IPC분류정보
국가/구분 |
United States(US) Patent
등록
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국제특허분류(IPC7판) |
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출원번호 |
US-0284073
(2008-09-18)
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등록번호 |
US7959033
(2011-05-31)
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발명자
/ 주소 |
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대리인 / 주소 |
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인용정보 |
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초록
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A drip catcher, having an adjustable neck, having a hook at the top for engaging a spout pipe of a fluid reservoir, and a basin, containing an absorbent pad and three sided slot on the flattened rear side to accommodate two legs of an alligator clasp in the neck, having a channel between the legs cr
A drip catcher, having an adjustable neck, having a hook at the top for engaging a spout pipe of a fluid reservoir, and a basin, containing an absorbent pad and three sided slot on the flattened rear side to accommodate two legs of an alligator clasp in the neck, having a channel between the legs created by cutting three sides of a brace, bendable rearward to support the invention in vertical alignment to the spout, teeth extending from the outside edge of both legs which engage the sides of the slot, so the teeth disengage by squeezing the legs together.
대표청구항
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I claim: 1. An improved drip catcher device, having an overall length, for removable attachment to a fluid reservoir, having an exterior face from which extends a spout pipe, having a vertical axis and diameter, which conveys fluid from the reservoir to a spout, having an outlet, and there through t
I claim: 1. An improved drip catcher device, having an overall length, for removable attachment to a fluid reservoir, having an exterior face from which extends a spout pipe, having a vertical axis and diameter, which conveys fluid from the reservoir to a spout, having an outlet, and there through the fluid is discharged downward into a cup, the device being capable of being manufactured in two separate parts, a neck means comprised of a neck, having a proximal end with a hook means, having a curved shape, and a distal end having a length, comprised of two legs, each having an outside edge, with an open slot, having three sides and length and width, between, extending the length of the distal end to form an alligator clasp means, the legs having teeth with a flat top edge extending at regular intervals along the outside edge of said two legs and a basin means to which removably attaches the neck means, said drip catcher device being adjustable in length and capable of being hung from the spout pipe of the fluid reservoir, even when said spout and spout pipe are protected by a rigid protective band enclosing the spout pipe and spout, being comprised ofthe basin means comprised of an open cylinder of rigid, water tight material, with a closed, flat bottom and an open top of a diameter larger than that of said cup, intended to carry away the fluid, to catch drips from the spout, said cylinder having a rear wall adjacent to the reservoir which is flattened and to which is affixed a three sided slot of sufficient width to accommodate the alligator clasp means in the distal end of the neck means and having side walls extending perpendicular out from the rear wall and said side walls being no higher than the interval between the teeth on the legs of the alligator clasp means in the distal end of the neck means, and having therein a removable, disposable absorbent pad means,the neck means comprised of the hook, extending from the proximal end of the drip catcher device and displaced from the vertical axis of the spout pipe and the alligator clasp, said hook comprised of a length of rigid material having an open hook, at the proximal end of the neck means, having an inverted ‘V’ shape, with the apex of the ‘V’ at the top of the hook, inside the curve of said hook means so as to accommodate engagement of various diameter of the spout pipe while centering the spout pipe in the apex of the inverted ‘V’ shape so that the basin means, when attached to the distal end of the neck by means of the alligator clasp means, aligns directly below the vertical axis of the spout pipe, andthe alligator clasp means in the distal end of the neck, having an integral brace means to align the basin closer to or further away from the exterior face of the fluid reservoir, so the basin is directly below the spout outlet, comprised of, in the distal end of the neck, the brace, having three sides of the brace formed by cutting free from a center of the neck, with the top of the brace remaining attached to the neck, which unattached portion of the brace is bent rearward away from the basin a sufficient distance to touch the exterior face of the fluid reservoir thereby aligning the basin with the spout outlet, while a result of removing the brace from the neck is to form a vertical adjustment means comprised of an open slot extending through the distal end of the neck thus forming the two legs extending downward in the distal end of the neck opposite from the hook, each leg is provided along the length of said each leg and extending from the outside edge of said each leg a series of teeth, spaced at regular intervals along the length of the leg paired one on each said leg, having on top of the teeth a flat face perpendicular to the open slot in the neck, top pair of said teeth, extending from the outside edge of said two legs, engage sidewalls of the three sided slot formed on the outside of the flattened rear wall of the basin, and the open slot formed in the neck by removal of the brace is of sufficient width so that the two legs when squeezed together a sufficient distance disengage the teeth from the sidewalls of the three sided slot and the three sided slot in the basin is moved up or down in relation to the teeth in the alligator clasp means to change the overall length of the drip catcher device or disassemble the basin from the neck, andthe disposable absorbent pad means being comprised of a pad of such shape and size to readily fit into the basin comprised of multiple plies of absorbent material so that fluid residue caught in the basin is removed and discarded without disengaging the drip catcher device from the spout pipe of the fluid reservoir.
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