Hot beverage container lid-insert constructions

摘要

A hot beverage lid construction is used in combination with a hot beverage container for enhancing the safety of the outfitted beverage container and for selectively cooling the beverage prior to consumption and preventing spillage. The lid construction includes an inner container wall-engaging, lid-to-wall locking structure. The lid construction is outfitted upon a beverage container such that the inner container wall-engaging, lid-to-wall locking structure engages and effectively locks the lid construction to inner container wall surfacing of the beverage container. The lid construction, being outfitted upon the beverage container, defines a lower beverage-receiving compartment and at least one upper beverage flow channel. Each beverage flow channel effectively functions to receive heat from channel-received beverage before the channel-received beverage exits the primary beverage outlet. A bypass element is selectively removable from a lower-inner material layer of the lid construction so as to enable the user to bypass flow channel functionality.

主权项

1. A hot beverage container assembly, the hot beverage container assembly comprising, in combination:
a beverage container and a lid construction, the beverage container comprising an inner container wall surfacing and an upper container rim, the lid construction comprising a primary beverage outlet and a container-to-lid interface assembly, the container-to-lid interface assembly comprising means for receiving the upper container rim and an inner container wall-engaging, lid-to-wall locking structure, the lid construction being outfitted upon the beverage container such that the upper container rim is received by the means for receiving the upper container rim and the inner container wall-engaging, lid-to-wall locking structure engages and effectively locks the lid construction to the inner container wall surfacing, the lid construction, being outfitted upon the beverage container, defining a lower beverage-receiving compartment and at least one upper beverage flow channel, each beverage flow channel for receiving heat from a beverage before said beverage exits the primary beverage outlet.