A Thermal Coffee Cup
US 2661889; Priority date Jul 20, 1948
A thermal coffee cup is also an
invention for insulating a user’s hand from a hot beverage cup. The motivation
and background is to provide a combined holder and coffee cup which is of
simple construction, inexpensive to manufacture, easy to assemble, and easy for
users to use. The technology is to design an insulating jacket, which is
provided with a corrugated lining to receive a cup-like container. This patent
claims an insulated container jacket which comprises an outer frusto
conical-shaped sleeves and an inner corrugated lining.
Sleeve construction for improved paperboard cup insulation
US 6152363; May 3, 1999
This invention is a sleeve with
hot-melt glue dots that improves the insulating characterizes of a paperboard
cup to the same level of common polystyrene cups. The motivation is to design a
lightweight sleeve cut from a single blank, adds an air-gap layer, and
preserves a smooth outside-sleeve surface for printing. The technology is to
add plurality of air-gap means rigidly attached to the first side of the
sleeve. There are total of five claims that include the sleeve construction
components and structure.
Insulating
Sleeve
US 63433735
B1; Priority date May 4, 2000
Insulating Sleeve is an improved sleeve for insulating a user’s
hand from a hot beverage cup. The background and motivation for this invention
is to find an inexpensive, biodegradable and adequate insulation for the user’s
hand from the temperature of a liquid contained in a cup to replace the more
commonly used Styrofoam, which is bad for the environment and the corrugated
paperboard, which doesn’t provide sufficient insulation. The technology and
idea is to design two wings or ridges that are placed away from the cup
sidewall by a spacer element to provide the person with gripping not in contact
with the cup. There are total of fifteen claims for the two sleeve portions
angled away from the sidewall, location of the sleeve portions, structure,
where it is used, and how it can be made.
Thermal Sleeve, Method for Manufacturing a Thermal sleeve, and Combination Cup and Thermal Sleeve
US 8251277 B1, Priority date
Thermal Sleeve, as the name suggests, is an invention to provide a thermal insulation. The technology is to use a creped paper in the form of a laminate to design a product with a first end, a second end, a first cup opening, and a second cup opening, and an adhesive holding the first end and the second end together to form a wrap around a cup. There are thirteen associated claims that include composition and structure of the said sleeve, and different combinations of the said sleeve with variety of cups in different materials.
Beverage cup
sleeving system and method
US20080078824
A1; Priority date (?) Aug 23, 2006
The invention is beverage sleeve comprising a layer of
elastomer. This design is motivated by the desire to provide an insulating cup
sleeve that is effective when wetted, effective against extremely high and low
temperatures, is reusable and easily manufactured. The technology is to use the
elastomeric and fabric composite sleeve as insulating material. There are total
of twenty patents comprising the insulating system, cup protector components,
and insulating ring configuration.
Temperature-indicating sleeve and related container
US 8118189 B1; Priority date Dec 15, 2006
Temperature-indicating
sleeve and container is an invention with visible temperature indicator in or
on the sidewall of the container to indicate the temperature of the contents
inside the container. The motivation and background is the observation that
when hot items such as coffee and tea in insulated containers are purchased for
immediate consumption, consumers generally can’t tell if the item is too hot to
consume. Thus, carelessness can easily lead to scald or burn the mouth, lips,
or other parts of the body if spilled. The technology is a sleeve with a
visually observable temperature indicator on or in the sleeve wall. The
temperature indicator is calibrated according to the known insulating property
of the container. There are eighteen associated claims for this invention.
Claims one through seventeen include the basic components and composition
arrangement of the sleeve and container. Claim eighteen is a method of
manufacturing such product.
Protective
Sleeve
US
20100019023; Priority date (?) July 25, 2008
This is another invention of protective sleeve that aims to
provide insulation from user’s hand and the temperature of the container. The
uniqueness of the sleeve is the arc-shape. According to the inventor, the arch
shape reduce sheet material as compare to sleeves without an arc shape, and
more efficient to manufacture than sleeves which adapt to the shape of a
conical cup by the expansion of slits, notches and honeycomb structure. There
are total of twenty claims, which include basic structure of the sleeve, method
for forming such sleeve, and the corresponding sheet material.
Hot and Cold
Cup Sleeve
US
20140151385; Priority date(?) Feb 6, 2014
This is one of the newer inventions on sleeve that aims to
insulate hand from the container’s temperature. This invention is motivated by
the observation that hot cup sleeves do not work well for the cold drinks
because cold drink gathers moisture and cold cup sleeves are bulky. With the
goal of designing an inexpensive, thin, single-use sleeve for hot/cold
beverage, the designer invented a light weighted product with three layers. The
inner layer is water absorbent to prevent condensation from dripping onto the
table and the outer layer is made of non-woven synthetic fabric to keep hands
dry. These two layers are connected with polyethylene film. There are total of
twelve associated claims that include the components of the sleeves, the
materials, and functionalities of the components.
Hi Cai!
ReplyDeleteAppreciated your different approach to discussing the patents from me where you talked about everything in a paragraph format! Written very well and everything made logical sense.
Awesome job, Yi, well done! Just as Aradhana said, this is very well written and presented in a logical order.
ReplyDeleteHi Guy! Great comment except it would have been great if you mentioned specifics from blog.
DeleteThis will be pretty meta of me, but I liked that you included my comment in your comment. I liked when other people did this on my blog, because it was like further confirmation on what someone had already said about my blog post.
DeleteHi Yi,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your blog post. you were very thorough and discussed them logically. It is clear you read through each patent and have a grasp.
Hi Cai!
ReplyDeleteGreat work. Your summaries are concise and very thorough! Keep it up.
Great comment, but maybe include specific things she can work on in the future!
DeleteHi Cai!
ReplyDeleteGreat work. Your summaries are concise and very thorough! Keep it up.
I really enjoyed your summaries! They were very concise. You took some very interesting approaches. Thanks for the post. :)
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Hi Yi,
ReplyDeleteWhat I thought you did best in this blog specifically was to list out the primary components of each patent, what you discerned as most important about each patent, and laid it out in a manner that was easy for us to understand. These patents are quite difficult to interpret so the way you explained them was relatively easy on the average reader. One suggestion is maybe to describe the diagrams listed in each patent a bit more as these are critical to understanding the entire composition of the patent. Fantastic job nonetheless!
I like how you pinpointed your favorite part about the blog. I do like your suggestion as well. Very nice comment.
DeleteI really like how you point out what you liked about this post, then giving her some suggestion to further improver her blog post!
DeleteHi Yi,
ReplyDeleteI thought you did a great job accurately summarizing all of the patents. Nice job organizing!
Sasha
Hey Yi,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your post and I appreciate your thorough and detailed explanations which helped me better understand about patents.
Great work!
Hi Yi,
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job summarizing the patents. I really liked the key differences you noted for each patent and the impact it would have on overall utility. I think it could have more detail on back ground however. Keep up the good work!
I like that you offered a suggestion to improve. It provides so much more than
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Hi Yi! Great explanations! I like how you clearly wrote which patent, the priority date, and then gave a good summary of the paten. It was really easy to understand! Thanks for the good insight :)
ReplyDeleteNice to go over specific parts of the post when you commented. Lets the reader know that you read her post through, which is important for the reader. Nice!
DeleteGreat job! I like the explanations. It would be cool to see how similar other patents which exist in this field might be to the patents you explored.
ReplyDeleteGood job explaining each topic and very well structured as well.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was very well organized and understood. You articulated the concepts eloquently and succinctly, good job! Perhaps a tad more of elaboration but nonetheless, excellent!
ReplyDeleteGreat job organizing and breaking down each patent. Maybe a little more analysis could have been helpful, but great job!
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