Receptacles – Outlet or junction box type – Sectional receptacle
Patent
1990-03-21
1990-10-30
Lowrance, George E.
Receptacles
Outlet or junction box type
Sectional receptacle
215229, A47G 1922
Patent
active
049663003
ABSTRACT:
An insulated drinking container having an insulated cup and an insulated lid which is shreadably engagable over the open upper end of the cup. The lid includes an integrally formed grasping handle and an elongated centrally disposed, downwardly extending straw housing. The straw housing includes a stationary straw which extends downward to the bottom of the cup and a removable straw slidably translatable up and down in the stationary housing adjacent the stationary straw between a downward stored position fully within the straw housing and an upward sipping position extended above the lid. Only when in its sipping position is the removable straw, having an aperture formed through its wall for this purpose, in fluid communication with the stationary straw so that liquid in the container may be removed. Pressurizing and suction features which automatically urge the removable straw upward to its sipping position and downward to its stored position are also disclosed.
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patent: 3558033 (1971-01-01), Leeds
patent: 4109817 (1978-08-01), Payne
patent: 4165013 (1979-08-01), Lutz
patent: 4291814 (1981-09-01), Conn
Lowrance George E.
Prescott Charles J.
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