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US 5,513,762 AGranted
Drinking container with retractable drinking straw
AssigneeDouble J Company
InventorSaeid Janani
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Abstract
A drinking container such as a water bottle with a pair of telescoping straws, one of which is attached to a lid for the container and the other of which is threaded on a nut mounted on the lid for longitudinally sliding the second straw in the first straw when the nut is rotated and blocking an airway when the second straw is retracted.
Claims7
A drinking container comprising:
- a vessel with an open upper end and a closed lower end, a lid with a rim and top and bottom sides, a nut with a head and a shank and first and second telescoping straws;
- said lid lockably engaged at the rim to said vessel upper end for sealing liquid within said vessel;
- said lid having an orifice within which the shank of the nut is journaled with the head of the nut mounted on the top side of the lid;
- said nut having a hole with threads passing through the shank and the head;
- said first straw being attached to the bottom side of the lid in alignment with the orifice;
- said second straw being smaller in diameter than the first straw and having exterior threads engaged with the threads in the hole of the nut;
- whereby rotating the nut on the lid causes the second straw to slide longitudinally in the first straw.
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A drinking container comprising:
- a vessel with a closed lower end and an open upper end, a lid with a rim and top and bottom sides, a nut with a head and a shank and first and second telescoping straws;
- said lid lockably engaged at the rim to said vessel upper end for sealing liquid within said vessel;
- said lid having an orifice to which is attached a collar with a groove,
- said shank of the nut having an exterior ridge received in the groove of the collar and said head having top and bottom sides;
- said nut journaled in the orifice with the head of the nut mounted on the top side of the lid;
- said nut having a hole with threads passing through the shank and the head;
- said first straw having a longitudinal axis and being attached to the collar in alignment with the orifice, said first straw reaching substantially to the closed lower end of the vessel and having at least one interior longitudinal groove running substantially the length of the straw;
- said second straw having a longitudinal axis and being smaller in diameter than the first straw and having exterior threads engaged with the threads in the hole of the nut and at least one lug received in the longitudinal groove of the first straw so that the second straw does not rotate with the nut;
- whereby rotating the nut on the lid causes the second straw to slide longitudinally in the first straw.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.