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4726518 Straw for sucking beverages
PATENT ABSTRACTS
4726489 YOGURT CONTAINER AND C O V E R THEREFOR Pietro Padovani, Verona, Italy assigned to I S A P SpA (Industrie Specializzate Articoli Plastici) A yogurt container and a cover therefor obtained from a sheet of thermo-plastics material, wherein said container comprises a hollow frusto-conical body, radiused to a flat edge by means of at least an annular step-like-projection and by means of a side wall portion, and wherein said cover being nestable in the container above said body comprises a peripheral wall and a central handgrip. The side wall portion is formed of an upper part downwardly frusto-conical and of a lower cylindrical part. A plurality of recesses are provided inside the container in the region where said cylindrtical part and said frustoconical part join together, each recess being formed of a base and of an upwardly tapered wall and being a spacer between stacked empty containers. The elastically yieldable peripheral wall of the cover is upwardly substantially frustoconical and can be radially pressed in- and/or outwardly by means of at least an annular channel provided between the said peripheral wall and the handgrip and by means of the cylindrical part of said wall portion of the container to improve considerably the tightness between the cover and the container and to withstand inwards bending of the side wall of the container. According to another embodiment the side wall portion of the container comprises a back draft part, a projection, a cylindrical part and a downwardly frusto-conical part, while in another embodiment the peripheral wall of the cover is downwardly frustoconical and in its upper part is provided with a small flange. For an easy removal of the cover the side wall of the handgrip is of a downwardly frusto-conical shape and/or is provided with downwardly frusto-conical flutes tapering towards the axis of the cover for facilitating axial drafts on the cover and/or for imparting torsional movements to the cover around the axis thereof.
4726493 ACTUATOR VALVE FOR DISPENSER OF CARBONATED BEVERAGES Robert P Wallace, William P Nugent, Kenneth C Newton assigned to Brewster Plastics Inc
303
An improved home dispenser of carbonated beverages is disclosed, together with a novel actuator valve mechanism. The valve mechanism may be shifted from the non-dispensing to the dispensing mode with minimum of applied force by reason of the interaction between sealing gaskets carried by the valve stem and complemental gasket enveloping skirts formed within the valve, the skirts being calculated to be radially outwardly deformed by pressure applied by the gaskets.
4726494 BEVERAGE DIPENSING APPARATUS Alistair Scott, Cambridge, United Kingdom assigned to Isoworth Limited Apparatus for making flavored carbonated beverages includes a carbonator (2) and concentrate supply (4). The latter includes a metering chamber (24) so that metered quantities of concentrate are supplied for making each drink. Concentrate is drawn from a supply bottle (6) into the metering chamber (24) by creating a reduced pressure therein with the aid of a venturi (20) through which carbon dioxide gas under pressure is supplied. The gas from the venturi (20) is directed downwardly into the upper part of the concentrate bottle which includes a baffle structure (48) which prevents this gas impinging directly on the surface of the concentrate and which is so arranged that the gas entering the bottle (6) passes to a gas outlet (72) route only via the space above the concentrate, so that unwanted discharge of concentrate through the outlet route is prevented.
4726518 STRAW FOR SUCKING BEVERAGES Emanuela Martina, Milano, Italy
Maria
Ruvolo,
20158
A straw for sucking beverages which can be utilized to convey advertizing information and messages includes a panel having two opposed flat major faces, a plurality of channels extending between the major faces and having open ends at opposite edges of the panel, and at least one liquid suction region and liquid pick-up region which are formed at the edges and interconnected by at least two of the channels.
4726489 YOGURT CONTAINER AND C O V E R THEREFOR Pietro Padovani, Verona, Italy assigned to I S A P SpA (Industrie Specializzate Articoli Plastici) A yogurt container and a cover therefor obtained from a sheet of thermo-plastics material, wherein said container comprises a hollow frusto-conical body, radiused to a flat edge by means of at least an annular step-like-projection and by means of a side wall portion, and wherein said cover being nestable in the container above said body comprises a peripheral wall and a central handgrip. The side wall portion is formed of an upper part downwardly frusto-conical and of a lower cylindrical part. A plurality of recesses are provided inside the container in the region where said cylindrtical part and said frustoconical part join together, each recess being formed of a base and of an upwardly tapered wall and being a spacer between stacked empty containers. The elastically yieldable peripheral wall of the cover is upwardly substantially frustoconical and can be radially pressed in- and/or outwardly by means of at least an annular channel provided between the said peripheral wall and the handgrip and by means of the cylindrical part of said wall portion of the container to improve considerably the tightness between the cover and the container and to withstand inwards bending of the side wall of the container. According to another embodiment the side wall portion of the container comprises a back draft part, a projection, a cylindrical part and a downwardly frusto-conical part, while in another embodiment the peripheral wall of the cover is downwardly frustoconical and in its upper part is provided with a small flange. For an easy removal of the cover the side wall of the handgrip is of a downwardly frusto-conical shape and/or is provided with downwardly frusto-conical flutes tapering towards the axis of the cover for facilitating axial drafts on the cover and/or for imparting torsional movements to the cover around the axis thereof.
4726493 ACTUATOR VALVE FOR DISPENSER OF CARBONATED BEVERAGES Robert P Wallace, William P Nugent, Kenneth C Newton assigned to Brewster Plastics Inc
303
An improved home dispenser of carbonated beverages is disclosed, together with a novel actuator valve mechanism. The valve mechanism may be shifted from the non-dispensing to the dispensing mode with minimum of applied force by reason of the interaction between sealing gaskets carried by the valve stem and complemental gasket enveloping skirts formed within the valve, the skirts being calculated to be radially outwardly deformed by pressure applied by the gaskets.
4726494 BEVERAGE DIPENSING APPARATUS Alistair Scott, Cambridge, United Kingdom assigned to Isoworth Limited Apparatus for making flavored carbonated beverages includes a carbonator (2) and concentrate supply (4). The latter includes a metering chamber (24) so that metered quantities of concentrate are supplied for making each drink. Concentrate is drawn from a supply bottle (6) into the metering chamber (24) by creating a reduced pressure therein with the aid of a venturi (20) through which carbon dioxide gas under pressure is supplied. The gas from the venturi (20) is directed downwardly into the upper part of the concentrate bottle which includes a baffle structure (48) which prevents this gas impinging directly on the surface of the concentrate and which is so arranged that the gas entering the bottle (6) passes to a gas outlet (72) route only via the space above the concentrate, so that unwanted discharge of concentrate through the outlet route is prevented.
4726518 STRAW FOR SUCKING BEVERAGES Emanuela Martina, Milano, Italy
Maria
Ruvolo,
20158
A straw for sucking beverages which can be utilized to convey advertizing information and messages includes a panel having two opposed flat major faces, a plurality of channels extending between the major faces and having open ends at opposite edges of the panel, and at least one liquid suction region and liquid pick-up region which are formed at the edges and interconnected by at least two of the channels.