Container holder

• US 3,913,879 A
• Filed: 12/04/1973
• Issued: 10/21/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Thomas H. Wright Jr
• Original Assignee: Thomas H. Wright Jr
• Inventors: Wright, Thomas H. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Schultz, William H.
• Application Number:
  US05/421,588
• Time in Patent Office: 686 Days
• Field of Search: 248/102,105,106,311,318
• US Class Current: 248/318
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1417 Holders or handles for hanging up infusion containers

Abstract

A container holder for supporting containers, such as bottles, in which the holder comprises a tubular body of mesh construction with a restricted opening at the bottom thereof and means at the top thereof to receive a hook means.

Claims

1. A container holder for holding a container upside down to permit contents therein to pass through an opening in the top of the container, said holder comprising a tubular body of mesh construction for receiving and supporting a container, means forming a restricted opening at the bottom of the tubular body of mesh construction to receive the neck of a container and support a container, the upper part of the mesh construction forming means for mounting the container holder and a container, said means forming a restricted opening comprising ring means fixed to the bottom of said mesh construction, said ring means comprising a first ring having an inner and outer surface and a second ring having an inner and outer surface, said tubular body of mesh construction extending through the inner surface of said first ring and back over the outer surface of said first ring, said second ring having its inner surface placed over the portion of the surface of the tubular body of mesh construction over the outer surface of the first ring, said first and second rings being fixed in place.

2. A container holder as set forth in claim 1 wherein said outer surface of said first ring and the inner surface of said second ring are contoured to have a snap action which will fix them in place and hold the tubular body of mesh construction between them.

3. A container holder as set forth in claim 2 wherein said first ring has a circular inner surface having a diameter which is smaller than the diameter of the tubular body of mesh construction as it is positioned on a container.

4. A method of holding a container upside down to permit contents therein to pass through an opening in a neck in the top of a container, comprising (1) forming a tubular body of mesh construction for receiving and supporting a container, (2) restricting the opening at one end of the tubular body of mesh construction to receive the neck of a container and support the container, (3) extending said tubular body of mesh construction beyond the bottom of a container to provide for mounting the container holder and container, wherein in step (2) one end of said tubular body of mesh construction is inserted into a first ring member while the tubular body of mesh construction is then pulled around said first ring member with a second ring member being formed to engage said first ring membEr over said tubular body of mesh construction and fixedly retain the tubular body of mesh construction between said ring members.