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US 5,540,611 AGranted
Air actuated flexible beverage container cover
OwnerBrian Lapoint, Ross Bennettinventors
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Abstract
A hollow, flexible cover, molded in the shape of a full or partial sculpture, and designed to fit over the open end of a can, glass, cup, bottle, or carton type beverage container, and having an opening for a straw, to extend into the container to siphon liquid therefrom, such that the change in atmospheric pressure within the container, created by an intermittent siphoning of liquid, causes the cover to collapse and expand in a controlled manner and thereby exhibit animation or lifelike movement.
Claims2
A flexible beverage container cover comprising:
- a body having a base portion and a sculpture portion, said sculpture portion including a hollow flexible sculpture made of soft pliable material of a predetermined thickness, said sculpture resembling an animate creature;
- said base being provided with a means for tightly mounting to a beverage container;
- said sculpture portion being provided with a straw port so that a drinking straw may be tightly received by said port;
- said sculpture including prominent decorative features and having areas of reduced thickness in the pliable material adjacent said features;
- whereby a straw may be snugly received in said port and said cover may be snugly attached to a beverage container and whereby suction provided to the straw results in the formation of a vacuum sufficient to collapse said sculpture at said areas of reduced thickness, such collapsing providing amusing animation to the prominent features of the creature.
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