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US 5,673,789 AGranted
Drinking cup package
OwnerJoyce V. Degraff-Eugeneinventor
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Abstract
A drinking cup package intended to acclimate a water-drinker to drink local distasteful water by providing a complete unit for adding flavors to the local water. The package contains a cup, a cup cover, a combined straw and spoon, a cap for the straw, and an enlarged storage base which contains flavoring agents. The cup and/or an insulating cup jacket is decorated with tropical fruits to encourage the drinking of the flavored content.
Claims3
A drinking cup package comprising:
- a decorated cylindrical cup having internal threading at its open top and internal threading at its closed bottom;
- a cup cover having a centered bore and external threading at its bottom which cooperates with the internal threading of the cup at its open top to close the cup at its top;
- a straw-spoon which consists of a spoon portion which rests on the bottom of the cup and a straw portion which extends through the bore of the cup cover;
- said straw portion end covered by a friction fitting cap;
- said internal threading of said decorated cylindrical cup bottom cooperating with an internal threading of a storage base having a diameter larger than the diameter of said decorated cylindrical cup and having an upper sloping shoulder;
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- said storage base dimensioned and configured to contain packets of powdered and dissolvable flavoring, whereby a user can add distasteful water and said flavoring to the cup, stir with the straw-spoon to mix the flavoring, and drink the resulting flavorful mixed drink.
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