Patent ID: 8322562
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A bellows beverage lid, comprising an annular rim adapted for attachment to a rim of a beverage container and a central beverage cover encircled by the annular rim, the central beverage cover being located above the annular rim and including a recessed fixed portion and a bellows portion pivotally attached to the fixed portion at its lower portion and defining a raised ridge at its upper portion, the bellows portion further defining a plurality of peripheral pleats disposed opposite the fixed portion and forming the outermost surface of the cover, wherein the pleats are contiguous to the annular rim, the bellows portion having a single unobstructed port located above the pleats and coplanar with the upper portion of the raised ridge for the passage and cooling of fluids therethrough, the bellows being resiliently biased to a raised position sloping upward from the recessed fixed portion and compressible to a lowered portion substantially coplanar with the fixed portion, the bellows being adapted for cooling the beverage by repetitively expanding and collapsing the bellows.