Lid, in particular for a disposable cup
AssigneeConopco, Inc.
InventorRobert Phillips
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Abstract
A lid for a cup which provides for use of a beverage bag unit comprising a beverage bag and a drawstring connected to the beverage bag, the lid comprising: a flange for attachment to a cup; and a body unit comprising a body section including an aperture through which the drawstring is slideable, and at least one wing member operable to allow a user to squeeze and/or hold the beverage bag when in a raised position.
Claims17
A lid for a cup which provides for use of a beverage bag unit comprising a beverage bag and a drawstring connected to the beverage bag, said beverage bag being held beneath the lid within the cup, the lid comprising:
- a flange for attachment to a cup;
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- a body unit comprising a body section including an aperture through which the drawstring is slideable, at least two wing members which are hinged to the body section and operable, with the lid fitted to the cup, by a finger and/or thumb of a user to allow the user to squeeze and/or hold the beverage bag when in a raised position, wherein at least one said wing member comprises an engagement element which can engage another such element when the wing member is in a hinged configuration such as to lock the wing member in a hinged configuration and thereby hold the beverage bag in a raised position, wherein the engagement elements of the wing members include counterpart engagement elements which engage one another when the wing members are in a hinged configuration such as to lock the wing members in the hinged configuration and thereby hold the beverage bag in the raised position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.