Patent Application
20120012647
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The invention pertains to beverage containers comprising a disposable cardboard or plastic cup that are used for hot beverages.
Such containers are often used for dispensing and drinking hot beverages. A shortcoming of these containers, which are made in the form of regular disposable beverage cups, is that they do not provide sufficient protection from a hot beverage, especially because these disposable cups are made with very thin walls as a result of savings considerations. Moreover, the beverage gets cold very fast.
Therefore, the objective of the invention is to develop a container that would be able to contain a hot beverage while providing sufficient protection for the fingers against burns. In addition, the container should also ensure insulation for a hot beverage and slow down its cooling.
The technical result is achieved by the features of claim 1 of the invention. The container comprises a cardboard or plastic holder inside of which is a disposable beverage cup, wherein the holder is connected to the outside surface of the disposable beverage cup and located at a certain distance from the cup. In this way, the holder functions to protect the hands from touching the hot disposable beverage cup, while at the same time insulating the hot beverage.
The container can be held by a user with no contact with the disposable beverage cup, and used for drinking a hot beverage. The air gap between the holder and the disposable beverage cup retards the cooling process.
Preferred embodiments of the container follow from subordinate claims.
The holder can have a bottom portion and an upper circumference (edge). A disposable beverage cup can be placed into the holder and, at a minimum, the holder is connected by its upper circumference (edge) to a corresponding edge of the disposable beverage cup.
In an alternative embodiment, the holder embraces the disposable beverage cup by means of a container wall between the disposable beverage cup and the holder, and this container wall is connected to the disposable beverage cup's edge and bottom portion.
Another embodiment can also provide that the holder embraces the disposable beverage cup at a distance by means of the container wall; in this case, the disposable beverage cup's edge is connected to the container wall's edge, and the disposable beverage cup is placed into the holder, while the container wall is connected to the outer surface of the holder's edge.
According to a different embodiment, the container wall is made of small tubes (plates) and connected by means of its lower edge to the bottom portion of the holder, and a disposable beverage cup is placed into the holder.
The disposable beverage cup can be made with a film-thin wall reinforced with vertical ribs.
In production, the holder or container wall can be made from a certain cardboard or plastic film blank, wherein the blank vertical edges are connected to each other.
Yet another embodiment of the disposable beverage cup has an outward-bent edge, its width determining the distance between the disposable beverage cup and the holder, and the holder's edge is connected to the disposable beverage cup's edge.
It is preferable that the holder's edge is lower than the disposable beverage cup height.
The invention pertains to beverage containers comprising a disposable cardboard or plastic cup that are used for hot beverages. According to the invention, a cardboard or plastic holder embraces at a distance a disposable beverage cup and is connected to the cup outer surface and serves to protect fingers and insulate disposable beverage cup. Herein, the container can be used, without any danger of burning the fingers, to drink a hot beverage from a disposable beverage cup, and at the same time, slow down the cooling process due to air gaps between the disposable beverage cap and the holder.
FIG. 1—a container comprising a disposable beverage cup placed into a holder,
FIG. 2—a view of the container from the top down; the open top portion of a disposable beverage cup whose edge is connected to the holder,
FIG. 3—a view of the container from the bottom up showing the holder's bottom portion connected to the cup holder's outer surface
FIG. 4—a three-dimensional view of the holder with its walls made of small tubes (plates).
The container embodiment shown in
The disposable beverage cup can be made with a film-thin wall reinforced with vertical ribs (14).
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Thus, it has been made possible to have a stable holder 20 wherein a disposable beverage cup 10 can be placed. To secure the cup and holder at a certain distance, the upper circumference of the holder 20 can also be connected to an outward-bent top edge 11 of the disposable beverage cup 10, the top edge's width determining the distance between the disposable beverage container 10 and holder 20.
