US 12,221,253 B2
Drinking and sealing lids for vessels and associated devices and methods
Elizabeth J. Myers, Bainbridge Island, WA (US)
Assigned to CERES CHILL CO., Bainbridge Island, WA (US)
Filed by Ceres Chill Co., Bainbridge Island, WA (US)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/990,464.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/281,470, filed on Nov. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0159231 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. B65D 43/02 (2006.01); A47G 19/22 (2006.01); B65D 47/06 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 43/0212 (2013.01) [A47G 19/2272 (2013.01); B65D 47/06 (2013.01); B65D 2543/00046 (2013.01); B65D 2543/00305 (2013.01); B65D 2543/00537 (2013.01); B65D 2543/0099 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sip lid for a children's drinking vessel, comprising:
a spout component having a first end region and a second end region opposite to the first end region, wherein—
the spout component is shaped and sized to be received within a child's mouth, and
the first end region comprises one or more openings configured to allow liquid to be extracted through the spout component when the child is applying suction to the spout component; and
a base component having (i) a top portion extending from the second end region of the spout component and surrounding the spout component, and (ii) a side portion extending away from the top portion and configured to extend around a neck of the children's drinking vessel, wherein the side portion comprises—
a first inner surface,
one or more ridges extending radially inward from the first inner surface and configured to concur within threads along the neck, and
a peripheral edge region having a second inner surface with a larger diameter than that of the first inner surface around a circumference of the peripheral edge region, the second inner surface being substantially parallel to the first inner surface; and
the base component is made from an elastic material configured to allow the base component to stretch over differently sized mouths of drinking vessels to form a liquid-tight seal between the base component and the drinking vessels.