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A combination toy and beverage dispensing device, primarily adapted for use with children and particularly minor children who are still consuming liquids from a bottle and similar dispensing device. The dispensing device has an outer housing which adopts the form of a ball and with which a toddler can play and use in a playpen or like confined area. The housing of the ball includes an interior chamber capable of retaining a beverage or other liquid, such as milk, to be dispensed through a valve arrangement. The valve arrangement has an actuating mechanism with an outer surface generally conforming to the surface of the ball housing. When the actuating member is pushed against, as, for example, by the lips of the child user, it will cause an extension or outward extending movement of a stem. The stem contains a liquid delivery tube and an air supply tube which both extend into the beverage in the interior chamber. When the actuating member is not pushed against, and in a rest position, the air supply tube and the liquid delivery tube are both blocked. However, when the child user pushes against the actuating member to engage his or her lips upon the stem, the pushing of the actuating member will also open the liquid delivery tube and the air supply tube, thereby enabling a delivery of the beverage to the child user.
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