Lid body of beverage container

• US 6,279,773 B1
• Filed: 05/23/2000
• Issued: 08/28/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kiyota Engineering Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Kiyota Engineering Company Limited
• Inventors: Kiyota, Hozumi
• Primary Examiner(s): CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J
• Application Number:
  US09/576,034
• Time in Patent Office: 462 Days
• Field of Search: 220/707, 220/708, 220/709, 220/711, 220/714, 220/715, 220/713, 215/229, 215/388, 215/389
• US Class Current: 220/709
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 19/2266 Means for facilitating drinking, e.g. for infants or invalids
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/1058 Latching mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/0871 and elastically biased towards the open position only
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/2037 the element being opened or closed by actuating a separate element which causes the deformation, e.g. screw cap closing container slit
• 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

To provide the lid body of a beverage container, wherein a mouthpiece tube communicated to the beverage container is stored within a storing portion in the blocked condition by one-touch operation of an openable lid and taken out of the storing portion by one-touch operation, and the lid body of a beverage container with a cap, wherein a cap which can store the mouthpiece tube is connectably provided therein.

The lid body of a beverage container is composed of a main body portion and an openable lid mounted on the main body portion. The main body portion comprises a bowl-like storing portion for storing a mouthpiece tube.

On the other hand, the openable lid are projected a pair of connecting portions for connecting each of the switching mechanisms.

Claims

1. A lid body, configured to be detachably mountable on a beverage container, the lid body comprising:

a main body portion comprising a baseplate;

an openable lid hingedly attached to the main body portion;

a raisable mouthpiece tube in the main body portion, the raisable mouthpiece tube flexibly extending into the beverage container through the baseplate when the lid body is mounted on the beverage container;

a presser piece having a flat upper edge, the presser piece being positioned on an inner surface of the openable lid, such that the presser piece is stored within the main body and is configured to block the mouthpiece tube in concert with a lid-closing motion of the openable lid and to cause the mouthpiece tube to block an airhole extending through the baseplate;

a plurality of switching devices positioned in opposition to each other along a radial direction of the main body portion; and

a plurality of connecting portions, each of the plurality of connecting portions corresponding to and connecting with one of the plurality of switching devices, the plurality of connecting portions being positioned on the inner surface of the openable lid.

9. The lid body according to claim 1, the main body portion further comprising a hook portion configured for tying a strap-like body to the lid body to enable suspension of the beverage container.

11. The lid body according to claim 1, further comprising:

a cap connectable with the main body portion; and

a suction tube connectable with the mouthpiece tube and extendable into the beverage container when the lid body is mounted on the beverage container, wherein the suction tube is stored in the cap.

13. The lid body according to claim 11, the cap comprising a container portion for storing the suction tube, a step portion connected with the container portion and a circumferential wall projecting upwardly from the step portion.

15. The lid body according to claim 13, the circumferential wall comprising an inner peripheral surface configured to fit around an outer peripheral surface of a thread portion of the lid body, the thread portion being configured to threadably connect the lid portion to the beverage container.

2. A lid body, configured to be detachably mountable on a beverage container, the lid body comprising:

a main body portion comprising a storing portion for storing a mouthpiece tube;

a thread portion, configured to threadably connect the lid body to a mouth portion periphery of the beverage container, to which the lid body is mountable; and

a common baseplate separating the storing portion and the thread portion, the common baseplate defining an air hole and a communicating hole for communicating the storing portion and the thread portion;

an openable lid hingedly mounted on the main body portion;

a coupling tube fitted in the communicating hole for detachably connecting the mouthpiece tube to a suction tube, the suction tube being extendable into the beverage container when the lid body is mounted on the beverage container;

a pair of switching devices positioned in opposition to each other along a radial direction of the storing portion;

a pair of connecting portions for connecting with the corresponding pair of switching devices, the pair of connecting portions being positioned on an underside of the openable lid; and

a presser piece having a flat upper edge, the presser piece being positioned on the underside of the openable lid such that the presser piece is stored within the main body portion so as to block the mouthpiece tube, causing the mouthpiece tube to fold when the openable lid is in a closed position, and thereby causing the air hole to be blocked by a tube wall of the folded mouthpiece tube.

3. The lid body according to claim 2, the baseplate comprising a groove portion configured to fit the tube wall of the folded mouthpiece tube.

4. The lid body according to claim 2, the storing portion comprising a pair of projecting ribs configured to guide the mouthpiece tube to an inner wall.

5. The lid body according to claim 2, each of the pair of switching devices comprising a socket integrally formed with the storing portion and a lock release button flexibly movable within the socket, the lock release button comprising a stopper piece, connectable with the corresponding connecting portion, and an identification portion for identifying a position of the lock release button by contact with a finger of a user.

6. The lid body according to claim 2, the air hole open to the thread portion comprising a valve body for opening and closing the air hole.

7. The lid body according to claim 6, the valve body being coupled to an annular packing of the thread portion via a movable portion.

8. The lid body according to claim 7, the annular packing comprising a peripheral clamp piece on an inner periphery of the annular packing, the peripheral clamp piece having an insert portion of the coupling tube.

10. The lid body according to claim 2, the main body portion further comprising a hook portion configured for tying a strap-like body to the lid body to enable suspension of the beverage container when the lid body is mounted on the beverage container.

12. The lid body according to claim 2, further comprising:

a cap connectable with the main body portion, wherein the suction tube is stored in the cap.

14. The lid body according to claim 12, the cap comprising a container portion for storing the suction tube, a step portion connected with the container portion and a circumferential wall projecting upwardly from the step portion.

16. The lid body according to claim 14, the circumferential wall comprising an inner peripheral surface configured to fit around an outer peripheral surface of the thread portion of the lid body.