Device for holding a closure on a bottle
CA 2201978 A1 · Owner: Ermel, Pierre · Inventors: Ermel, Pierre
Overview
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A device for temporarily holding a bottle capsule during a sealing operation. facilitate part of the domestic wine bottling operation. The device allows an intended user to temporarily keep a conventional secondary closure such as a capsule over the neck of a bottle such as a wine bottle regardless of the orientation of the bottle while the neck of the bottle is being inserted into a volume of hot liquid without the need for the user's hand to contact the hot liquid thus allowing for a simple domestic heat shrinking operation. The device has a grasping section the grasping section being, configured and sized so as to extend substantially along at least a portion of the body of the bottle. …
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- Filed April 7, 1997. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 7, 2017.
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