Container Cap with Tether

• US 20090236341A1
• Filed: 03/18/2009
• Published: 09/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ignite USA LLC (Newell Brands Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rubbermaid Incorporated (Newell Brands Inc.)
• Inventors: McKinney, Larry T., Connelly, Jacob
• Granted Patent: US 8,245,870 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 220/375
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 19/2266 Means for facilitating drinking, e.g. for infants or invalids
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 41/34 Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers provided with tamper elements formed in, or attached to, the closure skirt
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 55/16 Devices preventing loss of removable closure members

Abstract

A drinking container has a bottle with an open top, a cap assembly attachable to the bottle to cover the open top, and a drinking spout with a top opening on the cap assembly. A spout cover is removably fitted on the top opening of the drinking spout. A flexible tether is connected to the spout cover and to the cap assembly or the bottle. The tether is looped unto itself permitting the spout cover and a portion of the tether to be extended to reach the top opening and to be retracted withdrawing the spout cover to a position remote from the drinking spout.

Claims

1. A drinking container comprising:

a bottle having an open top;

a cap assembly attachable to the bottle to cover the open top and having a drinking spout with a top opening;

a spout cover removably fitted on the top opening of the drinking spout; and

a flexible tether connected to the spout cover and to the cap assembly or the bottle,

wherein the tether is looped unto itself permitting the spout cover to be extended to close off the top opening and to be retracted withdrawing the spout cover to a position remote from the drinking spout.