Adjustable bracket to stabilize upright compressed gas containers against displacement on mobile vehicles and ship-board installations and maintenance shops

An adjustable brace for holding a gas-filled container in an upright stabilized condition while under mobile transport;

• said adjustable brace comprising, in combination with a gas-filled container standing upright alongside a wall and with an upright flat bar secured to said wall in parallel spaced relation thereto, a container-encircling collar having a pair of diametrically opposite horizontally extending passages therethrough arranged in axial alignment with one another as well as having a vertically extending slot therethrough encompassing said flat bar, a pair of braces on said collar of which one of said pair of braces is movably mounted within one of said pair of horizontally extending passages and the other of said pair of braces is movably mounted within the other of said pair of horizontally extending passages, an arcuate section on each of said braces for engaging opposite sides of the periphery of said container, and means for moving said other of said pair of braces to bring said arcuate section thereof into engagement with an adjacent portion of the periphery of said container thereby bringing the arcuate section of said one brace into engagement with an opposite side portion of the periphery of said container as well as tightening the rear of said collar against said upright flat bar.