Package of identifiable beverage containers

Abstract

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.

Description

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...

AI Technical Summary

Problems solved by technology

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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