Sealable cover for an open beverage container
CA 2096560 C · Owner: Stephens, Ruth Ann · Inventors: Pino, Giovanni; Stephens, Ruth Ann
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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This cover for an opened beverage container has a pivoted valve in the withdrawal passage that is opened and closed according to the position of a tubular spout integral with the valve. The valve is supported by journals engaging bearings, and having a conical sealing portion. The spout has a ball-ended vent plug engageable with a vent opening in the cover, with the opening having a snap-in section and a dissociated more relaxed sealing section that continues to grip the ball end gently after repeated uses of the snap-in function.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed May 19, 1993 and granted July 1, 1997. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 19, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by May 19, 2015.
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