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Title: |
US4791030:
Super hero cup holder
[ Derwent Title ]

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Country: |
US United States of America

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Inventor: |
DeMars, Robert A.; Canoga Park, CA 91304

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Assignee: |
None

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Published / Filed: |
1988-12-13
/ 1987-03-26

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Application Number: |
US1987000031247

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IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A47G 23/02;
Core:
A47G 23/00;
IPC-7:
B65D 25/28;

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U.S. Class: |
Current:
220/738;
215/395;
215/396;
220/771;
229/402;
248/310;
248/311.2;
294/027.1;
428/016;
0D7/517;
Original:
428/542.4;
215/100.A;
220/094.R;
220/096;
248/310;
248/311.2;
428/016;

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Field of Search: |
D07/070
215/100 A
220/94 R,96
248/DIG. 8,310,311.2
428/016,542.4

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Abstract: |
A cup holder having a cylinder portion for receiving a cup which has no handles and a releasable handle therefor. The releasable handle has a shank, one or more extensions from the upper portion of the shank and a platform at the base of the shank. On the distal end of each extension, there are receptacles for releasably engaging a protrusion on a horizontal surface of an outwardly extending ledge on the upper portion of the cylinder. The platform has means for releasably receiving a lip in the lower rim of the cylinder.

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Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Cislo & Thomas ;

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Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Epstein, Henry F.;

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Maintenance Status: |
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Parent Case: |
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation-in-part application of my co-pending application Ser. No. 06/739,564, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,654,274, which was filed on May 30, 1985.

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First Claim:
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I claim:
1. A cup holder for co-operative association with a handleless cup comprising a cylinder and a releasable handle, said cylinder section having substantially the same length as a pre-selected cup and having substantially the same inner configuration as the outer configuration of said cup, a ledge extending outwardly from said holder at or near its upper rim, at least one protrusion on a horizontal surface of said ledge for releasably engaging corresponding receptacle means on an outwardly extending arm of a shank portion of said handle, said receptacle means being at the distal end of said arm, said shank portion depending from a proximal end of said arm and extending to a lower support platform, said platform extending substantially in the same direction as said arm and having means therein to releasably receive at its outer edge a portion of the bottom rim of said cup.

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