Portable drinking device
AssigneeChug Bud, LLC
InventorBenjamin Foley
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Abstract
A portable drinking device capable of fitting over a typical pressurized beverage can to direct the flow of fluid from the can into a user's mouth. The portable drinking device may be positioned over the open top of a can. The portable drinking device and can are then slightly tilted sideways. A piercing device, which is stored in a storage area formed in a funnel-like cap of the portable drinking device, is used to puncture a whole in the side of the can after the drinking device and can are tilted sideways. Either just before or immediately after the can is pierced, the entire assembly is positioned so that the portable drinking device directs a rapid stream of fluid from the punctured can through the tube of the portable drinking device into a user's mouth.
Claims16
A portable drinking device for use with a pressurized beverage can comprising:
- an elongated flexible tube having first and second open ends of about the same diameter;
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- a funnel-like cap having first and second open ends with the first end being smaller in diameter than the second end, the first end of the cap being configured to receive the second end of the tube so that the cap and tube can be affixed together, the second end of the cap being configured to removably receive a pressurized beverage can;
- a piercing element;
- a piercing element storage area comprising a receiving slot formed in the cap and configured to removably receive at least a portion of the piercing element for storage, the receiving slot including a protruding member therein for retaining the piercing element.
A portable drinking device for use with a pressurized beverage can comprising:
- an elongated flexible tube having first and second open ends of about the same diameter;
- and
- a funnel-like cap having first and second open ends with the first end being smaller in diameter than the second end, the first end of the cap being configured to receive the second end of the tube so that the cap and tube can be affixed together, the second end of the cap being configured to removably receive a pressurized beverage can;
- a piercing element;
- a piercing element storage area comprising a receiving slot formed in the cap and configured to removably receive at least a portion of the piercing element for storage, the receiving slot having a first open end and a second closed end opposite the first open end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.