Drink-through slosh-inhibiting closure lids for potable open-top containers

US3938695A · kind A · utility

Inventor

• Stanley L. Ruff · New Rochelle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 18, 1974
• Grant date: Feb 17, 1976
• Expiry date: Jan 18, 1994

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S220/30
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A closure lid for capping the open top of a container. The container is of a type adapted to receive a potable liquid, usually one which is dispensed within a relatively close distance of the point at which it will be imbibed. Such containers with the closure lids emplaced thereon are used for "carry-out" services, as from a luncheonette, or for "carry-about" services, as from an on-the-premises beverage source such as a coffee brewer, a milk container, a carbonated or non-carbonated liquid vessel or a supply of hot water for tea or chocolate. It is customary to cap such containers with closure lids for carry-out purposes and to remove the lids when the potable is to be consumed; indeed it is quite usual to supply lids with the containers -- although not attached -- when the containers are sold to carry-out stores and to on-the-premises facilities where there are a large number of persons. The present invention provides a unique closure lid which when once in place is not intended to be removed but which is of such construction that a person can drink a potable through it from the capped container without experiencing any inconvenience and is such that it will minimize, and, indeed…