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US 8,973,796 B1Granted
Serving tray apparatus
OwnerMustafa Abusaoud, Ali Abusaoudinventors
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Abstract
A serving tray apparatus comprising a container support portion and a hand/forearm engaging portion incorporating a mechanism for releasably attaching the container support portion to the hand/forearm engaging portion.
Claims1
A serving tray apparatus which comprises:
- a) a container support portion comprising a rigid plate having a plurality of radially arrayed apertures for receiving and supporting beverage containers within and extending completely through the apertures and below said rigid plate;
- b) a forearm engaging portion comprising a longitudinal body having a vertically depending hand grip at a first end and a pair of spaced apart downwardly depending wings at a second end for engaging a user's forearm, whereby the hand grip and the wings are substantially coplanar to provide a three point stand when placed on a horizontal surface;
- c) said longitudinal body comprising downwardly extending sides sloping from distal ends of said wings to a base of said hand grip where said hand grip meets said longitudinal body;
- d) means for releasably attaching the container support portion to the forearm engaging portion comprising a first fastener for the container support portion and a second fastener for the forearm engaging portion, whereby the first fastener mates with the second fastener;
- e) the first fastener comprising the rigid plate having a centrally disposed threaded bore and the second fastener comprising an externally threaded upstanding boss on the forearm engaging portion which engages with the internally threaded bore of the first fastener;
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- f) a plurality of flanged receptacles, with each flanged receptacle positioned into and extending completely through each aperture in the rigid plate, and each receptacle having a side wall and a bottom closing wall thereby providing for placement of the beverage containers into the flanged receptacles.
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