Drinking lid for two

Abstract

A lid for a drinking cup for two having a generally circular panel of flexible material and having a circular retaining rim securing the lid to the circular rim of a drinking cup. The lid has a pair of orienting and access receptacles depending from the circular panel and having side walls sufficiently spaced to receive a drinking straw therebetween. The receptacles have drinking straw orienting walls for orientation of a pair of drinking straws within a cup. The receptacles each have a drinking straw entry wall oriented at an abrupt angle with the orienting wall and having a perforation permitting a drinking straw to be forced through the perforation and into a cup to which said lid is assembled.

We claim: 
     
         1 . A lid for a drinking cup, comprising:
 a generally circular panel of drinking lid material;   a circular rim circumscribing said generally circular panel and adapted for compression fit with the circular rim of a drinking cup; and   an orienting and access receptacle depending from said generally circular panel and having side walls sufficiently spaced for positioning of a drinking straw therebetween, a drinking straw orienting wall being oriented at an angle relative to said generally circular panel for angular orientation of a drinking straw and having a drinking straw entry wall having a perforation permitting passage of a drinking straw through said perforation and into a cup to which said lid is assembled.   
     
     
         2 . The lid of  claim 1 , comprising:
 said spaced side walls being connected with said generally circular panel and projecting downwardly therefrom.   
     
     
         3 . The lid of  claim 1 , comprising:
 said drinking straw orienting wall being connected with said spaced side walls and with said generally circular panel.   
     
     
         4 . The lid of  claim 1 , comprising:
 said generally circular panel being composed of flexible material;   said drinking straw entry wall being connected with said spaced side walls and having an abrupt angular relationship with said drinking straw orienting wall; and   said perforation of said drinking straw entry wall being a pair of slit openings arranged in the form of a cross permitting flexing of generally circular panel material to permit a drinking straw to be forced through said perforation.   
     
     
         5 . The lid of  claim 1 , comprising:
 said generally circular panel being composed of flexible material; and   a drinking straw entry point being defined centrally of said generally circular panel and having a closure defined by a closure flap of said flexible panel material having an array of perforations in said generally circular panel that are frangible by manual pushing force of a drinking straw to permit opening movement of said closure flap of panel material and define an opening to admit movement of a drinking straw therethrough.   
     
     
         6 . The lid of  claim 1 , comprising:
 said orienting and access receptacle being integral with and projecting downwardly from said generally circular panel and being in the form of a depression having spaced side walls an orienting wall and an entry wall each having connection with said generally circular panel and having a smoothly curved juncture defining the lower end portion of said orienting and access receptacle.   
     
     
         7 . The lid of  claim 1 , comprising:
 An identification member projecting upwardly from said generally circular panel and being located adjacent one of said orienting and access receptacles and enabling a user of said lid to manually touch the identifying member and distinguish between the orienting and access receptacles.   
     
     
         8 . A lid for a drinking cup, comprising:
 a generally circular panel of drinking lid material;   a circular lid retaining rim circumscribing said generally circular panel and adapted releasable retention of said lid with the circular rim of a drinking cup;   an orienting and access receptacle depending from said generally circular panel and having side walls integral with said generally circular panel and being sufficiently spaced for positioning of a drinking straw therebetween, a drinking straw orienting wall being connected with said spaced side walls and with said generally circular panel and having an angle relative to said generally circular panel for angular orientation of a drinking straw and having a drinking straw entry wall being connected with said spaced side walls and having an abrupt angular relationship with said drinking straw orienting wall having a perforation permitting passage of a drinking straw through said perforation and into a cup to which said lid is assembled.   
     
     
         9 . The lid of  claim 8 , comprising:
 said spaced side walls being connected with said generally circular panel and projecting downwardly therefrom; and   said perforation of said drinking straw entry wall being a pair of slit openings arranged in the form of a cross permitting flexing of generally circular panel material to permit a drinking straw to be forced through said perforation.   
     
     
         10 . The lid of  claim 8 , comprising:
 said generally circular panel being composed of thin flexible sheet-like material; and   a drinking straw entry point being defined centrally of said generally circular panel and having a closure defined by a closure flap of said flexible panel material having an array of perforations in said generally circular panel that are frangible by manual pushing force of a drinking straw to permit opening movement of said closure flap of panel material and define an opening to admit movement of a drinking straw therethrough.   
     
     
         11 . The lid of  claim 8 , comprising:
 An identification member projecting upwardly from said generally circular panel and being located adjacent one of said orienting and access receptacles and enabling a user of said lid to see or manually touch the identifying member and distinguish between the orienting and access receptacles.   
     
     
         12 . The lid of  claim 8 , comprising:
 said generally circular panel being composed of flexible material;   said drinking straw entry wall being connected with said spaced side walls and having an abrupt angular relationship with said drinking straw orienting wall; and   said perforation of said drinking straw entry wall being a pair of slit openings arranged in the form of a cross permitting flexing of generally circular panel material to permit a drinking straw to be forced through said perforation.   
     
     
         13 . The lid of  claim 8 , comprising:
 said generally circular panel being composed of flexible material; and   a drinking straw entry point being defined centrally of said generally circular panel and having a closure defined by a closure flap of said flexible panel material having an array of perforations in said generally circular panel that are frangible by manual pushing force of a drinking straw to permit opening movement of said closure flap of panel material and define an opening to admit movement of a drinking straw therethrough.   
     
     
         14 . The lid of  claim 8 , comprising:
 said generally circular panel being composed of flexible material; and   a drinking straw entry point being defined centrally of said generally circular panel and having a closure defined by a closure flap of said flexible panel material having an array of perforations in said generally circular panel that are frangible by manual pushing force of a drinking straw to permit opening movement of said closure flap of panel material and define an opening to admit movement of a drinking straw therethrough.   
     
     
         15 . The lid of  claim 8 , comprising:
 said orienting and access receptacle being integral with and projecting downwardly from said generally circular panel and being in the form of a depression having spaced side walls an orienting wall and an entry wall each having connection with said generally circular panel and having a smoothly curved juncture defining the lower end portion of said orienting and access receptacle.