Abstract: A drink dispenser is provided and includes a rigid tubular casing having first and second ends and a flexible bag having an open end attachable to the second end of the casing, the casing and flexible bag cooperatively forming a fluid container. A locking ring engages the second end of the casing for removably securing the flexible bag to the second end of the casing. The rigid casing and flexible bag each define approximately one-half of the fluid capacity of the fluid container. The flexible bag is adapted to extend away from the casing when filled with fluid, and fully collapse into the casing as the fluid is withdrawn from the drink dispenser. A mouthpiece is attachable to the first end of the casing to provide an exit passageway for the fluid within the fluid container. Preferably, the mouthpiece includes a nipple having a one-way valve for preventing air from entering the fluid container. A base is removably snap-fit to the casing so as to encompass the flexible bag.

Abstract: A drink dispenser includes a dispenser body having an opening which permits passage of a fluid to be consumed therethrough, a rigid guide tube extending from the body opening, and a flexible fluid container which is supported relative to the guide tube. The flexible fluid container is adapted to extend away from the guide tube relative to the body opening when filled with the fluid to be consumed, and fully collapse into the guide tube as the fluid is withdrawn therefrom. A mouthpiece is provided which is in fluid flow communication with fluid contained within the flexible fluid container, and a valve prevents air-flow from the mouthpiece into the flexible fluid container.

Abstract: The improved baby bottle device includes a liquid holding container having a flexible liquid flow tube engaged thereto. A nipple is engaged to the distal end of the liquid flow tube, and a liquid flow control device is disposed within an adaptor that serves to engage the nipple with the liquid flow tube to control the flow of liquid from the bottle to the nipple, such that liquid neither leaks from the nipple when the nipple is disposed below the container nor drains from the nipple when the nipple is disposed above the container. In the preferred embodiment, the liquid flow control device includes a spring loaded check valve. A bottle attachment device, generally including two velcro straps joined at their midpoints is used to attach the bottle device to adjacent structural support members.

Abstract: The improved baby bottle device includes a liquid holding container having a flexible liquid flow tube engaged thereto. A nipple is engaged to the distal end of the liquid flow tube, and a liquid flow control device is disposed within an adaptor that serves to engage the nipple with the liquid flow tube to control the flow of liquid from the bottle to the nipple, such that liquid neither leaks from the nipple when the nipple is disposed below the container nor drains from the nipple when the nipple is disposed above the container. In the preferred embodiment, the liquid flow control device includes a spring loaded check valve. A bottle attachment device, generally including two velcro straps joined at their midpoints is used to attach the bottle device to adjacent structural support members.

Abstract: A container includes a body defining a chamber and a neck region. A straw is disposed within the chamber. The straw is inserted through the neck region and into the chamber prior to filling the chamber and is trapped or wedged between a first portion of the container and a second portion of the container by mechanical engagement with the container. The position of the straw within the chamber does not interfere with the filling of the container. When filling has been completed, the body of the container is manipulated to release the straw from its mechanical engagement with the container and position it within the neck region.

Abstract: A beverage container is disclosed. The disclosed beverage container comprises a container provided with a receiving space for containing a beverage; a submerged straw submerged within the container, and provided with a blocking member of a thin foil; a flexible tube capable of being deformed elastically and installed at the container so as to communicate with the submerged straw; a sucking straw installed at one end of the flexible tube and provided with a perforating portion capable of penetrating the blocking member, when necessary, with the flexible tube compressed so as to communicate with the submerged straw; and a sealing means detachably coupled to a sucking portion of the sucking straw so as to protect the sucking portion of the sucking straw from external contaminants.

Abstract: A liquid container comprises: a cap; a container body having an opening, an inner bottom, a first sealing means sealing a cross section of the container body, the opening being enclosed by the cap so as to form a chamber between the cap and the first sealing means; a straw having a circumferential wall, an open end and a closed end, the open end contacting with the first sealing means, the closed end being attached to the inner bottom of the container body, a first bore further formed on the circumferential wall of the straw above the closed end; and a hollow adapter disposed within the chamber, the adapter having an end for piercing the first sealing means to engage and connect the open end of the straw, whereby liquid within the container body can flow from the first bore, through the straw, and out of the adapter.

Abstract: A water bottle-straw assembly comprising a screw-threaded cap base including a lift-lower cap attached at one side thereof and a through hole in which a suction base is inserted. The suction base has a protruding suction end having a valve and a flange providing an air guiding groove. A straw is inserted into the suction base and a flexible tube is telescopically connected to the lower end of the straw to allow use with containers of varying sizes.

Abstract: A beverage container has a straw-dispensing mechanism that is disposed within the container and is responsive to appropriate manipulation of the container to bring the straw into alignment with the orifice in the top end of the container. In one embodiment, the straw is supported by a weighted member that responds to the manipulation of the container to move the straw. A buoyant member is attached to the straw to elevate the straw through the orifice when the straw is aligned with the orifice. Several alternative embodiments of the invention incorporating the weighted member are disclosed. In another embodiment, the straw is supported by a buoyant member that responds to the manipulation of the container to move the straw. The buoyant member is attached to the straw to elevate the straw through the orifice when the straw is aligned with the orifice as well as to align the straw with the orifice due to the manipulation of the can.

Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to a container having first and second hollow chambers attached to a top. The first chamber has a helical surface that can be placed adjacent to a corresponding helical surface of the second chamber. The top can include a pair of apertures for receiving a straw such that one aperture resides above each chamber. A straw can be placed into one of the apertures when one desires to drink from the container. The drinking container can further include an attachment device for better attaching the helical chambers.

Abstract: A straw assembly disposed within a beverage container and adapted for use with various positioning mechanisms is disclosed. The straw assembly includes a plurality of structural features formed therein for appropriately locating the positioning mechanism. Additionally, a positioning mechanism slidably locatable along the axial length of the straw is disclosed which appropriately positions the straw in an opening of the container. The straw assembly may be fabricated from a photo-degradable material which expedites the photodegradation of the straw assembly when exposed to sunlight.

Abstract: A container includes a body defining a chamber having a neck region and a straw disposed within the chamber. The straw is inserted through the neck region and into the chamber prior to filling the chamber and is trapped or wedged between the bottom of the container and an annular ridge defined by the neck region of the chamber. When filling has been completed, the body is manipulated to release the straw from the annular ridge and position it within the neck region.

Abstract: A beverage can has a tab member rotatably and pivotally mounted thereon. The tab member can be used to form two separate openings in the can top. Under one of the openings is a drinking straw which will be presented to the user after the opening with which it is associated is formed in the can top.

Abstract: A stopper for use with an individual beverage container is disclosed. The stopper has a generally tubular side wall with an upper edge and a lower edge. The side wall is dimensioned to fit snugly in the neck of the beverage container with a pressure fit. A bottom extends inwardly from the side wall. A flat upper portion is integrally attached to the bottom and is spaced upwardly from the bottom. An aperture is formed in the bottom or the flat upper portion. In addition, a vent hole is formed in the bottom or the flat upper portion. Preferably the flat upper portion is spaced from the side walls thereby forming a trough therebetween. Preferably the aperture is formed in the bottom and dimensioned to receive a straw snugly therethrough. Preferably the flat upper portion is divided into a first and second upper portion with a channel therebetween, with the channel being contiguous with the aperture and dimensioned to receive an upper portion of the straw when in a stored position.

Abstract: A beverage container has a straw-dispensing mechanism that is disposed within the container to bring the straw into alignment with the orifice in the top of the container. When the orifice is opened, the straw elevates through the orifice to become accessible to the user. In one embodiment, the straw is attached to a buoyant member which urges the straw into contact with a contoured surface on the can lid. In another embodiment, the straw engages a floating member which is urged against the lid of the container. The floating member includes a contoured or cam surface which is engaged by the opening tab of the container to rotate the floating member until the straw aligns with the opening. Various design configurations for the floating member are disclosed.

Abstract: A soft type mouthpiece structure with water release and water stopping functions includes a soft type mouthpiece, a positioning seat, and a slidable sleeve. The mouthpiece has a front end provided with a water outlet and a rear end that can be insertably secured at a front end of the positioning seat. The positioning seat is provided with a hollow internal hole that includes a smaller-diameter internal channel and a larger-diameter sectioned portion. The inner wall of the sectioned portion is provided with a leakage-proof flange. A depressed groove is provided at the leakage-proof flange near the water outlet side. The slidable sleeve is provided with a projecting positioning flange on an outer wall of the front end of a tube portion thereof, an urging post at the center of the front end of the tube portion, the urging post being peripherally provided with a plurality of water slots.

Abstract: A down-flow drinking straw that delivers liquid below a drinking vessel while eliminating siphoning to avoid spills. The straw has a first straight supply tube portion connected by an adjustable bend to a pickup tube portion with a liquid reservoir just below the adjustable bend. The adjustable bend is biased to a normal position, such that the supply tube portion is above the reservoir when the straw is released. Once the supply tube portion is above the reservoir, the reservoir provides a volume of liquid to reverse the siphon and pull the remaining liquid in the supply tube portion back into the vessel. A first embodiment has a reservoir in the form of an increased diameter portion that extends from below the adjustable bend downwardly. At the bottom of the increased diameter portion, the pickup tube may neck down to a smaller diameter to reduce the flow rate or the pickup tube has an increased diameter along its entire length, to maximize the return flow rate.

Abstract: The present invention 10 discloses a device having a generally upright standing straw or tube member 18 having an aperture 26 therein which runs the full length of the tube 18 therein. The tube 18 has a bottom base plate 20 located on its lower end which is attached to the tube 18 and supported by brace members 22 near the bottom of the tube 18. The aperture 26 of the tube 18 extends through the base plate 20. The base plate 20 is equipped with numerous protrusions 30 on its underside which are used to crush and extract juice and pulp from slices of fruit 14 in the drink mixture 16. The present invention is also equipped with longitudinal vertical slots or apertures 28 located between the multiple buttresses 22 which slots 28 serve as means to prevent the tube or straw 18 from becoming clogged with pulp or sealed to the drink vessel by providing additional ingress into the tube 18.

Abstract: A consumable beverage dispenser is provided having a collapsible beverage container, a valve assembly, and a flexible tube or straw. The collapsible beverage container has at least one opening and the valve assembly is secured to the container at the opening. The valve assembly includes a flexible diaphragm disposed across the flow path such that beverage flow is permitted only outwardly from the container. The flexible tube extends outwardly from the valve assembly. When a user exerts sucking action on the end of the flexible tube, beverage is made to flow from the container out through the one-way valve assembly and into the flexible tube. As beverage is withdrawn, the container collapses and, when the user stops drinking, the flexible diaphragm closes to prevent air and back flow from entering the container. In one embodiment, the flexible tube is slidable within the valve assembly between an open and a closed position.

Abstract: A container closure includes an access, which can receive a drinking straw, which is able to be folded down into a groove by the pivotal movement of member, which closes off the drinking straw by engaging it across an upstanding flange or projection.

Abstract: A dispensor adaptor is provided for a nursing bottle containing liquid having a bottle bottom wall joined to a tubular bottle side wall with an rim onto which is removably fitted a bottle lid having an outwardly protruding nipple structure containing a liquid passageway, the bottle lid being fastened against the upper rim and the side wall with a fastening mechanism, the adaptor including a substantially disk-shaped flange having a central port, for placement onto the upper rim when the lid is removed, and for securing within the bottle by fastening the lid onto the rim within the fastening mechanism so that the flange is retained between the lid and the rim, the flange making sealing contact with the nipple structure which circumscribes the liquid passageway, and a liquid gathering tube extending from the central port in the flange toward the bottle bottom wall and opening within the bottle to gather the liquid, so that drawing upon the nipple structure extracts a quantity of the liquid through the liquid ga

Abstract: An assemblage and system for drinking a plurality of potable and/or medicinal liquids simultaneously from discrete receptacles. The assemblage comprises a plurality of conduits joined together that convey isolated streams of the liquids from separate receptacles into the mouth. Preferably, the conduits are mechanically deformable along their axes of elongation. The conduits are joined by a catch, by binding, by molding the conduits as a single unit, by a joining structure, or by raveling. The system includes the assemblage and a number of joined receptacles.

Abstract: A new Beverage Container With Self-Contained Straw for providing a more convenient and sanitary way to consume a canned beverage. The inventive device includes a container body including a bottom and a top with a drink opening therein, a tubular guide member extending upward from the bottom of the container body in vertical alignment with the drink opening, and a buoyant drinking straw positioned within and extending upward from the tubular guide member wherein the buoyant drinking straw is self-extendable through the drink opening when the drink opening is opened.

Abstract: A closure for a bottle opening comprising a cap for the bottle opening, the cap adapted to be securely but removably fastened to the bottle opening, a seal underlying the cap and being sealed to the rim of the bottle opening and sealing the bottle opening to the cap, the seal having a rupturable portion for receiving a straw, and further wherein the bottle cap is removable with contents of the bottle being sealed to the environment by the seal which remains on the bottle rim when the bottle cap is removed, the seal being selectively releasable from the bottle rim, the user having the option of removing the seal from the bottle rim or inserting a straw through the rupturable portion to dispense the contents of the bottle.

Abstract: A leak resistant drink box holder for containing a drink box. The drink box holder includes a container having four sidewalls and a floor forming an internal cavity of a size to fit a substantial portion of the drink box. A lid that is sealably engageable with the container has an air inlet opening, an air regulating valve and a drinking spout with a fluid exit opening. The drinking spout is adapted to apply a suction from a user's mouth. A liquid outlet regulating valve is sealably engageable with the drinking spout. A straw have first and second ends is sealably engaged with the liquid outlet regulating valve at one end and is adapted to fit within the drink box at the other end.

Abstract: A combination baby bottle and solid food compartment with spoon is adapted for use with a small child in the range of 3 months to 41/2 years of age. The bottle is uniquely shaped for easy gripping by the child and is divided into multiple compartments for holding separate liquids. The compartments are accessed through a valve arrangement, and the liquids can be dispensed by means of a sipper, straws or a nipple. The nipple is adapted to simulate a woman's breast, with the texture of the surface area of the nipple extension and surrounding the extension having a raspberry effect. The food compartment fits on the bottom of the bottle in an inverted position to provide a wide base for the combination. The handle of the spoon is shaped to fit the contour of the bottle to which it is secured by a clip. The spoon is uniquely shaped to fit the child's mouth or oral cavity.

Abstract: A cap assembly includes a first part for mounting to a bottle and a second part coupled to the first part, and a sucking member pivotally disposed to a top of the first part. The top of the first part has two stands, a support located between the two stands and a stop extending therefrom, wherein the support has a passage defined therethrough and extending through the top. The sucking member has a sphere member rotatably supported between the two stands and is rested on a first annular flange extending from a top of the support. The second part has two clamping members extending from a bottom thereof so that when the second part is mounted to the first part, the sucking member is clamped by the clamping members and pivoted and laid on the stop.

Abstract: A straw assembly has a flexible first segment with at least one longitudinal glide ridge extending inwardly from a drinking end thereof, a retaining shoulder at a fixed distance from the drinking end, and an orienting finger extending from the retaining shoulder.

Abstract: A beverage container has a straw-dispensing mechanism that is disposed within the container to bring the straw into alignment with the orifice in the top of the container. When the orifice is opened, the straw elevates through the orifice to become accessible to the user. In one embodiment, the straw is attached to a buoyant member which urges the straw into contact with a contoured surface on the can lid. The contoured surface is angled towards the orifice. In a second embodiment, the straw engages a floating member which is urged against the lid of the container. When the container is opened by deflecting a closure tab into the container, the closure tab engages a cam surface on the floating member and imparts rotational motion to the floating member. The floating member rotates until the straw is aligned with the open orifice and a buoyant member associate with on the straw elevates the straw through the orifice.

Abstract: An assemblage and system for drinking a plurality of potable and/or medicinal liquids simultaneously from discrete receptacles. The assemblage comprises a plurality of conduits joined together that convey isolated streams of the liquids from separate receptacles into the mouth. The cross-sectional area of the conduits regulate the amount of each liquid reaching the mouth and may be dynamically controlled. Preferably, the conduits are mechanically deformable along their axes of elongation. Preferably, the conduits are joined together near the end of the conduits that enter the mouth. The conduits are joined by a catch, by binding, or by molding the conduits as a single unit. The system includes the assemblage and a number of isolated receptacles.

Abstract: A nursing assembly of the type which can be readily installed with a standard nipple socket includes a cup, a nipple socket, a collar socket and a locking socket. The locking socket includes an extension which can be engaged with a skirt portion of the collar socket. In assembling, a cup is disposed within the collar socket such that the outer rim of the cup is seated onto a top portion of a lower stepped portion of the collar socket. Accordingly, the wall portion of the cup is protected and supported by the skirt portion of the collar socket. Then the locking collar is screwed onto the collar socket such that the extension is inserted into the cup. By this arrangement, the wall of cup is sandwiched by the skirt portion and the extension of the collar socket and the locking socket and complete protection and support is attained without the possibility of deforming or unintended release from the locking socket and collar socket.

Abstract: An automatic pop-up straw assembly comprises an outer tube, an inner tube, a resilient tube and a base. An air-tight connection between the inner tube and the resilient tube is achieved by inserting a reduced diameter of the second head of the resilient tube into the inner tube. Because the inner tube and the resilient tube are slidably received in the outer tube after the base is secured to the outer tube, the straw assembly is ready to be retained within a container with the compression of a helical tube of the resilient tube and the assembly will automatically pop-up when a cap of the container is opened.

Abstract: A clip-on straw apparatus permitting persons to drink from a cup, glass, or the like without a need to stabilize the straw by hand.

Abstract: A spill-proof lid for use with a container for liquids includes a liquid chamber that has an outlet opening above and inlet opening below the plane of the lid. The chamber is constructed so that, as it extends from inlet to outlet, it travels from the outlet opening closely to the side of the cup to the bottom where it then crosses the bottom, up the other side and back to the inlet opening. The periphery of the lid is constructed to sealingly engage the upper edge of the container. Preferably, the outlet end of the liquid chamber has a mouthpiece formed thereon for ease of drinking. In the preferred embodiment of the lid, the liquid chamber is substantially a single-loop helix.

Abstract: An adjustable baby bottleneck is provided for connecting a conventional infant bottle 20 to a conventional baby nipple 22 through an angular or adjustable bottleneck portion 24 for transforming standard baby bottles into an improved device for feeding infants. The angularly adjustable bottleneck portion may be either set and fixed from an angle of 0 to 60 degrees and includes a mounted securing ring 46 at one end for mating with the top of a standard baby nursing bottle and at the other end includes means for mating with a standard nipple with an adjustable portion disposed between the bottle mating and nipple mating ends of the adjustable baby bottleneck.

Abstract: An adjustable orientation device for a baby bottle to change the angular relationship between an exit area of the bottle and an exit from an exit orifice coupled with the exit area of the bottle, including a bellows-type structure having an entrance and an exit axially aligned in one condition thereof, the bellows-type structure including at least one bellow member, an interlocking mechanism for locking the bellows-type structure in different angular relationships between the exit orifice and the exit area, the interlocking mechanism being connected to the at least one bellow member and being sufficiently resilient to remain in any one of a plurality of pre-selected positions and being compressible to a minimum length condition and extendable to a maximum length condition by compressing the at least one bellow member and locking it to the interlocking mechanism, and the bellows-type structure being bendable so that the exit and the entrance are no longer axially aligned.

Abstract: A beverage container having a straw-dispensing mechanism that is disposed within the container and is responsive to appropriate manipulation of the container to bring the straw into alignment with the orifice in the top end of the container. The straw is supported by a weighted member that responds to the manipulation of the container to move the straw. A float is attached to the straw to elevate the straw through the orifice when the straw is aligned with the orifice. Several alternative embodiments of the invention are disclosed.

Abstract: A beverage container is equipped with a rotatable cover and an automatically extendable drinking straw. The container includes an open ended body closed by a removable cap, a straw unit inserted through a conduit on the cap, a cover member rotatably fitted on the cap for rotational movement relative to the cap between a first position allowing the straw to extend through a slot of the cover member and a second position folding the straw unit and closing the slot. A groove formed on the cap engages a raised spot formed on the inner edge of the cover member for indicating when the cover member is rotated to either the first or second position. The straw unit includes a first straw made of elastomeric material and a second straw made of rigid material and sized so that the first straw is held between the conduit and the second straw in a coaxial relation without the use of fastening elements.

Abstract: A novel cap is designed to facilitate the use of a flexible tube to consume fluids and provide a liquid-tight seal when the cap is firmly secured to the container. Further, the cap is designed to form a smooth or regular inner core for decorative shaped animal head structures thereby alleviating the inherent cleaning difficulties which arise from irregular or asymmetrical caps.

Abstract: A structure for automated sticking out and retreating a pipette of a canteen includes a canteen, a canteen cover and a turning cover. A washer is threaded to the hollow, semi-spherical canteen. A bore penetrating the center of a tangent surface at the frond end of the canteen to allow both pipette base and fixing sleeve hold the pipette in position. At one side of the bore is a hollow snapping base with a ventilation outlet on it. In the turning cover which shreds onto the canteen cover, a snapping tab is provided and said pipette sticks out of a circular opening on the turning cover whereby the snapping tab pushes against the pipette to bend into the snapping base for closing up the ventilation outlet thus to achieve a complete leak-proof result and easy operation of the canteen.

Abstract: A beverage cup with a straw attached thereto is provided on the inner wall surface thereof with an elongate straw housing of hollow construction and so dimensioned as to receive therein movably a straw. The straw housing has a bottom end distant from the bottom of the beverage cup to permit the bottom end of the straw to be submerged in the beverage. The straw housing has one longitudinal side that is sealed and is cemented to the inner wall surface of the beverage cup, while the straw housing has another longitudinal side that is so open as to permit the straw to be removed therefrom by force and to prevent the straw from escaping from the straw housing.

Abstract: Drinking devices include at least a drinking tube, a container lid and/or a container. The drinking tube includes a first free end located proximal a mouth of the container or the lid. At least a portion of the drinking tube, which is in or is intended to be placed in a container, is looped and is sufficiently flexible so as to tend to collapse under its own weight to open or close the individual loops and to permit at least a second free end of the drinking tube to drop to the lowest point within the container, regardless of the orientation of the container. A variety of specific configurations are disclosed for sports drink containers, infant nursing bottles, and drink bottles, cups, cans and other liquid containers for a variety of uses.

Abstract: A lid and drinking straw assembly for use with a beverage container having a rim is provided. The lid includes a breakaway port formed with a central panel as a conic shell. The breakaway port comprises a plurality of channel structures that extend from the apex of the conic shell toward the central panel. The channel structures are partible to allow insertion of the drinking straw into the beverage container and may have portions of reduced thickness to facilitate their partibility.

Abstract: A mixing and drinking beaker with an adhesive, closing and sealing system between the cover and the beaker and with a chamber in the cover consisting of an outer cover and an inner cover therein after the adhesive and sealing system. The inner cover can be released from its seat without releasing the joint between the cover and the beaker without the need for any additional mechanism simply by the yielding of the sealing seat of the material surrounding the inner cover by pressure from outside axially to the outer cover on the handle and/or the surrounding area of the outer cover. In addition, the adhesive bond between the cover and the beaker can be changed to a positive bond by a shrink strip.