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During a recent flight, I was offered a plastic coffee cup lid for my paper coffee cup and it struck me as an awkward combination.
In an age of fossil fuel reduction, a separate plastic lid is both ugly and wasteful. What if we could make the paper coffee cup itself include a paper lid that would
fold down and cover most of the cup's surface (leaving just a small spot for drinking)?
I made some quick napkin sketches and pocketed the napkin for later Googling. When I came home, I found this:
http://thecompleat.com/
'Awww damn' followed by 'wow cool!' His invention is quite similar to what I had in mind, so I'll consider my own idea baked, but it was so neat I had to share it with the halfbakery community.
Who knows? Maybe he's even a baker! :)
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http://thecompleat.com/
[Kansan101, Jan 11 2013]
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Too bad: maybe you'll have more luck with the edible muffin umbrella. |
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Hey Brian, I'm not the inventor, so I'm not promoting my own product here. Just sharing something interesting, so I don't see this as spam. |
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Don't agree with [m-f-d] but, you should insert the link at the end of the idea , and just mark the whole thing for expiry. In about a week's time, you can delete it yourself, otherwise, post your own pics of your own scribbles, which might show a worthwhile variation on the one shown in the link. (which I thought was a crap solution incidentally) |
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Thanks for the real link [Kansan]. Looks like a paper baby-bottle. |
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I don't understand how you drink out of this. |
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A terrible solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Normally, that would do well on the halfbakery but not this time, not this time. |
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Esp. not for two cups of coffee. |
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Looks viable to me. The fold down looks like it's
deliberately meant to leave a bit of a spout at the
high end. |
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Of course FT's anno inspired the thought of baked
goods (cookies, muffins) that have a cup lid
shaped/sized ring baked into them, so they form the
lid during transport. |
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Toast man I can't believe you didn't turn this idea into bubble
gum! |
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