Combined beverage container opener and cover
A multi-purpose device is disclosed for opening beverage containers, such as glass bottles, plastic bottles and/or cans and for covering some open beverage containers having a neck, such as beverage bottles. The device includes a housing. The housing can represent various decorative forms of headgear. The housing includes a bottle cap remover and bottle retainer. For twist-off caps, a twist-off bottle cap remover can be provided that includes a cup-like guide member that can receive the cap of a beverage container. Ridges formed on and projecting outward from the surface of the cup-like guide member's inner circumference can be received by indentations between ridges typically found on the outer circumference of beverage container caps (e.g., bottle caps). By twisting the guide member, the twist-off cap becomes loosened for easy removal. The housing provides a user with the necessary leverage to facilitate application of twisting torque onto a twist-off bottle cap, or leverage necessary to pull a pop-off cap off of a bottle or cause a can-tab to perforate the upper surface of a can. The device can include at least one bottle cap opener (e.g. twist-off or pop-off) and a lift tab opener for standard soda can. The bottle retainer can be integrated within the decorative housing, should be formed of a flexible material that will enable the device to be retained at the neck of an opened beverage bottle, thereby enabling cover for an opened bottle.
1. A beverage container opening and covering device, comprising:
a decorative housing provided in the form of miniaturized three-dimensional sports headgear including at least one of a football helmet, a baseball cap, and a cowboy hat, and further comprising a bottom, top, front, back, and sides, said decorative housing including an opening formed in its bottom and including a retention mechanism formed on an inner surface within said decorative housing, said retention mechanism adapted for retaining a twist-off bottle cap remover and bottle opening cover therein;
a twist-off bottle cap remover retained by the retention mechanism within the opening formed in the bottom of the decorative housing and adapted to accept and firmly grip twist off bottle caps during their removal from a beverage container;
a rubber retaining device integrated within said decorative housing with said twist-off bottle cap remover, said rubber retaining device adapted to enable said decorative housing to operate as a bottle opening cover, said bottle opening cover provided in the form of a rubber retaining device adapted for selectively securing the decorative cover to a bottle neck; and
a can tab opener formed on the bottom of said decorative housing.
2. A beverage container opening and covering device, comprising:
a decorative housing provided in the form of miniaturized three-dimensional sports headgear including at least one of a football helmet, a baseball cap, and a cowboy hat, and further comprising a bottom, top, front, back, and sides, said decorative housing including an opening formed in its bottom and including a retention mechanism formed on an inner surface within said decorative housing, said retention mechanism adapted for retaining a combined twist-off bottle cap remover and bottle opening cover therein;
a twist-off bottle cap remover retained by the retention mechanism within the opening formed in the bottom of the decorative housing and adapted to accept and firmly grip twist off bottle caps during their removal from a beverage container;
a rubber retaining device integrated within said decorative housing with said twist-off bottle cap remover, said rubber retaining device adapted to enable said decorative housing to operate as a bottle opening cover, said bottle opening cover provided in the form of a rubber retaining device adapted for selectively securing the decorative cover to a bottle neck; and
a pop-off bottle cap remover formed on the back of said decorative housing.
3. The beverage container opening and covering device of claim 1 , further comprising:
a pop-off bottle cap remover formed on a back of said decorative housing.
4. The beverage container opening and covering device of claim 2 , further comprising:
a can opener formed on the bottom of said decorative housing.
5. A beverage container opening and covering device, comprising:
a decorative housing provided in the form of miniaturized three-dimensional sports headgear including at least one of a football helmet, a baseball cap, and a cowboy hat, and having a bottom, top, front, back, and sides, said decorative housing including an opening formed in its bottom and including a retention mechanism formed on an inner surface within said decorative housing, said retention mechanism adapted for retaining a combined twist-off bottle cap remover and rubber retaining device therein;
a combined twist-off bottle-cap remover and rubber retaining device adapted to remove twist-off bottle caps from beverage containers and also secure said decorative housing onto an opened beverage container after the twist-off bottle cap is removed;
a pop-off bottle cap remover formed on a back of said decorative housing; and
a can opener formed on the bottom of said decorative housing.
6. An beverage container opening and covering device of claim 5 , said can opener further comprising an integral, outwardly extending tab formed along the bottom of said decorative housing.
7. A beverage container opener and cover, comprising:
(a) a decorative housing provided in the form of miniaturized three-dimensional sports headgear including at least one of a football helmet, a baseball cap, and a cowboy hat, and having a bottom, top, front, back, and sides, said decorative housing including (I) an opening formed in its bottom and including a retention mechanism formed on an inner surface of said decorative housing adapted for retaining a combined twist-off bottle cap remover and bottle opening cover and (II) and opening formed in its back adapted for receiving and removing pop-off bottle caps;
(b) a combined twist-off bottle-cap remover and bottle opening cover, said twist-off bottle cap remover formed in the shape of an inverted cup and adapted for receiving twist-off caps of various circumferences and said bottle opening cover provided in the form of a rubber retaining device adapted for selectively securing the decorative cover to a bottle neck; and
(c) a can tab opener formed on the bottom of said decorative housing.