Travel beverage container

• US 20050115977A1
• Filed: 01/05/2005
• Published: 06/02/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Clay Burns, Juan Escobar, Steven Dibdin
• Original Assignee: Clay Burns, Juan Escobar, Steven Dibdin
• Inventors: Escobar, Juan, Burns, Clay, Dibdin, Steven
• Application Number:
  US11/028,877
• Publication Number:
  US 20050115977A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 220/714
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 19/2272 from drinking glasses or cups comprising lids or covers

Abstract

A beverage container has a thermally insulated base defining a reservoir and a cover assembly removably mountable on the base for closing the reservoir. The cover assembly includes a cap defining a recess open to ambient and defines a baffled passage between the recess and the reservoir closeable by a valve assembly including a toggle mechanism actuatable by a push button disposed centrally of the cap and spaced from the recess, for alternately latching the valve in closed and open conditions relative to the passage. The valve assembly includes a gasketed movable valve member engageable with a rigid sharp edge on a valve seat in the closed condition so that the gasket yieldably deforms around the sharp edge to provide a fluid-tight seal.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A beverage container comprising:

a base defining a beverage-containing reservoir,

a cover assembly removably mountable on the base for closing the reservoir,

the cover assembly defining a passage for providing communication between the reservoir and ambient, and

a valve assembly carried by the cover assembly and having a valve seat and a valve member movable between a closed condition closing the passage and an open condition opening the passage,

one of the valve seat and the valve member including a relatively soft flexible and resilient gasket,

another of the valve seat and the valve member including a rigid sharp edge which engages the gasket in the closed condition of the valve member so that the gasket yieldably deforms around the sharp edge for providing a fluid-tight seal.

12. The container of claim 11, wherein the gasket is included on the valve member and the sharp edge is disposed on the valve seat.

13. The container of claim 12, wherein the container has a central axis, the valve member moving axially of the container between its open and closed conditions.

14. The container of claim 13, wherein the valve member moves toward the reservoir in moving from its closed condition to its open condition.

15. The container of claim 11, wherein the cover assembly is threadedly engageable with the base.

16. The container of claim 15, and further comprising a cover gasket disposed between the cover assembly and the base and engageable with both to provide a fluid-tight seal therebetween.

17. The container of claim 11, wherein the base includes a reservoir portion and an annular neck portion which is snap-fitted onto the reservoir portion.

18-22. -22. (canceled)