US1629358A - Drinking attachment - Google Patents

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I: 1 927 P. o. PADGETT DRINKING ATTACHMENT Filed Sept. 8, 1925 AT TORN EV Patented May 17, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

POWELL ID; PADGETT, OF

TO FRANK G.

DRINKING ATTACHMENT.

Application filed September 8 1925. Serial No. 55,098.

This invention relates to protecting devices and has for an object the provision of a novel, cheap and simple article which may be placed around the mouth of a bottle 15 or'similar container, so thatthe latter may be used as a drinking vessel without having the lips of the drinker contact with the vessel and thus provide a sanitary device, as well as to protect the lips from danger of 10 injury, should the edge of said vessel be rough or sharp.

7 With the above and other objects in view, the invention further includes the following novel features and details of construction,

to be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a fragmentary sectional view showing a portion of the neck of a bottle with the invention applied.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the invention per se.

Figure 3 is a bottom plan view.. Referring to the drawings in detail wherein like characters of reference denote corresponding parts, the reference character 10 indicates a portion of the neck of a bottle such as is commonly used for the sale ofbeverages and it may be here stated that while the. invention .is shown as applied to a bottle of this type, it may be used with other types of bottles, or with containers of different shapes. I

Frequently, soft drinks and other beverages are sold at roadside refreshment houses, or the bottled goods are carried in automobiles on picnic or camping trips audit is frequently necessary to drink from the bottles. The mouths of the bottles are in most instances unsanitary and in a number of instances their edges are sharp or'rough. This renders drinking from the bottle an uncomfortable and difficult operation and fre- 45 quently the lips of the drinker are injured. ThlS is overcome in the present invention by providing a protector which is preferably formed of paper and which is shaped to provide a substantially cylindrical member 11 which is open at one end and which has extending inwardly from its opposite end an the inner and outer peripheries of the neck.

The skirt is adapted to extend downwardly within'the mouth of the bottle so that if .there should be broken glass or any other foreign substance in the bottle, it will lodge behind this skirt when the bottle is inverted, preventing any such substance from outer ing the mouth of the drinker, this apron and the flange together forming a complete covering for the mouth of the bottle so that the lips of the drinker cannot contact with any portion of the bottle.

The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form, proportions and minor details of construction and the right is herein reserved to make such changes as properly fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having described the inventionwhat is claimed is In a protecting device for bottles, a hollow substantially cylindrical member open at one end and adapted to be positioned around the neck of the bottle, an annular flange extending inwardly from the vopposite end of said member and an annular skirtextending downwardly from the inner edge of the flange and adapted to enter-the mouth of the bottle, said skirt decreasin in diameter from its outer to its inner en and providing an annular neck receiving chamber having a cylindrical outer wall and a relatively inclined inner wall.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

1 POWELL D. PADGETT.

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