Package of identifiable beverage containers

a beverage container and packaging technology, applied in the field of beverage container packaging, can solve the problems of confusion as to who has been drinking from a particular container, individuals have no easy way of identifying their own containers, devices and systems for identifying containers have one or more disadvantages

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-05-14
ARMENTI DARLENE
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The consumers may place their opened containers on a coffee table and may be distracted by a program being broadcast on a television, a conversation, a game being played among individuals, and the like, sometimes resulting in confusion as to who has been drinking from a particular container.
Since the containers from a single packaged set are identical, the individuals have no easy way of identifying their own container.
The prior devices and systems for identifying a container have one or more disadvantages and as a result have not become commercially successful or adopted as a means for identifying individual beverage containers by consumers.
Each of the prior art systems requires a consumer to scratch a portion of a container, place an identifier on the container, or other steps which are so inconvenient that none of these prior art systems have become commercially successful.

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[0014]While the invention is capable of being carried out in various embodiments, for purposes of illustration only certain embodiments are described in detail with reference to the drawings wherein FIG. 1 illustrates an embodiment wherein a package of six water bottles 18 are packaged in a bottom cardboard box 20 and maintained in the box 20 with plastic wrap 19. Each cap 17 has a different design on top, the designs being a star 11, dog 12, airplane 13, sun 14, and flower 15.

[0015]Referring now to FIG. 2, a second package is illustrated with the different designs on top of the caps 17 being a happy face 21, dollar sign 22, bike 23, apple 24, heart 25, and X 26.

[0016]In FIG. 3, the unique identifiers are bear 32, mouse 33, ram 34, cat 35, antelope or reindeer 36, and sheep 37.

[0017]Referring to FIG. 4, the unique identifiers are sports team logos, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.

[0018]It is contemplated that packages of 12, 24, or 48 individual beverage containers would be manufactured by a...

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A package of 6, 12, 24, or 48 individual beverage containers is disclosed wherein the containers are identical except for an identifier associated with each of the individual beverage containers in the package for facilitating visual discrimination of each of the individual beverage containers, the identifier comprising a color and/or symbol and/or number on the cap or top of the beverage container. The package can be supplied by a beverage manufacturer and does not require consumer intervention by marking his or her own container since the containers are premarked when purchased.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to a system and method for identifying beverage containers and distinguishing one from the other.[0002]More particularly, the invention relates to an improvement in the field of packages of beverage containers and to methods of identifying individual beverage containers and distinguishing one container from another.[0003]Beverages sold in containers are typically packaged in sets of 6, 12, 24, 48, or other amounts, with each container in such a set being identical to each other container. For example, a six-pack of beer cans, a 24-pack of water bottles, a 48-pack of juice boxes would be manufactured with no way of distinguishing the containers. In some cases, each container may have an individual serial number, but a consumer does not usually pay attention to serial numbers to distinguish beverage containers.[0004]Frequently two or more people (referred to hereafter as consumers) have opened containers from the same pack...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B65D41/00
CPCB65D71/10B65D51/245
Inventor ARMENTI, DARLENE
Owner ARMENTI DARLENE
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