Device for cooling potable liquids
OwnerJoseph I. Williams, IIIinventor
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Abstract
A device is disclosed herein which will cool potable liquids by running the material through capillary tubes which themselves are cooled by various cooling materials. As a result, by the time the liquid is sipped from the straw and through the wound capillary tubes it will have cooled to a point as if it had been refrigerated in its original container.
Claims6
A straw for cooling potable liquids passing through the straw comprising a hollow top portion, a hollow bottom portion, a wound up capillary portion interconnecting the top portion with the bottom portion, and a cooling chamber, said cooling chamber extending about the exterior of said wound up capillary portion, and wherein said cooling chamber contains a cooling medium, said cooling medium contacting the exterior of said capillary portion to thereby cool the liquid passing through the straw.
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