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US 2012/0236679 A1Published application
Hygienically covered drink stirrer assembly
OwnerAlberto Oliveirainventor
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Abstract
An assembly of hygienically-covered drink stirrers, including a container with stirrers disposed within the container and hollow sleeves removably receivable over the top portion of the stirrers. The bottom end of each of the stirrers is uncovered and the stirrers are arranged in the container with said stirrers and sleeves accessible via an openable top end of the container. One of the stirrers, having the sleeves received thereon, can be selected from the container and placed into a beverage and removal of the sleeve makes accessible a hygienically constituted stirrer end.
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An assembly of hygienically-covered drink stirrers, comprising:
- a container having an openable top end;
- a plurality of stirrers disposed within said container, each of said stirrers having a predetermined length terminating at opposite first and second ends, wherein at least a portion of each of said stirrers is uncovered;
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- a plurality of hollow sleeves each having at least one open end which are removably receivable over said first ends of said stirrers, said sleeves having a length which is less than said length of said stirrers, and each of said stirrers has a sleeve removably received over said first end thereof and said second end of each of said stirrers is uncovered;
- wherein said plurality of stirrers are arranged in said container so that said sleeves are received over said first ends thereof, said second ends of said stirrers are disposed within said container, and said first ends of said stirrers with said sleeves received thereon are accessible via said open top end of said container, whereby one of said plurality of stirrers having said sleeves received thereon can be selected from said container by grasping at least one of said sleeves received over said first ends of said stirrers and said uncovered second end of said stirrer can be placed into a beverage, while holding said sleeve received over said first end of said stirrer, and whereby removal of said sleeve in covering relation on said first end makes accessible a hygienically constituted stirrer end.
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A plurality of hygienically-covered drink stirrers, comprising:
- a plurality of stirrers, each of said stirrers having a predetermined length terminating at opposite first and second ends, wherein at least a portion of each of said stirrers is uncovered;
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- a plurality of hollow sleeves each having at least one open end which are removably receivable over said first ends of said stirrers, said sleeves having a length which is less than said length of said stirrers, and each of said stirrers has a sleeve removably received over said first end thereof and said second end of each of said stirrers is uncovered;
- wherein said plurality of sleeves are received over said first ends of said plurality of stirrers, whereby one of said plurality of stirrers having said sleeves received thereon can be selected by grasping at least one of said sleeves received over said first ends of said stirrers and said uncovered second end of said stirrer can be placed into a beverage, while holding said sleeve received over said first end of said stirrer, and whereby removal of said sleeve in covering relation on said first end makes accessible a hygienically constituted stirrer end.
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A hygienically-covered drink stirrer, comprising:
- a stirrer having a predetermined length terminating at an opposite first and second end, wherein at least a portion of said stirrer is uncovered;
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- a hollow sleeve having at least one open end which is removably receivable over said first end of said stirrer, said sleeve having a length which is less than said length of said stirrer, and said stirrer has a sleeve removably received over said first end thereof and said second end of said stirrer is uncovered;
- wherein said sleeve is received over said first end of said stirrer, whereby said stirrer having said sleeve received thereon can be selected by grasping said sleeve received over said first end thereof and said uncovered second end of said stirrer can be placed into a beverage, while holding said sleeve received over said first end of said stirrer, and whereby removal of said sleeve in covering relation on said first end makes accessible a hygienically constituted stirrer end.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.