Device for holding beverage container and console box

A beverage container holding device comprising:

• a holder main body, which has a generally U-shaped receiving portion to receive a beverage container, with a top thereof and a bottom thereof being open, a front of the receiving portion being a bottom of a generally U shape when viewed from above;
• and at least one first rotating member, each of said at least one first rotating member being supported by the holder main body such that each said first rotating member can swing horizontally and can be present in the receiving portion and retract from the receiving portion,
• each of said at least one first rotating member comprising a first shaft member extending in an up-and-down direction, and a first main body rotatably supported by the first shaft member such that the first main body can be present in the receiving portion and retract from the receiving portion,
• the first main body comprising a rear contact surface portion, which the beverage container can contact when the beverage container is received in the receiving portion from a rear of the receiving portion, and a front contact surface portion having at least one contact portion, which the beverage container received in the receiving portion can contact,
• the first main body being configured to be able to swing in a first direction when a forward force is exerted on the rear contact surface portion, and a rotation of the first main body in a reverse direction, which is opposite to the first direction, being restricted by a stopper when the beverage container is not received in the receiving portion, and
• the front contact surface portion configured to make, at least at each of said at least one contact portion, an obtuse angle with an imaginary line extending from a center of each said first rotating member to the contact portion concerned.