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US 8,550,550 B2Granted
Seat arm cup holder for snack foods
OwnerJoseph D. Cassese, James Hicswainventors
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Abstract
A snack holder includes a generally cylindrical cup sized and shaped lower section and a larger container or multiple container upper or adjacent section for holding snack foods or additional cups. The snack holder may be combined with a tray comprised of at least first and second cup shaped cylindrical sections joined by a web and compatibly sized to receive and support the snack holder as well as to fit into a cup holder in the arm rest of a seat.
Claims5
A cup holder for holding three generally cylindrical cup shaped items supported on a seat arm, said holder comprising:
- a tray including at least a web, a first, a second and a third aligned depending, laterally spaced, generally cylindrical cup shaped container sections, each said first, second and third section having an open top and supported by said web, said second container section comprising a center container section and said first and third container sections extending respectively laterally from said second container section in opposite directions, each container section having a similar cup shape and sized to receive and hold a cup, said second container section sized and configured to fit into an individual single cup opening in the arm of a seat to maintain the holder, whereby said container sections are each formed to receive and retain a generally cylindrical cup, said web intermediate said second container section and said first and third laterally spaced container sections comprising, respectively, a first transition section and a second transition section respectively between the second section and the first and third lateral container sections, said transition sections, in combination, forming a groove in said web to accommodate the arm of the seat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.