Condiment holders and support therefor

Claim 1

A CONDIMENT DISPENSER COMPRISING A NORMALLY HORIZONTAL UPRIGHT BASE COMPRISING A SKIRT HAVING A PAIR OF HOLLOW CURVILINEAR INTERNALLY-THREADED ENDS OPENING INTO THE TOP AND BOTTOM SIDES OF SAID BASE, SAID BASE INCLUDING AN INTEGRALLY-FORMED INVERTED FRUSTO-CONICAL CLOSURE WALL EXTENDING, RESPECTIVELY, ACROSS THE LOWER SIDES OF EACH OF SAID CURVILINEAR ENDS, OF SAID CLOSURE WALLS HAVING A CONDIMENT-DISCHARGE OPENING AT THE APEX THEREOF, A PAIR OF SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL CONDIMENT HOLDERS EACH HAVING A PAIR OF OPPOSED OPEN ENDS, SAID HOLDERS EACH HAVING ONE OF THEIR ENDS ENGAGED, RESPECTIVELY, WITHIN ONE OF SAID BASE ENDS, A CLOSURE WALL EXTENDING ACROSS THE OTHER END OF EACH OF SAID CYLINDRICAL HOLDERS, AN ELONGATED VALVE ROD FOR EACH OF SAID CLOSURE WALLS, EACH OF SAID VALVE RODS EXTENDING AT ONE END THROUGH ITS ASSOCIATED CLOSURE WALL AND BEING RECIPROCABLE THERETHROUGH, AND VALVE MEANS ON THE OTHER END OF SAID RODS NORMALLY SEATED WITHIN SAID OPENINGS TO PREVENT DISCHARGE OF SAID CONDIMENTS FROM SAID HOLDERS AND BEING UNSEATED THEREFROM TO PERMIT DISCHARGE OF SAID CONDIMENTS.