LU84791A1 - DRINKING TANK - Google Patents

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The invention relates to drinking vessels, in particular cup-like - drinking vessels whose top is open to form a drinking opening and is surrounded by an opening ranc to attach to the lips.

5 It is known to use such drinking vessels, in particular drinking cups, in self-service restaurants, the guest or user taking over the drinking vessel filled with the beverage at a counter or other dispensing point and carrying it to its place. In order to avoid the spilling of 10 drinks over the opening edge of the drinking vessel, it has often been used to use oversized Triri vessels. Apart from the fact that such oversized drinking vessels, in particular those for single use, are unnecessarily expensive, it is not possible with such oversized drinking vessels 15 or is made considerably more difficult to ensure the correct filling level of each drinking vessel in the prescribed manner using a filling marking.

The object of the invention is therefore to provide a drinking vessel, the size of which can be fully used for filling 20 drinks and yet offers security against overflowing of drinks over the opening edge when transporting the filled drinking vessel. The drinking vessel should be specially ionized for the use of a drinking straw. / -....... - ...........------------------------- ^

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- 3 -, This object is achieved according to the invention in that a j * “drinking vessel lid that can be placed on the opening edge is provided. j Ί can be seen, in its cover wall covering the open top of the actual drinking vessel, a plug-in opening for a drinking straw or the like. contains, at the opening edge of which at least one elastic closure flap covering the insertion opening is arranged.

The drinking 1-vessel lid that can be placed on the opening edge of the drinking vessel is an additional element. It can i 10 but with much less material and essential! borrow cheaper than the additional costs for an over! large drinking vessel. In addition, it is up to the user whether he wants to close the filled drinking vessel with a drinking vessel lid. Furthermore, the drinking vessel lid offers the possibility of using a drinking straw without the need to remove the drinking vessel lid from the drinking vessel once it is in place. The drinking vessel lid offers a complete closure of the filled drinking vessel, at least as long as no drinking straw is used. But even 20 after the drinking straw has been inserted, a sufficiently secure closure of the filled drinking jar is guaranteed for the practice. The user can therefore either 1 insert the drinking straw to take away into the drinking vessel lid placed on the filled drinking vessel. ^) i - 4 - 2

The packaging for the drinking tube insertion opening can be pre-formed in the interior of the insertion opening, preferably incisions in the cover wall in the center thereof. Despite these 5 incisions, the lid wall is sufficiently liquid-tight for practical purposes. If, however, it is desired to keep the lid wall completely liquid-tight, these incisions can also be notches which only partially penetrate the lid wall and which allow an easy, complete severing of the lid wall by means of the drinking straw.

In a preferred embodiment, four closing flaps for a drinking straw insertion opening are formed by two incisions intersecting in the middle of the insertion opening. In another embodiment of the invention, only one closing flap is provided for the drinking straw insertion opening and is formed by two incisions which meet in a V-shape at one corner of the triangular insertion opening.

Special locking security for the drinking vessel is made possible with the drinking vessel lid when the actual drinking vessel is flanged at its opening edge to a curved lip edge and the drinking vessel lid is designed as a slip lid which has a snap-in rim on its periphery which fits over the lip edge. In this way, the lid of the drinking vessel can be snapped onto the opening edge of the filled drinking vessel. This secure fit of the drinking vessel lid on the opening edge of the drinking vessel is easily removable if desired, especially if the user wishes to remove the drinking vessel lid before drinking.

In order to ensure hygienic storage of the drinking vessel lid before use and while it is ready for use, the drinking vessel lid can have an annular stacking device within its peripheral edge, which is designed for separating the drinking vessel lid by pulling a drinking vessel lid to be removed from a stack laterally. The drinking vessel lids can then be kept ready in a covered stack or as a stack in a dispenser. The user then only touches the lid that he removes from the stack.

For applications of the invention in which filled drinking vessels are to be closed with a lid and kept ready for sale, the drinking vessel lid can have a central, trough-shaped depression in the lid wall, into which the drinking vessel with its lower edge can be inserted in a suitable manner. It is then possible to stack filled drinking vessels closed with such drinking vessel lids on top of one another.

Embodiments of the invention are explained in more detail below with reference to the drawing. /

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Figure 1 shows a filled, π-.it drinking vessel lid closed drinking vessel with inserted drinking straw, partially in side view and partially axially cut; FIG. 2 shows a top view of a drinking vessel lid to be placed on a drinking vessel according to FIG. 1;

Figure 3 shows the detail 3 of Figure 2 for one

Drinking-vessel lid of modified design-10 shape;

Figure 4 shows the detail 3 of Figure 2 for a third embodiment of the drinking vessel lid;

5 shows the one edge area of two drinking vessel lids stacked on top of one another and FIG. 6 shows the edge area 6 according to FIG. 1 of a further embodiment of the drinking vessel lid placed on a filled-I drinking vessel with another drinking vessel stacked thereon.

2o In the example in FIG. 1, a cup-shaped, filled drinking vessel IO is closed with a drinking vessel lid 11, into which a drinking straw 12 is inserted. The drinking vessel 10 is formed at its opening edge with a curved lip edge 13 which extends all around, over which a snap-in edge 14, which is formed on the circumference of the drinking vessel lid i-7-t 11, is inserted. Kittels this locking edge 14, in particular by means of which he. him shaped, inward locking lugs 15 cer drinking vessel lid 11 is securely held on the opening edge of the drinking vessel 10.

5 within its circumference or its locking edge 14, the drinking vessel lid has an annular stacking device 16 which serves to stack the drinking vessel lid 11, as shown in FIG. This ring-shaped stacking device 16 has a rounded stacking ring 17 and rounded edges 18. This design allows the bottom drinking vessel lid 11 of a stack to be pulled out of the stack laterally.

The actual cover wall 19 is arranged within the stacking device 16, which is essentially flat and, in the examples according to FIGS. 1 to 5, lies in the plane of the top of the latching edge 14.

In the example of FIG. 6, an annular rib 20, which projects up to the level of the upper edge of the locking ring 14, is formed in the lid 20 wall 19 of the stacking device 16, while the more central part of the lid wall 19 is designed as a central, trough-shaped depression 21 is. The lower edge region 22 of the drinking vessel 10 fits into this trough-shaped recess 21, so that drinking vessels 10 closed with drinking vessels 11 can be stacked on top of one another in the manner shown in FIG. 6 '.

ί l! in the middle part of the cover wall 19, as shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, an insertion opening 23 (shown in dashed lines) for a drinking straw 12 is formed. This insertion opening 23 is normally closed by one or more closing flaps 24.

In the example in FIG. 2, four closing flaps 24 are formed by a pair of incisions 25 intersecting in the middle of the insertion opening 23 10. In the example in FIG. 3, two closing flaps 24 are formed by incisions 26 which meet in a T-shape. Finally, FIG. 4 shows the possibility of providing the triangular insertion opening 23 with a single closing flap 24, which is formed by 15 two incisions 27 which meet in a V-shape in one corner of the insertion opening 23.

The incisions 25, 26 and 27 can completely penetrate the cover wall 19. However, it is also possible (although not shown) to form these incisions 25, 26, 27 as notches which only partially penetrate the cover wall 19 20. / 9 I, », <

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The insertion opening 23 with the closing flaps 24 or cuts 25, 26, 27 forming these two elements can also be provided in the example in FIG. 6, and was located there at the bottom of the trough-shaped recess 21.

5 In the embodiment according to FIGS. 1 to 5, filled drinking vessels 10 closed with a lid 11 can also be placed one above the other, but the stacking provided according to FIG. 6 offers filled and closed with a lid 11. Drinking vessels 10 have the advantage that lateral displacement 10 of the drinking vessels placed one above the other is prevented

Claims (7)

4 - ΙΟ -; Protect π s ρ rü che • 1.) Drinking vessel. The top of which is open to form a Trir.k opening and is surrounded by an opening edge to be attached to the lips, characterized by a drinking vessel lid that can be placed on the opening edge (13) (11) which in its cover wall (19) covering the open top of the actual drinking vessel (10) has an insertion opening (23) for a drinking straw (12) or the like. contains, on the circumferential edge of which at least one elastic closure flap (24) covering the insertion opening (23) is arranged. 2.) Drinking vessel according to claim 1, characterized in that the closing flap or closing flaps is or are formed by incisions (25, 26, 27) in the cover wall (19) in the interior of the insertion opening, preferably in the middle thereof. 3.) Drinking vessel according to claim 2, characterized in that the incisions (25, 26, 27) the lid wall (19) are only partially penetrating notches. 14.) Drinking vessel according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that four closure flaps (24) are formed by two Einschr.it/e (25) crossing in the middle of the insertion opening (23). / Λ * * - 11 - 5.) Drinking vessel according to claim 2 your 2, characterized in that a closing flap (24) is formed by two V-shaped incisions (27) meeting at one corner of the triangular Einsreckoffnur.g. 6.) Drinking vessel according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the actual drinking vessel (10) is flanged at its opening edge to an arched lip edge and the drinking vessel lid (11) is designed as a slip lid, which has a circumference over the lip edge ( 13) has a suitable locking edge (14). 7.) Drinking vessel according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the drinking vessel lid has an annular stacking device (16) within its circumferential edge (14) which is formed for separating the drinking vessel lid by pulling a drinking vessel lid to be removed from a stack laterally is. 8.) Drinking vessel according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the drinking vessel lid (11) in cer lid wall (19) has a central, trough-shaped recess (21) into which the drinking vessel with its lower edge (22) can be inserted appropriately is. jWurvD; , - 12 - K S * * f 'i 1 i; List of reference symbols j j i 10 drinking vessel J 1. Drinkware container 12 drinking straw 13 lip rim! 14 locking edge i j 15 locking lugs j 16 stacking device! - ί! "17 stacking ring j \!!; 18 rounded edges j i 19 cover wall 20 ring-shaped rib j '" i 21 trough-shaped depression j I 22 lower edge at 10 t! 2. insertion opening t t 24 closing flap j: 25 intersecting incisions / • 26 T-shaped incisions, 27 V-shaped incisions //