Make your own bite-valve hydration system

Step 10 Claims (for legal purposes)

I wish to publish this invention with the Creative Commons license and wish to make explicit that I claim the following novel aspects:

1. a bite-valve hydration system that works with an ordinary soda bottle;
2. furthermore, a system that works with a bottle placed in a bicycle bottle cage;
3. a system that works with a bottle strapped to a bicycle rack;
4. a system that utilizes a check-valve along with a container that does not collapse when water is removed;
5. a system that utilizes a pick-up tube that allows fluids and gels to be drawn from the container bottom;
6. a system where the bite-valve tube is attached to the handlebar, for example with a cable clamp;
7. a system for a bicycle where tygon tubing is routed along the bicycle's top tube, for example with velcro;
8. a system which utilizes quick-disconnect tube couplings to allow easy bottle change;
9. a system which utilizes a quick-disconnect tube coupling with a valve to prevent leakage and provide an anti-siphon-back feature for the tube.

This invention is Open-Source Hardware and has been reduced to practice. Its invention by me has been observed by dozens of members of TechShop and the Almaden Cycle Touring Club. The system was described and demonstrated to a meeting of the Make:SF group on January 7, 2008. Any attempt to patent a bite-valve hydration system that works with a soda bottle and is mounted on a bicycle as described above should be blocked by the Prior Art represented by this Instructable.

The photo is from the January 7, 2008 TechShop demo and was taken by Sherry Huss of O'Reilly.