Beverage bottle clothing clip

Abstract

A beverage bottle clothing clip for attaching a plastic bottle container to a person's belt, pants pocket or waistband; being particularly purposed for cost effective mass production and disposable use. Two apertures; one primary and gripping aperture, and one secondary aperture, and a connecting slit are located at one end of an elongate, flexible, planar plastic substrate; with a locking bend formed perpendicularly to and within the immediate area of said slit and secondary aperture. Said primary gripping aperture of said bent flexible substrate is controllably sizeable for easy application to, and removal from the underside of a bottleneck cap stop rim. As the user straightens the bent clip by hand, the directionally planar axis of said gripping aperture begins to merge with that of said slit and secondary aperture, wherein both apertures and connecting slit combine to form an aperture larger than said primary aperture. As user releases the straightening hold, said primary aperture returns to its own and original perimeter size, as the residual memory of substrate returns said substrate to the state of its previously bent form. Said substrate's elongate opposite end from the aperture area is tucked into a pocket or opening in clothing, wherein said bottle's fluid weight pulls downward, and tighteningly retains said locking bend, and also said primary aperture's grip on bottleneck, even more securely.

We claim:  
     
         1 . A beverage bottle clothing clip is formed from a flexible planar polymer substrate with a bottle cap stop rim gripping aperture located near one elongate end; 
 whereas said gripping aperture is sized accordingly to snugly fit the diameter size of the area immediately and vertically below said bottle cap stop rim;    whereas a secondary aperture is located further inwardly from said elongate end of said polymer substrate, and determinedly spaced from said gripping aperture, and determinedly sized accordingly to the diameter of said gripping aperture, and also determinedly sized accordingly to the total dimensional length of a connecting through cut slit between said apertures;    whereas a said connecting through cut slit is formed between said apertures, having a said dimensional length accordingly to a chosen, yet functional, total perimeter size of said two apertures, after merging by means of said slit.    whereas said gripping aperture is determinedly expandable in size accordingly to the total of the circumferencial perimeter dimensions of said apertures and dimensional length of said slit.    whereas an aperture locking bend of approximately 45 to 90 degrees is made in said polymer substrate from planar edge to edge, and perpendicularly crossing the general elongate path of both said apertures and connecting slit;    wherein said bend perpendicularly crosses said general path over said slit, or over said secondary aperture, or both;    wherein said bend changes the planar axis of said apertures, and so prevents merging of perimeters of said apertures;    wherein said bend prevents said gripping aperture from expanding in size to said determinedly expandable size when axial planar surface surrounding said gripping aperture is bent to said 45 to 90 degrees to axial planar surface surrounding said secondary aperture;    whereas hand straightening of said flexible substrate and said bend allows for merging of planar axis surrounding said apertures, and so the merging of both said aperture perimeters into a larger and said determinedly expandable size;    whereas said flexible substrate of any nominal amount of residual memory, will return to said 45 to 90 degree bent shape, and will also restore the original perimeter size of said gripping aperture; and    whereby said gripping aperture of said bent flexible substrate is controllably sizeable for application to and removal from said area immediately below bottleneck cap stop rim;    and whereby with the elongate opposite end from aperture area being positioned into and retained by a pocket or opening in clothing, where the bottle's fluid weight pulls downward, and tighteningly retains said locking bend, and therein tighteningly retains said perimeter of primary gripping aperture even more securely.    
     
     
         2 . we claim A BOTTLE CAP CLOTHING CLIP as in  claim 1;   using a black plastic polymer substrate for hand bending in cold weather climates.    
     
     
         3 . we claim A BOTTLE CAP CLOTHING CLIP as in  claim 1;   using a white plastic polymer substrate for hand bending in warm weather climates.