A drip-retaining collar for a bottle

摘要

The invention provides a drip - retaining collar (2) for catching and retaining drips from a bottle, the collar being configured to sit about a neck or shoulder of the bottle and having a radially inwardly facing edge (22) for contacting the neck or shoulder so as to halt the flow of drips down the neck or shoulder; wherein the collar (2) is integrally moulded from a plastics material and has an annular drip - collecting trough disposed radially outwardly of the said radially inwardly facing edge (22), and wherein the annular trough (10) is partitioned into compartments (14), each compartment (14) being of such a size and configuration that it can retain drip liquid collected therein when the collar (2) is inverted.