Beverage vessel with magnetic lid

• US 5,363,745 A
• Filed: 11/30/1993
• Issued: 11/15/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hsiang-Cheng Lin
• Original Assignee: Hsiang-Cheng Lin
• Inventors: Lin, Hsiang-Cheng
• Primary Examiner(s): JENKINS, ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US08/159,474
• Time in Patent Office: 350 Days
• Field of Search: 99/306, 99/279, 99/284, 99/291, 99/295, 99/296, 99/298, 99/300, 99/301, 99/304, 99/307, 99/316, 99/317, 99/321, 99/322, 426/433, 220/230, 220/756, 220/762, 220/763, 220/761, 220/408
• US Class Current: 99/306
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 19/14 Coffee or tea pots filters, strainers A47J31/06
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/0636 suspended from the top of the beverage container so as to remain in contact with the prepared infusion tea eggs A47G19/16

Abstract

A teapot or other beverage vessel has an internal rim at the top supporting a filter cup which grips onto the rim. A magnetic lid fits onto the rim of the filter cup. Tea leaves and other particles are thus confined within the filter cup and the lid is held magnetically in place.

Claims

1. A beverage vessel comprising a pot, a filter cup and a lid, the pot having at least one outlet spout, a top mouth and an internally flanged rim around the top mouth, the filter cup adapted to fit in the pot, the filter cup having an outwardly flanged magnetic rim to fit on said internally flanged rim of the pot and securement means for holding the rim of the cup in engagement with the rim of the pot, the lid having an outer ring with embedded magnet means to fit on the rim of the filter cup and be magnetically held in engagement therewith.

2. A vessel as claimed in claim 1 wherein said lid has a circular inner portion and attachment means between the inner portion and said outer ring.

3. A vessel as claimed in claim 2 wherein the attachment means comprising a part circular spring clip fitting in aligned peripheral annular grooves in said inner portion and said outer ring.

4. A vessel as claimed in claim 1 wherein said filter cup includes a pivotal arch-shaped handle spring with opposite ends projecting through diametrically opposed openings formed in an upper rim portion of the filter cup, and wherein the securement means comprises projecting cranked ends of the handle spring adapted to engage under the rim of the pot when the handle spring is pivoted into a position parallel with the rim of the filter cup.

5. A vessel as claimed in claim 4 wherein said rim portion of the filter cup includes a slot for receiving a top part of the handle spring in said position of the handle spring.

6. A vessel as claimed in claim 1 wherein said securement means comprises spaced leaf springs extending downwardly from the rim of the filter cup to frictionally engage within said rim of the pot.

7. A vessel as claimed in claim 1 wherein the pot has a pair of diametrically opposed spouts formed in the top mouth of the pot and openings in the rim of the pot aligned with the spouts.

8. A vessel as claimed in claim 1 wherein the lid is combined with a coffee-making cup assembly to fit atop the pot and supply same with filtered coffee.