Fruit flavoring in the image of a fruit portion stored with a vessel for flavoring a fluid

摘要

An assembly and method are provided for storing and dispensing a soluble substance, such as a flavoring, into a liquid. A useful application of the subject invention includes the case where lime-flavored liquid is contained in a foam artificial lime stored in the neck of a beer bottle, attached to a beer bottle or can, or attached to the 6-pack or 12-pack carton. The artificial lime may be retrieved from the neck or a protective covering and acted upon so it diffuses the lime-flavored liquid into the beer when it is inserted into the beer bottle. Alternately, juice from the artificial lime may be squeezed into the beer, or the artificial lime may be simply retrieved and discarded. Rather than needing to buy a natural lime, cut it up and push a wedge into a beer bottle, an artificial lime, or a packaged natural lime, may be stored directly in or with the beer bottle and placed in functional contact with the beer at time of consumption.

主权项

1. An apparatus used in conjunction with a beverage vessel containing a liquid with which a soluble substance is mixed, said beverage vessel having a narrow opening for drinking said liquid, said apparatus comprising:
an elastic entity comprising said soluble substance for introduction and dissolution into said liquid, said elastic entity being larger than said narrow opening and for passing through said narrow opening and remaining unsecured inside said liquid, wherein said elastic entity has the shape of a wedge portion of a fruit for passing through said narrow opening, said wedge portion having two non-parallel substantially planar surfaces intersecting at substantially a line, said soluble substance introduced into said liquid when said elastic entity is unsecured inside said beverage vessel.