Systems for use with drinking containers to provide flows of air to users

A system for use with a drinking container to provide a flow of air to a user, a temperature of the air being associated with a temperature of a thermal medium in the drinking container, the system comprising:

• a lid assembly having a lid base and an exterior housing, the lid base being configured to removably mount to an open end of the drinking container to close the open end, the lid base having a drinking aperture defining a drinking opening, the exterior housing defining an interior compartment and having an air outlet, which pneumatically communicates with the interior compartment
• a fan mounted within the interior compartment and
• a heat exchanger mounted to the lid assembly and extending downwardly from the lid assembly and toward a bottom of the drinking container such that the heat exchanger draws thermal energy from the thermal medium in the drinking container;
• wherein, in operation, air is directed via rotation of the fan into a heat exchange relationship with the heat exchanger and then outwardly through the air outlet as the flow of air;
• wherein the lid assembly is configured to permit flow of the thermal medium from within the drinking container and through the drinking opening for drinking by the user while the lid base is mounted to the open end of the drinking container and the fan is providing the flow of air;
• wherein the lid base has an upper surface defining a liquid reservoir, the drinking aperture being positioned within the liquid reservoir;
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• wherein the air outlet is positioned outside of the liquid reservoir.

A system for use with a drinking container to provide a flow of air to a user, a temperature of the air being associated with a temperature of a thermal medium in the drinking container, the system comprising:

• a lid assembly having a lid base and an exterior housing, the lid base being configured to removably mount to an open end of the drinking container to close the open end, the lid base having a drinking aperture defining a drinking opening, the exterior housing defining an interior compartment and having an air outlet, which pneumatically communicates with the interior compartment
• a fan mounted within the interior compartment and
• a heat exchanger mounted to the lid assembly and extending downwardly from the lid assembly and toward a bottom of the drinking container such that the heat exchanger draws thermal energy from the thermal medium in the drinking container;
• and
• a fan housing, mounted within the interior compartment, and within which the fan is mounted;
• wherein, in operation, air is directed via rotation of the fan into a heat exchange relationship with the heat exchanger and then outwardly through the air outlet as the flow of air;
• wherein the lid assembly is configured to permit flow of the thermal medium from within the drinking container and through the drinking opening for drinking by the user while the lid base is mounted to the open end of the drinking container and the fan is providing the flow of air;
• and
• an outside surface of the fan housing and an inside surface of the exterior housing define a heat exchange flow path configured to direct at least some of the air entering the air inlet downwardly and into the heat exchange relationship with the heat exchanger.

A system for use with a drinking container to provide a flow of air to a user, a temperature of the air being associated with a temperature of a thermal medium in the drinking container, the system comprising:

• a lid assembly having a lid base and an exterior housing, the lid base being configured to removably mount to an open end of the drinking container to close the open end, the lid base having a drinking aperture defining a drinking opening, the exterior housing defining an interior compartment and having an air outlet, which pneumatically communicates with the interior compartment
• a fan mounted within the interior compartment and
• a heat exchanger mounted to the lid assembly and extending downwardly from the lid assembly and toward a bottom of the drinking container such that the heat exchanger draws thermal energy from the thermal medium in the drinking container;
• wherein, in operation, air is directed via rotation of the fan into a heat exchange relationship with the heat exchanger and then outwardly through the air outlet as the flow of air;
• wherein the lid assembly is configured to permit flow of the thermal medium from within the drinking container and through the drinking opening for drinking by the user while the lid base is mounted to the open end of the drinking container and the fan is providing the flow of air;
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• wherein a centerline of the fan is offset with respect to a centerline of the lid base such that the centerline of the lid base is located between the drinking aperture and the centerline of the fan.