Patent ID: 8087528

Claim:
A cup holder for holding a beverage container, comprising: a cylindrical central holding structure with an open top and a closed base, an inner surface and an outer surface, one or more flexible resilient fin appendages extending from the inner surface of the cylindrical central holding structure inwardly towards a free end, with the free end offset from a vertical line of the holding structure, such that the flexible resilient fin appendages can be frictionally attached to said beverage container and flexible enough to securely hold said beverage containers of different sizes at different times without modification of the resilient fin appendages, said one or more flexible resilient fin appendages having a tapered vertical contact edge with the free end wider near the closed base than the open top, and said tapered vertical contact edge extending substantially from the open top to the closed base of the cylindrical central holding structure; a stabilizer extending from and surrounding the closed base of the cylindrical central holding structure, said stabilizer having a horizontal flat surface that extends laterally around the closed base and having an edge located on a perimeter of the horizontal flat surface and having an exterior lip that extends vertically upward at the edge of the horizontal flat surface on the stabilizer; and a textured surface on the bottom surface of a closed base to reduce slippage of the cup holder.