Bite-actuated mouthpieces and drink vessels including bite-actuated mouthpieces
AssigneeCamelBak Products, LLC
InventorsDerek Campbell, Eric Mar, Thomas R. Luhrs
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Abstract
Bite-actuated mouthpieces and drink vessels including bite-actuated mouthpieces are disclosed. Bite-actuated mouthpieces comprise a body comprising a dispensing wall, one or more sidewalls extending from the dispensing wall that with the dispensing wall define an internal volume, and an inlet to the internal volume. The self-sealing exit is biased toward a closed configuration and is configured to be selectively reconfigured from the closed configuration to an open configuration responsive to user-applied compressive forces to opposing bite regions. The dispensing wall has a dispensing face opposite the internal volume, and in some examples, the dispensing face is concave.
Claims18
A bite-actuated mouthpiece, comprising:
- a dispensing wall extending from one or more sidewalls and comprising a self-sealing exit, the self-sealing exit being selectively configured to transition between a closed configuration, in which the self-sealing exit is closed, and an open configuration, in which the self-sealing exit is open, wherein the one or more sidewalls form a barrel section, the one or more sidewalls being sloped such that a diameter of the barrel section narrows from an end of the mouthpiece opposite the dispensing wall to a second end of the mouthpiece including the dispensing wall;
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- an inlet to an internal volume formed by the one or more sidewalls and the dispensing wall;
- wherein the self-sealing exit is biased toward the closed configuration and is configured to transition from the closed configuration to the open configuration responsive to user-applied compressive forces to opposing bite regions disposed on the one or more sidewalls;
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- wherein an entirety of the dispensing wall from the one or more sidewalls to a center of the dispensing wall is sloped downwards toward the internal volume and has a thickness that continuously increases from a minimum thickness adjacent to the one or more sidewalls to a maximum thickness at the center of the dispensing wall.
A bite-actuated mouthpiece, comprising:
- a dispensing wall extending from one or more sidewalls and comprising a self-sealing exit, the self-sealing exit being selectively configured to transition between a closed configuration, in which the self-sealing exit is closed, and an open configuration, in which the self-sealing exit is open, in response to user-applied compressive forces to bite regions disposed on the one or more sidewalls;
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- an inlet to an internal volume formed by the one or more sidewalls and the dispensing wall;
- wherein the dispensing wall has a dispensing wall thickness that continuously increases from a minimum thickness adjacent to the one or more sidewalls to a maximum thickness at a center of the dispensing wall;
- wherein the one or more sidewalls form a barrel section, the one or more sidewalls being sloped such that a diameter of the barrel section narrows from a first end of the mouthpiece opposite the dispensing wall to a second end of the mouthpiece including the dispensing wall;
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- wherein a sidewall thickness of the one or more sidewalls increases away from the dispensing wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.