EP2862810A1 - Couvercle à boire - Google Patents

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EP2862810A1
EP2862810A1 EP13188752.3A EP13188752A EP2862810A1 EP 2862810 A1 EP2862810 A1 EP 2862810A1 EP 13188752 A EP13188752 A EP 13188752A EP 2862810 A1 EP2862810 A1 EP 2862810A1
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Michael Joseph Elias
Donna-marie SABGA
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Priority to PCT/EP2014/072161 priority patent/WO2015055740A1/fr
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  • the present invention relates to lids for drinking vessels and in particular drinking vessels which have a cup and a drink-through lid on the cup.
  • lids for disposable cups are often given out with beverage sales for example from shops, on airlines, in public arenas such as theatres, cinemas, stadiums etc.
  • the beverage is often tea or coffee.
  • the cup is designed as a take-away disposable cup, the lid for preventing spillage of the liquid whilst being carried.
  • drinking vessel Many types have existed. These include vessels designed for various purposes including those having spouts or nozzles on a lid and through which the liquid to be drank must be sucked. Such arrangements are typically used on baby cups in particular to avoid spillage.
  • Such arrangements often further require a user to squeeze the vessel in order for a consistent flow of liquid to be obtained from the vessel. It is further the case that small volumes of liquid, for example the last millilitres of a drink, become trapped in the vessel as the shape of the spout or nozzle is more suited to the passage of larger volumes of liquid.
  • lids typically with such lids, it is common for a user to spill a beverage while drinking. It is thus desirable to provide a lid which reduces the tendency of a user to spill a beverage while drinking. Furthermore, it is desirable to provide a consistent flow of a beverage through the lid while drinking, for large and small volumes of liquid.
  • Such lids are typically circular in shape and comprise a recess about their outer circumference in order that the lid can be fitted to the drinking vessel.
  • the upper rim of the drinking vessel is fit within the outer recess of the lid.
  • the lid, the vessel or in some cases both are resiliently deformable such that the lid is secured to the top of the vessel by being gripped between the surfaces of the outer recess.
  • the outer recess serves only to secure the lid to the vessel.
  • the present invention provides a drink though lid attachable to beverage cup by a drinking lip, such that a topside of the drinking lip extends about and abuts an outer surface of the cup and an underside of the drinking lip extends about and abuts an inner surface of the cup.
  • the lid is attachable to a beverage cup by the drinking lip of the lid.
  • This provides for a greatly simplified lid profile as a separate outer recess for securing the lid to a cup is no longer required. This leads to significant benefits in terms of ease of manufacture as well as cost of manufacture.
  • the lid may comprise an annular recess defined therein between outer and inner annular walls for engaging a rim of the cup, characterised in that the drinking lip is an upstanding arcuate lip formed by a raised portion of the outer wall and a raised portion of the inner wall which converge at a position above the rim, the outer wall arranged to engage the outside of the rim about an outer surface of the cup and the inner wall sealingly engages an inner surface of the cup.
  • the internal annular recess between the raised portion of the outer wall and the raised portion of the inner wall which converge to form the drinking lip does not fill with beverage as the annular recess of the drinking lip is sealed off about an inner surface of the cup.
  • a separate rim is required to form the seal to prevent liquid from leaking about a peripheral edge of the cup.
  • Such arrangements create a seal against the outside of a rim of the cup.
  • the present invention creates a seal against an inner wall of the cup typically at a position below the rim of the cup.
  • the rim for attachment to the cup also forms the drinking lip.
  • liquid was trapped by various parts on the underside of the lid including the annular recess formed for attachment to the cup rim, a bridging portion attaching a drinking lip to a wall defining the annular recess and the recess formed by the drinking lip itself. All such liquid traps have been eliminated by the construction of the present invention.
  • the underside of the lip may be flush with an inner surface of the beverage cup such that when a liquid is poured from the beverage cup over a topside of the drinking lip, the liquid is prevented from entering a region between the underside of the drinking lip and an inner surface of the beverage cup.
  • This provides the advantage of preventing pooling of liquid between a bottom surface of the drinking lip and an inner side wall of the cup.
  • Such a gap or reservoir leads to pooling of liquid in the cup whilst being tilted in a typical manner by a user drinking a beverage from the cup.
  • Such pooling leads to inconsistency of flow of a liquid from the cup when a cup is tilted by a user in order to drink through the lid.
  • the annular recess of the lid may have a portion of increased depth for sealably mating the topside of the drinking lip with the outer surface of the cup and the underside of the drinking lip with the inner surface of the cup.
  • the lid may comprise a drink through aperture through which a beverage can exit the lid along the drinking lip.
  • Positioning the aperture such that a beverage can exit the lid along the drinking lip is advantageous as it allows the user to see the liquid in the period from which it exits the aperture and flows along the drinking lip towards the users lips. This allows the user to see the volume of liquid which has exited the cup, thus preventing the user from imbibing too much liquid in a single drinking action. This further overcomes the need for a user to suck on an aperture in order for a beverage to exit a cup. It also provides a cooling effect for hot beverages as the beverage is exposed to the air before being imbibed by the user. It further provides a opportunity for the user to blow onto the beverage before being imbibed without the need to remove the lid from the cup.
  • the lid may further comprise a recessed area in the topside of the lid.
  • the recessed area may further comprise the drink through aperture.
  • Providing the drink through aperture in a recessed area is advantageous as it allows a user drinking from the cup to see the flow of liquid as it exits the aperature and flows along the drinking lip. This allows a user to visually judge the rate of flow and helps to prevent spillage. Furthermore, providing the aperture in a recessed area overcomes the needs to compress the cup or rely on suction in order to cause liquid to exit through the aperture.
  • An outer edge of the recessed area is pliably connected to the lid such that the recessed area is moveable between a holding position and a drinking position.
  • the recessed area In the holding position, the recessed area may be angled downward into a cup whereas in the drinking position, the recessed area is substantially parallel to a base of a cup to which it is fitted.
  • the recessed area in the holding position, provides the advantage of acting as a baffle to prevent the inadvertent spilling of liquids, for example if a cup is shaken.
  • the topside of the lid may be nestable within the underside of a further lid.
  • the top surface of the drinking lip may be nestable within the bottom surface of a drinking lip of a further lid.
  • the lid may be fitted to a beverage cup to form a beverage cup assembly of the present invention.
  • Figure 1A shows a drink through lid of the prior art
  • Figure 1B shows a detail of the lid of the present invention about the sealing region with the beverage cup wall
  • Figure 2A shows a drink through lid of the present invention on a beverage cup
  • Figure 2B shows a cross section of the drink through lid of the present invention on a beverage cup along the section B-B
  • Figure 3 shows a cross section of the drink through lid of the present invention on a beverage cup along the section C-C
  • Figure 4 shows a detail of the lid about the sealing region with the beverage cup rim
  • Figure 5 shows a detail of the lid about the sealing region with the beverage cup wall
  • Figure 6 shows a detail of a cross section of the lid about the sealing region with the beverage cup wall
  • Figure 7A shows a drink through lid of the present invention stacked atop a further drink through lid of the present invention
  • Figure 7B shows a cross section of drink through lid of the present invention stacked atop a further drink through lid of the present invention along the section A-A
  • Figure 1A shows a drink through lid of the prior art.
  • An additional rim B, separate from the drinking lip A is required to form a seal to prevent liquid from leaking about a peripheral edge of the cup.
  • Figure 1B shows a drink-through lid 1 for a beverage cup of the present invention about an area equivalent to the area circled in Figure 1A.
  • Figure 1B shows the lid 1 about the sealing region with the beverage cup wall. It can be seen from lid 1 that there is no outer rim equivalent to rim B in Figure 1A .
  • the cup rim 19 is situated between the walls of the drinking lip 10 in a manner providing a seal that will be further described below.
  • FIG 2 shows a drink-through lid 1 for a beverage cup of the present invention.
  • the lid 1 has a lid body 2.
  • the lid body 2 is a single piece of plastic or other suitable material which has been formed into the lid shape by a suitable forming process such as a thermoforming process.
  • a drink-through aperture 5 ( Figure 3 ) is defined in the lid body 2 through which a beverage can exit the lid 1 for drinking when the lid is on a beverage cup 30.
  • the lid comprises a level surface 3 on the non- drinking side of the lid, i.e. the side of the lid opposite to the side with the drink through aperture.
  • a breather hole is provided in the level surface.
  • a sloped surface 4 connects the level surface on the non-drinking side to the drink through aperture.
  • the drink-through aperture 5 comprises an area 6 on the lid in which there may be defined many apertures 7.
  • Each of the apertures 7 is large enough to allow a beverage to be drank through the lid whilst obstructing passage of a filtrate material (which is in the beverage and thus is removed from the beverage before the beverage is drank).
  • the filtrate material is typically solid insoluble matter and often times is material which has been subjected to infusion with hot water such as ground coffee or tea leaves.
  • Any suitable array of apertures may be employed and there is no requirement for the array or apertures to have any particular geometry.
  • the apertures need not all be of the same size or shape.
  • the lid 1 also has formed therein a drinking lip 10 ( Figure 5 ).
  • the drinking lip 10 is raised relative to the lid body and comprises opposing upstanding walls, namely a topside outer wall 11, an underside outer wall 12, a topside inner wall 13 and an underside inner wall 14.
  • the drinking lip 10 is formed where the topside inner wall 13 meets the topside outer wall 11.
  • the drinking lip 10 is integrally formed with the lid 1.
  • the drinking lip has a width of about 0.6 mm, for example it may have a width of 0.67mm.
  • the drinking lip 10 has a width of about 1 mm, for example it may have a width of 1.04 mm.
  • the underside outer wall 12 and the underside inner wall 14 of the lid are not visible when the lid is placed on a beverage cup 30.
  • a user places their lips on the lid so that their mouth is about the lip 10 and imbibes liquid through the aperture 5.
  • tilting the cup about a horizontal axis through the cup will allow a beverage to pass through the drink-through aperture, and along the topside inner wall 13 towards the lip 10 so that the user can see the beverage after it has exited the aperture 5 and before it reaches the lip 10.
  • Such an arrangement is very desirable because it dramatically reduces the tendency of a user to spill the beverage.
  • the user can see the beverage and in particular the beverage level, as it flows out of the lid 1, they are less likely to spill it.
  • the beverage aperture is formed in an area of the lid 1 that is at a lower position relative to an outer rim 9 and the drinking lip 10 of the lid. This increases the area available for forming the fluid bed for the liquid and thus makes liquid flow visually more prominent to a user.
  • the beverage aperture is about 35 mm below the drinking lip 10, for example, it may be 35.03 mm below the drinking lip.
  • the underside 15 of the lid i.e. the side of the lid which is not visible when placed atop a beverage cup comprises a recess 16 about the circumference of the lid.
  • the recess 16 is shallow in the portion furthest from the drinking lip and is of increased depth in the portion bounded by the underside inner wall 14 of the drinking lip 10 and the underside outer wall 12 of the drinking lip.
  • the circumferential recess 16 acts to push fit to the top of the cup.
  • the recess 16 is formed in the shallow portion by two inner surfaces 17, 18 of the lid and fits around a raised rim 19 on the top of the beverage cup 30 to form a fit providing side support.
  • An upper surface 20 provides vertical support.
  • the recess 16 is of increased depth and is formed between the underside inner wall 14 of the drinking lip 10 and the underside outer wall 12 of the drinking lip.
  • the underside inner wall 14 is dimensioned such that, when in place on a cup, the underside wall extends along the inner surface 21 of the beverage cup such that it mates with the surface 21 of the inner side wall of the beverage cup.
  • the separation of the underside wall 14 and the underside wal 12 which from the recess is thus important as the separation must be wide enough to allow the rim 19 of a beverage cup to fit into the recess 16 but not be so wide as to prevent a push fit with the beverage cup rim 19 from forming.
  • the wall 12 is separated from the wall 14 by an angle of 6 degrees.
  • a notch 22 in the underside outer wall 12 fits to the corresponding rim 19 on the top of the beverage cup. This provides horizontal support to the lid 1 to retain it in place on a beverage cup 30.
  • the underside inner wall 14 extends along the inner surface 21 of the beverage cup and mates with the surface. In this manner, a seal is formed such that there is no gap between the bottom surface of the aperture 23 and the inner surface 21 of the beverage cup. Furthermore, a seal is formed between the underside wall 14 of the lip 10 and the inner side wall surface 21 of the beverage cup. This seal extends for about half of the circumference of the lid. The seal is broken by a dip 24 in underside wall ( Figure 6 ), which causes a separation between the underside inner wall 14 of the rim and the inner wall surface 21 of the cup. Breaking the seal at this point, provides sufficient clearance between the underside inner wall 14 of the lid and the inner wall surface 21 of the cup for the push fit seal between the lid and cup to function.
  • Figure 7 A and B show a drink through lid 1 of the present invention stacked atop a further drink through lid 1 of the present invention.
  • the lids are capable of nesting within each other.
  • the topside surface 25 of the lower drinking lid occupies the recess on the underside surface 26 of the upper drinking lid.
  • the lids can be packed very closely together.
  • the distance between the top surface 27 of the upper lid and the bottom surface 28 of a lower lid in a nesting arrangement is 15.44 mm.
  • Such a nesting feature significantly reduces the storage space required for multiple lids. It further provides for substantially efficiency in the packing of multiple lids. Such efficiency of storage and packing is of particular importance for commercial vehicles, including aircraft, where storage space is extremely limited.
  • the aperture area 5 of the lid may be pivotable, for example, along an axis 29 (See Figure 3 ) where the edge of the aperture area 5 meets the sloped surface 4 of the drinking lid.
  • the edge of the aperture area is thus sufficiently pliable such that the aperture can be made to bend from one position to another.
  • the aperture area 5 when fitted to a cup, the aperture area 5 is thus capable of being in one position, being substantially horizontal and parallel with the base of the beverage cup to which it is fitted, and in another position being angled downwards into the cup itself. This arrangement has the effect of preventing liquid splashing out of the beverage cup if the cup is shaken.
  • the aperture area 5 acts as a baffle to prevent liquid escaping from the cup.
  • the aperture area 5 is pivotable such that when the cup is tilted by a user in order to drink from the lip 10 of the lid, the aperture 5 moves towards a level position or "drinking position" and allows liquid to flow through the aperture region in the manner described above.

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