Patent ID: 7644819

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a base defining a recess therein, the recess shaped to accommodate a bottom of a standard propane tank; a pair of side walls extending upwardly from the base, each side wall defining an indentation on the inner surface thereof, the indentations shaped to conform to an outer surface of the tank when the bottom of the tank in the recess; and, a pair of end walls extending upwardly from the base, one of the end walls defining a notch shaped to accommodate a neck of a standard five gallon water cooler bottle lying on a side thereof between the side walls, whereby the apparatus may be used to transport one of the tank and the bottle at a time, and wherein the side walls are spaced apart by a distance insufficient to permit the tank to be placed in a horizontal orientation therebetween such that the tank may only be placed therebetween in an upright orientation at a location of the indentations.