Carrier for a beverage container

• US 4,865,237 A
• Filed: 12/12/1988
• Issued: 09/12/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Louis Allen
• Original Assignee: Louis Allen
• Inventors: Allen, Louis
• Primary Examiner(s): Cusick, Ernest G.
• Application Number:
  US07/283,085
• Time in Patent Office: 274 Days
• Field of Search: 248/311.2, 248/312.1, 248/310, 215/100 R, 220/85 H, 220/903, 211/88, 211/89, 224/42.45 R, 224/42.46 R, 224/42.42, 224/278
• US Class Current: 224/552
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 23/0225 attachable to a plate, table, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/103 detachable
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/106 with adjustable clamping mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/926 Vehicle attached carrier for beverage container or bottle

Abstract

A carrier for adjustably encircling and simultaneously positioning, a beverage container or article on a vehicle door, includes an insert portion and a support portion, both preferably resilient, and a receptacle. The insert portion, functioning in conjunction with the support portion, provides for removable, adjustable, and preferably clampable carrier mountability on vehicle doors of different interior thicknesses. The support portion is preferably equipped with horizontally and longitudinally aligned slots and the receptacle is equipped with a pair of resilient, container-encircling arms and a base member, all having hooked tab ends for cooperative releasable, adjustable spring-urged interconnection with the slots. Selection of particular slots for interconnection allows the carrier to accommodate beverage containers or articles of different diameters in close confinement and upright position. In a varient embodiment, a coin-tray-article container is substituted for a beverage container receptacle.

Claims

1. A carrier for a beverage container adapted for mounting on a vehicle door having a window slot opening, said carrier comprising an insert means adapted for frictional intervention within the window slot opening for releasable securement to the door, a support means for a holder means and a holder means for a beverage container, the support means having at least one row of horizontally disposed interconnection means for securement of said holder means, said holder means having removable adjustable connecting means for cooperative engagement with the interconnection means providing for selective diameter adjustability of said holder means.

2. The carrier according to claim 1 wherein the support means includes longitudinally aligned interconnection means for removable engagement with said holder connecting means.

3. The carrier according to claim 2 wherein the support means extends in a curvilinearly outward direction from the insert means then in a generally inwardly-downwardly direction towards the door whereby said at least one row of horizontally disposed and longitudinally aligned interconnection means and said connecting means are selectively adjustably engageable for upright positioning of the holder means.

4. The carrier according to claim 1 wherein the insert means and the support means are in spring-urged opposition to each other providing a means for clamping adapted for attachment to the door.

5. The carrier according to claim 4 wherein the means for clamping attachment includes a resiliently deformable metal material.

6. The carrier according to claim 1 wherein the holder means comprises a pair of resiliently curvilinearly horizontally-disposed arm members, a downwardly depending spine member and a base member.

7. The carrier according to claim 6 wherein the base member is L-shaped.

8. The carrier according to claim 1 wherein the at least one row of horizontally disposed interconnection means include at least one slot means.

9. The carrier according to claim 1 wherein the insert means includes an inverted V-shaped portion adapted for enhanced frictional engagement within the window slot opening.

10. The carrier according to claim 1 wherein the support means is fabricated of a resilient material.

11. The carrier according to claim 1 wherein the support means is fabricated of a deformable material.

12. The carrier according to claim 1 wherein the support means is fabricated of a supple material.

13. The carrier according to claim 1 wherein the insert means includes a non-smooth portion adapted for enhanced frictional engagement within the window slot opening.

14. The carrier according to claim 1 wherein the at least one row of horizontally disposed interconnection means and connecting means include male-female snap-interfitting means.

15. The carrier according to claim 1 wherein the support means is transversely corrugated.

16. The carrier according to claim 1 wherein the connecting means are spring-urged within the at least one row of horizontally disposed interconnection means for taut securement.

17. A carrier for a beverage container adapted for attachment to a vehicle door having a window slot opening, said carrier comprising an insert means adapted for wedging engagement within the window slot opening, a support means for a holder means and a holder means for a beverage container, the support means extending in a generally curvilinearly outwardly direction from the insert means then downwardly and inwardly in spring-urged opposition to said insert means providing for clamping securement to the door, said support means including at least one longitudinal column of interconnection means for engagement with the holder means said at least one longitudinal column of interconnection means having a dimension with a transverse axis substantially greater than the vertical axis, said holder means having adjustable connecting means for cooperative securement with the at least one longitudinal column of interconnection means providing for selective adjustable upright positioning of said holder means.

18. The carrier according to claim 17 wherein the support means includes horizontally aligned interconnection means providing for removably selective diameter adjustability of the holder means.

19. The carrier according to claim 17 wherein the holder means defines a generally cylindrically-walled recess with a recess wall which recess is sectioned along a longitudinal plane into two sections resiliently hinged on said recess wall allowing transverse displacement of said sections providing for selective diameter adjustability of the holder means.

20. A carrier for an article adapted for mounting on a vehicle door having a peripherally weatherstripped window slot opening, said carrier comprising an insert means adapted for frictional intervention within the window slot opening for removable securement to the door, a support means for a holder means and a holder means for an article, the insert means including an inverted V-shaped portion adapted for circumscribing the weatherstripping for unskewed mounting on said door, the support means extending generally curvilinearly outwardly then downwardly and inwardly from the insert means of interconnection means said at least one longitudinal column of interconnection means having a dimension with a transverse axis substantially greater than the vertical axis, the holder means having cooperatively connecting means for engagement with the interconnection means providing for selective adjustable upright positioning of said holder means.

21. The carrier according to claim 20 wherein the holder means defines a coin-tray-article container.