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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Precision Products Group, Inc., Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Inventor:
John P. O'Neill, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47G 21/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47G 21/186 (2013.01); A47G 21/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A drinking straw includes a cylindrical sidewall having a longitudinal axis and a flexible region formed in the sidewall. The flexible region including a plurality of segmented sections separated from each other by inward annular corrugations. Each corrugation has a height parallel to the longitudinal axis and a depth transverse to the longitudinal axis. The height of each corrugation is one and a half times greater than the depth of the corrugation.