SYSTEM FOR HOLDING A CONTAINER

• US 20190059581A1
• Filed: 01/29/2017
• Published: 02/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shmuel Pesahov
• Original Assignee: Shmuel Pesahov
• Inventors: Abramov, Refael
• Granted Patent: US 10,687,619 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 73/00 Bottle cupboards; Bottle racks
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/08 secured to the wall, ceiling, or the like; Wall-bracket display devices
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 7/285 Show stands having fixation means, e.g. hanging means, slidable fixations, frictional retaining means, theft prevention

Abstract

A system for holding at least one container, comprising: at least one holder configured to grip said container; and a retracting mechanism having a base portion mountable to a fixed location, and a distal end connectable to said holder; wherein said holder is displaceable by said retracting mechanism between a normally retracted position and an extended position, so that the length of said retracting mechanism is increased more at said extended position than the length at said retracted position.

Claims

1. A system for holding at least one container, comprising:

at least one holder configured to grip said container; and

a retracting mechanism having a base portion mountable to a fixed location, and a distal end connectable to said holder;

wherein said holder is displaceable by said retracting mechanism between a normally retracted position and an extended position, so that the length of said retracting mechanism is increased more at said extended position than the length at said retracted position.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein at the extended position said holder is spaced from the base portion to an extent greater than at said retracted position.

3. A system according to claim 1, further comprising a housing constituting said fixed location, so that the base portion is mountable to said housing.

4. A system according to claim 3, wherein said housing comprises a cage having at least one opening at its bottom for allowing the holder to pass therethrough between its retracted and extended positions, so that at said retracted position, at least a portion of the holder is disposed within said cage.

5. A system according to claim 4, wherein said housing comprises a stopping element configured for delimiting movement of the holder with respect to the housing when being displaced from its extended position to its retracted position.

6. A system according to claim 5, wherein said stopping element has a stopper bottom surface configured to engage said at least one holder at its retracted position, and an opposite stopper top surface.

7. A system according to claim 5, wherein said stopper bottom surface is plane.

8. A system according to claim 5, wherein said stopping element constitutes an upper portion of said cage.

9. A system according to claim 5, wherein said base portion of the retracting mechanism is mountable to said stopping element.

10. A system according to claim 1, wherein said retracting mechanism comprises a spring wound reel constituting said base portion and a cable wrapped thereon, having said distal end connectable to the holder.

11. A system according to claim 10, wherein said cable has a length of at least the length of said retracting mechanism at the extended position.

12. A system according to claim 10, further comprising a housing constituting said fixed location, so that the base portion is mountable to said housing;

wherein said housing comprises a cage having at least one opening at its bottom for allowing the holder to pass therethrough between its retracted and extended positions, so that at said retracted position, at least a portion of the holder is disposed within said cage;

wherein said housing comprises a stopping element configured for delimiting movement of the holder with respect to the housing when being displaced from its extended position to its retracted position;

wherein said stopping element further comprises a passage extending between said stopper bottom surface and said stopper top surface, so that said spring wound reel is disposed at said stopper top surface and said cable passes through said passage.

13. A system according to claim 1, wherein said holder has one or more side walls extending from a holder bottom to a perimetric holder rim, and defining together a holder interior space configured for receiving a bottom portion of said container via said holder rim, so as to grip said container at an upside down position of the container.

14. A system according to claim 13, wherein said distal end is connectable to a center of said holder bottom.

15. A system according to claim 13, wherein said holder comprises a gripping mechanism configured for arresting said container to said holder.

16. A system according to claim 15, wherein said one or more side walls have an internal surface constituting said gripping mechanism by having shape and size corresponding to a shape and a size of the bottom portion of the container and by having a friction coefficient allowing frictionally introducing and engaging the bottom portion of the container so as to grip the container.

17. A system according to claim 13, wherein said holder interior space has a first sub-space in proximity to said holder rim and having a first diameter D1 and a consecutive second sub-space having a second diameter D2 which is smaller than D1.

18. A system according to claim 2, further comprising a mounting arrangement extending from the housing for mounting the housing to an external element.

19. A system according to claim 1, further comprising a pour spout mountable to an opening of said container.