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US8162170:
Tip resistant beverage container providing a tip lip
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Massad, Gary L.; Oklahoma City, OK, United States of America
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
2012-04-24
/ 2006-04-19
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| Application Number: |
US2006000406613
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A47J 41/00;
B65D 25/20;
B65D 81/38;
F25D 3/08;
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| ECLA Code: |
B65D25/24; B65D17/02;
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| U.S. Class: |
220/739;
220/592.17;
220/630;
248/311.2;
248/346.11;
062/457.4;
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| Field of Search: |
220/603,729,571,571.1,625,626,628,630-632,636,731,DIG. 5,737,739
248/346.11,311.2
062/457.4
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| Priority Number: |
| 2006-04-19 |
US2006000406613 |
| 2005-04-19 |
US2005000672714P |
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| Abstract: |
A beverage container that includes at least a bottom portion with a side portion extending from the bottom portion, and a balance mass in pressing engagement with the bottom portion is disclosed. The balance mass is adjacent an inner surface of the bottom portion in a preferred embodiment, and adjacent an outer surface in an alternate preferred embodiment. In each embodiment, the balance mass includes at least a core portion encapsulated by an encapsulant, in which the density of the core is greater than the density of a beverage of the beverage container. In the alternate preferred embodiment, the balance mass further includes a tip lip portion with a condensate retention ridge, and a condensate aperture. The condensate retention ridge, in cooperation with a side portion of the balance mass, forms a condensate channel, and the condensate aperture drains condensate from the condensate channel.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Dooley, Daniel P. ;
Hall Estill ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Pickett, J. Gregory; Walker, Ned A
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None
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RELATED APPLICATIONS
The present application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/672,714 filed Apr. 19, 2005, entitled Tip Resistant Beverage Container.
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First Claim:
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1. A container comprising: a bottom portion; a side portion extending from the bottom portion, in which the side portion comprises an interior wall and an exterior wall, wherein the container directly contains a fluid adjacent the interior wall, and wherein the side portion provides a constant cross-sectional area along its entire length; and a balance mass, in which the balance mass comprises a core portion encapsulated by an encapsulant, and wherein the encapsulant is in pressing engagement with the exterior wall, and further wherein the encapsulant directly contacting the core portion forms a base region in contacting adjacency with a container support surface, and in which the encapsulant further comprises a side surface and a tip lip portion extending radially from the side surface at a proximal end, the tip lip offset from the container support surface and providing a ridge interposed mid-way between the proximal end and a distal end of the tip lip, wherein the tip lip portion mitigates an inadvertent engagement of the side portion with the container support surface supporting the base region.
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