Patent ID: 8444022

Claim:
A container adapted to facilitate pouring a liquid therefrom, the container comprising: a base and a wall collectively delineating an interior space for holding the liquid, the wall terminating at its upper end in a rim; a first portion of the wall extending around less than an entire perimeter of the container, opposing sides of the first portion of the wall terminating in opposing terminal ends that are spaced apart from each other by a resting distance when the container is in a resting state, the first portion of the wall being made from a first material having a first stiffness, the first material being sufficiently resilient to be deformed by a manual force between the resting state and a deformed state in which the opposing terminal ends are spaced apart from each other by a deformed distance less than the resting distance, the first material also being sufficiently resilient that the first portion of the wall returns to the resting state when the manual force is removed; a second portion of the wall extending around the entire container from the base to the rim, the second portion of the wall being made from a second material having a second stiffness less than the first stiffness such that, when the first portion of the wall is deformed from the resting state to the deformed state and the opposing terminal ends change from being spaced apart by the resting distance to being spaced apart by the smaller deformed distance, the portion of the second portion of the wall that is circumferentially between the opposing terminal ends of the first portion of the wall bulges outward to form a pour spout in the wall of the container.