Liquor bottle novelty closure system

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a unique sanitary closure system for liquor bottles wherein the capping technology incorporates a standard volume shot glass without screw threads. Furthermore, the system optionally includes a secondary sealing component enabling presentation of novelty shapes visible through the transparent body of the shot glass for marketing purposes.

The present invention is original in the following ways: 
     
         1 . The shot glass  40  design embodies a lip flange  60  suitable for clamping by a cap incorporating an internal vertical wall  55 , whether the cap is open-top or closed top. 
     
     
         2 . The bottle neck  10  incorporates a seat  70  internal to a shoulder  80  which ensures that liquid is not spilled as the shot glass  40  or any of the sealing devices (e.g.  30 ,  31 ,  32 ) is removed. 
     
     
         3 . The cap  50  (or  51  or  52  for example) incorporates an internal vertical wall  55  sized to mate with the shot glass rim  60  for applying the pressure necessary to securely close the bottle when the cap's internal threads are engaged with the bottle neck threads. 
     
     
         4 . The secondary sealing device,  30  or  31  for example, provides for incorporation of an infinite range of novelty shapes that may be molded from plastic and made visible through the transparent body of the shot glass. 
     
     
         5 . The basic sealing device  32  enables inclusion of separate novelty shapes molded in plastic, glass, crystal, or metal and made visible through the transparent body of the shot glass where such novelty shapes may be loose under the shot glass or a shape may be anchored by sliding engagement of a base slot  120  with the finger tab  100  on the basic sealing device  32 .