Pop-up straw for beverage containers

Details Pop-up straw for beverage containers Pop-up straw for beverage containers

1993-12-02

1995-07-11

Shoap, Allan N.

Receptacles

Container attachment or adjunct

Drinking device

220705, 220710, 215389, 2291031, A47G 1922

Patent

active

054312973

ABSTRACT:
A pop-up straw device for containers such as cans and bottles having necks narrower than the body of the bottle. When the device is employed in a can, a vertical guide assembly aligns a telescoping straw assembly with a beverage container's mouth. The telescoping straw assembly includes interior and exterior straws. The interior straw extends out of the mouth of the beverage container once the container is opened. A floater, having a density less than that of the liquid in the container, urges the telescoping straw assembly to protrude out of the container's mouth. In an alternative embodiment, a bracket assembly is mounted to the interior top of the can and aligns the telescoping straw assembly with the mouth of the can. When the device is utilized in a bottle only the floater and the telescoping straw assemblies are required. The walls of the body and neck of the bottle, in conjunction with the floater align the telescoping straw assembly with the mouth of the bottle and the floater is of sufficient rigidity such that it cannot be easily pulled through the mouth of the bottle and thereby prevents the telescoping straw assembly from being pulled completely out of the bottle while at the same time permitting a user to extend the telescoping straw assembly partially out of the bottle.

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