Patents Assigned to Thermos L.L.C.
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • BOTTLE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILTERING OR TREATING A BEVERAGE
    Publication number: 20140339177
    Abstract: A beverage filter or treatment bottle system has a bottle, lid, and a beverage improvement component such as a filter element. A filter element may be positioned to separate the interior space of the bottle into a filtered beverage compartment and an unfiltered beverage compartment. A tube passes through the filter into fluid communication with the filtered beverage compartment. The tube extends through the unfiltered beverage compartment to a nozzle in the lid of the bottle. A lid cover is fastenable onto the lid to enclose and close the nozzle. A filter cartridge may be provided. A UV sterilizer may be provided. An air bypass may be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: THERMOS L.L.C.
    Inventor: Marvin Lane
  • Beverage container
    Patent number: 8844742
    Abstract: A drinking mouth portion pointing upward is provided on a plug body of a container main body having a sealed structure. A down-pointing beverage cylindrical member is built into the container main body and has a front edge side thereof communicated with the drinking mouth portion. Provided inside a fluid passage of the beverage cylindrical member is a valve movable in accordance with a pressure difference therein. The valve is not manually opened and closed, but reacts to a suction force in the fluid passage. An up-pointing cut-out section is provided on a lower edge of the beverage cylindrical member, thus allowing one to drink up a content fluid remaining in an inner bottom section. Therefore, a relatively small number of additional parts are needed to address the spewing of a content fluid and the occurrence of a residual liquid at the time of opening the drinking mouth portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignees: Thermos K.K., Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventors: Mamoru Fujita, Shin Matsuyama
  • BEVERAGE BOTTLE AND LID WITH BACK BUTTON RELEASE
    Publication number: 20140175042
    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: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventor: Marvin Lane
  • BEVERAGE CONTAINER SYSTEM WITH LATCH TO MANAGE LID POSITION
    Publication number: 20140166654
    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: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: THERMOS L.L.C.
    Inventor: Marvin Lane
  • Beverage mug
    Patent number: D712701
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventor: Dwayne Boroski
  • Beverage mug
    Patent number: D713206
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventors: Marvin Lane, Dwayne Boroski
  • Cooler
    Patent number: D713211
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventor: Dwayne Boroski
  • Lid with captive closure on nozzle for use with drink bottle
    Patent number: D714584
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventor: Dwayne Boroski
  • Tumbler
    Patent number: D717115
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventors: Marvin Lane, Alfredo Carreno
  • Lid for drink bottle having back button released cover and carry loop
    Patent number: D718626
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventor: Marvin Lane
  • Beverage bottle
    Patent number: D720186
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventors: Marvin Lane, Dwayne Boroski
  • Beverage bottle
    Patent number: D720574
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Thermos L.L.C.
    Inventor: Dwayne Boroski
  • 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