Receptacles – Container attachment or adjunct – Drinking device
Reexamination Certificate
2000-05-23
2001-08-28
Castellano, Stephen (Department: 3727)
Receptacles
Container attachment or adjunct
Drinking device
C220S711000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06279773
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FILED
This invention relates to a lid body detachably mounted on the mouth portion of a beverage container, and to a lid body with a cap provided with a cap connectable with the lid body. More particularly, the invention relates to a plastic lid body provided with a mouthpiece tube for easily drinking a beverage without removing the lid body mounted on the mouth portion of a container, and to a lid body with a cap comprising the lid body and a cap connectable with the lid body and storing a suction tube for sucking a beverage within a beverage container connectable with a mouthpiece tube provided in the lid body.
BACKGROUND ART
In recent years, with an affluent standard of national living, each kind of beverages has been sold and natural drinks and each kind of tea and the like are developed with rapid force combined with a healthy food boom. Particularly, natural drinks contained in plastic containers such as plastic (PET) bottles and the like have become essential daily goods around the young age group, and living necessaries among not only household but also working place and pleasure resort. Moreover, in each kind of sports such as tennis, soccer and the like, active supply of water is recommended in the midst of sports, and various sports drinks are offered.
However, as the lid body of a beverage container containing these beverages is a screw type, in case of drinking several times after opening the lid, it is necessary to completely screw the lid on the mouth portion of the beverage container every time when a beverage is drunk, and its handling is troublesome, and it is difficult to completely open or seal the lid body in one hand, so that a beverage cannot simply be drunk from a beverage container in the midst of sports, cycling, driving and the like or by patients having handicapped hands.
Moreover, as the mouth portion of a beverage container is wide, it is difficult to suck, and as a result, a mouth is directly applied to the mouth portion of a container and the container is tilted for guzzling, or a beverage is poured into a receiver such as cup, bowl and the like for drinking. However, direct drinking is insanitary, and inconvenient such as choking or spluttering with excessive beverage.
Furthermore, a drinking style of pouring into a receiver always requires the receiver, and in case of pouring into the receiver, there are such problems that if a beverage container is hastily tilted, a beverage is forcibly discharged to overflow from the receiver and the like.
In order to dissolve such inconvenience, as shown in
FIG. 10
, there is known such a type that on a screw portion of a mouth portion of a beverage container
100
after opening is screwed a lid body
104
bored a hole
102
for mounting a straw
101
and a through-hole
103
for inserting the other end side of the straw
101
nakedly projected out of a main body of the beverage container, one end side of the flexible straw
101
is inserted from the hole
102
for mounting the straw into the beverage container, the other end side of the straw is projected out of the container as a suction portion in use, while the other end side of the nakedly projected straw is inserted into the through-hole
103
in non-use. (Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 57-186367)
According to the above type, it becomes possible to suck a necessary amount of a beverage from a suction portion of the straw
101
without tilting the beverage container
100
, and, in case of non-use, the other end side of the straw corresponding to the suction portion is inserted into the through-hole
103
, thereby preventing the suction portion from adhering to dirt, dust and the like.
However, according to such prior art, it is necessary to use both hands for removing the straw
101
from the through-hole
103
of the lid body
104
, or inserting the straw into the through-hole
103
, particularly, as a diameter of the through-hole
103
is small, it is difficult to align the through-hole with the straw
101
, and it is inconvenient to use it in the midst of body movement such as walking, exercising and the like.
Moreover, at the time of non-use, the straw
101
is largely projected in reverse U-shape onto the surface of the lid body
104
between the hole
102
and the through-hole
103
, and as there is no means for fixing and holding the straw
101
in the through-hole
103
, when the projected portion of the straw
101
hits on some object during carrying, or the container is vigorously swung vertically or unexpectedly falls, there was a possibility of slipping the other end side of the straw
101
out of the through-hole
103
and leaking the beverage to the outside.
Furthermore, the straw
101
inserted into the beverage container is one flexible long tube, and there is no means for supporting and fixing the straw in the hole
102
of the lid body
104
. Therefore, when the suction portion of the straw is unconsciously bitten or pulled at the time of sucking and drinking, length or direction of the suction portion projected from the container is changed, and it is inconvenient for confirming the position of the suction portion every time when drinking.
Moreover, since the straw
101
was carried under the condition of inserting into the hole
102
of the lid body
104
or removing therefrom until it was mounted onto the beverage container, the straw
101
was easily lost, and the nakedly protruded straw
101
was insanitary.
Then, the invention relates to a lid body of a beverage container detachably mounted on a mouth portion of the beverage container, more particularly, relates to a lid body of a beverage container with a mouthpiece tube which can be handled by one hand even in the midst of moving the body such as sports, cycling, drive and the like, or even by a patient who is hard to freely use his hands.
An object of the invention is, in view of the problems of such prior art, to provide a sanitary lid body of a beverage container having a storing portion for storing a mouthpiece tube for sucking and drinking a beverage and an openable lid for opening and closing the storing portion.
Further, another object of the invention is to provide a lid body of a beverage container which is easily handled such that the mouthpiece tube is stored within the main body portion with lid-closing operation of the openable lid by one touch, and is released and standing from the storing portion with lid-opening operation of the openable lid by one touch.
Further, a further object of the invention is to provide a lid body of a beverage container without leaking a beverage by storing the mouthpiece tube within the main body of the lid body in the folded state even when the beverage container falls or is vigorously swung vertically.
Moreover, a more further object of the invention is to provide a lid body of a beverage container which can easily be handled by anybody who is troubled with eyesight and the blind.
Further, another object of the invention is to provide a lid body of a beverage container which lid body is conveniently carried.
Further, a further object of the invention is to provide a lid body with a cap, wherein the cap for storing a suction tube connectable with a mouthpiece tube provided in the lid body of the beverage container for sucking a beverage is connectably provided in the lid body.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
In order to attain such objects, the invention notices elasticity and flexibility of a mouthpiece tube, and constructs a standing mouthpiece tube to be compactly folded and stored in the blocked state against its elasticity at the time of non-use, and the mouthpiece tube to be stood with its elasticity by releasing the stored state at the time of use.
Moreover, at the time of non-use, it is constructed to block a through-hole provided in a baseplate of the storing portion for storing the mouthpiece tube with a tube wall of the folded mouthpiece tube.
Moreover, the mouthpiece tube provided in the lid body comprises a cap for sorting a connectable suction tube, for example, until the lid body is mounted on a beverag
Castellano Stephen
Greenblum & Bernstein P.L.C.
Kiyota Engineering Co., Ltd.
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