Drinking element
AssigneeGolden Nugget, Inc.
InventorEtienne Blondeel
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Abstract
A drinking element with passage for cooperation with a beverage container, comprising: a coupling part for engaging an opening in the beverage container; an engaging part located at a distance from the coupling part, dimensioned so as to be enclosed by the lips of a user; and a passage opening provided through the coupling part and the engaging part for passing beverage from the beverage container through the drinking element to the user, wherein the coupling part is designed to be fastened in and/or over the opening of a beverage container while forming a liquid-tight sealing between the drinking element and the beverage container.
Claims32
A drinking element with passage for cooperation with a beverage container, comprising:
- a coupling part for engaging an opening in the beverage container;
- an engaging part located at a distance from the coupling part, dimensioned so as to be enclosed by the lips of a user, and
- a passage opening provided through the coupling part and the engaging part for passing beverage from the beverage container through the drinking element to the user, wherein
- the coupling part is designed to be fastened in and/or over the opening of a beverage container while forming a liquid-tight sealing between the drinking element and the beverage container.
A method for closing a beverage container, in particular a bottle provided with a neck defining an opening, wherein in or over the opening a drinking element is provided, which drinking element comprises a passage opening, and a cap is provided over said drinking element so that the drinking element is screened off from the environment of the bottle and is confined in or on the neck.
An apparatus for closing an opening of a beverage container, in particular an opening defined by the neck of a bottle, which apparatus comprises means for:
- retaining the beverage container;
- placing a drinking element in and/or over the opening of the beverage container;
- closing the beverage container by providing a cap over said opening and, at least partly, over said drinking element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.