Hybrid beverage container

US6082575A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• PepsiCo, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Andrzej Skoskiewicz · Menlo Park, US
• Elisha Tal · Rishon LeZion, IL
• Rickson Sun · Palo Alto, US
• Patrick Gilmore · Memphis, US
• Said Farha · Lake Forest, US
• Eileen Bravmann · South Salem, US
• Roby Stancel · Los Altos Hills, US
• Scott E. Stropkay · Carlisle, US
• Axel Unger · Munich, DE
• Gary Shigeru Natsume · San Jose, US
• Robert Meyer · Wilton, US
• Adriana Colombo · New Fairfield, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 9, 1998
• Grant date: Jul 4, 2000
• Expiry date: Mar 9, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D47/261
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A beverage container is disclosed which includes a stackable cup and a stackable cover which have cooperating thread forms for selectively securing the cover to the cup in a substantially liquid-tight relationship. The cover has a beverage dispensing opening and a cap which is selectively operable to open and close the opening to prevent beverage in the container from being poured out of the opening and to selectively allow beverage to be poured or drunk from the opening.