Patent ID: 7909299

Claim:
A holder for a beverage container, comprising a first support movable from a lowered position into a raised position and vice versa, so that said first support in said raised position provides a beverage container inserted in the holder with support at a location laterally; a second support also movable from a lowered position into a raised position and vice versa, so that in said raised position said second support provides a beverage container inserted in the holder with support laterally at a different location on its periphery than said first support, said first support being drivingly connected to said second support so that said second support on being raised raises said first support along with it and on being lowered lowers said first support along with it; and a locking element which acts directly on both said first and second supports and locks said first support against movement in said raised and lowered position, such that only said second support on being raised or lowered unlocks said locking element so that said first support is movable, wherein said first support and said second support have pivotal mounts which are located at a same side of a beverage container inserted in the holder and have a common substantially horizontal axis, and said first and second supports are connected with one another pivotally about an axis extending parallel to said common axis of said pivotal mounts of said first support and said second support.