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Novelly improved drinking vessels of the type adapted for selective preferential or essentially mandatory usage by and while a user is in either a partially or fully reclined position. The vessels may be either of the handled cup-like type, or of the non-handled generally conventional drinking glass

Novelly improved drinking vessels of the type adapted for selective preferential or essentially mandatory usage by and while a user is in either a partially or fully reclined position. The vessels may be either of the handled cup-like type, or of the non-handled generally conventional drinking glass type, but which embody an integrally formed open-trough-like spout projecting laterally from one side of the vessels by which liquid is conveyed to a user. The spouts have uniquely and novelly-contoured lip or mouth engageable outward terminal edges and specially curved liquid-spill-resistant side walls of the spout to facilitate improved spill resistant complemental mating with a user\s lips. The handled cup-like vessels are provided with the novelly improved spouts in variously disposed 90°, 180°, and 270°positions relative to the handle, thereby facilitating use by both left and right handed users, as well as by an attendant on duty with a potential user for straight ahead auxiliary usage by the user and attendant.

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In a liquid drinking vessel of the type adaptable for use by and while a user is in a partially or essentially fully reclining position, wherein the vessel includes a body of generally hollow form about a center vertical axis, with a closed bottom end, generally uninterrupted peripheral side wall te

In a liquid drinking vessel of the type adaptable for use by and while a user is in a partially or essentially fully reclining position, wherein the vessel includes a body of generally hollow form about a center vertical axis, with a closed bottom end, generally uninterrupted peripheral side wall terminating in an open upper end, with a liquid-directing generally open troughed spout portion integrally formed with and projecting generally laterally outwardly away from the axis and body at its open upper end to terminate in a mouth/lip-engageable terminal edge, the improvement wherein said spout\s-mouth/lip-engageable terminal edge includes an upstanding outer wall portion, said outer wall portion having a width and a concave configuration for complemental mating with a user\s lips, said open troughed spout portion comprising an upwardly facing bottom surface extending radially and laterally from said open end, said bottom surface being substantially planar from said open end of the vessel to said outer wall portion at central, and radial and lateral end locations of said bottom surface, said concave configuration being concave inwardly toward said central vertical axis, said upstanding outer wall portion and said bottom surface facilitating improved spill resistance.