| 摘要 |
An extendible flexible drinking straw segment (10) fabricated so as to be collapsible after having been extended and capable of being bent into many different configurations. The drinking straw segment (10) has male and female tubular end sections (14) and (12) respectively, capable of being joined together in liquid-tight junction (20) or to other like drinking straw segments to form a longer structure. The segment (10) provides a flexible, accordion-like, tubular zone (18) intermediate the end sections (14) and (12). In a further embodiment the male end 34 would be externally threaded and the female end 32 would be internally threaded. Like drinking straw segments are connected using a threaded connection. In another embodiment, each straw section is made of a rigid plastic, e.g., a food grade high density plastic. In this embodiment, when the straw sections are connected together, the straw looks continuous. There is a series of ridges on a male end element which mate with a series of innermost portions of the female end section.
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