Patent ID: 6299037
Filing Date: 2001-10-09
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A press-control bottle stopper installed in a bottle neck of a bottle body of a bottle to close a passage of the bottle neck of the bottle body, comprising:a hollow stopper shell, said stopper shell comprising a tubular coupling means fastened to the bottle neck of the bottle body, at least one water outlet for guiding liquid out of the bottle body, and an axial hole disposed at the center of a bottom side thereof;a plug installed in said stopper shell and moved between a closed position and an open position to close and open said at least one water outlet, said plug comprising a plug stem inserted into said axial hole on said bottom side of said stopper shell, a spring member mounted on said plug stem inside said stopper shell to hold said plug in said closed position, and a plug head formed integral to one end of said plug stem and moved with said plug stem to close and open said at least one water outlet;a hollow lining mounted inside said hollow stopper shell, said lining comprising a coupling portion fastened to an internal part of said hollow stopper shell, and a bottom center through hole axially aligned with said axial hole on said bottom side of said hollow stopper shell;a water passage defined within an inside wall of said hollow stopper shell around a periphery of said lining and disposed in communication with said at least one water outlet; anda control unit coupled to an inside of said hollow lining and operated to close and open said at least one water outlet, said control unit comprising a hollow base press-fitted into said hollow lining, a press-button mounted in said hollow base and moved axially relative to said hollow base, a push member coupled to said press-button at a bottom side and stopped against said plug stem of said plug for enabling said plug to be moved to said open position when said press-button is pressed by the user with the hand, and a release control member mounted in said hollow base and moved axially to release said push member from said plug for enabling said plug to be returned to said closed position by the spring power of said spring member; whereinsaid hollow base of said control unit comprises an axially extended center round hole and a plurality of longitudinal guide rails equiangularly spaced around said center round hole, said guide rails each having a beveled bottom guide edge and a retaining notch in a middle of said beveled bottom guide edge; said release control member of said control unit is inserted into said center round hole in said hollow base and moved axially relative to said hollow base between a first position where an annular head of said release control member is disposed flush with said hollow base, and a second position where said annular head of said release control member is disposed above an elevation of said hollow base, said release control member comprising said annular head, a plurality of guide strips axially downward extended from said annular head, and a plurality of actuating spaces respectively defined between each two said adjacent guide strips; said press-button of said control unit is inserted through said annular head of said release control member, said press-button of said control unit having a serrated bottom edge, and a plurality of radial blocks equiangularly spaced around a periphery thereof near said serrated bottom edge and radially inserted through the actuating space between each two adjacent guide strips of said release control member; said push member of said control unit is coupled to said press-button, having a plurality of radial blocks equiangularly spaced around a periphery thereof, and a bottom rod stopped against said plug stem of said plug; thereby enabling said radial blocks of said push member to be lowered and moved along said beveled bottom guide edge of each guide rail of said hollow base into engagement with said retaining notch on said bottom guide edge of each guide rail of said hollow base respectively to hold said plug in said open position when said press-button is depressed, and for enabling said guide strips of said release control member to push said radial blocks of said push member away from said retaining notch on each guide rail of said hollow base and to let said radial blocks of said push member be moved with said push member along said beveled bottom guide edge of each guide rail of said hollow base into the actuating space between each two guide strips of said release control member when said release control member is depressed, so as to let said plug be forced back to said closed position by the spring power of said spring member.