Teapot with Supple Spout
The present invention discloses a teapot with supple spout, including a teapot body, a supple spout, and a lid. Through assembling a supple spout onto a teapot body, a classical teapot will have a spout not easily chipped or broken. Besides, the teapot according to this application comprises a design at the upper and the lower parts of the teapot body, so that the teapots can be stacked up for saving space.
Latest Patents:
- METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR RNA-GUIDED TREATMENT OF HIV INFECTION
- IRRIGATION TUBING WITH REGULATED FLUID EMISSION
- RESISTIVE MEMORY ELEMENTS ACCESSED BY BIPOLAR JUNCTION TRANSISTORS
- SIDELINK COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM
- SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE HAVING MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to a teapot, and more particularly, to a teapot with a supple spout.
2. Description of the Prior Art
“Drinking tea” is not only an activity for leisure time, but also a good habit for people healthy. For drinking tea, it is important to select proper tea leaf and tea set. Tea pot is an important member of tea set. Traditionally, tea pot is made of pottery, porcelain, glass.
Basically, teapot includes a teapot body, a handle, a spout, and a lid. Because the spout is made from break-able material, the spout is easily been chipped or broken during use. A chipped/broken spout will cause that the tea pot cannot be used anymore and even that the chipped/broken spout may be hurt the user. Therefore, it is important to produce a tea pot with a pout that is not easily chipped/broken.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONIn accordance with the present invention, a teapot with supple spout is provided for avoiding the risk of chipping or breaking the spout of the teapot.
It is another object of this invention to provide a teapot with supple spout a lid that is easy open-close.
It is a further object of this invention to provide a teapot with supple spout with special designs at the top part and the bottom part so that the teapot with supple spouts according to this application can be stacked up.
It is still another object of this invention to provide to a teapot with supple spout with a fine tea infuser so that it is easy to control tea steeping time.
The present invention discloses a teapot with supple spout, including a teapot body, a supple spout, a teapot handle, and a lid. The supple spout is assembled onto the teapot body. The supple spout is not made in a break-able material, so that user will not worry about the spout chipped or broken during using the teapot.
Therefore, in accordance with the previous summary, objects, features and advantages of the present disclosure will become apparent to one skilled in the art from the subsequent description and the appended claims taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
The accompanying drawings incorporated in and forming a part of the specification illustrate several aspects of the present invention, and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the disclosure. In the drawings:
Some embodiments of the invention will now be described in greater detail. However, it should be noted that the present invention can be practiced in a wide range of other embodiments besides those explicitly described, and the scope of the present invention is expressly not limited except as specified in the accompanying claims. Moreover, some irrelevant details are not drawn in order to make the illustrations concise and to provide a clear description for easily understanding the present invention.
One preferred embodiment according to this invention is a teapot with supple spout.
As shown in
Referred to
Referred to
Referred to
Referred to
Referred to
To sum up the foregoing, this application provides a teapot with supple spout. Through assembling a supple spout to a teapot body of a teapot, the teapot will have a spout that is not easily chipped or broken. Besides, the assembling according to this application has a design of the bended part as the above-mentioned, so that user can easily open-close the lid though one-touch. Additionally, the protruding part and the bottom part of the teapot body make the teapot of this application stackable, so that the teapot according to this application will be collected easier and occupy less space while colleting than the traditional teapot. Therefore, this application provides a teapot with more safety and more convenience on operating and collecting.
It is understood that several modifications, changes, and substitutions are intended in the foregoing disclosure and in some instances some features of the invention will be employed without a corresponding use of other features. Accordingly, it is appropriate that the appended claims be construed broadly and in a manner consistent with the scope of the invention.
Claims
1. A teapot with supple spout, comprising:
- a teapot body, comprising a teapot handle, a first opening located at one side opposite to the teapot handle, a second opening located at the top side of the teapot body, and a third opening located between the teapot handle and the second opening;
- a supple spout, comprising a spout part, an extending part connected with the spout part, a block part connected with the extending part, and a tunnel through the spout part, the extending part, and the block part, wherein the extending part and the block part are passed through the first opening for positioning the supple spout onto the teapot body; and
- a lid for covering the second opening, wherein the lid comprises a set of flexible fastening element, wherein the flexible fastening element(s) is/are passed through the third opening and bended to fasten the lid onto the teapot body, wherein the area of the lid is larger than the second opening.
2. The teapot with supple spout of claim 1, further comprises an infuser, wherein the infuser comprises a filtering part and a handle part, wherein the handle part is connected with the filtering part by the upper portion of the filtering part.
3. The teapot with supple spout of claim 1, further comprises a spout fastening set, the spout fastening set comprises a first fastening element and a second fastening element, wherein the first fastening element comprises a plane part, a hollow tube part connected with the plane part, and a dented part on one end far from the plane part of the hollow tube part, wherein the hollow tube part is passed through the extending part and the block into the inside space of the teapot body and the second fastening element is engaged with the first fastening element by the dented part to fasten the supple spout, wherein the spout fastening set further comprises a tunnel through the plane part, and the hollow tube part.
4. The teapot with supple spout of claim 3, wherein said spout fastening set further comprises washer positioned between the second fastening element and the block part of the supple spout.
5. The teapot with supple spout of claim 1, wherein said teapot body further comprises a bottom part, and a protruding part around the second opening, wherein the space surrounded by the protruding part is enough to accommodate the bottom part of another teapot with supple spout.
6. The teapot with supple spout of claim 1, wherein the material of said teapot body is selected from pottery, porcelain, or glass.
7. The teapot with supple spout of claim 1, wherein said supple spout is made of silicon.
8. The teapot with supple spout of claim 1, wherein said lid is made of stainless-steel.
9. The teapot with supple spout of claim 1, wherein said spout fastening set is made of stainless-steel.
10. The teapot with supple spout of claim 2, wherein said infuser is made of stainless-steel.
Type: Application
Filed: May 18, 2009
Publication Date: Nov 18, 2010
Applicant: (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA)
Inventor: Masakazu Fujii (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA)
Application Number: 12/467,672
International Classification: A47G 19/14 (20060101);