Glass holder for individual glasses during their use
09986861 ยท 2018-06-05
Assignee
Inventors
Cpc classification
A47J45/02
HUMAN NECESSITIES
B60N3/102
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
International classification
A47K1/08
HUMAN NECESSITIES
Abstract
A cup holder for single cups, includes housing means of the cup in the cup holder with grip on the edge or in proximity to the upper edge of the cup and supporting means of the cup holder for supporting the so housed cup; a plane or upper surface of covering of the cup, when it is housed in the cup holder with such an extension as to cover entirely the cup and rigidly connected to the housing means of the cup. The cup holder has the supporting means placed on the side opposite the side of introduction of the cup in the housing means; the housing means includes a housing guide for the grip on an upper edge of a cup which is inserted in it; and the supporting means includes a short shank and a slider inserted in rectilinear or arched storage elements, arranged in a horizontal or even vertical direction.
Claims
1. A cup holder for single cups, comprising: housing means of the cup in the cup holder with grip on the edge or in proximity to the upper edge of the cup and supporting means of the cup holder for supporting the so housed cup; a plane upper surface of covering of the cup, when it is housed in the cup holder with such an extension as to entirely cover the cup and rigidly connected to the housing means of the cup; wherein the cup holder has the supporting means placed on the side opposite the side of introduction of the cup in the housing means; the housing means comprises a housing guide for the grip on an upper edge of a cup that is inserted in it by sliding horizontally only parallel to the plane; and the supporting means comprises a short shank, with a direction parallel to the plane and the horizontal housing guide, and a slider, made in direction at 90 to the shank and plane direction, inserted in rectilinear or arched storage elements, placed in a horizontal or even vertical direction.
2. A cup holder for single cups, according to claim 1, wherein the supporting means comprises a magnet inserted in said slider for a magnetic fixing of the cup holder to a ferromagnetic surface.
3. A cup holder for single cups, according to claim 1, wherein the cup holder is made in two parts; a first upper part comprises the plane of covering of the cup, an upper rib, as well as the slider and the short shank of connection of the latter; and a second lower part which comprises the housing guide of the upper edge of the cup, when housed in it; the two parts at assembly are rigidly connected together.
4. A cup holder for single cups, according to claim 3, wherein the rigid connection between the two parts is made by means of sliding means lockable by external action or internal shape.
5. A cup holder for single cups, according to claim 4, wherein the sliding and locking means comprises male guides, blind grooves and end projections.
6. A cup holder for single cups, comprising: housing means of the cup in the cup holder with grip on the edge or in proximity to the upper edge of the cup and supporting means of the cup holder for supporting the so housed cup; a plane upper surface of covering of the cup, when it is housed in the cup holder with such an extension as to entirely cover the cup and rigidly connected to the housing means of the cup; wherein the cup holder has the supporting means placed on the side opposite the side of introduction of the cup in the housing means; the housing means comprises a housing guide for the grip on an upper edge of a cup that is inserted in it; and the supporting means comprises a short shank and a slider inserted in rectilinear or arched storage elements, placed in a horizontal or even vertical direction, wherein the supporting means comprises a magnet inserted in said slider for a magnetic fixing of the cup holder to a ferromagnetic surface, and wherein the plane or upper surface of covering has locking means of the extraction of the inserted cup, comprising closing elements of the housing means of the cup.
7. A cup holder for single cups, according to claim 6, wherein said closing means comprises a case, provided with an arched lower edge to complete the housing guide of the cup, when inserted in the cup holder.
8. A cup holder for single cups, according to claim 7, wherein more than one cup holder are housed in rectilinear or arched storage elements, placed in a horizontal or even vertical direction with the insertion of the slider within the folded edges of the sections constituting said storage elements; and wherein the storage elements are made with C-shaped or U-shaped sections, for the insertion and the grip of the supporting means of each cup holder.
9. A cup holder for single cups, according to claim 8, wherein the storage elements have housing or preferred insertion seats of the slider of each cup holder.
10. A cup holder for single cups, according to claim 9, wherein the housing seats include a notch present on a side of a U-shaped section.
11. A cup holder for single cups, comprising: housing means of the cup in the cup holder with grip on the edge or in proximity to the upper edge of the cup and supporting means of the cup holder for supporting the so housed cup; a plane upper surface of covering of the cup, when it is housed in the cup holder with such an extension as to entirely cover the cup and rigidly connected to the housing means of the cup; wherein the cup holder has the supporting means placed on the side opposite the side of introduction of the cup in the housing means; the housing means comprises a housing guide for the grip on an upper edge of a cup that is inserted in it; and the supporting means comprises a short shank and a slider inserted in rectilinear or arched storage elements, placed in a horizontal or even vertical direction, and wherein in C-shaped sections with folded edges there are insertion points of a respective slider comprising an indentation dimensioned to house the slider in the insertion/extraction; the cup holder after insertion is moved to a position of convenient use in the section itself.
12. A cup holder for single cups, according to claim 11, wherein the storage elements have housing or preferred insertion seats of the slider of each cup holder.
13. A cup holder for single cups, according to claim 12, wherein the housing seats include a notch present on a side of U shaped section.
14. A cup holder for single cups, according to claim 12, wherein in C-shaped sections with folded edges there are insertion points of a respective slider comprising an indentation dimensioned to house the slider in the insertion/extraction; the cup holder after insertion is moved to a position of convenient use in the section itself.
15. A cup holder for single cups, according to claim 14, wherein a dimension of the indentation in a direction parallel to the section is slightly greater than the corresponding dimension of the slider or even than the dimension measured parallel to the plane of the cup holder, of a horizontally dimensioned slider or the dimension measured perpendicularly to the plane of the cup holder of a vertically dimensioned slider.
16. A cup holder for single cups, according to claim 14, wherein a slider has a dimension measured perpendicularly to the plane of the cup holder, of a horizontally dimensioned slider, or the dimension measured parallel to the plane of the cup holder of a vertically dimensioned slider and wherein it is smaller than the distance between the folded edges of a section with vertical or horizontal arrangement; and furthermore the internal height of said section is greater than the dimension of the slider, measured perpendicularly to the plane of the cup holder, of a horizontally dimensioned slider, or the dimension measured parallel to the plane of the cup holder of a vertically dimensioned slider.
17. A cup holder for single cups, according to claim 1, wherein the slider has bevels or radius between its side faces to facilitate a rotation with respect to an internal height of a section after the insertion within a section of storage.
Description
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(49) The cup holder 1 is provided, at the opposite end of the plane 6 with respect to the position of introduction of the guide 4, with an upper rib 7 above the plane and an additional lower rib 8 below the plane; the latter is connected to the grooved appendix 5, while the upper rib 7 is an extension above the plane 6 of said lower rib 8. In the upper rib 7 there is a recess 9 where one can put a mark or label or a name, in such a way as to highlight the reference to the cup of a specific user of said cup holder so identified. At the back of the cup holder 1, joined by a short shank 10, there is a slider 11 provided on the back face 12 with a magnet 13 to enable the grip on a ferromagnetic metal surface to which it is opposed. Finally, in the end opposite to the ribs 7 and 8 of the plane 6 there is a hole 14 for enabling the locking of the extraction of a cup or even to prevent the introduction of a cup, by means of the introduction of a small padlock, stop or the like in said hole. Any tampering leads to the damage of the disposable cup.
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(54) The plurality of cup holders 1, shown in the previous Figures, is generally applied to walls, that is to say, to vertical walls of environments, of partitions of environments or even of furniture or equipment with a surface intended for the application of the described C-shaped section in such a way as to be as much as possible within the reach of and usable by the people for whom said cup holders are intended.
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(57) Moreover, if the distance D between the folded edges 33 is smaller than the horizontal height h2 the slider 44 can be inserted, with a preliminary right angle rotation R, within the edges of a horizontal section 31 also without insertion points 40. In order to easily realize the insertion A in this case, a dimensioned slider 44 can have bevels or radius 45 to realize the rotation inside the walls of the section and bring the cup holder back to the correct support position.
(58) To complete the embodiment the cup holder can be made with a vertically dimensioned slider 46, as one can see in
(59) The use of the cup holder 1 occurs as specified in the following. The user when using the cup 2, after the pouring and the partial use of the drink or water, instead of leaving the cup in any point of the workplace, desk or bench for manual works and/or machine for mechanical works, inserts the edge 3, of the paper or plastic cup 2 of the disposable type, into the housing guide 4 with a light compression of the edge 3. Thus, the cup remains housed in it and is ready to be seized at any time by the user for a new use, both to consume its content, and to pour additional drink or water for a new use. In this way the user can protect his/her cup from the working environment if this is polluted or even prevent the cup from being dangerous for work documents, such as papers on a desk that may be damaged by liquid spilled on them. The possibility of inserting a stop also with key such as a padlock in the hole 14 or also in the hole 18 of the case 15 allows the user to control his/her cup also in case of absence from the workplace both due to absence from work or even due to the temporary displacement of the working point, thus preventing involuntary tampering by other users.
(60) The cup holder 1 can always be identified by the user, even if it is inserted in storage elements of cup holders, because it can be made in different colours or even identified or named by affixing identifying names or signs in the recess 9. Moreover, each cup holder 1 can be used autonomously if approached with the back face 12 of the slider 11 or 22, for the magnetic grip of the magnet 13 inserted in said face, against a vertical ferromagnetic surface.
(61) So the cup holder 1 for its most comfortable and easy use for the user can be collected in horizontal or vertical storage elements in a fixed way, that is to say, not easy to remove from or reintroduce in the storage element, in such a way as to create a space in the workplace of several people for the storage of the cups used by the people working without occupying the areas surrounding the workplace.
(62) Therefore each user, who uses a described cup holder 1, can use one disposable cup only in his/her work shift, without fearing to lose it, exchange it with other users, spill its content, without fearing it to become a breeding ground for the pollution of the working environment, or that it is involuntarily taken by another user, considering that, generally, disposable cups are always anonymous. So, also the extraction of the cup 2 from the housing guide 4 is prevented thanks to the possibility of locking the edge 3 of the cup by means of the hole 14 or even by means of the hole 18 of the case 15 for locking the single cup 2 in the cup holder.
(63) Moreover, the production of cup holders with housing guides shaped in such a way as to house different kinds of cups 2, both of paper of the disposable type and rigid with at least one slightly conical end part of the upper edge, is much facilitated and simplified by realizing a cup holder subdivided into two parts: a first upper part 19, mainly comprising the upper closing plane 20 of the cup and the slider 22 as described, and a second lower part 23 comprising the housing guide 24 of the specific cup. The complication of realizing the male guides 27 in the upper part 19 and the blind grooves 27 in the lower part 23 is well compensated for by versatility, by the fact of being able to realize one single upper part connect able at assembly to different lower parts, and by the simplification of production tools. In fact, the lower parts 23 are made with a dimensioning of the respective housing guide 24 for the cups for which they are specifically intended. The so made cup holder is, after the assembly of the two parts, completely corresponding in use to the cup holder described in
(64) Finally, with the structure of the dimensioned slider 44 or 46, a cup holder can be made mobile by a storage element both of the horizontal type and of the vertical type even if not specifically provided upon making of the storage element section. The different dimensioning of their slider between a cup holder for horizontal or vertical storage elements allows to make the cup holders usable by work sectors or exclusive use.
(65) The advantages in the use of one or more cup holders 1, according to the invention, can be summarized as follows. The user when using the cup holder no longer has to control at each use the position of housing of the cup, as this is prearranged at the moment of placing the cup holder, individually in the workplace or in a storage element with the locking and impediment to the extraction or even easier to move if the storage element is provided with notches 35 or indentations 41 for housing the slider 11 or 22 of the cup holder.
(66) By the cup holder provided with the dimensioned slider 44 or 46 there is maximum positioning freedom, because the user can use both the storage elements with vertical arrangement and the storage elements with horizontal arrangement also of the type without insertion points with said notches 35 or indentations 41. The action of insertion/extraction is much facilitated.
(67) Furthermore, the making of the cup holder in two parts makes it possible to have a significant saving both in the design and in the realization of the technical production means and also in the management of production itself, making versatile a specific production for each type of cup that may be required to be supported by the cup holder of the present invention.
(68) The use of the cup holder described herein allows, moreover, a saving in the volume of the waste produced because, especially in summer months, the use of disposable cups increases very much due to the need of using a new cup for each additional pouring of drink or water and also to prevent the exchange of one's cup with the cups of other users who work in the same office or in the same working area in the workshop.
(69) Obviously, in order to meet specific and contingent needs, a person skilled in the art may make several changes to the use of cup holders for single cups, as above described, which are all included in the scope of protection of the present invention as defined by the following claims. Obviously, although less conveniently, a cup holder 1 can also have only one of the above-mentioned modes of support with short shank 10 and slider, or, with magnet 13; and said grip modes on storage elements or shaped sections, as described, can be made in an alternative way with respect to the use of notches, indentations or folded edges of the sections, to hold said sliders of the cup holders inserted in them. Furthermore, the second lower part 23 can be without the lower part of tang 26, using other means to make the connection stable after assembly. Moreover, the rigid connection between the two parts 19 and 23, constituting a cup holder, can occur with connection means different from the sliding and locking means comprising male guides 27, blind grooves 29 and end projections 30, though always realizing the necessary long-lasting stable connection. Finally, all the types of sliders described 11, 22, 44 or 46 can be provided with a bevel or radius 45 to facilitate the operation of insertion A and of rotation R in the desired positioning of the corresponding cup holder 1.