US1148149A - Drinking-cup. - Google Patents

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H. B. COOLEY.

DRINKING CUP.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 4, 19:4.

Patented July 27,1915.

WITNESSES! m ENT OFFICE HENRY B. COOLEY, or KnNsI eroN, coNNEc'rI'cUT, ASSIGN'OR TO T E AMERICAN PAPER GOODS coMPA Y, or MoNroLAra, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION on NEW JERSEY.

DRINKING-CUP.

I Specification of Letters Patent.

REISSUED Patented July 27,1915.

To all whom it may concern Be. it known that I, HENRY B. CooLEY," a citizen of the United States, residing at Kensington, in the county of Hartford,;'

State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved'Drinking-Cup,"of which the following is a specification. 7

My invention relates more especially to that class of drinking cups that are made from paper or other light material and that are intended for individual use, and an object of my invention,among others, is ,to provide a cup of this class with its lip thickened to provide sufficient rigidity to resist collapse under weightof the contents.

One form of cup embodying my invention, and in the construction and use of which the objects herein set out, as well as others, may be attained, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view in elevation of one side of a cup embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the opposite side of the cup. Fig. 3 is afview in lengthwise section on plane denoted by dotted line 3-3 of Fig. 1,

the cup being shown as partially opened to illustrate its form when in use for drinking purposes, the thickness of the material being exaggerated. Fig. 4 is a view in sectionon plane denoted by dotted line frf: of Fig. 1, the cup having the same form as in Fig. 3 and the thickness of the material being we aggerated.

My 'nvention' appertains to the class of sanitary drinking cups composed of paper or other thin material folded to provide a fiat structure, but the back and front walls of which are separated, especially at the top,v

when required for drinking purposes.

Heretofore the lips or drink edges of the cups have been composed of a single piece of thin material, as paper, with insufficient rigidity to resist collapse from the weight of the contents, with a result that such contents are liable to be spilled upon the personusing the cup, and this single thickness also presenting a sharp edge liable to cut the flesh. My improved cup is constructed to overcome these objections and the lip or drinking edge is sufficiently stiff to resist the weight of the contents and prevent collapse, such cup being illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which the numeral 5 indicates what I term the front flap of the cup, this being the flap, the upper or drinking Edge of: which is presented to the li i drinking, and the numeral 6 denotes the back flap. These two flaps are preferably formed of a single piece of material folded i 1 at the bottom edge 7 and the back flap is preferably cut away as at-"8 'toreinove such part as would be liable to make contact with the nose of the person using the cup.

' The back flap 6 is provided with longitudinal folded edges 9 adapted to be folded over the front flap .5 to secure the two flaps together and close the seam at the edges of said flaps.

The upper edge of the front flap is provided with a reinforcing or stiffening piece manner, in apreferred form and asshown herein this being overturned from the flap 5. In order to increase the rigidity of this stiffening piece 10, by preventing a creeping 0 10 that may be constructed 1n any desired movement crosswise of the cup, this stiifening piece at its ends is located underneath the folds 9 and securely fastened thereunder. In the preferredform of construction both sides of thestiifening piece are provided with an adhesive at the points overlaid by the folds 9, so that the stiffening piece at this point is secured firmly against the outer surface of the front flap 5 and the folds 9 are securely held, against the outer surface of the stiffening piece. Preferably the entire under surface of the latter is provided with an adhesive so that it is securely fastened against the outer surface of the flap 5. In order to provide the greatest rigidity at the point of greatest strain the lip 10 is gradually widened from its ends to the center, at which latterpoint the greatest pressure occurs.

v A cup constructed as :above described is found'to, possess all of the requirements for the use to which the cup isintended to be put, and the upper or-drinking edge is'sufliupper edge thereof and extending thereacross, and means overlapping each end of said stiffening piece to secure it in place.

2. A drinking cup including a front and back flap, lengthwise folds for securing said flaps to ether, and a stiffening piece secured to the .rinking edge of the cup and with its ends underlying said flaps and secured in place thereby.

3. A drinking cup composed of a front and a back flap, lengthwise folds for securing said flaps together, and a stiffening piece overturned on the outside of the drinking edge of said cup and extending underneath said folds and provided with an adhesive on its opposite sides to secure it to the flap and to secure the lengthwise folds thereto.

4. A drinking cup consisting of a front 1,1&8,149

and back flap, a stiffening piece secured to the upper edge of one of said flaps and 20 gradually increasing in width from its ends to its center, and folds at the edges of the cup engaging said stiffening piece to secure it in place.

5. A drinking cup including a front flap and a back flap, the latter being folded lengthwise at its edges onto the front face i of the front flap, and a stiffening piece folded over from the upper edge of the fronti flap and having its ends underlying and se- '30 cured by the folded edges of the back flap. if

HENRY B. COOLEY.

Witnesses:

.THOS. W. EMERSON, W. A. RICE.

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