Abstract: A liquid dispensing lid is described and which includes a lid body defining a drinking aperture, and an internal cavity, and wherein the lid body cooperates with a drinking vessel for enclosing a source of a liquid to be consumed, and a fluid regulating plate is provided, and which movably cooperates with the lid body, and which further is operable to move along a path of travel from a first position which impedes the movement of the liquid to the drinking aperture, to a second position which allows liquid to move to the drinking aperture.

Abstract: A drinking vessel for determining an amount of a liquid which is consumed and which includes a first portion, which has a base portion and a vertically, upwardly extending wall, and wherein the vertically upwardly extending wall defines an internal cavity, and the exterior-facing surface thereof defines a multiplicity of continuous, circumscribing, longitudinally spaced grooves; and a multiplicity of continuous, elastomeric members are individually received in the respective spaced grooves and which can be moved along the exterior-facing surface of the drinking vessel so as to permit a user to readily account for the amount of fluid they have consumed during a given time interval.

Abstract: A liquid dispensing lid is described and which includes a lid body which cooperates with a fluid dispensing vessel, and where the lid body defines a drinking aperture; an elongated fluid dispensing member movably cooperates with the upper surface of the lid body so as to selectively occlude the drinking aperture; and an elastomeric biasing member biasingly couples the elongated fluid dispending member to the lid body and further biasingly urges the elongated fluid dispensing member into an orientation where the elongated fluid dispensing member occludes the drinking aperture.

Abstract: A nesting bowl is described and which, when used in combination with other nesting bowls of a similar design, permits a user to remove a smaller nesting bowl from the internal cavity of a larger nesting bowl by exerting a downwardly directed force on the circumscribing flange of the innermost nesting bowl so as to cause the innermost nesting bowl to assume an elevated, and angulated orientation which allows the innermost nesting bowl to be easily removed, by hand, without contaminating the internal cavity of the smaller nesting bowl.

Abstract: A liquid dispensing lid is described and which includes a lid body which cooperates with a fluid dispensing vessel, and where the lid body defines a drinking aperture; an elongated fluid dispensing member movably cooperates with the upper surface of the lid body so as to selectively occlude the drinking aperture; and an elastomeric biasing member biasingly couples the elongated fluid dispending member to the lid body and further biasingly urges the elongated fluid dispensing member into an orientation where the elongated fluid dispensing member occludes the drinking aperture.

Abstract: A liquid dispensing lid is described and which includes a lid body defining a drinking aperture, and an internal cavity, and wherein the lid body cooperates with a drinking vessel for enclosing a source of a liquid to be consumed, and a fluid regulating plate is provided, and which movably cooperates with the lid body, and which further is operable to move along a path of travel from a first position which impedes the movement of the liquid to the drinking aperture, to a second position which allows liquid to move to the drinking aperture.

Abstract: A drinking vessel for determining an amount of a liquid which is consumed and which includes a first portion, which has a base portion and a vertically, upwardly extending wall, and wherein the vertically upwardly extending wall defines an internal cavity, and the exterior-facing surface thereof defines a multiplicity of continuous, circumscribing, longitudinally spaced grooves; and a multiplicity of continuous, elastomeric members are individually received in the respective spaced grooves and which can be moved along the exterior-facing surface of the drinking vessel so as to permit a user to readily account for the amount of fluid they have consumed during a given time interval.

Abstract: A liquid dispensing lid includes a lid body having an upper lower surface and a peripheral edge, and is sized so as to releasably cooperate with a fluid dispensing vessel having an internal cavity, and the lid body further defines a drinking aperture and a vent aperture; an elongated fluid dispensing member is mounted on the upper surface of the lid body; and an elastomeric valve member is releasably borne by the elongated fluid dispensing member, and which further is operable to move the elongated fluid dispensing member along a predetermined path of travel between a first and a second position.