Taller Closures for Beverage Containers to enable Drinking Straws to be packaged inside the Beverage Containers

Abstract

For this invention, I thank GOD, the Creator of the Universe, for inspiring Me to complete this task. This invention relates to container tops or closures. It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved container top that provides room for the upward extension there within of the upper end of a drinking straw. It is another object of the present invention to provide a container top with room for a drinking straw of the above type, that utilizes fastening threads adapted to be used with any type of beverage containers (e.g., bottles, cartons, pouches, et cetera), that is of simple construction, inexpensive to manufacture, and efficient in use, and that is sealed onto or provided with a container wherein the container may or may not contain a drinking straw or beverage.

What I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters of Patent are: 
     
         1 . A container lid, with room for one or more drinking straws, comprising a hollow portion having a top wall(s) and/or side wall(s), an extending flange integrally formed at the lower end of said hollow portion and adapted to close the upper end of a beverage container, said hollow portion providing room there within for the upper end of drinking straw(s) contained within said container and extending upwardly there above from the open upper end of said container, said flange of said lid being integrally formed with fastening thread(s) (e.g. an external or internal helical rib fastener or helical groove fastener common to many containers with lids), said fastening threads, if utilized, being utilized to fastened said container lid onto an open upper end of a container having corresponding fastening thread(s), and said container lid also optionally comprising an optional gasket or optional gasket lining to be utilized intermediate said lid and an upper open end of a container. 
     
     
         2 . A container lid claimed in  claim 1 , wherein said lid is fastened to, or provided with, any type of beverage container (e.g. bottles, cartons, pouches, et cetera), and wherein said container may or may not contain a beverage, and wherein said container contains one or more drinking straws. 
     
     
         3 . A container lid claimed in  claim 1 , wherein said lid is fastened to, or provided with, any type of beverage container (e.g. bottles, cartons, pouches, et cetera), and wherein said container may or may not contain a beverage, and wherein said container does not contain a drinking straw.