Measuring cup

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10436623-B2
Application number	US-201816202212-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 28, 2018
Priority date	Jun 17, 2016
Publication date	Oct 8, 2019
Grant date	Oct 8, 2019

Abstract

The measuring cup includes numerous embodiments configured for a user to precisely determine the cup contents without need to lift the cup to one's eye level or to lower the eye level to the level of the cup contents. The various embodiments include folding cups; cups having transparent passages in the wall; cups having adjustably positionable bottoms; cups having level indicator rods in the cup interior extending upward from the cup bottom; cups having one or more filaments extending across the cup interior; cups having rigid level indicators spanning the cup interior; cups having adjustably positionable level indicator tabs therein; cups having buoyant level indicator tabs adjustably positionable in the cup interior; and cups having removable clip-on scales extending down along the interior of the cup wall, the scales having a plurality of attachment points for the removable attachment of a level indicator tab at a desired attachment point.

First claim

We claim:

1. A measuring cup, comprising:
a container having a peripheral wall, a bottom, and an interior, the wall having a plurality of passages disposed therethrough; and
a plurality of hollow transparent sight windows, each of the sight windows communicating with a corresponding pair of the passages, the sight window having an interior communicating with the interior of the container.

2. The measuring cup according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of hollow transparent sight windows comprises a plurality of externally disposed horizontal transparent sight tubes communicating with corresponding passages.

3. The measuring cup according to claim 1 , wherein the container further comprises a spout.

4. The measuring cup according to claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of hollow transparent sight windows comprises a hollow tube disposed externally on the peripheral wall.

5. The measuring cup according to claim 1 , further comprising one or more indicia adjacent to the sight passages for indicating a corresponding level of fluid in the cup.

Assignees

• Univ King Saud

Inventors

• Alam Mohd Aftab
• Al-Jenoobi Fahad Ibrahim
• Al-Mohizea Abdullah M

Classifications

• G01F19/00 Primary

  Calibrated capacity measures for fluids or fluent solid material, e.g. measuring cups · CPC title

• G01F23/32

  using rotatable arms or other pivotable transmission elements · CPC title

• G01F23/64

  of the free float type {without mechanical transmission elements} · CPC title

• G01F23/205

  for discrete levels · CPC title