Patent ID: 7284677

Claim:
An appliance that may be used for holding a bottle, the bottle having an opening therein, the appliance comprising: (a) a container member, comprised of a container body having an opening at one end of the container body; (b) a cap member completely covering the opening at one end of the container member, the cap member being comprised of: (i) a cap body having an opening in the cap body; and (ii) bottle connecting means to removably connect the cap body to the portion of the bottle adjacent to the bottle opening, (iii)wherein: (A) the opening in the cap body is in fluidic communication with the bottle opening; (B) the bottle has a cylindrical portion adjacent to the bottle opening that is threaded on its exterior surface and the bottle connecting means is comprised of a cylindrical bottle holding portion extending approximately perpendicular from a surface of the cap member, wherein the interior surface of such cylindrical, bottle holding portion is threaded and the threads are of a size and structure adapted to receive the threads on the cylindrical threaded portion of the bottle; and (C) the cap body is comprised of a top portion approximately circular in shape that is adjacent to one end of a bottom cylindrical portion of the cap body and the cylindrical bottle holding portion of the cap member extends approximately perpendicular from the surface of the top portion of the cap member on the side of the bottom cylindrical portion of the cap body; and (c) cap member connecting means to removably connect the cap member to the container member, wherein the bottle is positioned within the volume displaced by the container body while the cap member is removably connected to the container member.