Patent ID: 8678312

Claim:
A console. for an aircraft comprising: an open faced ledge having a back wall, a platform, and a pair of opposing sidewalls; the platform being adapted to support personal items; a portion of the back wall being illuminated by a lighting system; at least one of the sidewalls including an electronics-device connector; elongated bars on each side of an outcropped central divider, each elongated bar having an extending tang on a first bar end, and a second rod end, each elongated bar also having two flip-out retaining heads, the retaining heads laterally securing containers received between said back wall and a front rail; the tang on each first bar end being receivable and rotatably securable through a slot and into the central divider to bear against a cam surface reciprocating with each of tang on each first bar, the cam surfaces being located inside the central divider; each cam having a transition ridge which, when reached by its reciprocating tang, compels the tang into a first radial position in which the retaining heads on that bar are in an extended position, or a second radial position where the retaining heads on that bar are in a retracted position; each second bar end being receivable into a spring-loaded corridor located laterally outward from the central divider; and a spring included in each spring-loaded corridor compelling the first end of each bar into the central divider against each respective cam surface.