Patent ID: 7182216

Claim:
A drinking cup for consuming a beverage directly from a container holding the beverage, comprising: a hollow body penetrated by a beverage inlet centered on an axis, an air inlet, and a mouth opening, the hollow body having a wall with an annular cross section surrounding the axis, and a closing wall connected to the wall with an annular cross section, oblique with respect to the axis, and having the air inlet and the mouth opening, respectively relatively near and relatively far from the beverage inlet in an axial direction, the air inlet and the mouth opening being contiguous to the wall with an annular cross section and to the closing wall, wherein the wall with an annular cross section is a surface of revolution which flares outward from the beverage inlet, and a mid-plane joining the air inlet to the mouth opening forms, with the axis, an angle which is, at most, 60 degrees.