When liquid flows through a single hole in a closed container, it creates a vacuum, as you might have noticed if you have tried to suck down a bottle of water particularly quickly. It’s an essential part of the drinking experience. The tiny hole punched in the top of your lid isn’t there just to tickle your nose. THOSE TEAR-OPEN PLASTIC LIDS ARE ENGINEERING MIRACLES. New lid designs purport to make drinking from the lid feel less like using a sippy cup and more like drinking straight from the rim of the cup, improve the speed of the liquid flowing through the drinking aperture, help cool the coffee, and channel steam toward the drinker to waft more of the aroma of the coffee toward them as they drink, among other features. Modern designers have continued to innovate on the basic lid design, offering “both small and large improvements to solve pet peeves but also to deliver better drinking experiences,” Harpman and Specht write. In a 1976 patent for Drink-Through Slosh-Inhibiting Closure Lids for Potable Open-Top Containers, for instance, inventor Stanley Ruff claims his lid “improves previously designed lids in seven unique ways, including slosh reduction, nose accommodation, and enhanced ‘oral and olefactory satisfaction,’” according to Coffee Lids. Lid designers really do want to make drinking hot beverages on the go the best experience possible. Here are nine unexpected lid facts we learned from the book. “The coffee lid is like a strand of our cultural DNA-a tiny, almost invisible detail that when looked at carefully can reveal lots about who we are,” writes designer and Mmuseumm founder Alex Kalman in the forward to Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture, a book that explores the design evolution of the plastic hot-beverage lid.Ĭoffee Lids is a semi-exhaustive look at the extensive coffee-lid collection gathered over the course of several decades by architects Louise Harpman and Scott Specht, who write that “coffee lids are modest modern marvels hiding in plain sight.” Divided into four sections based on the way that you open them to drink-peel, pinch, pucker, and puncture-the book forms a gallery of up-close, detailed photos of the lids in the collection and images from the lid designs’ original patents. But those sippable to-go cup lids are more complicated than you think. The humble coffee lid doesn’t get much attention, unless you’re in the process of sloshing hot coffee all over yourself. A new book explores the subtly impressive design behind the sippable plastic lid.
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