Internally lighted bottle
View Patent ↗Bottles containing LED circuits positioned in LED chambers for selectively illuminating the bottle or its contents. The LED circuits can be positioned in a translucent or transparent base and can be activated so as to illuminate or cease to illuminate one or more LEDs by reed-type hermetic switches, contact switches or push switches when a base to the bottle is twisted, the bottle is opened, the bottle is closed or the bottle is lifted from a flat surface. The LED circuits can alternatively be attached to the bottle by way of a shrink-wrapped layer over the base and/or sides of the bottle with the LED Circuits interposed between the translucent shrink-wrap and the bottle.
1. A bottle comprising:
a container portion;
a door assembly operably connected to said container portion and having a first open position and a second closed position;
a power source;
at least one light source for illuminating selected portions of the container portion and operably associated therewith;
at least one switch operably connected to the power source and the at least one light source for selectively illuminating at least one of the at least one light source when said door assembly is in the open position; and
wherein the container portion of the bottle has an outer surface, and at least one of the at least one light source is disposed proximate the outer surface of the container portion of the bottle.
2. The bottle of claim 1 wherein at least one of the at least one light source is a light emitting diode.
3. The bottle of claim 1 wherein at least one of the at least one switch is a reed-type hermetic switch.
4. The bottle of claim 1 wherein the bottle further contains a base portion for receiving at least a portion of the container portion, at least one of the at least one light source is contained within the base portion and illuminates the container portion, and at least one of the at least one switch is disposed within the base portion and is operably connected to at least one of the at least one light source.
5. The bottle of claim 1 wherein said bottle comprises a standard bottle.