Takeya USA Corporation

Hiroshi Taketani

Yukio Kino

Nobuhiro Iwamura

Noboru Iwamura

A drinking assembly, such as a water bottle or a drinkware, having a drinking vessel and a lid assembly attached to the drinking vessel, such as by threads. The drinking vessel can have a double-wall construction. The lid assembly can have a control assembly to open and close a drink opening and a vent opening. The lid assembly can be removed from the body of the lid to enable cleaning. The control arm of the control assembly can pivot or rotate to impart an axial motion on an actuator to open the drink opening and the vent opening.

Assemblies for drinking and related methods

Mug with lid

Infuser for a pitcher

A drinking vessel includes a first receptacle having a first circumferential side wall extending from a closed bottom end to a shoulder having a peripheral edge defining a first diameter. An externally-threaded attachment portion, defining a second diameter smaller than the first diameter, extends from the shoulder to a circumferential lip. A second receptacle configured to fit inside the first receptacle has a second circumferential side wall extending from a closed bottom end to an upper rim defining an open top end. A circumferential flange, depending downwardly from the rim and fitting coaxially around the attachment portion, has a lower end separated from the shoulder by a circumferential gap. The flange has an outer surface and an internally-threaded portion that mates with the attachment portion. A resilient element has a grip portion fixed to the outer surface of the flange and a sealing portion configured to seal the gap.

Dual wall tumbler

Container lid

Growing community of inventors

Osaka, Japan

Hiroshi Taketani