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Granted Patent B2
US 9,120,604 · App. 14/297,317 · Granted Sep 1, 2015

Drinking container with a drinking vessel and a drinking cap

Inventor: Jürgen Löhn (Groβ Meckelsen, DE)
Assignee: MAPA GmbH
B65D47/248A47G19/2272A61J9/04B65D51/1611
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Patent No.
US 9,120,604
App. No.
14/297,317
Granted
Sep 1, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A drinking container with a drinking vessel, a drinking cap and a threaded ring. The drinking vessel has an inner space, a circular vessel opening, an opening edge surrounding the vessel opening and an external thread next to the vessel opening. The drinking cap has a bottom wall, a ring flange surrounding the bottom wall for abutment on the opening edge of the drinking vessel, a drinking element protruding outwards from the bottom wall and a valve for sealing and opening a passage from the inner space to the outside of the mouthpiece, which is openable for drinking and otherwise closable. A ventilation channel is present in the bottom side of the ring flange or in the top side of the opening edge.

Claims (20)

1. A drinking container with a drinking vessel, a drinking cap and a threaded ring, wherein:

the drinking vessel has an inner space ( 13 ), a circular vessel opening ( 10 ), an opening edge ( 11 ), the opening edge including a top side, said opening edge surrounding the vessel opening and an external thread ( 12 ) next to the vessel opening,

the drinking cap ( 2 ; 41 ; 49 ; 64 ) has a bottom wall ( 15 ; 44 ; 53 ; 67 ), a ring flange ( 14 ; 42 ; 50 ; 65 ), said ring flange including a bottom side, said ring flange surrounding the bottom wall for abutment on the opening edge of the drinking vessel, a drinking element ( 18 ; 46 ; 53 ; 77 ) protruding outwards from the bottom wall and a sealing means ( 27 ; 47 ; 48 ; 59 ; 4 ; 74 ; 77 ) for sealing and opening a passage from the inner space ( 13 ) to an outside of a mouthpiece, which is openable for drinking and otherwise closable,

a ventilation channel ( 34 ; 43 ; 51 ; 66 ) is present in the bottom side of the ring flange ( 14 ; 42 ; 50 ; 65 ) or in the top side of the opening edge ( 11 ), which extends from an inner channel opening ( 40 . 1 ) lying further inside radially and open towards the inner space ( 13 ) of the drinking vessel ( 1 ) up to an outer channel opening ( 40 . 2 ) lying further outside radially and open to the environment, surrounds the center of the vessel opening ( 10 ) at least 0.75-fold between these two channel openings, has a cross-sectional surface in the range of 0.02 to 0.08 mm 2 and is designed in a rigid material with a modulus of elasticity of at least 0.2 kN/mm 2 , and

the ring flange ( 14 ; 42 ; 50 ; 65 ) is fixable in liquid-tight abutment on the opening edge ( 11 ) by means of the threaded ring.

2. The drinking container according to claim 1 , in which the ventilation channel ( 34 ; 43 ; 51 ; 66 ) progresses in the circumferential direction around the center of the ring flange ( 14 ; 42 ; 50 ; 65 ) at least one time.

3. The drinking container according to claim 1 , in which the ventilation channel ( 34 ; 41 ; 51 ; 66 ) has a cross-sectional surface in the range of 0.03-0.06 mm.

4. The drinking container according to claim 1 , in which the cross-sectional surface of the ventilation channel ( 34 ; 43 ; 51 ; 66 ) has the same size everywhere.

5. The drinking container according to claim 1 , in which the ventilation channel ( 34 ; 43 ; 51 ; 66 ) has a spiral or a meandering progression around the center of the vessel opening ( 10 ).

6. The drinking container according to claim 1 , in which the ventilation channel ( 34 ; 43 ; 51 ; 66 ) has a depth of 0.1-0.25 mm.

7. The drinking container according to claim 1 , in which the ventilation channel ( 34 ; 43 ; 51 ; 66 ) has a width of 0.35-0.55 mm.

8. The drinking container according to claim 5 , in which the carrying region between two neighboring channel sections of the ventilation channel ( 34 ; 43 ; 51 ; 66 ) has a width of at least 0.2 mm.

9. The drinking container according to claim 1 , in which the opening edge ( 11 ) has a width of 0.8-2.5 mm.

10. The drinking container according to claim 1 , in which the opening edge ( 11 ) has an outer diameter in the range of 30 to 70 mm.

11. The drinking container according to claim 1 , in which the bottom side of the ring flange ( 14 ; 42 ; 50 ; 65 ) and/or the top side of the opening edge ( 11 ) has a roughness, which prevents or reduced the capillary action in the case of dishwashing-liquid-containing wetting.

12. The drinking container according to claim 1 , in which the ring flange ( 14 ; 42 ; 50 ; 65 ) and the opening edge ( 11 ) are circular disk-shaped or conical or spherical shell-shaped.

13. The drinking container according to claim 1 , in which the ventilation channel ( 34 ; 43 ; 51 ; 66 ) is integrated directly into the bottom side of the ring flange ( 14 ; 42 ; 50 ; 65 ) connected as one piece with the bottom wall ( 15 ; 44 ; 53 ; 67 ) or is integrated into the bottom side of a separate ring flange, which is clampable between the ring flange connected as one piece with the bottom wall and the opening edge or in which the ventilation channel ( 14 ; 43 ; 51 ; 66 ) is integrated directly into the top side of the opening edge connected as one piece with the drinking vessel or is integrated into the top side of a separate, ring disk-shaped opening edge, which is clampable between the opening edge ( 11 ) connected as one piece with the drinking vessel and the ring flange ( 14 ; 42 ; 50 ; 65 ).

14. The drinking container according to claim 1 , in which the drinking vessel ( 1 ) is a drinking bottle or a drinking cup and/or the drinking cap ( 2 ) is a drinking spout or a drinking cap with a push/pull valve or a drinking cap with a drinking straw or a drinking suction nozzle.

15. The drinking container according to claim 1 , in which the entire drinking vessel ( 1 ) and/or at least the ring flange ( 14 ; 42 ; 50 ; 65 ) and the bottom wall ( 15 ; 44 ; 53 ; 67 ) of the drinking cap ( 2 ) consist of the rigid material with the modulus of elasticity of 0.2 kN/mm 2 .

16. The drinking container according to claim 1 , in which the ring flange ( 14 ; 42 ; 50 ; 65 ) and/or the opening edge ( 11 ) is made of polypropylene or of polyethylene or of polypropylene with additives of thermoplastic elastomer or of another thermoplast or of a vulcanized rubber or of a hard-set thermoplastic elastomer or of metal or of any combination of the named materials.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 11, 2014
From: LOEHN, JUERGEN
To: MAPA GMBH
Reel/Frame 033509/0844 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2013 010 431 · Jun 24, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20150069065A1 · Mar 12, 2015