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US 2010/0301048 A1Published application
Lid for Beverage Container
OwnerShintaro Tokunagainventor
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Abstract
A lid for a beverage container includes a top wall. The top wall has a drink opening with a communicating hole and an aroma opening disposed near the drink opening. The aroma opening has a vertical aroma hole that is a through hole extending along a vertical plane essentially perpendicular to a horizontal plane of the top wall. The vertical aroma hole emits aroma of the beverage in the container to an outside, while preventing the beverage from splattering to the outside.
Claims4
A lid for a beverage container comprising:
- an outer peripheral portion attachable to an upper edge of a container;
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- a main portion provided at an inside of the outer peripheral portion;
- wherein the main portion includes a drink opening and an aroma opening disposed near the drink opening, the drink opening has a communicating hole as a through hole, and an aroma opening communicates an inside space of the main portion with an outside space;
- wherein the aroma opening has at least one of
- a vertical aroma hole formed by a through hole extending along a first plane substantially perpendicular to a horizontal plane of the main portion, and
- a combination of a first non-vertical aroma hole and a second non-vertical aroma hole, the first non-vertical aroma hole being formed by a through hole extending along a second plane other than the first plane, the second non-vertical aroma hole being disposed at a position upper than the first non-vertical aroma hole and completely shifted in a horizontal direction from the first non-vertical aroma hole, and the second non-vertical hole extending along a third plane other than the first plane.
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