Receptacles – Container attachment or adjunct – Drinking device
Patent
1998-07-08
1999-05-18
Castellano, Stephen
Receptacles
Container attachment or adjunct
Drinking device
206457, 446 74, 220602, 220506, B65D25/04
Patent
active
059042680
ABSTRACT:
A novelty drinking mug having handle and incorporating a display simulating that of an artificial horizon instrument disposed within the floor of the mug. The floor is transparent, and encloses a fluid chamber partially filled with a colored liquid. The transparent floor of the mug has indicia simulating the scale of an actual artificial horizon instrument. A disc bearing indicia simulating that representing an aircraft in an actual artificial horizon instrument is disposed in visual alignment with the transparent floor. This disc may, in alternative embodiments, be contained within the fluid chamber or within its own chamber. The disc has an eccentrically located ballast weight, and is rotatably fixed to a pivot pin. The disc rotates relative to the mug responsive to gravity when the mug is rotated about its longitudinal axis. Indicia disposed upon the disc simulates banking. When the mug is tipped or inclined from the vertical, the upper surface of the colored liquid responds in a manner simulating the artificial horizon of the actual instrument as the indicia disposed upon the floor of the mug changes orientation relative to the upper surface of the colored liquid. Varying level of the liquid with respect to the indicia disposed upon the disc simulates climbing and diving.
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Castellano Stephen
Siemens Terrance L.
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