Patent ID: 7757888

Claim:
A cup holder, comprising: a base being formed as a container shape, and having an accommodation hole being opened upward; a cylindrical member having opposite openings, being fitted around the base, being disposed coaxially with the accommodation hole of the base, and being disposed movably in up/down direction; an urging device for urging the cylindrical member so as to move the cylindrical member upward; a locking device for enabling the urging device to accumulate urging force, thereby retaining the cylindrical member in such a state that the cylindrical member is moved downward; an unlocking device for canceling the retaining action of the locking device; a lid member being disposed rotatably to the base, and having a top and a bottom, the top making a top decorative surface, the bottom making a bottom supporter surface being disposed oppositely to the top decorative surface, the top decorative surface and the bottom supporter surface being made reversible within the cylindrical member; a reversing device being interlocked with the cylindrical member, which moves upward/downward, thereby reversing the top decorative surface and bottom decorative surface of the lid member; a non-service position at which the cylindrical member descends fully, the lid member closes one of the opposite openings of the cylindrical member, and the top decorative surface of the lid member is exposed; and a service position at which the cylindrical member ascends fully, and the lid member is reversed to expose the bottom supporter surface, thereby supporting a bottom of container, which is inserted into the accommodation hole of the cylindrical member, with the bottom supporter surface of the lid member.