Appeal No. 2004-0046 Page 6
Application No. 10/001,313
spaced therefrom by the distance separating the inverted V-shaped wall portions 12
and 13 at their lower edges."
Sinaiko's invention relates generally to vessels or containers and, more
specifically, to drinking vessels such as cups, glasses, tumblers, mugs and the like.
Sinaiko teaches (column 1, lines 17-35) that
the ordinary mug used by children upsets quite readily when struck or pushed
sidewise, as it frequently is by its user.
My present invention is designed to prevent the usually frequent
accidental spilling of their beverages by children or the upsetting of any similar
vessel or container. With this end in view, it contemplates the provision of a
drinking mug or other vessel or container which will not readily upset when struck
or pushed sidewise and which, when deposited on a tray or other supporting
surface, will automatically, under ordinary conditions, assume an upright
position.
In carrying out the conception of my invention I propose to provide a
drinking vessel or container, preferably in the form of a mug or other vessel
having a low center of gravity, with a base which extends radially a substantial
distance or distances in all directions from the bottom of the mug.
A preferred embodiment of Sinaiko's invention is illustrated in Figures 1-3
wherein a drinking mug is constructed in accordance with his invention. The mug
comprises a body 5, a handle 6 and a base 7 which surrounds and extends radially
outwardly in all directions from the lower end the body 5. This base may be formed
integrally with the body of the mug, as, for instance, by a molding process if the mug be
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