Patent ID: 6929135

Claim:
Apparatus for holding and dispensing a beverage, wherein said apparatus comprises: a bottle, holding the beverage, including an opening and a neck extending downward from the opening; a cap covering the opening of the bottle; a straw held within the bottle; and a stopper held on the straw within the bottle, wherein an upper portion of the straw extends upward from the stopper, a lower portion of the straw extends downward from the stopper, the stopper and straw are movable together with the cap removed from the bottle into a deployed position with the stopper disposed within the neck of the bottle and with the upper portion of the straw extending outward from the bottle, the stopper includes a flexible structure holding the stopper within the neck of the bottle in the deployed position, an air path extending through the stopper, a straw hole through which said straw extends, and a flexible member moving into an open position to admit air into the bottle through the air path with the stopper in the deployed position when suction is applied to the bottle through the straw and closing to prevent the movement of air and of the beverage through the air path with the stopper in the deployed position when suction is not applied to the bottle through the straw.