US 12,234,082 B2
Rotationally stabilized wine bottle with rotationally controlling bumpers
Daniel Perlman, Arlington, MA (US)
Assigned to Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (US)
Filed by Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (US)
Filed on Jul. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/224,858.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/393,364, filed on Jul. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0034544 A1, Feb. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. B65D 85/30 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 85/307 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A glass wine bottle consisting a body portion that includes a base, a substantially cylindrical side portion, and a shoulder, wherein the substantially cylindrical side portion comprises an inner sidewall surface and an outer sidewall surface, wherein the glass wine bottle is modified to remedy its susceptibility to rolling and accidental breakage when the glass wine bottle is stored on its side rather than upright on its base,
wherein the outer sidewall surface is structurally modified to prevent rolling by addition of a plurality of between 8 and 24 bumpers positioned and formed at regular intervals along only two circumferential paths around the outer sidewall surface,
wherein a center to center distance between consecutive bumpers is at least 1.0 inch,
wherein the plurality of bumpers project between 2 mm and 6 mm outward from the outer sidewall surface, thereby enabling at least one pair of consecutive bumpers to support the bottle stored on its side without the glass wine bottle rocking or rolling, and
wherein the at least one pair of consecutive bumpers have a tangent line between a highest point on each of the consecutive bumpers that does not intersect the surface of the bottle between the at least one pair of consecutive bumpers.