Beverage container

• US 6,227,403 B1
• Filed: 05/22/2000
• Issued: 05/08/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jong-Ki Kim
• Original Assignee: Jong-Ki Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Jong-Ki
• Primary Examiner(s): MOY, JOSEPH MAN
• Application Number:
  US09/575,781
• Time in Patent Office: 351 Days
• Field of Search: 220/258, 220/710, 220/707, 220/705, 220/703, 220/709, 206/222, 215/388
• US Class Current: 220/707
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 77/28 Cards, coupons, or drinking straws B65D5/4212, B65D23/14, B65D25/205, B65D33/004, B65D51/245, B65D75/54 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 77/283 located initially inside the container, whereby the straw is revealed only upon opening the container, e.g. pop-up straws

Abstract

A beverage container is disclosed. The disclosed beverage container comprises a container provided with a receiving space for containing a beverage; a submerged straw submerged within the container, and provided with a blocking member of a thin foil; a flexible tube capable of being deformed elastically and installed at the container so as to communicate with the submerged straw; a sucking straw installed at one end of the flexible tube and provided with a perforating portion capable of penetrating the blocking member, when necessary, with the flexible tube compressed so as to communicate with the submerged straw; and a sealing means detachably coupled to a sucking portion of the sucking straw so as to protect the sucking portion of the sucking straw from external contaminants.

Claims

1. A beverage container comprising:

a container provided with a receiving space for containing a beverage;

a submerged straw submerged within the container, and provided with a blocking member of a thin foil;

a flexible tube capable of being deformed elastically and installed at the container so as to communicate with the submerged straw;

a sucking straw installed at one end of the flexible tube and provided with a perforating portion capable of penetrating the blocking member, when necessary, with the flexible tube compressed so as to communicate with the submerged straw; and

a sealing means detachably coupled to a sucking portion of the sucking straw so as to protect the sucking portion of the sucking straw from external contaminants.

2. The beverage container according to claim 1, wherein the sealing means has a cap member to be fitted on the sucking portion.

3. The beverage container according to claim 2, wherein the container is provided with an air hole;

and

the cap member has a sealing portion capable of selectively sealing or opening the air hole.

4. The beverage container according to claim 3, wherein the sealing portion has a packing member capable of being inserted into the air hole.

5. The beverage container according to claim 1, wherein the sealing means includes a protecting cover attached to the container so as to protect the sucking portion of the sucking straw from external contaminants and so as to seal the air hole.

6. The beverage container according to claim 1, wherein the blocking member has a rupture portion having a predetermined shape so as to be ruptured by the perforating portion.

7. The beverage container according to claim 1, wherein the flexible tube has a structure in which the diameter of the flexible tube is gradually increased from the lower end of the sucking straw to the surface of the container body.

8. The beverage container according to claim 1, wherein the container further comprises a receiving groove formed on the surface of the container so as to receive the sucking straw when the sucking straw is laid into the receiving groove with the flexible tube deformed.

9. The beverage container according to claim 8, wherein the receiving groove has a supporting portion having a predetermined shape so as to prevent the sucking straw from moving freely.

10. The beverage container according to claim 3, wherein the container is provided with an air hole spaced a predetermined distance from the receiving groove;

and

the sealing means has a protecting cover capable of sealing both the receiving groove and the air hole so as to prevent the sucking straw from being contaminated by external contaminants.

11. A beverage container comprising:

a container having a closed receiving space for containing a beverage, and an attachment portion projected from the upper surface of the container while communicating with the receiving space;

a submerged straw which is submerged in the container and the upper end of which hangs on the attachment portion;

a sealing cover which detachably coupled to the attachment portion and at the center portion of which a blocking member of a thin foil is installed;

a flexible tube capable of being deformed elastically and installed on the sealing cover so as to communicate with the submerged straw;

a sucking straw installed at one end of the flexible tube and provided with a perforating portion capable of penetrating the blocking member, when necessary, with the flexible tube compressed so as to communicate with the submerged straw; and

a cap member detachably coupled to a sucking portion of the sucking straw so as to protect the sucking straw from external contaminants.

12. The beverage container according to claim 11, wherein the container further comprises a receiving groove formed on the surface of the container so as to receive the sucking straw when the sucking straw is laid into the receiving groove with the flexible tube deformed.

13. The beverage container according to claim 12, wherein the sealing cover has an upward cylindrical portion on which the flexible tube is forcedly fitted;

and a downward cylindrical portion on which the submerged straw is forcedly fitted.

14. The beverage container according to claim 11, wherein the cap member and the sucking straw are provided with respective threads, and the cap member is screwed on the sucking straw.

15. The beverage container according to claim 11, wherein the cap member and the sucking straw are provided with a projection and a groove which can be engaged with each other, respectively.

16. The beverage container according to claim 14, wherein the cap member further comprises an inserting portion which is forcedly fitted into the upper end of the sucking straw so as to seal the sucking portion of the sucking straw.

17. The beverage container according to claim 15, wherein the cap member further comprises an inserting portion which is forcedly fitted into the upper end of the sucking straw so as to seal the sucking portion of the sucking straw.