Patent ID: 9637284
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: B65D

Claim:
1. A liquid dispensing lid comprising: a lid body having an upper and lower surface, and a peripheral edge, and wherein the lid body is sized so as to releasably cooperate with a fluid dispensing vessel having an internal cavity, and wherein the lid body further defines a drinking aperture, and wherein a vent aperture is formed in the lid body and is further located in spaced relation relative to the drinking aperture, and wherein the drinking aperture, and vent aperture each extend through the lid body, and communicate with the internal cavity of the fluid dispensing vessel, and wherein an elastomeric biasing member aperture is formed in the lid body, and which further extends through the upper and lower surfaces thereof, and wherein a cavity is defined by the upper surface of the lid body, and wherein the lid body is generally circular in shape, and the cavity formed in the upper surface of the lid body extends, generally radially inwardly relative to the peripheral edge of the lid body, and wherein the cavity is defined, at least in part, by a pair of spaced sidewalls, and a bottom surface, and wherein the vent aperture, drinking aperture, and the elastomeric biasing member aperture are formed in the bottom surface of the cavity, and wherein a sloped camming surface juxtaposed relative to at least one of the sidewalls that define the cavity, and which is formed in the upper surface of the lid body, and wherein a discontinuous, upwardly extending lid body wall is made integral with peripheral edge of the lid body, and further defines a passageway which coaxially communicates with the cavity which if formed in the upper surface of the lid body; an elongated, fluid dispensing member which moveably cooperates with the upper surface of the lid body so as to selectively occlude the drinking aperture, and wherein the elongated fluid dispensing member is sized so as to be matingly received in the cavity, and located between the pair of spaced sidewalls; and an elastomeric biasing member which biasingly couples the elongated, fluid dispensing member to the lid body, and which further biasingly urges the elongated, fluid dispensing member into an orientation where the elongated, fluid dispensing member occludes the drinking aperture.