Patent ID: 8919718

Claim:
A portable multifunction beverage container holder comprising: a free-standing beverage container holder housing having a top surface and a bottom surface connected via side surfaces and having (i) at least one beverage container receptacle formed as a recessed cavity within said top surface that is sized and shaped to receive and hold a beverage container and position said beverage container in a substantially upright position; at least two receiving cavities on said bottom surface of said beverage container holder housing; at least two elongated shaft structural supports, each of which has a first end that extends along a longitudinal axis of the elongated shaft structural support and is sized and shaped for insertion into at least one of the shaft receiving cavities and at least one stub that extends along a second axis which is transverse to the longitudinal axis of the elongated shaft structural support and that terminates in a size and shape for insertion into at least one of the shaft receiving cavities; and wherein said beverage container holder housing has at least one deployable stemmed beverage container support arm attached to said beverage container holder housing for providing lateral and vertical support to a bowl of a stem on a stemmed beverage container in which the stem of the beverage container connects a base section to the bowl section of the stemmed beverage container, and wherein said deployable stemmed beverage container support arm pivots from a storage location on a lateral side of the beverage container holder housing into a use location, wherein the stemmed beverage container support arm is deployed to a position extending outward from the beverage container holder housing such that the stemmed beverage container support arm bears on the bowl of a stemmed beverage container that is positioned in the upright in the deployable beverage container support arm to contain a beverage in the upright bowl section of the stemmed beverage container.