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US 4,606,523 AGranted
Cup holder
OwnerRobert E. Statz, Wayne A. Treichelinventors
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Abstract
A molded plastic cup holder has a hollow generally cylindrical socket for receiving the lower portion of a relatively large drinking cup and a supporting hook adapted to engage over a rail or an automobile door. On the shank of the hook, above the socket, are a pair of forwardly extending springy arcuate arms adapted to yieldably embrace the upper portion of the cup.
Claims1
A drinking cup holder comprising a hollow upwardly open socket having a generally cylindrical side wall with front and rear sides and a top and bottom,
- a hook having a shank extending upwardly from the rear side of the socket side wall, said hook shank being integral with and extending upwardly from the rear side of the socket,
- and a pair of flexibly resilient arms extending forwardly from the hook shank, said arms being spaced upwardly from and over-lying the socket, said arms when unflexed being normally disposed along the arc of a circle of lesser diameter than the top of the socket,
- said socket having at the bottom of the side wall thereof an inwardly-extending annular flange defining an aperture for receiving a generally frusto-conical drinking cup,
- said socket having in the front of the side wall thereof an upwardly open notch which notch extends downwardly from the upper edge of the socket and which terminates above the bottom of the socket providing access of the user's lips to a cup engaged in said aperture.
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