht ist, der den Boden des Behältnisses umschließt, oder, wenn die Hülle selber durch ihre äußere Struktur bedingt die Form eines Stutzens aufweist, sie den Boden des Behältnisses umschließt.
  11. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 2, wobei die Hülle mit den Stoffen bereits von ihrer Herstellung an und permanent in das Volumen des Bodens des Behältnisses eingebracht ist, von dem sie nicht getrennt werden kann und somit mit ihm zusammen eine kompakte Einheit bildet.
  12. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 1, wobei die Hülle die Form eines kleinen Behälters hat, dessen Außenwände aus einem Material hergestellt sind, dessen Biegsamkeit dem Verwendungszweck angepaßt ist und wobei man durch Druck auf zwei Außenwände, von denen eine eine oder mehrere Spitzen (S) auf ihrer internen Oberfläche trägt, das Zerstören einer Innenwand (P) hervorrufen kann, die die beiden Abteile (C1, C2) trennt, aus denen der Behälter besteht, wobei diese Innenwand an den Stellen, die den Spitzen entsprechen, Schwachstellen (T) aufweist, die das Durchbrechen erleichern, wobei die beiden Abteile die Stoffe enthalten, deren Mischung die Chemolumineszenz hervorruft.
  13. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 1, wobei die Hülle die Form eines kleinen Behälters hat, bei dem man durch Druck oder scherenartige Bewegung der externen Wände eine Innenwand (P) zerbricht, die die beiden Abteile (C1, C2) trennt, die den Behälter bilden und die aktiven Stoffe enthalten, deren Mischung die Chemolumineszenz hervorruft, wobei diese Innenwand einen oder mehrere Schwachpunkte enthält, die ihr Zerbrechen erleichtern.
  14. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 1, wobei die Hülle die Form eines aus zwei übereinanderliegenden Abteilen (E1, E2) bestehenden Behälters hat, wobei die Abteile Stoffe enthalten, deren Mischung die Chemolumineszenz hervorruft und sie durch eine Wand (F) getrennt sind, in die ein mit einem Stöpsel (A) verschlossenes Loch (L) gebohrt ist, wobei der Stöpsel mit einem Steuerstift (B) verbunden ist, der einen kleineren Durchmesser besitzt als der Stöpsel, und der aus dem Behälter herausragt und in eine Verstärkung in Form eines in der Abteilung befindlichen Rohres (C) mündet, und der mit der Außenwand verbunden ist, damit durch Druck die Ablösung des Stöpsels (A) vom durch den Stöpsel verschlossenen Loch (L) ermöglicht wird, und somit die beiden Abteilungen kommunizieren und die Flüssigkeiten sich mischen können, wobei der Steuerstift unterhalb der unteren Grenze des Rohrs Kanten (H) aufweisen kann, so daß er nicht zufällig herausrutscht und somit ungewollt das vom Stöpsel verschlossene Loch freigibt.
  15. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 14, das so verändert ist, daß der Steuerstift (B) des Stöpsels und das Rohr (C), das mit der oberen Wand, in die er eingebracht wird, verschweißt ist, beide ein entsprechendes Gewindegang-Gewinde aufweisen, so daß der Stift aufgeschraubt werden kann, so daß er den Stöpsel des Lochs, das er verschließt nach unten freigibt, und der Stift nach oben wieder zuschraubbar ist, so daß dieses Loch wieder verschlossen werden kann, so daß nur eine teilweise Mischung der Stoffe zuzulassen, wobei der Stöpsel die Form einer Kugel oder zweier an ihrer Unterseite verschweißter Kegel hat.
  16. Ensemble, gemäß Forderung 15, die so verändert wurde, daß der Stöpsel (A) eine gewindete Achse besitzt, durch die vertikal ein gewindeter Stift (K) verläuft, wobei sich dieser Stift an seinem unteren Ende in einem Freiraum (I) der Innenseite der unteren Wand des Behälters frei dreht, während sein oberes, nicht gewindetes Ende in das Rohr (C) reicht, das innen glatt und an der oberen Wand angebracht ist, und sein Kopf aus der externen Oberfläche der oberen Wand des Behälters herausragt, von wo aus er auf- und zugeschraubt werden kann und somit den Stöpsel durch die Auswirkung des Schraubens in seinem gewindeten Kanal aus dem Loch, das er verschließt, herausgehen läßt und so das Kommunizieren der beiden Abteile, die Mischung und die Kontrolle der Mischung der Stoffe ermöglicht, wobei der obere Teil (J) des Stifts Kanten (H) aufweist, bevor der Stift in das glatte Rohr eindringt, damit er sich nicht von allein vom Freiraum, wo sein unteres Ende sich frei dreht, löst.
  17. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 1, wobei die Hülle die Form eines Behälters in Form einer zylindrischen Säule oder eines Karree- oder Vieleckquerschnitts hat, der in zwei Teile geteilt ist (A, D), von denen der eine, obere, ein Schraubverschluß (A) ist, der einen gewindeten Teil (B) hat, der sich in einen Hals eindrehen läßt, der sich im anderen, unteren Teil befindet, der einen Flakon (D) bildet, dieser untere Teil stellt eine Kammer dar, die in zwei Abteile (E1, E2) unterteilt ist, die die Stoffe enthalten, deren Mischung die Chemolumineszenz hervorruft, sie wird in die genannten zwei Abteile unterteilt durch eine Wand (F), auf deren oberer Kante direkt die Basis (G) des gewindeten Teils (B) des Stöpsels (A) aufliegt, der, wenn er teilweise aufgeschraubt ist, im Hals oberhalb der Kante der Trennwand (F) und unterhalb der Basis des gewindeten Teils des Stöpsels einen Freiraum läßt, wo die Stoffe gemischt werden können, wobei der Teil, der den Stöpsel bildet, in dem Fall, daß er eine zylindrische Säule darstellt, einen größeren äußeren Durchmesser haben kann als der den Flakon bildende Teil, wobei dieser Stöpsel durch eine Verlängerung seiner Leiste, die den Flakon umschließt, somit eine Art Schürze (M) um diesen Flakon darstellt, eine Schürze, die somit den durch Aufschrauben des Stöpsels zwischen Flakon und Stöpsel entstandenden Zwischenraum verdeckt.
  18. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 2, wobei die Hülle die Form eines Stutzens aufweist, der dazu dient, einen Behälter aufzunehmen, der durch eine lichtdurchlässige Wand (F) von einer unteren doppelten Kammer (M2) getrennt ist, deren beide Abteile (C1, C2) je einen der sich erst später bei Verwendung mischenden Stoffe enthalten und deren Decke der Basis ein biegsames Material ist, wobei die beiden Abteile der unteren doppelten Kammer durch eine horizontale oder in der Horizontalen geneigte Wand (P) getrennt sind, die zerstech- oder zerbrechbar ist an einer oder mehreren Spitzen (A), die sich auf der biegsamen Basis befinden.
  19. Ensemble gemäß Forderung 18, wobei die Hülle so verändert wurde, daß die beiden Abteile (C1, C2) der unteren Kammer (M2) durch eine vertikale oder im Verhältnis zur Vertikalen schiefe Wand (P) getrennt sind, die durch eine laterale oder scherenartige Bewegung der biegsamen Basis zerbrochen werden kann.
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