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US5927354A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 18, 1997
Grant dateJul 27, 1999
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Expiry dateMar 18, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01F19/00
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A dispenser for pourable fluids comprising a container for fluid, in the neck of the container there being a holder for a drinking cup, at least one passage in the neck allowing fluid to pass from the container along the neck past the holder toward the mouth opening, removeably mounted in the holder a drinking cup, having an open top, a removeable closure for the mouth opening, such that inversion or agitation of the dispenser causes fluid to pass from the container through the passages(s) into the drinking cup, and re-inversion or cessation of agitation, to an upright orientation results in the retention of a volume of the fluid in the drinking cup.

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