Integral handle and holder for removable cups

Abstract

A holder for removable cups provides critical advantages for safe evacuation and efficient transport of removable cups. The holder securely carries a single removable cup by providing an interference fit that increases with the weight of the contents carried. The holder allows for safe evacuation of the contents of a single cup through provision of an integral handle extending down from the ring holder. When the invention is loaded with a removable cup, multiples of this Invention can be stacked in an offset fashion by inserting the handle of one unit into the vertical hollow in the handle of the next unit. The security of the cluster increases with the weight of the contents yet jamming is avoided through the provision of flat features in the handle. The offset pattern of stacking is also determined by the provision of flats in the vertical hollow in the handle. The Invention, when empty, can be nested stacked.

1 . A holder for removable cups allows for offset stacking when loaded with removable cups by allowing the insertion of the handle of an upper unit into the handle of the lower unit by virtue of a handle hollow containing flat features that act as keys to orientate the upper ring holder out of contact with the ring holder of the lower unit. 
     
     
         2 . A holder for removable cups allows for offset stacking when loaded with removable cups by allowing the insertion of the handle of an upper unit into the handle of the lower unit by virtue of a handle hollow containing flat features that prevent the jamming of the stacked loaded holders. 
     
     
         3 . A holder for removable cups allows for stacking when loaded with up to five removable cups such that the height of the stack is less than the product of the cup height multiplied by the number of stacked units. 
     
     
         4 . A holder for removable cups allows for the safe evacuation of contents by providing a ring holder that provides an interference fit with a removable cup allowing the safe evacuation of the cup contents. 
     
     
         5 . A holder for removable cups allows for the safe evacuation of contents by providing an integral vertical handle allowing the safe evacuation of the cup contents.