Portable container holder
AssigneeHolstrit, Inc.
InventorTamra L. Johnson
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Abstract
A portable container holder is operable to receive a handheld container and broadly includes a support structure and a flexible sleeve. The support structure is operable to support the portable drink holder while being transported. The sleeve includes opposite side walls that present an elongated opening to slidably receive the drink container. The sleeve defines a sleeve axis along which the drink container slides into and out of the sleeve.
Claims21
A portable container holder operable to receive a handheld drink container, said portable container holder comprising:
- a support structure operable to support the portable container holder while being transported,
- a flexible sleeve presenting an elongated opening to slidably receive the drink container and defining a sleeve axis along which the drink container slides into and out of the sleeve,
- said support structure including a unitary base wall that extends along the length of the sleeve and is operable to be secured relative to a wearer;
- said sleeve defining a cross-sectional opening dimension transverse to the sleeve axis,
- said flexible sleeve including a unitary panel with a back wall portion and side wall portions on opposite sides of the back wall portion, wherein the back wall portion is attached to the base wall and the side wall portions project away from the base wall to wrap around the opening so that the sleeve is operable to grasp the drink container,
- said flexible sleeve including a flexible front wall that interconnects the side wall portions, with the front wall being shiftable to permit the side wall portions to be moved toward and away from one another to adjust the size of the cross-sectional dimension,
- said side wall portions presenting a pair of side margins that extend along the sleeve axis;
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- a sleeve connector that removably interconnects the side wall portions to position the side margins adjacent to one another,
- said sleeve defining a sleeve height along the sleeve axis,
- said back wall portion spaced from the side margins and extending along the sleeve axis, with the back wall portion and the base wall being attached to one another along substantially the entire sleeve height.
A portable container holder operable to receive a handheld drink container, said portable container holder comprising:
- a support structure operable to support the portable container holder while being transported;
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- a flexible sleeve including opposite side walls that cooperatively present an elongated opening to slidably receive the drink container,
- said sleeve defining a sleeve axis along which the drink container slides into and out of the sleeve and forming an opening length measured along the sleeve axis,
- said sleeve being adjustably attached to the support structure, with at least part of the sleeve being axially foldable along the sleeve axis to reduce the size of the opening length,
- said sleeve being adjustable between an unfolded condition where the sleeve presents an unfolded sleeve length that defines the opening length and a folded condition where at least a portion of the sleeve is folded axially onto another portion of the sleeve to reduce the opening length from the unfolded condition,
- a first pair of connectors mounted on the base wall and the sleeve to removably interconnect the base wall and the sleeve in the unfolded condition;
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- a second pair of connectors mounted on the base wall and the sleeve and spaced below the first pair of connectors to removably interconnect the base wall and the sleeve in the folded condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.