Patent ID: 7530537

Claim:
A shopping/grocery bag holder, comprising: an inverted U-shaped mounting bracket having forward and rearward walls, two extensions that allow for suspending a plastic shopping/grocery bag open by the handles, wherein said extensions are generally planar, have upper and lower surfaces and each said extension is provided with two axially spaced attachment slots for holding a respective of the bag handles and positioning a mouth of the bag in an upwardly open position, means for connecting the two extensions to the mounting bracket in a manner that the two extensions form cantilever beams and an outwardly open throat and space between the extensions for receiving the bag inserted therein, said means for connecting including a base plate disposed at a right angle to and extending outwardly and away from said forward wall, and stiffening means for stiffening the connection between the bracket and the base plate, said stiffening means comprising an array of laterally spaced first ribs operating between the upper surface of said base plate and the forward wall of said bracket, and a Y-shaped stiffening rib formed, at least in part, on the lower surface of said base plate and said extension.