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Food: Drink: Packaging
Coffee Cup with Integrated Lid   (+2)  [vote for, against]
One piece, no spills, no plastic lids, no problem

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! :)
-- victor, Jan 11 2013

This is a hyperlink http://thecompleat.com/
[Kansan101, Jan 11 2013]

virtual +; nifty.

Too bad: maybe you'll have more luck with the edible muffin umbrella.
-- FlyingToaster, Jan 11 2013


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.
-- victor, Jan 11 2013


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)
-- xenzag, Jan 11 2013


Thanks for the real link [Kansan]. Looks like a paper baby-bottle.
-- xandram, Jan 11 2013


I don't understand how you drink out of this.
-- phundug, Jan 11 2013


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.
-- DIYMatt, Jan 11 2013


Esp. not for two cups of coffee.
-- xandram, Jan 11 2013


Looks viable to me. The fold down looks like it's deliberately meant to leave a bit of a spout at the high end.
-- MechE, Jan 11 2013


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.
-- MechE, Jan 11 2013


Toast man I can't believe you didn't turn this idea into bubble gum!
-- Brian the Painter, Jan 11 2013



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