Beverage container with illuminable arrangement
11712123 · 2023-08-01
Inventors
Cpc classification
A45F5/00
HUMAN NECESSITIES
A47G21/182
HUMAN NECESSITIES
F21V23/04
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
A47G19/2266
HUMAN NECESSITIES
A47G19/2272
HUMAN NECESSITIES
F21Y2115/10
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
International classification
A47G19/22
HUMAN NECESSITIES
A45F5/00
HUMAN NECESSITIES
F21V23/04
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
Abstract
A beverage container includes a container bottle and an elevated container lid. The elevated container lid includes a lid member detachably and coaxially connected to a top end of the container bottle to cover a top opening of the container bottle, and a hollow elevated drinking spout member having a base portion coaxially mounted on the lid member, a mouthpiece portion integrally and coaxially extended from the base portion, and a drinking opening coaxially formed at a top end of the mouthpiece portion, wherein the mouthpiece portion of the elevated drinking spout member has a nipple shape and the drinking opening has a size equal to or slightly larger than a diameter of a straw to be inserted therethrough into the interior cavity until reaching the bottom wall of the container bottle.
Claims
1. A beverage container, comprising: a container bottle having a surrounding wall, a bottom wall, a top end, and a top opening coaxially formed at said top end, wherein an interior cavity is defined between said bottom wall and said top end, wherein a central portion of said bottom wall is inwardly protruded to form a straw resting platform which is elevated from an inner side of said bottom wall into said interior cavity for a predetermined height and has a ceiling wall, wherein, correspondingly, an outer side of said bottom wall is recessed to form an accommodating slot and said ceiling wall functions as a projecting lens of said accommodating slot; and an elevated container lid, which includes a lid member, having a spout opening, detachably and coaxially connected to said top end of said container bottle to cover said top opening of said container bottle, and a hollow elevated drinking spout member having a base portion coaxially mounted on said lid member, a mouthpiece portion integrally and coaxially extended from said base portion, and a drinking opening coaxially formed at a top end of said mouthpiece portion and communicating with said spout opening of said lid member and said top opening and said interior cavity of said container body, wherein said mouthpiece portion of said elevated drinking spout member has a nipple shape and said drinking opening has a size equal to or slightly larger than a diameter of a straw to be inserted therethrough into said interior cavity until reaching said bottom wall of said container bottle.
2. The beverage container, as recited in claim 1, further including an illuminable arrangement which includes a mounting site and an illuminating device, wherein said mounting site is formed by said accommodating slot of said container bottle and said illuminating device is accommodated in said accommodating slot to generate lights projecting into said interior cavity of said container bottle through said projecting lens.
3. The beverage container, as recited in claim 2, wherein said container bottle is made of translucent material and said surrounding wall of said container bottle has a wave cross sectional shape so as to function as a light refraction surface.
4. The beverage container, as recited in claim 2, wherein said illuminating device includes a retainer and an LED (Lighting Emitting Diode) lighting unit, wherein said retainer is sized and configured to be fittingly accommodated in said accommodating slot and has a receiving chamber configured to receive said LED lighting unit therein, wherein said LED lighting unit includes a circuit board, one or more LEDs electrically connected on said circuit board for generating and projecting lights into said interior cavity through said projecting lens and a switch arranged for switching on-and-off and controlling illumination patterns of said one or more LEDs.
5. The beverage container, as recited in claim 3, wherein said illuminating device includes a retainer and an LED (Lighting Emitting Diode) lighting unit, wherein said retainer is sized and configured to be fittingly accommodated in said accommodating slot and has a receiving chamber configured to receive said LED lighting unit therein, wherein said LED lighting unit includes a circuit board, one or more LEDs electrically connected on said circuit board for generating and projecting lights into said interior cavity through said projecting lens and a switch arranged for switching on-and-off and controlling illumination patterns of said one or more LEDs.
6. The beverage container, as recited in claim 2, wherein said mounting site further has an enlarged retaining recess formed below said accommodating slot and said retainer further has a retaining rim outwardly extended for mounting at said retaining recess so as to detachably retain said LED lighting unit within said accommodating slot.
7. The beverage container, as recited in claim 3, wherein said mounting site further has an enlarged retaining recess formed below said accommodating slot and said retainer further has a retaining rim outwardly extended for mounting at said retaining recess so as to detachably retain said LED lighting unit within said accommodating slot.
8. The beverage container, as recited in claim 4, wherein said mounting site further has an enlarged retaining recess formed below said accommodating slot and said retainer further has a retaining rim outwardly extended for mounting at said retaining recess so as to detachably retain said LED lighting unit within said accommodating slot.
9. The beverage container, as recited in claim 1, further comprising an elongated element configured to fasten to said container body for hanging said beverage container to a body of the user.
10. The beverage container, as recited in claim 2, further comprising an elongated element configured to fasten to said container body for hanging said beverage container to a body of the user.
11. The beverage container, as recited in claim 4, further comprising an elongated element configured to fasten to said container body for hanging said beverage container to a body of the user.
12. The beverage container, as recited in claim 9, wherein said container bottle further comprises two hangers provided at two opposing sides thereof and said elongated element is attached to said container bottle by connecting two end portions thereof to said two hangers.
13. The beverage container, as recited in claim 10, wherein said container bottle further comprises two hangers provided at two opposing sides thereof and said elongated element is attached to said container bottle by connecting two end portions thereof to said two hangers.
14. The beverage container, as recited in claim 11, wherein said container bottle further comprises two hangers provided at two opposing sides thereof and said elongated element is attached to said container bottle by connecting two end portions thereof to said two hangers.
15. A beverage container, comprising: a container bottle having a surrounding wall, a bottom wall, a top end, and a top opening coaxially formed at said top end, wherein an interior cavity is defined between said bottom wall and said top end, wherein a central portion of said bottom wall is inwardly protruded to form a straw resting platform which is elevated from an inner side of said bottom wall into said interior cavity for a predetermined height and has a ceiling wall having a convex curved surface, wherein an outer side of said bottom wall is correspondingly recessed to form an accommodating slot and said ceiling wall functions as a projecting lens of said accommodating slot; and an elevated container lid, which includes a lid member, having a spout opening, detachably and coaxially connected to said top end of said container bottle to cover said top opening of said container bottle, and a hollow elevated drinking spout member having a base portion coaxially mounted on said lid member, a mouthpiece portion integrally and coaxially extended from said base portion, and a drinking opening coaxially formed at a top end of said mouthpiece portion and communicating with said spout opening of said lid member and said top opening and said interior cavity of said container body, wherein said mouthpiece portion of said elevated drinking spout member has a nipple shape and said drinking opening has a size equal to or slightly larger than a diameter of a straw to be inserted therethrough into said interior cavity until reaching said bottom wall of said container bottle, wherein said base portion of said elevated drinking spout member gradually reduces a diameter thereof to form a circular base wall having a predetermined curvature and said mouthpiece portion has a tubular wall upwardly extended from said base wall of said base portion to define a guiding chamber therein, wherein said drinking opening is coaxially formed at said top end of said mouthpiece portion, such that said mouthpiece portion is capable of being selectively contained in a mouth of a user to drink through said drinking opening directly or drink through the straw coaxially inserting through said drinking opening while the straw is retained in an upright position by said mouthpiece portion and vertically and downwardly extended to said bottom wall of said container bottle.
16. The beverage container, as recited in claim 15, further including an illuminable arrangement which includes a mounting site and an illuminating device, wherein said mounting site is formed by said accommodating slot of said container bottle and said illuminating device is accommodated in said accommodating slot to generate lights projecting into said interior cavity of said container bottle through said projecting lens.
17. The beverage container, as recited in claim 16, wherein said container bottle is made of translucent material and said surrounding wall of said container bottle has a wave cross sectional shape so as to function as a light refraction surface, wherein said container bottle has a gourd shape such that said surrounding wall has a concave curved lower wall surface, a concave curved upper wall surface and a convex curved mid wall surface between said concave curved lower wall surface and said concave curved upper wall surface.
18. The beverage container, as recited in claim 16, wherein said illuminating device includes a retainer and an LED (Lighting Emitting Diode) lighting unit, wherein said retainer is sized and configured to be fittingly accommodated in said accommodating slot and has a receiving chamber configured to receive said LED lighting unit therein, wherein said LED lighting unit includes a circuit board, one or more LEDs electrically connected on said circuit board for generating and projecting lights into said interior cavity through said projecting lens and a switch electrically connected to said circuit board for switching on-and-off and controlling illumination patterns of said one or more LEDs.
19. The beverage container, as recited in claim 17, wherein said illuminating device includes a retainer and an LED (Lighting Emitting Diode) lighting unit, wherein said retainer is sized and configured to be fittingly accommodated in said accommodating slot and has a receiving chamber configured to receive said LED lighting unit therein, wherein said LED lighting unit includes a circuit board, one or more LEDs electrically connected on said circuit board for generating and projecting lights into said interior cavity through said projecting lens and a switch electrically connected to said circuit board for switching on-and-off and controlling illumination patterns of said one or more LEDs.
20. The beverage container, as recited in claim 16, wherein said mounting site further has an enlarged retaining recess formed below said accommodating slot and said retainer further has a retaining rim outwardly extended for mounting at said retaining recess so as to detachably retain said LED lighting unit within said accommodating slot, wherein said retainer has an overall outer diameter configured to be fittingly mounted in said accommodating slot while an outer wall of said retainer pressing against a retaining wall defining said accommodating slot.
21. The beverage container, as recited in claim 17, wherein said mounting site further has an enlarged retaining recess formed below said accommodating slot and said retainer further has a retaining rim outwardly extended for mounting at said retaining recess so as to detachably retain said LED lighting unit within said accommodating slot, wherein said retainer has an overall outer diameter configured to be fittingly mounted in said accommodating slot while an outer wall of said retainer pressing against a retaining wall defining said accommodating slot.
22. The beverage container, as recited in claim 18, wherein said mounting site further has an enlarged retaining recess formed below said accommodating slot and said retainer further has a retaining rim outwardly extended for mounting at said retaining recess so as to detachably retain said LED lighting unit within said accommodating slot, wherein said retainer has an overall outer diameter configured to be fittingly mounted in said accommodating slot while an outer wall of said retainer pressing against a retaining wall defining said accommodating slot.
23. The beverage container, as recited in claim 19, wherein said mounting site further has an enlarged retaining recess formed below said accommodating slot and said retainer further has a retaining rim outwardly extended for mounting at said retaining recess so as to detachably retain said LED lighting unit within said accommodating slot, wherein said retainer has an overall outer diameter configured to be fittingly mounted in said accommodating slot while an outer wall of said retainer pressing against a retaining wall defining said accommodating slot, wherein said retainer has a central hole formed therein and said switch is projected downwardly from a bottom side of said circuit board and adapted to extend through said central hole of said retainer to expose outside.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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(12) The drawings, described above, are provided for purposes of illustration, and not of limitation, of the aspects and features of various examples of embodiments of the invention described herein. The drawings are not intended to limit the scope of the claimed invention in any aspect. For simplicity and clarity of illustration, elements shown in the drawings have not necessarily been drawn to scale and the dimensions of some of the elements may be exaggerated relative to other elements for clarity.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
(13) The following description is disclosed to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use the present invention. Preferred embodiments are provided in the following description only as examples and modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art. The general principles defined in the following description would be applied to other embodiments, alternatives, modifications, equivalents, and applications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
(14) It will be appreciated that numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the exemplary embodiments described herein. However, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the embodiments described herein may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known methods, procedures and components have not been described in detail so as not to obscure the embodiments described herein. Further, this description is not to be considered as limiting the scope of the embodiments described herein in any way, but rather as merely describing implementation of the one or more embodiments described herein.
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(16) It is worth mentioning that the wave form curved surrounding wall 11 of the container bottle 10 also facilitates the user to hand hold firmly especially to the container bottle 10 having a diameter as large as 10 cm or more and a height as tall as 20 cm or more. Top end 13 of the container bottle 10 has a first fastening element 131, implemented as a threaded portion according to the preferred embodiment.
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(20) Preferably, the elevated drinking spout member 22 is rotatably mounted to the lid member 21, wherein two parallel ring-shape flanges 2211, 2212 protruded from a root portion of an outer surface of the base portion 22 defining a circular mounting groove 2213 therebetween which has a diameter equal to or slightly smaller than the diameter of the spout opening 213 of the lid member 21 and a width equal to or slightly larger than a thickness of a circular rim defining the spout opening 213 (i.e. a thickness of the upper wall portion 212 according to the preferred embodiment) of the lid member 21, such that the elevated drinking spout member 22 is able to assemble with the lid member 21 to form the elevated drinking spout member 22 by engaging the circular rim defining the spout opening 213 in the mounting groove 2213 in a rotatable manner, as shown in
(21) To user who prefers to drink through a straw, the user may insert the straw 40 into the container bottle 10 through the drinking opening 223 until reaching the bottom wall 12. To user who prefers to drink directly with his or her mouth or to pour the beverage contained in the container bottle 10, the user may simply contain the mouthpiece portion 222 in his or her mouth or to pour out the beverage contained in the container bottle 10 through the drinking opening 223 via the spout opening 213, wherein the reduced size of the guiding chamber 224 significantly controls a steady flow of the beverage from the interior cavity 15 out through the drinking opening 223. In addition, the elevated height of the elevated drinking spout member 20 can avoid the beverage contained in the container bottle 10 from splashing and spilling out accidently while traveling and carrying by the user.
(22) When beverage such as boba flavored milk tea or juice with crushed fruits is contained in the container bottle 10 and the straw 40 is used, it will be appreciated for an arrangement for preventing the boba or the small pieces of fruit from entering and stucking the straw. According to the preferred embodiment, referring to
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(24) When the beverage container 1 is merely used as a container for beverage, the illuminating device 32 has no need to assemble with the beverage container 10. However, the beverage container 1 can also be a decorative tool and the illuminable arrangement 30 further includes an illuminating device 32 as an accessory component to be assembled with the container bottle 10 when the user would like to perform a decorative function for beverage container 1 when it is used during a party, a carnival, a banquet venue, and the like.
(25) The illuminating device 32 includes a circular retainer 321 and a LED (Light Emitting Diode) lighting unit 322, referring to
(26) According to the preferred embodiment, as shown in
(27) In order to align and mount the illuminating unit 322 in the receiving chamber 3211, two or more retaining pins 3214 are protruded on a bottom surface of the retainer 321 and the circuit board 3221 has two or more retaining notches 3224 formed corresponding to allow the two or more retaining pins 3214 to be fittingly inserted therethrough respectively and correspondingly so as to firmly retain the illuminating unit 322 in the receiving camber 3211, as shown in
(28) The retainer 321 further has a central hole 3215 formed therein, as shown in
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(30) The LEDs 3222 of the illuminable device 32, 32, as shown in
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(33) In other words, the curved surrounding wall 11 of the container bottle 1 provides light reflecting and refracting effects to the illuminating lights projected from the illumination device 30. The arrangement of the straw resting platform 122 also forms the mounting site 31 of the illuminating device 30 at the same time without any additional component while the convex ceiling wall 1211 forms the projecting lens 310 too. Therefore, the beverage container 1 of the present invention can provide multiple functions without incorporating complicated structure that substantially minimizes the manufacturing cost thereof.
(34) One skilled in the art will understand that the embodiment of the present invention as shown in the drawings and described above is exemplary only and not intended to be limiting.
(35) It will thus be seen that the objects of the present invention have been fully and effectively accomplished. The embodiments have been shown and described for the purposes of illustrating the functional and structural principles of the present invention and is subject to change without departure from such principles. Therefore, this invention includes all modifications encompassed within the spirit and scope of the following claims.