Cough drop sucker with cover

• US 5,955,099 A
• Filed: 04/16/1998
• Issued: 09/21/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wendy A. White
• Original Assignee: Wendy A. White
• Inventors: White, Wendy A.
• Primary Examiner(s): WEINSTEIN, STEVEN L
• Application Number:
  US09/061,215
• Time in Patent Office: 523 Days
• Field of Search: 426/134, 426/91, 426/110, 426/115, 426/440, 220/4.22
• US Class Current: 424/440
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 3/563 products with an inedible support, e.g. a stick

Abstract

A lollipop storage assembly is provided including a housing being selectably opened and closed. Also included is a sucking drop having a stick coupled thereto and extending therefrom. The stick is slidably connected to the housing.

Claims

1. A cough drop sucker storage assembly comprising, in combination:

a housing including a lower portion with a hollow hemispherical configuration and including an open top with an upper periphery residing in a common plane, a lip integrally coupled to the upper periphery and extending radially therefrom, and an aperture formed in a bottom of the lower portion at a central extent thereof, the housing further including an upper portion with a size and shape similar to that of the lower portion and including an open bottom with a lower periphery residing in a common plane, an annular snap integrally coupled to an outer surface of the lower periphery of the upper portion and extending downwardly therefrom with a uniform U-shaped cross-section;

a hinge with a planar oval configuration and constructed from a flexible material, the hinge having a bottom half coupled to an inner surface of the lower portion of the housing adjacent to the upper periphery thereof and extending upwardly therefrom and a top half coupled to an inner surface of the upper portion of the housing adjacent to the lower periphery thereof such that the upper portion may pivot with respect to the lower portion between an open orientation with the annular groove and the lip disconnected and a closed orientation with the annular groove and lip being engaged to define a closed spherical interior space; and

a cough drop sucker comprising a cough drop having a generally spherical configuration with a diameter less than that of the housing and a linear stick coupled to the cough drop and extending therefrom along an axis which intersects a center of the cough drop, the stick having a bulbous, spherical portion formed at a central extent thereof, the stick being situated within the hole of the lower portion of the housing and slidable between a first orientation with the cough drop situated within the housing and a second orientation with the cough drop extended above and spaced from the housing, wherein the bulbous portion serves to preclude the separation of the housing from the stick.