Patent ID: 7077269

Claim:
A holder for safely transporting and storing cylindrical objects comprises: an inwardly sloped first interior wall portion; an inwardly sloped second interior wall portion; said first and second interior wall portions each being downwardly converging toward the other, and rigidly held spaced apart a distance sufficient to securely hold therebetween portions of the exterior sidewall of a cylindrical object, thereby retaining the object in a horizontal orientation; an outwardly sloped downwardly diverging first exterior wall portion having a top edge rigidly secured to a top edge of said first interior wall portion; an outwardly sloped downwardly diverging second exterior wall portion having a top edge rigidly secured to a top edge of said second interior wall portion; first and second bottom portions, said first bottom portion having an innermost longitudinal edge rigidly attached to a lowermost longitudinal edge of said first interior wall portion, said second bottom portion having an innermost longitudinal edge rigidly attached to a lowermost longitudinal edge of said second interior wall portion; and attachment means for adjustably securing said first and second bottom portions together in an overlapping manner for obtaining a desired distance between said first and second interior wall portions.