1984 results about "Bottle neck" patented technology

Apparatus and methods for efficiently distributing and storing access control clients within a network. In one embodiment, the access clients include electronic Subscriber Identity Modules (eSIMs), and an eSIM distribution network infrastructure is described which enforces eSIM uniqueness and conservation, distributes network traffic to prevent “bottle necking” congestion, and provides reasonable disaster recovery capabilities. In one variant, eSIMs are securely stored at electronic Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) appliances which ensure eSIM uniqueness and conservation. Access to the eUICC appliances is made via multiple eSIM depots, which ensure that network load is distributed. Persistent storage is additionally described, for among other activities, archiving and backup.

A liquid birdfeeder includes a generally upstanding container having a large opening at its top end and a bottleneck opening at its lower end. A quarter-turn removable cap is screw-threaded onto the top end to seal the top end opening. The lower bottleneck opening is screw-threaded into a central collar of a feeding basin having a plurality of feeding ports. An actuator rod extends longitudinally through the container and is operatively connected to a biased sealing mechanism which selectively seals or opens the bottleneck opening. When the removable cap is screw-threaded onto the top end opening, the cap depresses the actuator rod causing the biased sealing mechanism to move to an open position which allows liquid to flow out from the container into the feeding basin. When the removable cap is removed, the actuator rod can move upwardly under the force of the biased sealing mechanism, which moves the sealing mechanism to a closed position and prevents liquid in the container from flowing into the feeding basin. The container can then be filled through the top opening without flooding the feeding basin. In one preferred embodiment, the bird feeder includes a common functional feeding module connected within an outer decorative cladding by an interference fit.

A bottle closure is disclosed to include a muzzle fastened to and covered on the bottle neck of a bottle, a cap hinged to the periphery of the muzzle for closing on the muzzle to seal the bottle neck of the bottle, the cap having an operating structure for gripping by the user's hand to turn the cap relative to the muzzle between a close position and an open position, and a seal tearably connected to the muzzle to seal the operating structure of the cap.

A method of optimizing data streaming in a peer-to-peer architecture that comprises a plurality of clients in a chain, a peer-to-peer data streaming system having such architecture, and a client terminal for use in that system. Each client monitors its own bandwidth, informs a succeeding client in the chain of that bandwidth, compares its own bandwidth with the bandwidth of a preceding client in the chain and, in response to a difference between the compared bandwidths, reorders its position among the clients in the chain. The chain thus dynamically self-organizes itself to stream data more efficiently and with higher, more reliable throughput, reducing the processing power necessary to stream the data and enabling higher quality to be achieved within the existing internet infrastructure. This also solves the ‘bottle-neck’ problem within the cascaded streaming path by continuously organizing the participating terminals into the most efficient configuration, without interrupting the streamed data.

A packaging system is provided for storing and mixing separate ingredient components. The system includes a first bottle used for storing a first ingredient component which includes a dispensing port disposed on a top end, a mixing port disposed on a bottom end, and a seal integrated within the mixing port. The system also includes a second bottle used for storing a second component ingredient which includes a bottle neck having an opening disposed therein wherein the neck is adapted to be installed into the mixing port of the first bottle. Also, an extended tip is formed on the distal end of the bottle neck. When the bottle neck of the second bottle is installed into the mixing port of the first bottle, the seal from the first bottle is broken by the extended tip from the second bottle establishing fluid communication between the first and second bottles and allowing the ingredient components to mix.

An infinitely stacking receptacle cap cooperates with existing bottles and bottle caps for holding pills and other articles separate from liquid within the bottle. In one embodiment, the bottle has a liquid impervious body and a neck with external threads. The infinitely stacking receptacle cap has a divider wall, and an internally threaded cavity adjacent to and extending from the divider wall in a first direction encompassing and engaging with the bottle neck threads. The internally threaded cavity has a height corresponding to the bottle neck height. An externally threaded infinitely stacking receptacle cap neck is adjacent to and extends from the divider wall in a direction generally opposed to the internally threaded cavity. The height of the externally threaded stacking receptacle cap neck is equal to the bottle neck height. The bottle cap has an internally threaded cavity encompassing and engaging with the external threads of the sectional container neck and has a height corresponding to the bottle neck height.

A nipple assembly for a nursing bottle includes a nipple having a slit at the bottom of a concave depression in its tip acting as a fluid outlet valve. The nipple includes a flange seated on the rim of the bottle and held in place by a cap having a central opening through which the nipple extends. A threaded ring on the cap engages the threaded bottle neck with the outer circumferential edge of the nipple's flange compressed between the annular top and the rim of the bottle. The nipple flange includes vent apertures between its inner and outer circumferential edges, and a raised annular bead between its inner circumferential edge and the aperture. The annular bead provides a seal between flange and the cap that prevents fluid from leaking out the vent apertures when air pressure within the bottle is not substantially lower than ambient air pressure. When the air pressure inside the bottle falls below ambient air pressure as the infant suck fluid from the bottle, the annular bead moves away from the cap to break the seal, thereby permitting air to pass through the central opening and into the bottle via the vent apertures. The nipple includes one or more raised annular beads to provide tactile stimulation to a nursing infant and to improve the seal between the infant's lips and the nipple body to limit fluid leakage.

A FINFET transistor structure includes a substrate, a fin structure, an insulating layer and a gate structure. The fin structure is disposed on the substrate and directly connected to the substrate. Besides, the fin structure includes a fin conductive layer and a bottle neck. The insulating layer covers the substrate and has a protruding side which is formed by partially surrounding the bottle neck of the fin structure, and a bottom side in direct contact with the substrate so that the protruding side extend to and under the fin structure. The gate structure partially surrounds the fin structure.

The invention provides a virtual machine system based on the management technology of equipment access storage and an equipment access control method thereof. The virtual machine system comprises a virtual machine monitor, an underlying hardware supporting the management technology of storage for equipment input and output, an equipment control module and a plurality of virtual machines; wherein the virtual machine monitor comprises a scheduling module which can schedule different virtual machines to run on a processor, a memory virtualization module used for completing memory management of the virtual system, an interrupt virtualization module, an instruction analyzer, a privilege calling interface used for providing services for privilege entity and a control module of a storage management unit of equipment input and output. In the virtual machine system, one equipment control module corresponds to physical equipment and is responsible for initiating privilege calling to the virtual machine monitor, receiving and executing an equipment port access instruction transmitted by the virtual machine monitor, detecting equipment state and hiding the virtualization equipment resources and the like. In the equipment access method provided by the invention, a client operating system in the virtual machine can access equipment data by a memory mapping mode; and the equipment utilizes the equipment access storage management technology to carry out direct storage access to virtual machine data. The virtual machine system and the equipment access control method lead the equipment performance to be improved greatly, relieve the system performance bottle-neck, and improve safety of equipment access control. The equipment access control method does not need to modify the client operating system, is easy to be realized and has wide application range.

The invention discloses a numerical control bottle cap production line, which comprises the following processes of: an inner plug feeding unit, an inner assembly unit, a bottle neck feeding unit, a bottle neck assembly unit, a middle sleeve feeding unit, a middle sleeve assembly unit, a middle sleeve stamping unit, a manipulator pick-up unit, an inner cap feeding unit, an inner cap assembly unit,an inner cap screwing unit, a top cap feeding unit and the top cap assembly unit, wherein the inner plug feeding unit is connected with the inner plug assembly unit by an inner plug vibrating plate slideway; the bottle neck feeding unit is connected with the bottle neck assembly unit by a bottle neck slideway and a bottle neck conveying belt; the middle sleeve feeding unit is connected with the middle sleeve assembly unit by a slideway and a middle sleeve conveying belt; the middle sleeve stamping unit is connected with the middle sleeve assembly unit and the manipulator pick-up unit; and theinner cap feeding unit is connected with the inner cap assembly unit by an inner cap conveying belt. In the numerical control bottle cap production line, an integral bottle cap is assembled on the automatic production line to fulfill the aims of improving the production efficiency and the quality of products.

A fluid dispensing cap and beverage bottle assembly provides a spill-resistant container for use by a small child. The dispensing cap has a perforated baffle that restricts the beverage flow under static pressure conditions and permits beverage flow when a sufficient pressure differential is applied across the baffle. The dispensing cap includes a spout that facilitates beverage consumption. The dispensing cap either screws onto a bottle neck or is a press-fit cap that is inserted into the bottle's open end. A seal is provided that prevents beverage leakage and indicates if the container has been tampered with or compromised.

The invention relates to a full-automatic high speed bottle unscrambler, comprising a stand, a clamping chuck, a bottle-turning mechanism, a bottle-turning strip, a bottle-standing plate, a control desk, a driving device and a conveying mechanism, wherein the stand is provided with a declining faceplate; the clamping chuck is installed on the declining faceplate and is provided with a radial regulating mechanism and a bottle height regulating mechanism, and a bottle-protecting plate is installed at the periphery of the clamping chuck; the bottle-turning mechanism is used for guiding bottles which do not enter the clamping chuck in accordance with a normal order into a bayonet of the clamping chuck and includes a screening stirring strip installed on the faceplate and located at the opening of one end of the bottle-protecting plate; the bottle-turning strip is installed on the faceplate and used for correctly turning the bottles, the bottle-standing plate is installed at the back of the bottle-turning strip and used for standing the bottle bodies; the control desk is used for man-machine interface operation; the driving device is installed on the stand; and the conveying mechanism is used for guiding out the bottles which are cleaned by the clamping chuck. The full-automatic high speed bottle unscrambler has simple structure and can regulate the arrangement of the bottles with different diameters and lengths of bottle bodies, different diameters of bottle jacks and different sizes and heights of bottle necks within a certain range.

Devices and methods for clamping a beverage extraction device to a beverage container, such as a wine bottle. One or more clamp arms may be arranged to clamp the extraction device to a wine bottle as well as allow the device to be supported upright on a table top. Clamp arms may include tab and ridge features that operate to properly engage and position a wide variety of different bottle neck shapes relative to the device. The one or more clamp arms may move the bottle neck distally, e.g., toward a resilient pad, so that the neck is suitably positioned relative to the device. Proper positioning and engagement of the neck may allow for desired piercing of a cork or other closure of the bottle by the device.

The invention relates to an empty bottle wall defect detection method, which comprises the following steps: shooting two images by using a camera before and after the same empty bottle is rotated for 90 degrees during advancing, then transmitting the images to a CPU of an industrial personal computer to perform analysis on the images, and judging whether the bottle wall has defect. Image processing comprises the following steps: A, scanning edge point pairs on a bottle neck, positioning the bottle wall, and dividing a detection area of the bottle wall to perform subarea processing; B, pre-processing image data in the positioned area by adopting a grey stretching method; C, partitioning the images by adopting a maximum between-cluster variance method to acquire target information; and D, performing connectivity analysis on the partitioned bottle wall images, extracting characteristic data of each defect, and judging whether each detected connected domain has real defect according to the mass center position, posture ratio and area characteristic of the connected domain. The invention discloses a detection device used for the detection method at the same time. The detection method and the detection device are easily applied in detection equipment of an industrial flow line so as to realize automatic high-speed accurate detection on the empty bottle wall defect.

In one aspect the invention provides a bottle stopper for a wine bottle or the like, which bottle stopper comprises a body having a sealing member which sits within the peck (1) of the bottle in use and which extends radially outwardly from the body of the stopper to seal the bottle neck, the stopper further having a passageway extending upwardly therethrough to communicate with the interior of the bottle and which incorporates or communicates with a chamber within the stopper in which is housed an oxygen-scavenging medium. In a further aspect the invention provides a bottle stopper for a wine bottle or the like, which bottle stopper comprises a body having a sealing member (30, 31) which sits within the neck of the bottle in use and which extends radially outwardly from the body of the stopper to seal the bottle neck, the bottle stopper further having a mechanism for compressing the sealing member substantially axially of the stopper to expand the sealing member laterally / substantially radially of the stopper into sealing contact with the neck of the bottle.

There is disclosed a press-on bottle cap which is convertible to a screw reclosure lid. The cap is formed with a circular disc having an integral, downwardly dependent circumferential skirt. The skirt has a raised helical bead on its inside wall which extends an angular increment from 270 to about 400 degrees and a raised circumferential bead located beneath the helical bead and at least one tear line defined by a circumferential band of weakened strength located between the circumferential and helical beads. A tear tab extends from the outer wall of the skirt adjacent the tear line which can be pulled by the user to sever a reclosure lid having the helical bead which can be threaded onto the neck of the bottle to seal its contents. For this purpose, the undersurface of the disc of the cap has a compressible sealing gasket which is engaged by an annular lip of the upper end of the bottle neck.

An integrated memory controller (IMC) which includes data compression and decompression engines for improved performance. The memory controller (IMC) of the present invention preferably sits on the main CPU bus or a high speed system peripheral bus such as the PCI bus and couples to system memory. The IMC preferably uses a lossless data compression and decompression scheme. Data transfers to and from the integrated memory controller of the present invention can thus be in either two formats, these being compressed or normal (non-compressed). The IMC also preferably includes microcode for specific decompression of particular data formats such as digital video and digital audio. Compressed data from system I / O peripherals such as the hard drive, floppy drive, or local area network (LAN) are decompressed in the IMC and stored into system memory or saved in the system memory in compressed format. Thus, data can be saved in either a normal or compressed format, retrieved from the system memory for CPU usage in a normal or compressed format, or transmitted and stored on a medium in a normal or compressed format. Internal memory mapping allows for format definition spaces which define the format of the data and the data type to be read or written. Software overrides may be placed in applications software in systems that desire to control data decompression at the software application level. The integrated data compression and decompression capabilities of the IMC remove system bottle-necks and increase performance. This allows lower cost systems due to smaller data storage requirements and reduced bandwidth requirements. This also increases system bandwidth and hence increases system performance. Thus the IMC of the present invention is a significant advance over the operation of current memory controllers.

A carton is defined for packaging a plurality of articles. The carton includes a plurality of carton walls at least one of which includes a slot handle that comprises at least one foldable hand flap. The at least one foldable hand flap has an article receiving section for receiving a portion of an article in the carton when the at least one foldable hand flap is folded inwardly of the carton.

A volumetric displacement dispenser and method of using the dispenser is disclosed for dispensing liquid contents from an interior of a bottle with a bottle neck while preventing air from filling a void created within the interior of the bottle caused by the liquid contents being poured out of the bottle by gravity. The dispenser includes a stopper having first and second boreholes extending there through, the stopper being adapted to form an air-tight seal when it is seated into the bottle neck. An air pressure tube routed through the first of the boreholes has a first end open to atmospheric air and a second end open to the interior of the bottle. An expandable volumetric displacement balloon is attached to the second end of the air pressure tube and a one-way liquid valve is disposed in the outlet of the liquid flow channel in the stopper.

A combined bottle opener and stopper comprises a metal plate with side edges bent downward and inwardly. Opening is performed with the use of a conventional pry off method. Opened bottles are closed with a rubber pad attached to the bottom of a recess on the inner face of the plate. The opener-stopper has three bent edges which have different heights with the difference corresponding to the pitch of the thread on a threaded bottle neck. For temporary closing the bottle, i.e., with beer or carbonated water, the device is screwed onto the threaded bottle neck as a nut until the rubber pad is tightly pressed to the upper face of the bottle to hermetically close the latter. For closing bottles with nonthreaded bottle necks, the device is moved onto the bottle neck by guiding the convergent bent edges over the neck in a direction transverse to the bottle's axis until the device is fixed tightly on the bottle due to convergence of the bent edges with the rubber pad, thereby to seal the bottle's opening. The device is also provided with sharp edges for cutting plastic wrappings around the bottle neck and with an opener for metal cans openable by pulling up a tongue connected to a scored can cover.

There is disclosed a tamper-evident device for a closure assembly adapted to be applied to a mouth of a container, for example, a neck of a bottle. There has been identified a need for an improved tamper-evident device which does not have any parts which are removed upon initial opening and which are liable to be reattached by counterfeits or the like. Accordingly the present invention provides a tamper-evident device comprising a sleeve member which comprises a first portion associated with a second portion by a frangible portion therebetween, and wherein said first portion is adapted to be applied to a mouth and neck portion of a container, and said second portion is associated with a container closure member, and wherein an initial container opening operation causes said frangible portion to fracture or break such that when the container is reclosed said first and second portions are located in a spaced apart relationship to one another.

The present invention is directed toward a bottle handle that is separately formed and subsequently affixed to the neck of a bottle by threading, or snap fitting the handle onto the bottle neck, or by securing thereto during a blow mold operation of the bottle. The preferred handle includes a neck portion and a finger portion that comprise two generally perpendicularly oriented, substantially circular rings that are offset from one another in an approximately tangential relationship. Protuberances and concave finger indents on the finger portion enable a user's finger to provide extra support when handling a bottle affixed with the bottle handle.

A dispensing cap system for dispensing a supplement material through a bottle neck opening and into the bottle. An exemplary embodiment includes a cap member configured for connection to beverage bottle necks of different sizes. A seal member is arranged to provide a liquid seal against the neck opening. A valve member passes through a storage member attached to the cap member, and is configured for movement between a storage position and a dispensing position, in which passage is permitted of the supplement material from the storage member into the bottle. A nipple member may be positioned over the valve member to allow the bottle contents to be utilized or consumed.

A dispensing cap system for dispensing a supplement material through a bottle neck opening and into the bottle. An exemplary embodiment includes a cap member configured for connection to beverage bottle necks of different sizes. A seal member is arranged to provide a liquid seal against the neck opening. A valve member passes through a storage member attached to the cap member, and is configured for movement between a storage position and a dispensing position, in which passage is permitted of the supplement material from the storage member into the bottle. A nipple member may be positioned over the valve member to allow the bottle contents to be utilized or consumed.

Bottle necks for screw-off caps are provided with external threads to mesh with internal cap threads and external ratchet teeth to engage internal cap ratchet teeth. When the neck is formed of a rigid material (e.g., PET), the sharp corners of the intersecting flanks of the teeth are hazardous. To reduce the chance of injury, in accordance with this invention the corners are rounded off in a radius having its center offset from the intersection of the working flank of the tooth and the minor ratchet diameter without detrimentally reducing the length of the working flanks. Ratchet teeth are usually located in one of two diametrically disposed quadrants. The first or transition tooth of each quadrant has a greater radius than that of subsequent teeth and its center is inset toward the neck axis. In advance of the first or transition tooth is a protective "tooth" which is rounded and has no working flank, which tends to deflect the fingers of the user away from the subsequent teeth, for reducing the chance of injury.

The invention provides a mould for manufacturing bottle glass vessels, belonging to a glass mould. The mould comprises a pair of bottle semi-moulds which are oppositely arranged and provided with a semi-mould cavity respectively. The mould is characterized in that valve holes are reserved on positions of the bottle semi-moulds, correspond to the neck shoulders of the bottle semi-moulds respectively, and are communicated with the bottle semi-mould cavities; air valves are arranged in the valve holes, and are fixed with the bottle semi-moulds; exhaust holes communicated with the valve holes are reserved on the bottle semi-moulds respectively, extend to the tops of the bottle semi-moulds from the bottoms of the bottle semi-moulds and the valve holes and are communicated with the outside. In the technical scheme, when the bottle glass vessel with the neck shoulder is manufactured, gas between the neck shoulders of the mould and glass solution can be exhausted from the exhaust holes through the valve holes and the air valves to ensure that the glass solution is in plump state at the neck shoulder position of the bottle neck shoulders, and the deformation of the bottle neck shoulders can be inhibited finally.

A sleeve fixedly receivable within the bottle neck, and a spout extending through the sleeve and movable therein to an extended position projecting outwardly of the bottle neck to facilitate pouring contents from the bottle or to a retracted position disposed within the neck when closed by the bottle cap.

A closure apparatus for a bottle neck and cap increases the torque necessary to remove the cap from the bottle neck. Projections are provided on one of the bottle neck exterior and cap interior, and indentations are provided on the other of the bottle neck exterior and cap interior. When the cap is secured on the bottle neck, the projections engage in the indentations. The engagement of the projections in the indentations requires an increased torque to remove the cap from the bottle neck.

The invention discloses a method and a device for supervising traffic based on a token bucket. The device comprises a setting module, a memory, a control module and a traffic supervising module. The corresponding method comprises the following steps that: 1) setting different leaky bucket algorithm rules, and establishing a mapping relationship table between stream IDs and the leaky bucket algorithm rules; and 2) acquiring a message to be supervised; searching for the corresponding leaky bucket algorithm rule and a leaky bucket parameter by using a stream ID as an index; accordingly determining the number of available tokens in the current average leaky bucket and the peak leaky bucket; comparing the length of the message with the number of the available tokens in the current average leaky bucket and the peak leaky bucket respectively; coloring the message by adopting a corresponding leaky bucket algorithm rule and according to the comparison result; updating and storing the leaky bucket parameter serving as a standby parameter for processing the next stage of message with the same stream ID; and then discarding or forwarding the message according to the coloring result. The method and the device simultaneously support a single-rate marker algorithm and a double-rate marker algorithm, have excellent compatibility, break through the bottle neck of processing capacity and have high processing rate.

A housing assembly supports an electronic tag to the extending neck of a bottle. The housing assembly includes a housing for accommodating the electronic tag. The housing has a bearing surface for engagement with the extending neck of the bottle. A strap is coupled to the housing about the bottle neck. The strap has a bearing surface for engagement with the extending neck. The bearing surface of at least one of the strap and the housing is tapered to match the taper of the extending neck of the bottle.