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US 6,736,285 B2Granted
Collapsible drinking and storage receptacle
OwnerTheo A. Stewart-Standinventor
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Abstract
A collapsible container such as a drinking cup has a disk-shaped bottom and a disk-shaped cover which fit one within the other and engage by catches. A molded inner cup body has its base connected to the bottom and a mouth surrounded with a ring which seals to the cover and springs up from the bottom to erect the cup when the catches are released.
Claims14
A collapsible receptacle comprising:
- a generally flat bottom member;
- a memory-retentive intrinsically resilient molded one-piece cup-shaped body having a bottom connected to said bottom member, a collapsible wall extending upwardly from said bottom member to a mouth of the cup-shaped body in an erect state of said cup-shaped body;
- a rim surrounding said mouth and connected to said wall;
- a cover member fitting removably over said mouth and said rim;
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- a catch formed on said members for releasably locking said cover member to said bottom member in a collapsed state of said receptacle and enabling said wall to spring erect upon release of said catch.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.