Inclined vial holder

A holder for supporting a vial having a top, neck, shoulder and bottom and which has a fluid therein, said vial being held in an inverted position with the top thereof being held at an inclined angle, said holder comprising

• a vertical backplate having a top edge and a bottom edge and being adapted to be fastened to a vertical supporting surface;
• a relatively flat top support fastened to the top of said vertical backplate and extending therefrom at a predetermined acute angle, as measured from a horizontal plane normal to the intersection of the top edge of the vertical backplate and the relatively flat top support, said flat top support having a length which is greater than the width of a vial to be supported thereby;
• a relatively flat bottom support fastened to the bottom edge of said vertical backplate and extending therefrom at substantially said acute angle from a horizontal plane normal to the intersection of the vertical backplate and relatively flat botton support, said flat bottom support having a length which extends from the intersection of the flat bottom support with the edge of the vertical backplate to an outer edge located at the intersection of the flat bottom support with a plane which is normal to the end of the flat top support, said flat bottom support having an elongated slot with a width adapted to receive a neck of a said vial and which extends from the outer edge of the flat bottom support to substantially the center of the planar flat bottom support, said flat bottom support having an aperture which extends through the flat bottom surface and which has the center thereof in alignment with the center of the planar flat top support and a diameter which is slightly greater than the diameter of a top of a said vial adapted to be supported thereby, said aperture communicating with the elongated slot to enable a top of a vial to be passed through the aperture wherein a top of a said vial is adapted to extend therethrough and be freely supported at said acute angle beyond the surface of the flat bottom support, said flat bottom surface having means defining inwardly sloping walls around the periphery of the apertures and elongated slot on the side of the flat bottom support adjacent the flat top support;
• said flat top support and said flat bottom support being adapted to removably receive a vial inserted therebetween in an inverted position with a said neck of a said vial being first positioned in the elongated slot and urged toward the vertical backplate until a said neck of a said vial communicates with said aperture whereupon the flat top support and flat bottom surface cooperate to a clamping force between a said bottom and a shoulder of a said vial to hold a said vial in a fixed inclined angle with a top of a said vial freely extending therefrom and adapted to have a user insert a syringe therein to remove fluid from said vial being held in an inclined angle.