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Plastic Bottle Drip Catcher Lip

 A slight modification to the neck of plastic bottles to catch drips from the outside surface.
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When I tip up a plastic bottle to drink, and that bottle has moisture on the outside, it drips down my face and chin and onto my shirt. I hate that.

If the flange on the neck of the bottle below the threaded neck were designed to flare out and then back down it could catch the drips before they reached my shirt. That would make me happy.

I have linked to my sketch of a cross-section of the bottle modification I'm describing.

—danielo, Sep 18 2007

Drip Catch Flange http://i63.photobuc...ottle_top_phixr.jpg
The baker's little sketch. [danielo, Sep 18 2007]

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       *polite applause*   

       Q. where does the drip go once it has been tipped upright again?
—dentworth, Sep 18 2007
   

       those drip catcher lips in weighted containers e.g. garden parasols are a buggar to empty. I'd like anti-plastic drip catcher valves. anyone?
—po, Sep 18 2007
   

       [dentworth] -- The drip goes back down the bottle, which is much preferable to me than my chin/shirt. I don't mind my hand getting wet.
—danielo, Sep 18 2007
   

       Cool picture.
—bnip, Sep 18 2007
   

       Shirley the solution lies in having an absorbent layer of custard powder in the flange. Beneath said layer lies a low-wattage heating element, powered by a small generator in the base of the bottle. Preferably, the wattage of the aforementioned heating element is sufficient to cause re-drying of the custard powder before the next use of the bottle. According to Claim 2, the generator is driven by a Stirling engine which draws its motive force from the temperature difference between the beverage and the surrounding air.
—MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 18 2007
   

       No, no, no. You need to line the flange with a moebius strip so when the condensation collects, becoming a tiny rivulet, it rolls over the strip and is diverted back upon itself and up the side of the bottle.   

       Either that or use a straw.
—Canuck, Sep 20 2007
   


 

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