Patents Assigned to Thermos L.L.C.
  • Food storage container with quick access lid
    Patent number: 9211040
    Abstract: A food jar has an insulated body with a wide-mouth opening for receiving food. A collar is affixed to the opening of the food jar by affixing a throat member to the collar and threading the throat into the wide-mouth body. The throat member includes a gasket at the lower end to seal the throat to the body. A lid is affixed to the collar by a hinge. The lid includes a central projection that extends into sealing contact with the gasket on the throat member to seal the lid to the throat member. A button is mounted in a channel in the lid and biased by a spring to move into an engaging position to engage the collar at an opening in the collar to secure the lid to the collar. A wire loop is provided to engage the button in an embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: THERMOS L.L.C.
    Inventor: Marvin Lane
  • Plug for use in a beverage container
    Patent number: 9175785
    Abstract: A plug includes: a fluid passage in a main body; a valve body biased to close an inlet of the fluid passage; a cover disposed on an upper end of the main body and closing an upper opening section thereof; and a control lever of the cover that can be pushed downward to open and close the valve body. An engagement claw section is formed on an elastic section of the main body. Provided on the cover is a transverse-plate upper surface for engaging the engagement claw section. A protrusion section of the control lever abuts against and shifts the elastic section in a disengagement direction when pushing the control lever downward. The protrusion section can thus disengage the engagement claw section from the transverse-plate upper surface. The control lever biased upward by the valve body allows the cover to be easily and lightly disassembled from the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignees: THERMOS KK, THERMOS L.L.C.
    Inventor: Katsuaki Tachi
  • Beverage container system with button release for lid
    Patent number: 9150335
    Abstract: A drink bottle with a removable lid includes an inner lid attached to the mouth of the bottle and an outer lid or cover pivotably mounted on the inner lid. The outer lid or cover may be locked into a closed position covering the drinking tube. A push button on the inner lid can be operated to release the locked outer lid, permitting the outer lid to open so as to permit drinking from a drinking tube positioned therein. The push button moves a lid slide that extends to a point on the inner lid generally opposite to the hinge and contains an extension that engages with a notch in the upper lid to hold the upper lid closed. On actuating the push button, the lid slide is pulled in the direction of the push button and the extension located on the other end of the lid slide moves out of engagement of the outer lid, thereby opening the outer lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: THERMOS L.L.C.
    Inventor: Marvin Lane
  • Plug for use in a beverage container
    Patent number: 8985406
    Abstract: The plug includes: a resilient member that is provided on the valve body and serves to bias the valve body in a closing direction; a valve body cover attached to the valve body in order to prevent the resilient member from coming of a rotation member rotatably provided on the valve body cover; at least two engagement claw portions that are provided on the rotation member and serve to allow the valve body cover to be engaged with an upper portion of the valve body; and claw guiding grooves and the recessed grooves serving as steps that are provided on an upper portion of the valve body, the number of the claw guiding grooves being equal to the number of or the integral multiple of the engagement claw portions, the recessed grooves allowing the rotation member to rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignees: Thermos L.L.C., Thermos K.K.
    Inventor: Katsuaki Tachi
  • Beverage bottle and lid with back button release
    Patent number: 8985370
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention include a drink bottle with a removable lid including an inner lid attached to the mouth of the bottle and an outer lid pivotably mounted to the inner lid. A drink spout extends from the inner lid. The outer lid may be latched into a closed position covering the drink spout. A push button can be selectively actuated to release the latched outer lid, permitting the outer lid to open to access the drink spout. The push button moves a lid slide containing a catch extension that engages a catch notch in the outer lid to latch the outer lid closed. Actuating the push button moves the catch extension out of engagement with the catch notch, thereby opening the outer lid. A push button lock selectively prevents the push button from being depressed and the lid slide from being actuated, thereby locking the outer lid in a latched and closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventor: Marvin Lane
  • Basket assembly for beverage bottle
    Patent number: 8985377
    Abstract: A basket assembly for removably coupling to a lid of a beverage bottle includes a basket body defining a chamber. One or more first openings are defined through the basket body and one or more second openings are defined through the basket body to provide fluid communication between the chamber and an interior volume of the beverage bottle body with the lid coupled to the beverage bottle body. A basket lid is coupled to the basket body. One or more third openings are defined through the basket lid and aligned with the one or more second openings to provide fluid communication between the interior volume of the beverage bottle body and a passage formed through the beverage bottle lid. A lid assembly including the basket assembly and a bottle including the lid assembly is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventor: Marvin Lane
  • Beverage container system with latch to manage lid position
    Patent number: 8967414
    Abstract: A drinking mug includes a lid affixed at the mouth of the mug. The lid includes fluid openings between a bottom portion of the lid and sidewalls of the lid about the circumference of the lid to permit drinking from any position along the circumference. The lid has a gasket that seals the mug closed when the lid is threaded to a closed position. When the lid is partially unscrewed, the gasket opens, permitting liquid to be consumed from the beverage container through the fluid openings in the lid. The lid includes a ramp-shaped cam and the mug includes a pivotable latch that engages the cam that prevents the lid from being unscrewed from the mug. The latch has a push button that releases the latch from the cam to permit removal of the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventor: Marvin Lane
  • Lid with flat top and captive closure for use with drink bottle
    Patent number: D721912
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventor: Dwayne Boroski
  • Combined drink bottle and lid
    Patent number: D725966
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventors: Dwayne Boroski, Marvin Lane
  • Beverage bottle
    Patent number: D729011
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventor: Dwayne Boroski
  • Beverage tumbler
    Patent number: D729581
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: THERMOS L.L.C.
    Inventor: Dwayne Boroski
  • Beverage bottle
    Patent number: D729585
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: THERMOS L.L.C.
    Inventor: Dwayne Boroski
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D731251
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: THERMOS L.L.C.
    Inventor: Marvin Lane
  • Banded drink bottle with lid for use with straw
    Patent number: D732338
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventor: Dwayne Boroski
  • Soft cooler
    Patent number: D734643
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: THERMOS L.L.C.
    Inventor: Dwayne Boroski
  • Soft cooler
    Patent number: D734992
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: THERMOS L.L.C.
    Inventor: Dwayne Boroski
  • Lid
    Patent number: D735035
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: THERMOS L.L.C.
    Inventor: Marvin Lane
  • Beverage bottle with lid
    Patent number: D739183
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: THERMOS L.L.C.
    Inventor: Marvin Lane
  • Dual chamber food jar
    Patent number: D741115
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: THERMOS L.L.C.
    Inventors: Marvin Lane, Dwayne Boroski
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D742699
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventor: Dwayne Boroski