JP2014133076A - Drinking cup having new handle - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drinking cup having a handle holding the cup with a necessary minimum force, has good appearance, and excellent in designability.SOLUTION: A ring-like handle part nearly parallel to an outer periphery of an upper part of a drinking cup 1 is provided with a handle holding the drinking cup on which a finger (for instance, index finger) is hung from up to down. A protective tube 2 is formed so as to prevent food and drink inside the drinking cup from contacting the finger, and prevent the food and drink from leaking to the outside. It is so formed that part of the outer periphery of the drinking cup that is brought into contact with the protective tube is cut off, and the finger can be put out therefrom. A region to be cut off is not all, but a region 3 on which the finger is hung is left on the upper side. The region is given with an inclination 4 on the lower part toward the inside so as to facilitate the region 3 to be hung on a groove on a palm boundary between the first joint and the second joint of the finger to be inserted from above.

Description

Conventionally, a handle has been attached to the cup for gripping the cup. However, this handle is convenient to hold, but it takes up a lot of space when stored, so it was difficult to clean up when the storage space was limited.

Also, when drinking liquid food and drink (hereinafter abbreviated as food and drink), a considerable amount of force is applied to the fingers, wrists, and arms that are attached to the handle to hold the entire cup horizontally. In order to drink food and drink, it is necessary to put a cup on the mouth and twist your wrist little by little. This action is difficult for people with reduced wrists and infants, and depending on the person, Kaya's power must be continued until a bite is over and placed on the table.

In addition, in order to eat and drink with a cup without a handle, it was necessary to have the ability to pinch and hold the cup with your hand as described above. Therefore, the present invention relates to a cup having a handle that holds a cup with the minimum necessary force and does not take a new place where it can be taken without rotating the wrist.

Conventionally, a cup puts food and drink inside, and regardless of the presence or absence of the handle, the cup is grasped and carried to the mouth, and the wrist is twisted inward to eat and drink.

Design registration No. 742603 Patent Publication No. 2004-216077

Even if there is no handle, you can't grab the cup directly if there is hot food. With a conventional cup, regardless of the presence or absence of the handle, the user holds the handle or holds the cup with his / her hand, carries the cup to the mouth, twists the wrist toward the front, and drinks food and drinks in the cup. However, in order to grab the cup handle and carry it to the mouth, it is necessary to support the weight of the cup and food by holding the handle with fingers from both sides at one point, and further depending on the weight of the cup and food with that one point as a fulcrum More force was needed to stop the rotation. Even if there is no handle, you can't grab the cup directly if there is hot food.

In Patent Document 1, unlike a conventional cup, when viewed from the upper side of the cup, the handle is arranged in the outer periphery of the circular cup, and the plate-like handle is inserted from both sides with fingers (for example, the thumb and the like). This is a structure that holds the cup with an index finger). This requires extra power because of the relationship between the fingers.

Patent Document 2 has a structure in which a finger is inserted into a handle from the lateral direction and the cup is held by the remaining fingers. However, when drinking hot food or drink, it is difficult to hold the cup.

Therefore, the conventional cups can be used by healthy persons and infants, although it is possible for healthy people to drink food and drink without much problem. Therefore, the present invention provides a cup having a handle that holds the cup with the minimum necessary force, has a good appearance, and is excellent in design.

Therefore, in order to solve the above problems, the inventor holds the cup by hooking a finger from the top to the bottom of a ring-shaped handle portion substantially parallel to the outer peripheral portion of the upper portion of the cup as shown in FIG. Suggest a new handle.

Conventional cups allow healthy people to drink food and drink without any problems, but there are problems for use by people and infants who have difficulty in gripping handles and cups. The present invention proposes a cup having a novel handle that allows anyone to hold a cup with the minimum necessary force and to drink without twisting the wrist.

The present invention is not simply as a cup to put food and drink, it is possible to hold a toothbrush by inserting a toothbrush from the top into the handle part of the cup, or by hooking the handle part on a hook attached to the wall, Can also be used as a container.

The perspective view explaining the use condition of this invention Perspective view with a protective tube to put a finger inside the cup Plan view of the present invention Front view of the present invention The perspective view which penetrated the protection tube of the present invention to the lower part of a cup

The inventor proposes a novel handle for holding a cup by hooking a finger (for example, an index finger) from above to a ring-shaped handle portion substantially parallel to the outer peripheral portion of the upper portion of the cup as shown in FIG.

In this structure, as shown in FIG. 2, the protective tube is made so that the food and drink inside the cup do not come into contact with the fingers and the food and drink do not leak outside. A part of the outer peripheral portion of the cup with which the protective tube is in contact is cut off, and from there, the finger can be put out.

The part to be cut out is not all, but it is necessary to leave the part 3 where the finger is hooked on the upper side. In addition, as shown in FIG. 2, the part 3 may be inclined inwardly like the part 4 at the bottom. This is because if the lower part is inclined and made thinner, it becomes easier to hook into the groove between the palm of the palm of the first joint and the second joint of the finger inserted from above. Hooking into this finger flesh groove makes it easier to hold the cup.

In order to actually hold the cup, as shown in FIG. 1, the index finger is inserted into the protective tube 2, hooked into the meat groove on the back side of the first joint of the finger, and lightly sandwiched between the thumb and the middle finger. The cup holding method of the present invention is obtained by twisting the wrist because the back of the hand is already parallel to the ground as compared with the conventional holding method (the back of the hand is perpendicular to the ground). You can eat and drink just by lifting the cup without eating or drinking the cup.

The material of the cup is polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyethylene terephthalate, melamine resin, etc., which are generally used for food in plastics, but is not limited thereto. The actual molding method can be created by a general molding method such as compression molding, injection molding, or thermoforming.

Other than plastics, ceramic cups may be used. To make ceramics, use clay to form a potter's wheel, add water and dispersant to the raw ceramic powder, pulverize and mix with a ball mill, cast into a plaster mold, and dry. Then, it is good to sinter at 900-1300 degreeC, applying a glaze. The glaze may be applied after baking at 600 ° C. to 800 ° C., dried and then sintered. You may make with metals, such as tin and copper. In the case of metal, a plastic cover may be attached to the handle. In the case where the handle part cannot be integrally formed with plastics, a handle part having the same composition that has been separately prepared may be thermocompression bonded after the cup part is formed. Similarly, in the case of ceramics, it is preferable that the handle is formed separately, bonded with water or a homogeneous clay, dried and then sintered.

The position of the handle should be above the upper half of the cup height. Preferably, it is further above the upper quarter of the cup. The width of the handle portion is preferably about 5 mm to 25 mm because it can be held comfortably and comfortably as long as it is slightly less than the distance between the first joint and the second joint when counted from the tip of the finger.

The shape of the handle is basically the same as the outer peripheral shape of the cup, but in order to be stored on the wall, it may be parallel to the wall, that is, linear. Further, as shown in FIG. 5, the protective tube may be extended to the lower part of the cup to have no bottom, or a bottom surface having the same shape as the lowermost outer peripheral part may be formed at the lowermost part. For example, when inserting a toothbrush or the like into the handle, it is convenient because the lower end of the toothbrush stops there.

The shape of the protective tube may be any shape as long as a finger can enter, such as a cylindrical shape, a quadrangular prism shape, or a triangular prism shape. However, in order to clean the cup cleanly, a structure in which the protective tube reaches the bottom is good. The size of the protective tube is good enough to allow one to three fingers, but basically one is sufficient. When four are inserted, it is not preferable to support the outside because only the thumb is used, and the capacity to put food and drink is reduced.

The thickness of the protective tube may be the same size as the cup, but it may be further thickened for heat insulation. A conventional handle may be further attached to the cup of the present invention. Anyone can have a cup with both handles. You may attach the plate-shaped board which has an edge to the bottom part of the cup of this invention. If you are a right-handed person at a party, put your finger on the left hand into the handle of the cup of the present invention from above and put food or chopsticks on the plate attached to the bottom. You can easily hold without having to worry about the cup falling, you can enjoy the conversation. The bottom plate may be a built-in structure that can be attached during use and removed when not in use. In addition, you may arrange | position the handle of this invention not only the inside of a cup but the outer peripheral part of a cup.

1 Cup 2 Protective tube 3 Finger hooking part 4 Inclined part 5 Right handed hand

Claims (4)

A cup with a horizontal handle, which is characterized by having a horizontal horizontal handle on the liquid level of the cup when placed on the desk, and a hole that is large enough to fit a finger into the handle. A cup with a handle according to claim 1, wherein a protective tube is arranged inside the cup, a part of the outer periphery of the cup in contact with the protective tube is cut off, and the remaining portion is used as a horizontal handle. Cup. The cup according to claim 2, wherein the handle has a length of 5 mm to 25 mm, and the position of the handle is above half of the height of the cup. . 3. The cup with a horizontal handle according to claim 2, wherein the protective tube reaches the bottom of the cup and has a hole to the bottom.

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