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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 09, 1998
Andrzej Skoskiewicz, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Elisha Tal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rickson Sun, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Patrick Gilmore, Memphis, TN (US);
Said Farha, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Eileen Bravmann, South Salem, NY (US);
Roby Stancel, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Scott Stropkay, Carlisle, MA (US);
Axel Unger, Boston, MA (US);
Gary Shigeru Natsume, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert C Meyer, Wilton, CT (US);
Adriana Colombo, New Fairfield, CT (US);
PepsiCo, Inc., Purchase, NY (US);
Abstract
A beverage container is disclosed which includes a stackable cup and a stackable cover which have cooperating thread forms for selectively securing the cover to the cup in a substantially liquid-tight relationship. The cover has a beverage dispensing opening and a cap which is selectively operable to open and close the opening to prevent beverage in the container from being poured out of the opening and to selectively allow beverage to be poured or drunk from the opening.