Cap body of beverage container

• US 6,609,624 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2001
• Issued: 08/26/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nippon Sanso Corporation (Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Nippon Sanso Corporation (Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Shin, Matsuyama, Kunio, Hatsumoto, Goto, Takashi, Kowa, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): NEWHOUSE, NATHAN JEFFREY
• Application Number:
  US09/938,985
• Publication Number:
  US 20020040909A1
• Time in Patent Office: 732 Days
• Field of Search: 220/259.1, 220/254.3, 220/833, 220/835, 220/709, 220/705, 220/711, 220/714, 222/528-530
• US Class Current: 220/259.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 19/2266 Means for facilitating drinking, e.g. for infants or invalids

Abstract

A cap body of beverage container wherein a lid plate of lid body forming a connection mouth at a drinking straw member is mounted with an air hole between a hinge axle for rotatively supporting a cap and the connection mouth, and a straw unit for being connected to the connection mouth of the drinking straw member is formed thereunder with a closing unit for covering the air hole, while the cap is disposed with a bend member for bending the drinking straw member and a blocking protruder for blocking the air hole via the closing unit, whereby the drinking straw member can be bent to enable to close the cap with one touch operation and to surely block the air hole.

Claims

1. A cap body of a beverage container having container body defining an opening, the cap body comprising:

a) a lid body threadably and releasably mounted at said opening of said container body and having a lid plate for blocking said opening;

b) a cap rotatably mounted at said lid via a hinge axis for covering said lid plate and having a bending member and a closing protruder;

c) said lid plate having an air hole and a connection mouth that is connected to a drinking straw member, said air hole located between said connection mouth and said hinge axis; and

d) a plate-shaped closing unit formed at a lower end of said drinking straw member for covering an upper portion of said air hole;

whereby when the cap closed, said drinking straw member is bent by said bending member and said air hole is simultaneously blocked by said closing protruder via said closing unit.

2. The cap busy as claimed in claim 1, wherein said lid plate is formed with a recess forming a space between said air hole and the lower end of said drinking straw member, there being a lip around said air hole at said recess having an area smaller than that of said closing unit.

3. A cap body of a beverage container having a container body defining an opening, the cap body comprising:

a) a lid body theadably and releasably mounted at said opening of said container body and having a lid plate for blocking and opening;

b) a cap rotatably mounted at said lid body via a hinge axis for covering said lid plate and having a bending member and a closing protruder;

c) said lid plate having an air hole and a connection mouth that is connected to a drinking straw member, said air hole located between said connection mouth and said hinge axis, and said drinking straw member having a prominent unit formed along an axial direction of said drinking straw member for contact with said bending member;

whereby when said cap is closed, said air hole is blocked by said closing protruder and said drinking straw member is simultaneously bent by said closing protruder and said drinking straw member is simultaneously bent by said bending member contracting said prominent unit.

4. The cap body as claimed in claim 3, including a plate-shaped closing unit formed at a lower end of said drinking straw member for covering an upper portion of said air hole.

5. The cap body as claimed in claim 4, wherein said lid plate is formed with a recess forming a space between said air hole and the lower end of said drinking straw member, there being a lip around said air hole at said recess and said recess having an area smaller than that of said closing unit.