US 4,226,356 AGranted

Container and dispenser straw

OwnerJerome H. Lemelsoninventor

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Abstract

A liquid container such as a metal or plastic cannister or can having a drinking straw disposed therein which straw becomes available for drinking the liquid contents of the container when the container is opened. In one form, the container top wall is provided with a finger pulled tab secured to or extending from a removable portion of the top wall and, when pulled, the tab not only provides an opening in the top wall but exposes or pulls out of the container the upper portion of a drinking straw. In a preferred embodiment, the straw is a plastic or impregnated paper tube containing a pleated or bendable portion thereof and the upper portion of the straw is deformed either downwardly along the remaining body of the straw or conforms to that portion of the container top wall which is removed so that, upon removal of the removable portion, the upper portion of the straw will be pulled thereby through the opening so that it may be engaged by mouth and used. The lower portion of the straw may be secured or frictionally held against the side or bottom wall of the container to maintain it in place.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A container and dispenser for a liquid held by said container comprising:

a closed container having a circumscribing side wall, a bottom wall connected to said side wall and a top wall secured to the upper end of side wall and serving to seal liquid contents within said container,
a drinking straw disposed within said container and having an upper end portion connected to a lower portion by a bendable portion which may be bent without collapsing the wall of said straw,
tab means integral with said top wall and removable therefrom,
said tab means having at least one longitudinal formation retentively engaging a portion of the length of the upper end of said straw in a manner to permit said straw to be separated from said tab means by a manual pulling force applied between the end of said straw and said tab means,
said upper portion of said straw extending in said container at an angle to said lower portion by virtue of the bending of said bendable portion within said container,
means for opening said container by pulling said tab means to provide an opening in said top wall, which opening is in line with said straw, wherein said upper portion of said straw is pulled upwardly and passes through said opening and is accessible to the exterior of said container to permit a person holding said container to drink the contents of said container through said straw.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 05/830,064Filed 2 Sep 1977
Granted: 7 Oct 1980
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

B65D 77/283
Cards, coupons, or drinking straws: located initially inside the container, whereby the straw is revealed only upon opening the container, e.g.…
B65D 2517/0013
Action for opening container: pull-out tear panel, e.g. by means of a tear-tab
B65D 2517/0049
Provided with additional elements other than for closing the opening: straws, spouts, funnels, or other devices facilitating pouring or emptying
B65D 2517/0062
U-shaped: and provided with an additional U-shaped peripheral channel