Removable Lid for Brewing Cup
OwnerLouis Dakisinventor
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Abstract
In an embodiment of the disclosed technology, a lid is used on a refillable and/or reusable brewing cup for brewing coffee or other (hot) drinks in a single or multi-cup brewing machine. Such a brewing cup allows one to add any coffee of one's choice, yet to use all the features of an automated single-cup brewing machine. The lid may be generally circular; having a circular top and circular bottom. The lid may have a central portal adapted for passage there-through of liquid. The lid may further have a partially-circumferential lip adapted to abut a corresponding partially-circumferential portion of a lip of the cup. The lid may be caused to slide over, and/or be removed from, the fillable portion of the cup.
Claims20
A lid for a brewing cup, comprising:
- a generally flat, circular body having a lip extending partially around an outer circumference at a first geometric arc thereof, such that said circular body is bare around a remaining geometric arc, said lip on a side of said body adapted to engage said brewing cup and to form a slot between a bottom of said lip and a corresponding bottom side of said body;
- a portal disposed through said body perpendicular to said outer circumference of said body;
- said brewing cup having a flange around a circular opening, said flange having a geometric arc corresponding to said remaining geometric arc of said lid;
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- wherein said flange of said brewing cup corresponds to said slot of said lid.
A combination cup and lid, said cup comprising an opening disposed for attachment of said lid;
- said cup further comprising a bifurcated lip wherein substantially half of said bifurcated lip is wider than substantially another half of said bifurcated lip;
- wherein said bifurcated lip inversely corresponds to bifurcated portions of a lip of said lid;
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- wherein said lid is attachable and retainable onto said cup, such that said lid covers said cup in a closed position when said lid moves perpendicularly to a plane of the opening of said cup, such that said bifurcated portions of said lip of said lid align and merge with said bifurcations in said lip of said cup.
A method of using a lid on a brewing cup, said lid having a bifurcated lip extending partially around a circumference thereof, and said brewing cup having a bifurcated lip of equal but inverse proportions to said bifurcated lip of said lid, comprising steps of:
- sliding said lid onto said brewing cup, wherein said sliding comprises moving said lid perpendicularly to the plane of an opening of said brewing cup;
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- aligning and merging said bifurcated lip of said lid with said bifurcated lip of said brewing cup, such that said bifurcated lips collectively form a single, continuous lip circumferentially disposed about said opening of said brewing cup.
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