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US 4,733,785 AGranted
Buoyant advertising straw for beverage bottles
OwnerDan B. Turner, Jr., Richard Doucet, Jr.inventors
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OwnerDan B. Turner, Jr., Richard Doucet, Jr.inventors
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The present disclosure is directed to a beverage container having a tapered neck portion smaller than a buoyant chamber on the container advertising straw having a flexible straw the overall length of which fits from the inside of the container bottom to the inside of the container cap when the cap is seated on the container top. A mini-buoyant chamber in the geometric form of the container in which it is to be placed is on the exterior of the straw. The mini-chamber has an external diameter such as to catch against the inner neck of the beverage container to prohibit accidental separation of the straw from the bottle, but which permits removal of the straw and mini-container from the beverage container by a firm pull, which due to the constriction of the neck, will compress the mini-container from the bottle. An advertising message is on the exterior of the mini-container containing the logo of the bottler which will remain with the straw and mini-buoyant after its disassociation from the bottle.
In combination a consumer beverage container having a cap and a constricted circular cross-sectional opening portion, a consumer beverage drinking straw having a geometrically compressible hollow buoyant miniature of the beverage container external shape in a vertical plane and having a horizontal elliptical cross-section secured about the entire exterior of the straw and being compressible by and for passage through the container constricted opening and which once inside the container expands to a size as to not accidentally pass freely through the container opening without applying and axial pulling force on the straw which due to the constriction of the container opening will compress the hollow buoyant miniature container permitting withdrawl of the straw and mini container from the beverage container, and an advertising message on the exterior of the mini container defining the geometric form and portion of the logo of the beverage processor of the container in which the hollow mini container and straw was supplied to a consumer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.