Patent ID: 8529119

Claim:
A drinking apparatus comprising: a mug body to hold a beverage and having an open top; a lid fitted to the open top of the mug body and having a base in which a sipper hole is formed, a raised rim extending upward from the base at its periphery and having a shape selected to provide a mouthpiece at which a user is to sip the beverage out through the sipper hole; a sipping mechanism having an open position through which there can be beverage flow out of the mug body through the sipper hole in the lid, and a closed position that blocks the sipper hole so as to preclude the beverage flow, wherein the sipping mechanism comprises a flap coupled to the lid so as to rotate about a pivot axis, between the closed position and the open position; and a stirring mechanism having a handle atop the lid, the handle being coupled to an arm extending down from a bottom of the lid into the mug body, and an agitator element coupled to the arm at a position inside the mug body, the stirring mechanism to translate linear movement of the handle into rotation of the agitator element; and an infusion compartment coupled to the arm at a position inside the mug.