A developmental drinking cup and training straw and method for developmental drinking stages is presented. A first stage presents an open-topped tiny cup, having a small volume, whereby a toddler's eye-hand and hand-to-mouth coordination is promoted while encouraging head-forward drinking which lessens choking and reinforces a strong swallow reflex. Once mastery of the initial stage is attained, an open-topped mini cup is presented, having twice the capacity of the tiny cup, to reinforce the developmental drinking promoted in the initial stage. A third and fourth stage present the mini cup in use with a training straw which inverts to present a second end after use with the first end has been mastered. Eye-hand and hand-to-mouth coordination and head-forward drinking is developed while generating confidence with independent drinking without sippy cups or spouted vessels which are known to impact speech development.

A method for a person to discharge a consumable liquid including the steps of: obtaining a container having a body bounding a volume and an opening in communication with the volume; placing a quantity of the consumable liquid in the volume; and grasping the container and positioning the container so that the consumable liquid within the volume flows through at least a portion of the opening and into the person's mouth. The container has a blocking structure that is configured to allow the consumable liquid to flow to and through the portion of the opening while blocking movement of material, of a predetermined size suspended in the quantity of consumable liquid, into the at least portion of the opening.

A dual-chamber beverage container for reducing a temperature of a hot beverage to a safe and comfortable drinking temperature. The dual-chamber beverage container includes an insulated bottom chamber for maintaining a temperature of a hot liquid, a cooling chamber for receiving and cooling the hot liquid to a comfortable drinking temperature, and a housing. The housing contains a motorized pump operably connected to a power source also contained within the housing. A transport tube extends from the bottom chamber, through a channel within the housing and terminates within the cooling chamber. A switch is disposed on an exterior side of the beverage container and operably connected to the motorized pump such that activation of the switch causes the motorized pump to pump air into the bottom chamber, displacing the liquid and forcing the liquid from the bottom chamber into the cooling chamber through the transport tube.

A double-walled containers and methods of making the same for decorative purposes is provided. The double-walled container may be formed from two proportional containers nested together. The outer container has a slight larger bottom surface through the angle of the sidewall relative to each container's bottom surface is substantially similar. An insertion hole is preformed into the bottom surface of the outer container prior to nesting and rigidly connecting the two containers.

An anti-splash sip-through lid for a beverage container, such as, for example, but not limited thereto, a disposable lid for a disposable drinking cup, or a re-usable lid for a re-usable drinking cup, for hot and/or cold drinks, e.g. coffee, tea, soda, beer, etc. In examples, the lid includes an outer side, an inner side and a rim; a drinking aperture (7) formed in the lid; and a flow deflector arrangement (9) adjacent to the drinking aperture, wherein the lid or parts thereof are formed from sheet material. In other examples, the lid includes an outer side, an inner side and a rim; a drinking aperture formed in the lid; and a flow deflector arrangement adjacent to the drinking aperture, wherein the lid comprises a first flap (27) formed in the lid and initially blocking the drinking aperture.

The invention relates to a vessel which accommodates a metal element in its base, wherein the vessel comprises a lower recess in the base which accommodates the metal element, wherein the metal element is bonded to the base by means of a transparent adhesive at the bottom of the recess and is embedded by a transparent plastic which fills up a remaining area of the recess. The invention further relates to a method for producing a vessel.

A package assembly enables a user to adjust package assembly volume and includes a first (static or dynamic) package body and a second dynamic package body. The first package body has an upper body rim. Each dynamic package body provides a dynamic lid volume and has a rim-receiving groove, a lid wall, and at least one resilient portion. The rim-receiving groove is removably attachable to the upper body rim for defining a dynamic package assembly volume with the package body when in a closed configuration with the first package body. The resilient portion extends intermediate the lid wall and the rim-receiving groove and is resiliently actuable intermediate (a) a relaxed configuration for defining a maximum package assembly volume when in the closed configuration and (b) an actuated configuration defining a minimum package assembly volume in the closed configuration.

A collapsible cup has a tubular body having an upper end and a lower end, centered on an axis, and formed with a plurality of helicoidal ridge formations spaced angularly around the tubular body and each extending between the ends of the body. A floor of greater rigidity than the body closes the lower end of the body. A ring reinforces the upper end of the body. The body and ridges are formed of an elastically deformable synthetic resin such opposite angular twisting of the upper and lower ends axially compresses together the upper and lower ends and moves upper end down close to the lower end.

A collapsible cup has a tubular body having an upper end and a lower end, centered on an axis, and formed with a plurality of helicoidal ridge formations spaced angularly around the tubular body and each extending between the ends of the body. A floor of greater rigidity than the body closes the lower end of the body. A ring reinforces the upper end of the body. The body and ridges are formed of an elastically deformable synthetic resin such opposite angular twisting of the upper and lower ends axially compresses together the upper and lower ends and moves upper end down close to the lower end.

A beverage container lid can include an audio speaker; a wireless transceiver to transmit and receive wireless signals; and a hardware processor to process wireless signals received by the wireless transceiver and to output audible signals through the audio speaker. The beverage container lid can also include a water-tight housing, the wireless transceiver and hardware processor contained within the water-tight housing; a drinking aperture; and a fluid channel, the fluid channel to allow fluid to pass through the drinking aperture, and the water-tight housing to prevent fluid passing through the fluid channel from contacting the wireless transceiver and hardware processor.