GB2167648A

GB2167648A - Decorative container

Info

Publication number: GB2167648A
Application number: GB08422676A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Roland Gimenez
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1984-09-07
Filing date: 1984-09-07
Publication date: 1986-06-04
Also published as: GB8422676D0

Abstract

The decorative container, e.g. a drinking glass, is of a cylindrical shape with a sealed bottom and open rim forming a lip 1 below which is a single walled section up to the point of roof 4 which forms inner roof 5. Below this, by the agency of outer wall 6 and inner wall 7, is formed an inner chamber 8, completely sealed and continuing along the full circumference of the drinking vessel to the depth of its base. Chamber 8 is filled with a clear, inert liquid in which solid, decorative objects constructed from plastic materials, float freely in circumnavigation of the inner chamber, appearing into view and disappearing from it between illustrated backgrounds and foregrounds printed along sections of inner wall 7 and outer wall 6. <IMAGE>

Description

SPECIFICATION Decorative container This invention relates to decorative containers particularly glasses, jugs, bowls, bottles and similar objects.

Serving containers particularly drinking glasses have been made with various designs applied to the surface or incorporated into the body of the container. In some instances the nature of these designs is such that they can change as the container is filled or emptied.

However it wou Id be advantageous to have a container design in which decorations appear to move in relation to the container whether or not the container has any liquid therein.

In the present invention there is provided a container or other decorative object in which the outer wall of the container has in at least a portion thereof a completely sealed chamber extending at least along a portion of said wall, said chamber being filled with a clear liquid and disposed in said liquid one or more solid devices capable of movement within the liquid.

In a preferred form of the invention there will be provided a container such as a glass jug or other vessel with an internal space for the holding of contents and a vertical wall within which for at least a portion thereof there is the chamber. In a particularly preferred embodiment there is provided a beverage drinking vessel usually of cylindrical shape in the lower portion of which there is the chamber formed by one wall of the vessel and a second wall spaced therefrom inwardly or outwardly of the general diameter of the container. By having the chamber in the lower portion of the drinking vessel there is avoided too thick a rim which would interfere with comfortable use of the vessel.

The container of the invention can be manufactured from any of the traditional materials from which containers are normally manufactured but particularly glass or clear plastics material are appropriate. Clearly the decorative elements of the invention can be visible at least one wall of the chamber must be relatively clear but one could have an outer clear wall and an inner translucent or opaque wall. It could be that two translucent walls might provide an interesting decorative effect by reason of the shadows thrown by the decorative objects within the chamber. The chamber can extend over a greater or lesser area of the container depending on the decorative effected desired.

The body of the container could be formed from one material and the other wall of the chamber from another material providing the second wall can be successfully and firmly adhered to the first to avoid possible leakage of the contents of the chamber.

The liquid in the chamber can be any liquid appropriate to a container of this type. In normal circumstances an inert liquid such as water or an inert organic solvent of relatively high molecular weight such as glycerine would be appropriate.

Clearly for any container which may be used for edible materials or beverages the liquid must be one which would not be harmful for human beings.

The solid objects which are contained in the chamber can be formed from thin sheets of plastics material and be simple designs or have designs printed on the material. In order to maintain the chamber as thin as possible solid objects would normally be formed from sheet materials but three dimensional objects could be incorporated. It is desirable that the density of the objects be closely approximate to that of the liquid so that they will readily move within the liquid and not simply lie at the bottom of the chamber. Depending on the heat of the vessel and any change in density which might take place there could be movement of the objects by reason of the change of density in the liquid. On thus could have in the liquid small free floating sheets on which there are printed various designs, cartoons or other illustrations.If appropriate there could be permanently printed on one wall of the chamber for example the inner wall background illustrations against which the objects move within the liquid. Thus for example one could have a background illustration of a seascape and within the liquid sheets representing small boats which float and move against the background.

The invention is now illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which: Figure 1 is a frontal view of a beverage glass; and Figure 2 is a partial cross-section of such a glass.

The glass is a cylindrical glass with a closed bottom and open rim forming a lip 1. The upper portion 2 is a single walled section. The overall container has a cylindrical shape the cover of which is shown by 3. Within the glass there is disposed an inner wall 7 sealed at the bottom to the base and at the top to the outer wall 6 by roof 4 so as to provide an upper curved roof 5. These walls form between them a chamber 8 filled with a clear liquid within which float objects 9, 10 and 11 formed from plastics sheet material, if desired inner wall 7 can have printed or embedded therein design features to form a background. The chamber extends around the inner wall of the vessel. The outer wall 6 of the vessel is a clear plastics material and the inner wall 7 is also a plastics material sealed to the outer wall at the junction point 5 and at the base of the inner wall.

1. A decorative container, otherwise a drinking glass constructed from glass or from a clear plastic material of a cylindrical shape in which the inner wall of the vessel as well as the outer wall of the vessel, inwardly as well as outwardly from the diameter of the vessel, form a completely sealed inner chamber within the space between the two walls and extending along the entire circumference of the vessel but to a vertical height slightly less than the overall vertical dimension of the vessel.

2. A decorative container, as claimed in Claim 1 wherein the described, sealed inner chamber is filled with a clear, inert liquid from the floor or base of the chamber and up to the desired vertical height of the chamber so as to provide a section of single walled verticallity and circumference to afford a rim or lip

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Claims

**WARNING** start of CLMS field may overlap end of DESC **. SPECIFICATION Decorative container This invention relates to decorative containers particularly glasses, jugs, bowls, bottles and similar objects. Serving containers particularly drinking glasses have been made with various designs applied to the surface or incorporated into the body of the container. In some instances the nature of these designs is such that they can change as the container is filled or emptied. However it wou Id be advantageous to have a container design in which decorations appear to move in relation to the container whether or not the container has any liquid therein. In the present invention there is provided a container or other decorative object in which the outer wall of the container has in at least a portion thereof a completely sealed chamber extending at least along a portion of said wall, said chamber being filled with a clear liquid and disposed in said liquid one or more solid devices capable of movement within the liquid. In a preferred form of the invention there will be provided a container such as a glass jug or other vessel with an internal space for the holding of contents and a vertical wall within which for at least a portion thereof there is the chamber. In a particularly preferred embodiment there is provided a beverage drinking vessel usually of cylindrical shape in the lower portion of which there is the chamber formed by one wall of the vessel and a second wall spaced therefrom inwardly or outwardly of the general diameter of the container. By having the chamber in the lower portion of the drinking vessel there is avoided too thick a rim which would interfere with comfortable use of the vessel. The container of the invention can be manufactured from any of the traditional materials from which containers are normally manufactured but particularly glass or clear plastics material are appropriate. Clearly the decorative elements of the invention can be visible at least one wall of the chamber must be relatively clear but one could have an outer clear wall and an inner translucent or opaque wall. It could be that two translucent walls might provide an interesting decorative effect by reason of the shadows thrown by the decorative objects within the chamber. The chamber can extend over a greater or lesser area of the container depending on the decorative effected desired. The body of the container could be formed from one material and the other wall of the chamber from another material providing the second wall can be successfully and firmly adhered to the first to avoid possible leakage of the contents of the chamber. The liquid in the chamber can be any liquid appropriate to a container of this type. In normal circumstances an inert liquid such as water or an inert organic solvent of relatively high molecular weight such as glycerine would be appropriate. Clearly for any container which may be used for edible materials or beverages the liquid must be one which would not be harmful for human beings. The solid objects which are contained in the chamber can be formed from thin sheets of plastics material and be simple designs or have designs printed on the material. In order to maintain the chamber as thin as possible solid objects would normally be formed from sheet materials but three dimensional objects could be incorporated. It is desirable that the density of the objects be closely approximate to that of the liquid so that they will readily move within the liquid and not simply lie at the bottom of the chamber. Depending on the heat of the vessel and any change in density which might take place there could be movement of the objects by reason of the change of density in the liquid. On thus could have in the liquid small free floating sheets on which there are printed various designs, cartoons or other illustrations.If appropriate there could be permanently printed on one wall of the chamber for example the inner wall background illustrations against which the objects move within the liquid. Thus for example one could have a background illustration of a seascape and within the liquid sheets representing small boats which float and move against the background. The invention is now illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which: Figure 1 is a frontal view of a beverage glass; and Figure 2 is a partial cross-section of such a glass. The glass is a cylindrical glass with a closed bottom and open rim forming a lip 1. The upper portion 2 is a single walled section. The overall container has a cylindrical shape the cover of which is shown by 3. Within the glass there is disposed an inner wall 7 sealed at the bottom to the base and at the top to the outer wall 6 by roof 4 so as to provide an upper curved roof 5. These walls form between them a chamber 8 filled with a clear liquid within which float objects 9, 10 and 11 formed from plastics sheet material, if desired inner wall 7 can have printed or embedded therein design features to form a background. The chamber extends around the inner wall of the vessel. The outer wall 6 of the vessel is a clear plastics material and the inner wall 7 is also a plastics material sealed to the outer wall at the junction point 5 and at the base of the inner wall. CLAIMS

2. A decorative container, as claimed in Claim 1 wherein the described, sealed inner chamber is filled with a clear, inert liquid from the floor or base of the chamber and up to the desired vertical height of the chamber so as to provide a section of single walled verticallity and circumference to afford a rim or lip not uncomfortably thick for the user's mouth.

3. A decorative container as claimed in Claim 1 and Claim 2, wherein immersed in the clear, inert liquid filling the described inner chamber, there float decorative, solid objects of various designs and shapes, both realistic and abstract and constructed from plastic materials and suspended in the liquid by dint of their calculated weight and mass so that they freely float in movements utilising the complete circumference of the described, liquid-filled inner chamber.

4. A decorative container as claimed in Claim 1, Claim 2 and Claim 3 wherein along the inner wall of the vessel or sections thereof, as well as along the outer wall of the vessel or sections thereof are printed or embeded such illustrations, designs or cartoons as might be appropriate to the described solid, decorative floating objects which circumnavigate the liquid-filled inner chamber so that the described solid, plastic objects may be seen to appear into view and to disappear out of view between the described background and foreground illustrations printed along sections of the inner and outer walls of the inner chamber of the drinking glass.

5. A decorative container, specifically a drinking glass substantially as described herein with referpence to Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing.