Beverage and snack holder
OwnerLuba Matusovsky, Edward Lopoyaninventors
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Abstract
A snack food container (12, FIG. 2) is described, which can be coupled to an ordinary beverage container (14) such as a standard soda can, to enable both containers to be held with one hand when drinking the beverage, without spilling the solid snack food pieces. The snack container has a vertically-extending passage (22) which opens in an upward direction and which closely receives the beverage container, preferably in a resilient interference fit. The snack container has a chamber (24) that holds pieces of snack food, and has a door (32) that can be opened to remove snack food when the combination of containers is vertical and which can be closed to prevent spillage when the combination is raised and tipped for drinking the beverage.
Claims11
Apparatus that enables the drinking of a beverage from a beverage container of predetermined size, and the holding of a solid snack, using one hand, comprising:
- a snack food container having a vertical axis and having a vertically extending passage which opens in an upward direction and which is of a size to closely receive said beverage container so said food and beverage containers can be handled as a unit, said snack container having walls forming a closed food-holding chamber for holding the solid snack, with said snack container walls including a door that can be opened and then closed, to enable a person to open the door to remove the solid snack and then close the door to prevent spillage of the solid snack when tipping the unit formed by said containers to drink the beverage.
A dual container combination comprising:
- a beverage container having a vertical axis and having predetermined outside horizontal dimensions perpendicular to said axis, said container containing a liquid, said container having a readily openable top through which said liquid can be drunk;
- a snack container which has passage walls forming a vertical passage, said beverage container lying in said passage with said snack container having a passage axis substantially coincident with said beverage container axis, and said passage walls having gripping parts spaced apart by slightly less than at least one of said beverage container horizontal dimensions to grip and hold said beverage container against vertical sliding along said passage;
- said snack container forming a chamber which holds solid food and said container having an opening for access to said solid food and a door which can close said opening.
A method for holding both a beverage container containing a beverage and a snack container containing solid food, and enabling convenient drinking of the beverage without spilling the solid food, comprising:
- constructing a snack container with a vertical passage which closely receives the beverage container, and with an openable and closeable snack chamber and filling said chamber with a plurality of pieces of snack food, and inserting said beverage container into said passage;
- opening said snack chamber and withdrawing at least one of said pieces therefrom, and closing said snack chamber so the pieces therein will not fall out when the snack container is tipped;
- lifting and tilting the combination of said snack container and said beverage container lying in said passage, and drinking said beverage from said beverage container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.