Beverage container with wire cloth filter

• US 7,461,587 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2006
• Issued: 12/09/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Victor Guerrero
• Original Assignee: Victor Guerrero
• Inventors: Guerrero, Victor
• Primary Examiner(s): ALEXANDER, REGINALD
• Application Number:
  US11/517,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20070062376A1
• Time in Patent Office: 824 Days
• Field of Search: 993/22, 993/21, 993/23, 993/17, 993/06, 220/713, 220/521, 220/501, 220/371, 220/372, 220/711, 220/719, 210/473, 210/475, 210/477
• US Class Current: 99/323
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/02 Coffee-making machines with removable extraction cups, to be placed on top of drinking-vessels i.e. coffee-makers with removable brewing vessels, to be placed on top of beverage containers, into which hot water is poured, e.g. cafe filter filters A47J31/06

Abstract

A beverage cup assembly, including: a cup; a lid at a top of the cup; a wire mesh filter assembly adjacent to the lid; and a receptacle receivable around the filter assembly comprising a one-way valve permitting fluid to flow from the receptacle into the cup.

Claims

1. A beverage cup assembly, comprising:

a cup;

a lid at a top of the cup; and

a filter assembly adjacent to the lid, wherein the filter assembly comprises a removable top, and wherein the removable top comprises a wire mesh.

2. A beverage cup assembly, comprising:

a cup;

a lid at a top of the cup;

a filter assembly adjacent to the lid; and

a receptacle receivable around the filter assembly, wherein the receptacle comprises a one-way valve permitting fluid to flow from the receptacle into the cup.

3. The beverage cup of claim 2, wherein the one-way valve is a flap in the receptacle.