Patent Application
20200121104
This application claims the benefit of Chinese Patent Application No. 201811211025.0 filed on Oct. 17, 2018, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to housewares, specifically to a paper cup.
Plastic straws are commonly used and preferred when people are drinking beverages out of paper cups. The rationale behind drinking through straws relies on atmospheric pressure. When sucking out part of the air in a straw the air pressure above the liquid in the straw is reduced, whereupon atmospheric pressure forces the liquid through the straw in order to balance the air pressure. When the suction stops, the liquid in the straw goes back to the original water level, the air pressure is thus restored to balance. This is how a straw works.
However straws have made quite an environmental impact recently, proposal to ban on plastic straws becomes heated as it is significant to boycotting single-use plastic products. Plastic straw accounts for the sixth commonly seen waste in the world and one of the ten oceanic pollutions. Campaigns are launched for encouraging people to use less plastic straws. It is estimated that the earth is expected to have 12 billion tons of plastic waste by the year of 2050, almost 9 million tons of which will be emitted into the ocean. These plastic wastes include plastic bags, plastic bottles, plastic wraps as well as plastic straws. Plastic straws account only for 4% of plastic waste in the world, but they contribute to 2 thousand tons of pollutions. In addition, plastic straws are regarded as the ultimate waste produced by human beings as they are barely recyclable and of low recycling value. Therefore plastic straws are still lethal to the oceans regardless of its low proportion among overall plastic productions and its small size. With the promotion of the environmental protection concept, everyone's mind has more or less the protection awareness of the green earth and the blue ocean. And such a beautiful and far-reaching idea may start with an attitude towards a straw.
The embodiments of the present invention aim at providing a paper cup with straw so as to resolve the above-mentioned problems arising from using plastic straws.
In order to realize the above-mentioned goals, the embodiments of the present invention provide a paper cup with straw. The paper cup with straw comprises a sectioned-ring-shaped paper sheet for making a cup body and a round paper sheet for making a cup bottom. The sectioned-ring-shaped paper sheet and the round paper sheet are affixed to form the paper cup. An edge of a top arch of the sectioned-ring-shaped paper sheet is provided with at least one protruding rectangular paper sheet that is integrally formed with the sectioned-ring-shaped paper sheet. An edge of a bottom arch of the sectioned-ring-shaped paper sheet is provided with at least one notch corresponding to the protruding rectangular paper sheet. The protruding rectangular paper sheet is rolled via a cylindrical mold to form an upper portion of a straw. A lower portion of the straw is connected to a receiving room of the paper cup via the notch.
Preferably, the edge of the top arch of the sectioned-ring-shaped paper sheet is provided with a left-side protruding rectangular paper sheet and a right-side protruding rectangular paper sheet that are symmetrically arranged. And the edge of the bottom arch of the sectioned-ring-shaped paper sheet is provided with at least one notch.
Preferably, the edge of the bottom arch of the sectioned-ring-shaped paper sheet is provided with a right-side notch. The left-side protruding rectangular paper sheet and a first strip portion of the sectioned-ring-shaped paper sheet together are pressed by the cylindrical mold to form at least one outwardly-arched curved portion of the straw. The right-side protruding rectangular paper sheet and a second strip portion of the sectioned-ring-shaped paper sheet together are pressed by the cylindrical mold to form at least one inwardly-arched curved portion of the straw. The second strip portion of the sectioned-ring-shaped paper sheet is arranged between the right-side protruding rectangular paper sheet and the notch. The outwardly-arched curved portion of the straw and the inwardly-arched curved portion of the straw are affixed to form an inner space of the straw; the inner space of the straw communicates with the receiving room of the paper cup via the right-side notch.
Preferably, the left-side or the right-side protruding rectangular paper sheet has a height of 10 mm to 100 mm.
Preferably, the left-side protruding rectangular paper sheet and the right-side protruding rectangular paper sheet are respectively arranged on two extreme edge portions of the edge of the top arch of the sectioned-ring-shape paper sheet, a left-side notch and a right-side notch are correspondingly arranged on two extreme edge portions of the edge of the bottom arch of the sectioned-ring-shaped paper sheet. The left-side protruding rectangular paper sheet and a third strip portion of the sectioned-ring-shaped paper sheet between the left-side protruding rectangular paper sheet and the left-side notch together are pressed by the cylindrical mold to form a left-side straw, the left-side straw communicates with the receiving room of the paper cup through the left-side notch. The right-side protruding rectangular paper sheet and a fourth strip portion of the sectioned-ring-shaped paper sheet between the right-side protruding rectangular paper sheet and the right-side notch together are pressed by the cylindrical mold to form a right-side straw, the right-side straw communicates with the receiving room of the paper cup through the right-side notch. The left-side straw and the right-side straw are affixed together.
Preferably, the upper portion of the straw that is above the paper cup is made as a concertina-type hinge to be bendable for convenience.
Embodiments of the present invention possess the following merits:
The paper cup provided in embodiments of the present invention is integrally formed by the rolled paper straw and the cup body and no additional straw is needed, which thereby eliminates the problem of environmental pollution caused by the consumption of plastic straws. In addition, since paper straws are environmentally-friendly, they will be degraded to disappear into the soil after several months of use and will not pollute the environment.
The methods of carrying out the present invention are described below by way of specific embodiments. And those skilled in the art are able to understand other advantages and functions of the present invention from the disclosure.
It should be understood that the structures, the proportions, and the sizes illustrated in the drawings are only used for supporting the contents disclosed in the specification so as to give the skilled in the art a better understanding. These conditions are not intended to limit the implementation of the present invention therefore are not technically meaningful. Any modifications to the structure, changes to the proportion or adjustments to the size, on the premises of not affecting the effects and the achievable objects of the present invention, are able to fall within the scope of the technical content disclosed in the present invention. In the meantime, the terms ‘upper’, ‘lower’, ‘left’, ‘right’, ‘intermediate’, and the like, are used in this specification for convenience of description only, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Changes or adjustments to the relative positions are considered to be within the scope of the present invention without substantial changes.
The above-mentioned embodiments are the preferred embodiments of the present invention. Variations and modifications are allowed within the scope of the invention. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the features described above can be combined in various ways to form multiple variations of the invention. As a result, such variations fall within the scope of the protection to the present invention.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 201811211025.0 | Oct 2018 | CN | national |
