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An open top receptacle with a laterally extending handle on one side is arranged to receive a cup-shaped cover. This cover includes a valve assembly to close off an opening in the top of the cover to prevent spilling or splashing of either hot or cold beverages from the receptacle. The valve assembl

An open top receptacle with a laterally extending handle on one side is arranged to receive a cup-shaped cover. This cover includes a valve assembly to close off an opening in the top of the cover to prevent spilling or splashing of either hot or cold beverages from the receptacle. The valve assembly in turn includes a valve head biased against the opening in the cover by resilient integral supporting arms secured to the underside of the cover. An actuating member passes into one side of the cover at a point spaced 90°from the opening, this point being generally vertically above the lateral handle on the receptacle. With this arrangement, a person can hold the handle of the receptacle in the manner of a mug using the thumb to depress the actuating member inwardly which action moves the valve head away from the opening in the cover to permit drinking of the beverage in the receptacle. Releasing of the actuating member by the thumb permits the resilient supporting arms for the valve head to close off the opening.

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A mug type drinking receptacle with cover and valve assembly, including, in combination: (a) a drinking receptacle having an open top and laterally extending handle on one side; (b) a flat plate and surrounding rim defining a cup-shaped cover for closing off said open top of said receptacle, said pl

A mug type drinking receptacle with cover and valve assembly, including, in combination: (a) a drinking receptacle having an open top and laterally extending handle on one side; (b) a flat plate and surrounding rim defining a cup-shaped cover for closing off said open top of said receptacle, said plate having an opening adjacent to a first point of said rim, said receptacle and cover having inter-engaging means for removably securing said cover to said receptacle in a position in which said opening is circumferentially spaced 90°from said handle; (c) a valve head beneath said opening in said plate having resilient support means secured to the bottom surface of said plate biasing the valve head upwardly against the bottom periphery of said opening to normally close said opening; and (d) an actuating member passing through a side opening in said rim beneath the undersurface of said plate at a point circumferentially spaced 90°from said opening so as to fall in vertical alignment with said handle, said member terminating in a camming surface engaging a portion of said valve head such that when said member is urged upwardly through said side opening in said rim, it cams said valve head away from said opening to thereby open the same so that a person can drink a beverage from said receptacle by holding said handle with one hand in the manner of a mug and operating said actuating member with the thumb, said resilient support means further including an integrally formed resilient strip biased into a curve lying in a plane parallel to the underside of said plate, the extending end of said strip engaging said actuating member to bias it outwardly as a result of said strip tending to straighten.