Water bottle pick
CA 2096101 A1 · Owner: Marcotte, Jean-Marie · Inventors: Marcotte, Jean-Marie
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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An elongate pick enables placement of a water bottle on a water dispensing cooler without leakage and/or spill of water. Conventional plastic bottles in which spring water is sold comprise a neck itself defining an opening closed by means of a thickness of substantially deformable plastic material. The elongate pick is formed with a point a shank portion having an outer surface formed with longitudinal channels therein, and an intermediate hole sealing portion. In operation, (a) the point is driven through the thickness of plastic material to puncture this material and form a hole therein (b), the pick is further driven through the thickness of plastic material to position the intermediate …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed May 12, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 12, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by May 12, 2015.
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