Patent Application
20220257038
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(1) Field of the Invention.
The disclosure relates to beverage holding device and more particularly pertains to a new beverage holding device for holding a variety of beverage containers including cans, bottles, and wine glasses.
(2) Description of Related Art including information disclosed under 37 CFR 1.97 and 1.98.
The prior art relates to beverage holding devices which are used to receive and hold in an upright position a beverage holding container in a convenient location to its user.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a housing that has a bottom wall and a perimeter wall attached to and extending upwardly from the bottom wall. The housing has an upper end having a well extending therein. The well is configured to receive a beverage container and retain the beverage container in an upright position. A coupler is mounted on housing and is configured to engage a shaft. The coupler is rotatable relative to the housing such that the coupler is selectively engageable with a vertically or horizontally orientated shaft.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A coupler 20 is mounted on housing 12 and is configured to engage a shaft 22 to support the housing 12 on the shaft 22. However, the coupler 20 is rotatable relative to the housing 12 such that the coupler 20 is engageable with a vertically or horizontally orientated shaft 22. The shaft 22 may comprise an armrest of a chair, a leg of chair, a horizontal railing, a spindle holding up a railing, and the like. This allows a user of the assembly to position the housing 12 in a convenient location relative to the user. The coupler 20 is positioned above a center of gravity of the housing 12, wherein the center of gravity is most typically positioned nearer the bottom wall 14 than the upper end 17. This will help retain the housing 12 in an upright condition. As shown in the embodiments of
In one embodiment, the coupler 20 may include a strap 24 that is elongated and has a first end 26, a second end 28, a first side 30 and a second side 32. The strap 24 may be comprised of any conventional material such as natural or synthetic woven fibers. The strap 24 will generally have a length from the first end 26 to the second end 28 that is between 10.0 inches and 20.0 inches. A securing member 34 releasably secures the strap 24 to itself to retain the strap 24 in a closed loop and in removable engagement with the shaft 22. The securing member 34 may include a slide buckle, buckles including first and second mating members, hook and loop fasteners, snaps, buttons, and the like. The method of securing the strap 24 into the closed loop is not germane to the function of the assembly 10 and therefore any securing member 34 conventional to straps, belts, tiedowns and the like may be utilized. A fastener 36 pivotally coupling the strap 24 to the perimeter wall 16 such that the first side 30 faces and abuts an outer surface of the perimeter wall 16. The fastener 36 may include a rod, for example, extending through the strap 24 and into the perimeter wall 16 wherein the strap 24 is rotatable about the rod. The rod may include a conventional threaded screw.
In use, as user of the assembly 10 selects a shaft 22 onto which the housing 12 is to be mounted. The strap 24 is rotated until the strap 24 is orientated correctly to secure the housing 12 to the shaft 22 such that the upper end 17 faces an upward direction. The coupler 24 is then attached to the shaft 22 and, if the coupler 20 is a strap 24, tightened to frictionally engage the shaft 22. The housing 12 is then used to hold a beverage container including cups, wine glasses, beverage cans, beverage bottles and the like.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
