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US 8,616,405 B2Granted
Drink cup lid
AssigneeBerry Plastics Corporation
InventorsJordan French, Scott L. Fisher
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Abstract
A lid is configured to mate with a brim of a cup to form a liquid container. The lid is formed to include a liquid-discharge outlet so that consumers can drink liquid stored in the cup while the lid is mounted on the brim of the cup. The lid comprises a ring-shaped brim mount adapted to mate with the brim of a cup and a central closure surrounded by the ring-shaped brim mount, wherein the central closure includes channel means for conducting any overflow liquid leaking inadvertently out of a cup coupled to the drink cup lid through the liquid-discharge outlet into the raised-liquid collection region formed in the elevated basin downwardly along a first predetermined path on an exterior surface of the elevated basin into the ring-shaped low-elevation liquid-retention channel.
Claims30
A drink cup lid comprising
- a ring-shaped brim mount adapted to mate with the brim of a cup associated with the drink cup lid and
- a central closure surrounded by the ring-shaped brim mount, wherein the central closure includes an elevated basin arranged to extend upwardly above the ring-shaped brim mount and away from any cup mated to the ring-shaped brim mount and formed to include a spout with a liquid-discharge outlet, the central closure further includes a radially outwardly extending flange arranged to surround the elevated basin and interconnect an outer perimeter edge of the elevated basin and an inner perimeter edge of the ring-shaped brim mount to define a ring-shaped low-elevation liquid-retention channel above the radially outwardly extending flange and between the elevated basin and the surrounding ring-shaped brim mount, and the elevated basin is formed to include a raised liquid-collection region below the liquid-discharge outlet and above the ring-shaped low-elevation liquid-retention channel and to include a first side-discharge channel located between a raised upstanding ridge and the spout and interconnecting the raised liquid-collection region and the ring-shaped low-elevation liquid-retention channel to provide first channel means for conducting any overflow liquid leaking inadvertently out of a cup coupled to the drink cup lid through the liquid-discharge outlet into the raised-liquid collection region formed in the elevated basin downwardly along a first predetermined path on an exterior surface of the elevated basin into the ring-shaped low-elevation liquid-retention channel.
A drink cup lid comprising
- a ring-shaped brim mount adapted to mate with the brim of a cup associated with the drink cup lid and
- a central closure surrounded by the ring-shaped brim mount, wherein the central closure includes an elevated basin arranged to extend upwardly above the ring-shaped brim mount and away from any cup mated to the ring-shaped brim mount and formed to include a spout with a liquid-discharge outlet, the central closure further includes a radially outwardly extending flange arranged to surround the elevated basin and interconnect an outer perimeter edge of the elevated basin and an inner perimeter edge of the ring-shaped brim mount to define a ring-shaped low-elevation liquid-retention channel above the radially outwardly extending flange and between the elevated basin and the surrounding ring-shaped brim mount, and the elevated basin is formed to include a raised liquid-collection region below the liquid-discharge outlet and above the ring-shaped low-elevation liquid-retention channel and to include a first side-discharge channel located between a raised upstanding ridge and the spout and interconnecting the raised liquid-collection region and the ring-shaped low-elevation liquid-retention channel to provide first channel means for conducting any overflow liquid leaking inadvertently out of a cup coupled to the drink cup lid through the liquid-discharge outlet into the raised-liquid collection region formed in the elevated basin downwardly along a first predetermined path on an exterior surface of the elevated basin into the ring-shaped low-elevation liquid-retention channel
- wherein the radially outwardly extending flange of the central closure is annular and formed to include a series of liquid-retention cells aligned in a one-to-one correspondence with cell-inlet apertures formed in the radially outwardly extending flange and coupled to the radially outwardly extending flange to cooperate therewith to form an annular floor of the ring-shaped low-elevation liquid-retention channel.
A drink cup lid comprising
- a ring-shaped brim mount adapted to mate with the brim of a cup associated with the drink cup lid and
- a central closure surrounded by the ring-shaped brim mount and formed to include a drink spout having a liquid-discharge outlet and a radially outwardly extending flange arranged to mate with the ring-shaped brim mount to define a ring-shaped low-elevation liquid-retention channel, wherein the radially outwardly extending flange is formed to include a series of cell-inlet apertures arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to one another and extend about a vertical axis extending through the central closure, the central closure further includes a liquid-retention cell associated with each cell-inlet aperture and coupled to an underside of the radially outwardly extending flange and formed to include an interior region receiving liquid flowing in the ring-shaped low-elevation liquid-retention channel to trap liquid therein to minimize sloshing and splashing of liquid flowing in the ring-shaped low-elevation liquid-retention channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.