Drinks holder

• US 6,837,408 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2002
• Issued: 01/04/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: fischerwerke Artur Fischer GmbH & Co. KG (Fischerwerke GmbH & Company KG)
• Original Assignee: fischerwerke Artur Fischer GmbH & Co. KG (Fischerwerke GmbH & Company KG)
• Inventors: Dieringer, Juergen
• Primary Examiner(s): Cronin, Stephen K.
• Application Number:
  US10/257,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20030075660A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,069 Days
• Field of Search: 224/483, 224/281, 224/543, 224/544, 224/548, 224/549, 224/926, 296/37.8, 296/37.12, 248/311.2
• US Class Current: 224/483
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/102 storable or foldable in a non-use position
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/926 Vehicle attached carrier for beverage container or bottle

Abstract

The invention relates to a drinks holder (10) intended for installation in a dashboard of a motor vehicle. The drinks holder (10) has a pull-out part (14), which is so guided as to be displaceable in the manner of a drawer and which is provided with insertion openings (32) for inserting drinks containers such as, for example, drinks cans, beakers or cups. The invention proposes providing, at the rear of the pull-out part (14), a pivotal part (22) capable of pivoting downwards, which, when the pull-out part (14) is pushed into a housing (12), pivots downwards so that the length of the pull-out part (14) in the direction of displacement is reduced. The invention makes possible a drinks holder (10) housing (12) of short dimensions, which in the direction of displacement can be shorter than the diameter of the insertion openings (32).

Claims

1. A drinks holder, comprising:

a pull-out part provided with an insertion opening for insertion of a drinks container and having a slide guideway, wherein by means of the guideway, the pull-out part is so guided that the pull-out part is displaceable back and forth, in the manner of a drawer, between a pushed-in, non-use position and a pulled-out, use position, wherein the pull-out part (14) has a pivotal part (22), wherein the pivotal part (22) is arranged at the rear of the pull-out part (14) in the pull-out direction and forms part of the insertion opening (32) in the use position, and wherein the pivotal part has a pivot mounting (24), wherein by means of the pivot mounting, the pivotal part (22) is so mounted on the pull-out part (14) that the pivotal part (22) can be pivoted downwards when not being used, wherein, when the pivotal part is not in use, the length of the pull-out part, including the pivotel part (22), is reduced in a direction of displacement, such that the length of the pull-out part is shorter than a diameter of the insertion opening.

2. The drinks holder according to claim 1, wherein further comprising a drive (38, 42) for the pivotal part (22), wherein said drive pivots the pivotal part (22) downwards when the pull-out part (14) is pushed in, into the non-use position, or pivots the pivotal part (22) upwards when the pull-out part (14) is pulled out, into the use position.

3. The drinks holder according to claim 2, wherein the drive (38, 42) has a control track (38), wherein a counterpart element (42) slides along the control track (38) when the pull-out part (14) is being displaced, the control track (38) being so configured that the pivotal part (22) is pivoted downwards when the pull out part (14) is pushed in, into the non-use position.

4. The drinks holder according to claim 3, wherein the control track (38) is arranged on a fixedly located hook element (36);

the counterpart element (42) is arranged on the pivotal part (22); and

, when the pull-out part (14) is being pushed in, into the non-use position, the counterpart element (42) comes into contact with the control track (38), slides along it and pivots the pivotal part (22) downwards.

5. The drinks holder according to claim 1, wherein the drinks holder (10) has a spring element, wherein said spring element pivots the pivotal part (22) upwards.

6. The drinks holder according to claim 1, wherein the pivot mounting has a pivotal joint (24) having a pivot axis extending approximately horizontally and approximately transversely to the direction of displacement of the pull-out part (14).