Fabric Surround and Method of Use
20210130040 ยท 2021-05-06
Inventors
Cpc classification
B65D23/0842
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B65D23/12
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
D04B9/42
TEXTILES; PAPER
D10B2331/04
TEXTILES; PAPER
D04B21/20
TEXTILES; PAPER
International classification
B65D23/08
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B65D23/12
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
D04B21/20
TEXTILES; PAPER
Abstract
A cylindrical fabric surround including a flexible fabric material which stretches during disposing of the surround over a cylindrical item, such as a bottle, causing a releasable attachment of the bottle surround with the bottle. This cylindrical fabric surround has a cylindrical, or annular surround geometry, whereby a cavity is formed therein by the internal wall of the cylindrical surround, providing a receptacle area or volume for any cylindrical item the cylindrical surround is disposed thereunto. The internal wall of the cavity provides a first wall of the cylindrical surround and the external wall of the cylindrical surround provides a second wall of the cylindrical surround. The surround also has at least one pocket, for storing at least one article, such as a phone, keys or any sundry. The pocket is generally facing upwards, but could have a plurality of pockets with at least one of with varied geometries, orientations, or placement. Bands, such as elastic bands, may be formed thereon the top and bottom of the cylinder, as well as on the top portion of the pocket surface to provide a portion of the releasable attachment to the bottle. The bands may have a diameter that is less than surround wall diameter to provide in the releasable attachment. A friction agent, such as a nonslip fabric coating, may also be applied to the first wall or inside diameter of the surround to aid in improving the releasable attachment of a cylindrical item, such as a bottle, with a first wall of the fabric cylinder surround apparatus 100 when disposed thereunto.
Claims
1. A cylindrical surround apparatus comprising: a flexible annular cylinder surround having a first wall provided by the internal wall of the cylinder; a second wall provided by the external wall of the cylinder; a cavity formed therein by the first wall of the cylinder; at least one pocket formed thereupon the second wall; at least one seam on at least one of the first wall and second wall; at least one first band formed thereupon at least one of the top and bottom of at least one of the first wall and the second wall; at least one second band formed thereupon one portion of the pocket.
2. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one portion of the first wall and second wall and first band releasably attaches to a larger diameter cylinder when the cylindrical surround apparatus is disposed thereupon the larger diameter cylinder.
3. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the pocket has at least one seam binding at least one of one side of the pocket and the bottom of the pocket whereby the pocket opening faces the top portion of the second wall and the pocket is bound by a second band of a lesser radius compared with the radius of the pocket.
4. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least two bands bind the bottle surround apparatus at the top and at the bottom the first wall and the second wall, where by the diameter of at least one of the at least two bands is less than diameter of the cylindrical surround apparatus.
5. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 1 whereby at least one friction agent is applied to at least one portion of the first wall and any portion of a pocket formed thereupon the second wall.
6. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 1 whereby a user link is provided thereupon at least one of any wall and pocket thereof the cylindrical surround apparatus.
7. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the at least one first band formed thereupon at least one of the top and bottom of at least one of the first wall and second wall is elastic and of smaller diameter than the diameter of one of the first wall and second wall.
8. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 2, wherein at least one of a releasable frictional fit, a releasable compressive fit, a releasable attachment is formed between any portion of at least one of the first wall and second wall and first band and any surface of any larger diameter cylinder during disposing of at least one of the first wall and second wall and first band thereupon any larger diameter cylinder compared with the diameter of the first wall of the cylindrical surround apparatus.
9. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the first wall and second wall and first band imparts at least one force, radial force, compressive force, inward radial force, and reaction force upon any larger diameter cylinder placed therein at least one of the first wall and the second wall of the cylindrical surround apparatus.
10. The apparatus according to claim 2 whereby at least one friction agent is adhered to at least one of at least one portion of the first wall and second wall and the pocket formed thereupon the second wall.
11. The bottle surround apparatus according to claim 2, whereby the at least one pocket formed on the second wall of the flexible annular cylinder surround has a band formed thereunto the top seam of the pocket.
12. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the pocket has at least one seam binding at least one of one side of the pocket and the bottom of the pocket whereby the pocket opening faces the top portion of the second wall and the pocket is bound by a second band of a lesser radius compared with the radius of the pocket.
13. The apparatus of claim 3 whereby the binding is at least one of combined and integral to any other binding seam on at least one of the first wall and the second wall.
14. The apparatus of claim 4 whereby at least one of the first wall and the second wall is at least one of polyester, a knit, jersey knit, and spandex.
15. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the pocket has at least one seam binding at least one of one side of the pocket and the bottom of the pocket whereby the pocket opening faces the top portion of the second wall and the pocket is bound by a second band of a lesser radius compared with the radius of the pocket.
16. A cylindrical surround apparatus comprising: a flexible fabric cylinder surround with a top and bottom having a through-opening formed therethrough; a first wall provided by the internal cylinder surround wall; a second wall provided by the external cylinder surround wall; a pocket formed on the second wall bound by a first side and a second side and a top and bottom; a circular elastic band formed thereon the top and bottom of the cylinder; an elastic band formed thereon the top of the pocket; a circumferential seam binding formed thereon the top and bottom of the cylinder surround extending the periphery thereof, and binding the elastic bands on the top and bottom of the cylinder; a seam binding on the first and second side of the pocket, spanning the cylinder longitudinally; a user link attached to a portion of the pocket;
17. The apparatus of claim 16 disposed over a larger diameter cylinder providing a releasable attached configuration between the fabric cylinder surround and an outer diameter of the larger diameter cylinder.
18. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the pocket has at least one seam binding at least one of one side of the pocket and the bottom of the pocket whereby the pocket opening faces the top portion of the second wall and the pocket is bound by a second band of a lesser radius compared with the radius of the pocket.
19. The apparatus of claim of 18 whereby at least one of the first fabric and the second fabric article are at least one of polyester, spandex, a knit, a jersey knit.
20. The apparatus of claim 19 wherein a friction agent is applied to the first wall providing an increased friction coefficient thereunto.
21. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the larger diameter cylinder is at least one of a bottle and thermos and cup and water bottle.
22. A cylindrical surround apparatus comprising: an elastic cylinder surround having a first wall provided by the internal wall of the cylinder; a second wall provided by the external wall of the cylinder; a cavity formed therein by the first wall of the cylinder; a pocket formed thereupon the second wall; at least one seam on at least one of the first wall and second wall;
23. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 22, wherein at least one portion of the first wall and second wall releasably attaches to a larger diameter cylinder when at least one of the first wall and second wall is disposed thereupon the larger diameter cylinder.
24. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 22, wherein the pocket has at least one seam binding at least one of one side of the pocket and the bottom of the pocket whereby the pocket opening faces the top portion of the second wall and the pocket is bound by at least one band of a lesser radius compared with the radius of the pocket.
25. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 23, wherein the at least one first wall and second wall are at least one of elastic and of smaller diameter than the diameter of the larger cylinder.
26. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 25, wherein at least one of a releasable frictional fit, a releasable compressive fit, a releasable attachment is formed between any portion of at least one of the first wall and second an any larger diameter cylinder placed thereunto at least one of the first wall and second wall.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0011] Other aspects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become more fully apparent from the following detailed description, the appended claims, and the accompanying drawings in which like reference numerals identify similar or identical elements.
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0021] In the drawings, like numerals indicate like elements throughout. Certain terminology is used herein for convenience only and is not to be taken as a limitation on the present invention. The terminology includes the words specifically mentioned, derivatives thereof and words of similar import. As used herein, the term inner or internal means a direction toward an axially central portion of the inventive device and the term outer or external means a direction away from the axially central portion of the inventive device. The embodiments illustrated below are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise form disclosed. These embodiments are chosen and described to best explain the principle of the invention and its application and practical use and to enable others skilled in the art to best utilize the invention.
[0022] Reference herein to one embodiment or an embodiment means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of the invention. The appearances of the phrase in one embodiment in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments necessarily mutually exclusive of other embodiments. The same applies to the term implementation.
[0023] As used in this application, the word exemplary is used herein to mean serving as an example, instance, or illustration. Any aspect or design described herein as exemplary is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other aspects or designs. Rather, use of the word exemplary is intended to present concepts in a concrete fashion.
[0024] Additionally, the term or is intended to mean an inclusive or rather than an exclusive or. That is, unless specified otherwise, or clear from context, X employs A or B is intended to mean any of the natural inclusive permutations. That is, if X employs A; X employs B; or X employs both A and B, then X employs A or B is satisfied under any of the foregoing instances. In addition, the articles a and an as used in this application and the appended claims should generally be construed to mean one or more unless specified otherwise or clear from context to be directed to a singular form.
[0025] Although the subject matter described herein may be described in the context of illustrative implementations to process one or more computing application features/operations for a computing application having user-interactive components the subject matter is not limited to these particular embodiments. Rather, the techniques described herein can be applied to any suitable type of user-interactive component execution management methods, systems, platforms, and/or apparatus.
[0026] Unless explicitly stated otherwise, each numerical value and range should be interpreted as being approximate as if the word about or approximately preceded the value of the value or range.
[0027] The use of figure numbers and/or figure reference labels in the claims is intended to identify one or more possible embodiments of the claimed subject matter in order to facilitate the interpretation of the claims. Such use is not to be construed as necessarily limiting the scope of those claims to the embodiments shown in the corresponding figures.
[0028] It should be understood that the steps of the exemplary methods set forth herein are not necessarily required to be performed in the order described, and the order of the steps of such methods should be understood to be merely exemplary. Likewise, additional steps may be included in such methods, and certain steps may be omitted or combined, in methods consistent with various embodiments of the present invention.
[0029] Although the elements in the following method claims, if any, are recited in a particular sequence with corresponding labeling, unless the claim recitations otherwise imply a particular sequence for implementing some or all of those elements, those elements are not necessarily intended to be limited to being implemented in that particular sequence.
[0030] Also for purposes of this description, the terms attached, sewn, adhered, seam, binding, to bind, bound, to band, banded, bound, couple, coupling, coupled, connect, connecting, or connected refer to any manner known in the art or later developed in which energy is allowed to be transferred between two or more elements, and the interposition of one or more additional elements is contemplated, although not required. Conversely, the terms directly coupled, directly connected, etc., imply the absence of such additional elements.
[0031] Referring to the
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[0033] Fabric surround apparatus 100 contains at least one through opening, internal space such as a hollow internal portion indicated by opening 26 and opening 62 in
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[0035] Fabric surround apparatus 100 may be at least one of flexible, generally flexible, stretchable, elastic, semi-rigid, and may have the ability to provide an acting force such as a tensile force, radial force, centrifugal force, centripetal force, compressive force upon any article place thereunto fabric surround apparatus 100. Similarly, fabric surround apparatus 100 may generally provide one of an inward bias, radial force, an inward radial force, upon any item place thereunto fabric surround apparatus 100, and provide a radially inward force upon any item placed thereunto the internal wall of fabric surround apparatus 100. Fabric surround apparatus 100 may have at least one inside diameter, first wall, internal wall, second wall, external wall, any diameter, a nominal diameter, any dimension, any radius, at least one of designed and sized to provide a snug fit unto any article tucked or placed in the interior annular space or interior wall of fabric surround apparatus 100.
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[0039] Pocket 50 in this illustration of
[0040] Pocket 50 may generally provide at least one of flexibility, stretchability, elasticity, a compressive force acting on an item placed into pocket 50, the ability to develop a tensile force to act on an item placed inside fabric sleeve apparatus 100, the ability to impart a force upon any item placed into or unto pocket 50. Similarly, at least one of band 51 and pocket 50 may provide a force, such as an inward radial force thereupon any item place in pocket 50, and any item located in pocket 50 which expands any portion of pocket 50. Band 51 may provide a major portion of any holding force upon any item stored in pocket 50.
[0041] While pocket 50 of
[0042] Pocket 50 may have at least one internal diameter, internal wall diameter, nominal diameter, any diameter, any dimension, any radius, external diameter, outer diameter sized such as to provide a fit that is at least one of snugly, an interference fit, a frictional fit, an elastic fit, with any article stored in one of pocket 50 and fabric surround apparatus 100.
[0043] User link 40 as shown in
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[0046] In the case of partial disposing of fabric surround apparatus 100 upon cylindrical item 70, such as shown in
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[0050] While at least one of a frictional, elastic, compressive and interference fit may exist between at least one portion of fabric surround apparatus 100 and cylindrical item 70, fabric surround apparatus 100 is at least one of rotatable and rotatably mounted thereupon an item such as cylindrical item 70. This at least one of rotatable and rotatably mounted fabric surround apparatus 100 allows rotation of fabric surround apparatus 100 relative to cylindrical item 70, upon the application of at least one force, moment, and torsion upon at least one portion of fabric surround apparatus 100 and cylindrical item 70. This rotatable and rotatably mounted fabric aspect of surround apparatus 100 upon cylindrical item 70 may be included in at least one of the dimensional sizing of any portion of apparatus 100, the overwhelming the at least one frictional and elastic and interference fit, be a product of the material of fabrication of fabric surround apparatus 100, be a product of any material to develop at least one of fabric surround apparatus 100, stitch 16, stitch 10, stitch 65, band 30, band 61, wall 5, opening 62, others not mentioned here.
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[0059] This cylinder surround, or bottle surround, may be manufactured from a first quadrilateral fabric material whereby the sides and bottom of a second fabric material are attached to the first quadrilateral fabric material, typically in a corner of the first quadrilateral fabric material, to form a pocket thereupon the first quadrilateral fabric material. An elastic band may be attached to at least one of the top and bottom of the first, generally quadrilateral, fabric material. While positioning the pocket formed by the second fabric material on the outer portion of the bottle surround apparatus, a first end edge of the first quadrilateral fabric may be attached to the second end edge of the first quadrilateral fabric to form a generally cylindrical or annular fabric apparatus with an elastic band at the top and bottom, and a pocket on the external or second wall of the apparatus. At least one of the elastic bands and the inside wall of the bottle surround provide a releasable attachment between at least one of the fabric bottle surround apparatus and the bottle, as well as between any surface of the pocket and an item placed in the pocket.
[0060] Optionally, apparatus 100 could have at least one of a radio frequency identification also called RFID, global positioning system, GPS, spatial coordinate system, spatial coordinate locating system, others not mentioned here, used to locate at least one portion of fabric surround apparatus 100. This could also include means of tracking, locating, tracking for exercise purposes, tracking motion, and also transmitting data to computers either wired or wireless.
[0061] Also, while the current exemplary embodiment is illustrated herein, the addition of at least one additional device may be at least one of mounted on and located around an outer perimeter or periphery of either of fabric surround apparatus 100, wall 5, pocket 50, others not mentioned here.