A two part container lid for accessing a beverage within a container including a brim mount part with a hatch opening in a top portion and a hatch cover part, sized and shaped to fit over said hatch opening, said brim mount part and said hatch cover part are separately constructed and joined by a detachable hinge, said two part container lid further comprising, in combination:
- wherein said detachable hinge allows said hatch cover part to be easily detached from, and reattached to, said brim mount part;
- an annular skirt circumferentially disposed at a lower portion of said brim mount part and aligned to reversibly attach to a rolled rim of said container;
- wherein said annular skirt further comprises a clamping curvature outwardly disposed radially therefrom an upper end of said annular skirt with an interior sealing curvature therein, said interior sealing curvature is radially directed in a reversible sealingly engaged clamped relationship to said rolled rim, thereby retaining said two part container lid attached to said container;
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- whereby a bottom flange is outwardly disposed at a downward angle from the bottom of said clamping curvature with an outside perimeter free edge disposed therefrom;
- a ring-shaped crown portion, integral to an upper end of said annular skirt, forms an elevated raised and planar region;
- wherein a first outside wall depends at an upward angle from the upper end of said clamping curvature to a planar top transition surface depending inwardly and terminating at the top of a second outside wall, said second outside wall disposed at a downward angle thus terminating on one side of a trough at a trough base;
- a first drinking access port is centrally die-cut through said planar top transition surface of said ring-shaped crown portion along a central line across said top portion of said brim mount part;
- a second drinking access port is centrally die cut through said planar top transition surface diametrically opposite said first drinking access port;
- a retaining rib is formed around the perimeter of said ring-shaped crown portion therein;
- whereby said retaining rib is constructed in the form of an archway with a first outside wall upwardly disposed from said trough base to an arch, thus forming the opposite side of said trough and wherein a second outside wall, equal in height to said first outside wall, is downwardly disposed on the opposite side of said arch terminating therein;
- whereby a segment of said retaining rib is symmetrically severed at two opposing positions and removed therefrom, thereby further defining said retaining rib as partially annular,
- wherein each severed position is closed with an end wall, thus forming a first gap between said closed end walls therein;
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- wherein a partially spherical protrusion is outwardly disposed therefrom a surface of said end wall, forming a male hinge part of said detachable hinge therein;
- an annular interior rim is disposed concentrically around the base of said second outside wall of said retaining rib;
- a ring-shaped wall is downwardly disposed from a perimeter edge of said annular interior rim thus forming an anti-splash/spill apron around the perimeter of said hatch opening, said ring-shaped wall necessarily extending into said container terminating at a free edge disposed below said rolled rim of said container thereby breaking a surface of said beverage disposed therein to an upper end of said container;
- wherein said anti-splash/spill apron delineates said hatch opening, comprising a first recessed lowered and planar region therein said top portion of said brim mount part, said brim mount part having more than one top portion, one of which delineates said hatch opening, of sufficient diameter thereby capable of providing unobstructed access to said beverage within said container when said hatch cover part is pivoted to a fully opened position;
- wherein said ring-shaped wall of said anti-splash/spill apron extending through said surface of said beverage thus partitions an upper portion of said beverage disposed at said upper end of said container, into an interior area within said hatch opening circumscribed by said ring-shaped wall and an exterior area between said ring-shaped wall and an inside wall surface of said container;
- a clamping rib, with a locking channel therein, is disposed around a perimeter edge of a top wall of said hatch cover part;
- wherein said clamping rib is constructed in the form of an archway with a first outside wall upwardly disposed from a free edge to an arch and a second outside wall, of equal height to said first outside wall, downwardly disposed on the opposite side of said arch terminating contiguous around said perimeter edge of a top wall of said hatch cover part therein;
- wherein a segment of said clamping rib is symmetrically severed at two opposing positions and removed therefrom, further defining said clamping rib as partially annular therein, and thus forming an open end on each severed position with a second gap between said open ends and wherein said second gap has a greater arc length than the arc length of said first gap formed between said end walls of said retaining rib;
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- wherein said top wall forms a second recessed lowered and planar region therein said hatch cover part and disposed in a coplanar relationship with said first recessed lowered and planar region of said hatch opening when said hatch cover part is pivoted to said fully closed position;
- a cylindrical housing, equal in length to said first gap between said end walls of said retaining rib of said brim mount part, is comprised of a rectangular base upwardly disposed from said top wall of said hatch cover part with a cylinder of equal length to said rectangular base, upwardly disposed from a top surface of said rectangular base and aligned along the length therein, said cylindrical housing positioned along a central line across said top wall of said hatch cover part positioned within said second gap with said rectangular base partially overlapping said perimeter edge of said top wall;
- wherein a partially spherical indentation is centrally recessed on a surface of a cylinder end wall at opposing ends of said cylinder thus forming a female hinge part of said detachable hinge;
- wherein said female hinge part is designed to snap fit over said male hinge part thus forming said detachable hinge and joining said hatch cover part to said top portion of said brim mount part;
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- wherein said female hinge part and said male hinge part are in intimate frictional contact after said snap fit to form said detachable hinge, thereby restricting said hatch cover part from swinging freely between said fully closed and said fully opened positions over said hatch opening;
- a gripping tab is joined at one end to said arch of said clamping rib and outwardly disposed therefrom, diametrically opposite said first drinking access port, forming a curvilinear perimeter edge extending beyond said first outside wall of said ring-shaped crown portion;
- wherein finger gripping and lifting of said gripping tab necessitates the pivoting of said hatch cover part between said fully closed and said fully opened positions and an intermediate opened position between said fully closed and said fully opened position of which there are a multitude of intermediate positions, of which one intermediate position is selected, thereby retaining said hatch cover part at said fully closed or said fully opened position or said selected intermediate position and wherein said fingers are released from said gripping tab, thus retaining said pivoted hatch cover part at said selected position in a hands free manner.