Drink locking unit

Abstract

A drink locking unit providing a means of temporarily blocking off and securing the contents of a previously opened common commercial drinking vessel against the harm of inconspicuous social event drink lacing and the subsequent dangers of drug rape/drug robbery and comprising a shaft ( 4 ) activated expandable plug ( 3 ) which can be secured in the expanded position within the drinking vessel's orifice ( 2 ) by a shaft position locking mechanism ( 38 ) and a key ( 7 ).

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       7 . A method for preventing the inconspicuous party introduction of an illegal party drug/pill/powder/liquid such as ghb, rohypnol, klonopin, ketamine or xanax into the unguarded open drinking orifice of an inattentive or absent owner's previously opened, partially full, common commercial drinking vessel, by predatory persons having the intent to lace contents of said common commercial drinking vessel and thus later illegally gain control of said owner for purposes of assault/robbery/drug rape, comprising the steps of: 
 (a) providing an expandable plug, shaped to be manually insertable into said open drinking orifice of said common commercial drinking vessel, and    (b) inserting said expandable plug into said open drinking orifice, and    (c) blocking off access to said open drinking orifice, and    (d) providing said owner with a manual means to expand and mechanically secure and/or contract and remove said expandable plug in said orifice of said common commercial drinking vessel, and    (e) providing said owner with a means to lock/unlock said expandable plug in position in said orifice of said common commercial drinking vessel by means of a removable key,    whereby said expandable said lockable plug is a means to prevent persons having possession of said illegal party drug/pill/powder/liquid from being able to gain access to and possibly lace said drink of said owner and thus by utilizing said expandable, said lockable plug said owner is able to minimize said owner's vulnerability to common but illegal party acts by others of drink lacing and subsequent acts of assault/robbery/drug rape.