Drink container holder usable especially in automotive vehicles

A holder for a drink container, comprising:

• an upwardly-open housing having a bottom wall and a plural number of upstanding side walls;
• said bottom wall providing a support platform for said drink container centered on a central axis of the platform;
• one of the housing side walls having an upwardly-open cutout therein adapted to accommodate a handle of said drink container positioned on the support platform;
• a plurality of container contact elements disposed around said central axis within said housing for exerting a positioner force on said container resting on the platform;
• each of said container contact elements comprising a flexible tube and an inner liquid core within said tube;
• each of said liquid cores comprising a liquid material that transitions to a near-solid state when subjected to a magnetic field;
• a magnet means for applying a magnetic field force to each of said liquid cores;
• and means for controlling said magnet means so that when the magnet means is in a first condition the inner cores of each of the tubes are liquid, and when the magnet means is in a second condition the inner cores of each of the tubes are essentially solid.

A holder for a drink container comprising:

• an upwardly-open housing having a bottom wall and a plural number of upstanding side walls;
• said bottom wall providing a support platform for said drink container;
• one of the housing side walls having an upwardly-open cut out therein adapted to accommodate a handle of said drink container positioned on the support platform;
• said platform having an imaginary central axis;
• a plurality of container contact elements disposed around said central axis within said housing for exerting a positioner force on said container resting on said platform;
• each of said container contact elements comprising a flexible tube and an inner core material that is normally a liquid;
• each inner core comprising a normally liquid material that transitions to a near-solid state when subjected to a magnetic field;
• each of said contact elements being located in a common horizontal plane spaced above the container support platform, whereby said contact elements are enabled to position said drink container against tipping;
• a magnet means for applying a magnetic field force to said core material;
• and means for controlling said magnet means so that when the magnet means is in a first condition the core materials within said tubes are liquid, and when the magnet means is in a second condition the core materials within said tubes are essentially solid.