Patent ID: 7617927

Claim:
A collapsible toothbrush holder for effectively and hygienically storing a plurality of toothbrushes while traveling, said toothbrush holder comprising: a resiliently squeezable body having telescopically conjoined top, middle, and bottom sections respectively, said middle section including a plurality of concentrically formed hollow cylinders interfitted within each other and connected to said top and bottom sections respectively, said cylinders being telescopically extendable along a centrally registered vertical axis passing through said body and having a vertical wall oriented thereabout, said top, middle and bottom sections forming a collapsible hollow chamber therein for housing corresponding handles of the toothbrushes, wherein said hollow chamber expands downwardly along the vertical axis; said top section having an annular bottom end directly connected to an upper end of said middle section, said top section further having a planar top surface provided with a plurality of apertures formed therein such that the handles of the toothbrushes vertically penetrate through said apertures and contiguously lay within said chamber, said apertures being equidistantly spaced from each other and oriented concentrically about the vertical axis such that the tooth brushes maintain fixed spatial relationships during stored conditions, said top section including an outer wall monolithically formed with said bottom end and said top surface respectively, said bottom section having an annular shape threadably mated to a lower end of said middle section, said bottom section being provided with a plurality of apertures formed therein such that fluid drains from the toothbrushes housed within said chamber and penetrates outwardly from said body, said apertures radially extending outwardly from a center of said bottom section; and means for telescopically adjusting said top and middle sections in such a manner that said bottom section remains stationary as a longitudinal length of said chamber is adjusted, said telescopic adjusting means being spaced from said bottom section and anchored to a bottom one of said cylinders; wherein each of said cylinders comprises: a top flange portion and a pair of bottom flange portions monolithically formed with a vertically registered side of said cylinder, each of said top and pair of bottom flange portions being registered orthogonal to said side, said top flange portion and one of said pair of bottom flange portions extending inwardly toward said vertical axis, another of said pair of bottom flange portions extending outwardly from said side and oppositely faced from said one bottom flange portion, said another bottom flange portion having a top shoulder seated directly below said top flange portion and terminating at said side of said bottom cylinder such that said bottom cylinder is prohibited from vertically displacing beyond said top shoulder.