Table air pot for hot and cold water

摘要

This invention provides a table air pot for keeping hot or cold liquid comprising a wide mouth vacuum-insulated bottle housed in an outer casing and supported by upper and lower supporting means respectively fixed on the top and bottom ends of the outer casing. The lid of the table air pot includes in combination a bellow-type pump device for pumping up the liquid contained in the bottle into a drink cup while the air pot stands upright on a table, and a plug fixed to the bottom of the pump device for closing the bottle when the lid in its closed position. The tube for discharging the liquid from the bottle in response to the operation of the pump device is fixed on the upper supporting means for the bottle and is physically separated from the plug of the lid. Thus, the table air pot according to this invention can become ready to be filled with liquid by a single operation of opening the lid without need of removing the liquid tube.