US 9,849,820 B2Granted

Receiving device for at least one food or beverage container in a motor vehicle

AssigneeBOS GmbH & Co. KG

InventorsHartmut Bohlke, Bogdan Tutelea, Andreas Goebbels, Tanja Pink, Wolfgang Sitzler, Wolfram Zummack

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Abstract

Receiving device for at least one food or beverage container in a motor vehicle having a trough-shaped receiving housing which has a base and wall sections, and at least one movable supporting part which, together with a side wall section of the receiving housing, forms a container holder in order to support a food or beverage container. The at least one supporting part is mounted in an infinitely adjustable manner in the receiving housing. At least one tension or compression spring arrangement is provided which continuously exerts a tensile or compressive force in the adjustment direction on the at least one supporting part.

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Dependent claims

A receiving device for at least one food or beverage container in a motor vehicle, with a trough-shaped receiving housing which has a base, first and second side wall sections disposed in opposed relation with one another and an end wall section, and with at least one movable supporting part extending across substantially an entire distance defined transversely between the first and second side wall sections, the supporting part, together with the end wall section disposed in opposed relation therewith, forming a container holder in order to support a food or beverage container laterally therebetween, the supporting part being mounted in the receiving housing for movement relative to the end wall section in an adjustment direction between a first position in which a portion of the supporting part disposed in facing relation with the end wall section is located a first distance therefrom, and a second position in which the portion of the supporting part is located a second distance from the end wall section, the second distance being greater than the first distance, the portion of the supporting part being positionable at any distance from the end wall section between the first position and the second position, the receiving device further including at least one tension or compression spring arrangement which continuously exerts a tensile or compressive force on the supporting part in the adjustment direction, the tension or compression spring arrangement being coupled at one end to the supporting part and at the other end to the receiving housing.

A holder for storing at least one beverage container in a motor vehicle, said holder comprising:

a housing including a base and a wall structure projecting upwardly from a peripheral region of said base, said housing including an upwardly-opening interior defined substantially by inwardly facing surfaces of said base and said wall structure, said wall structure having two laterally-spaced side wall sections extending in a longitudinal direction of said housing and two end wall sections interconnecting adjacent and opposed end regions of the respective side wall sections;
at least one container support wall disposed in said interior of said housing transversely between said two side wall sections and in opposed relation with one of said end wall sections, said container support wall extending across substantially an entire distance defined transversely between said side wall sections, said container support wall being mounted within said interior for movement relative to said one end wall section between a minimum end position in which part of said container support wall and said one end wall section are spaced from one another a minimum distance to define a container-receiving space therebetween for laterally supporting a minimally-sized food or beverage container, and a maximum end position in which said part of said container support wall and said one end wall section are spaced from one another a maximum distance to define a container-receiving space therebetween for laterally supporting a maximum-sized food or beverage container, said part of said container support wall being positionable at the minimum and maximum positions and at any distance from said one end wall section between the minimum and maximum end positions;
and a biasing arrangement supported on said housing to continuously exert a biasing force on said container support wall in a direction towards said one end wall section to maintain said container support wall in supporting engagement with a food or beverage container located within said container-receiving space, said biasing arrangement being coupled at one end to said container support wall and at the other end to said housing.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.