Bottle holder for open-top storage receptacle

Claim 1

THE COMBINATION WITH A MEMBER PROVIDING AN ELONGATED SUPPORTING SURFACE AND FIRST AND SECOND LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING RETAINING MEANS AT OPPOSING LONGITUDINAL EDGES THEREOF, MEANS INCLUDING THE SUPPORTING SURFACE AND THE FIRST AND SECOND RETAINING MEANS DEFINING AN OPEN-TOP STORAGE RECEPTACLE FOR BOTTLES, AT LEAST ONE OF SAID RETAINING MEANS FUNCTIONING AS A RETAINING WALL HAVING A TOP EDGE WHICH DEFINES IN PART THE TOP OPENING OF THE RECEPTACLE, OF A HOLDER FOR A PLURALITY OF BOTTLES, MEANS FOR MOUNTING SAID HOLDER ON SAID FIRST RETAINING MEANS, SAID HOLDER COMPORISING STRUCTURE WHICH EXTENDS LENGTHWISE OF SAID SURFACE AT SAID FIRST RETAINING MEANS AND INCLUDES A ROW OF ELONGATED FINGERS WHICH ARE RELATIVELY THIN LIKE FINGERS OF A COMB AND SUBSTANTIALLY INEXTENSIBLE IN THE DIRECTION OF THEIR LENGTH AND SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICULAR TO SAID ONE RETAINING MEANS, SAID FINGERS HAVING TOP AND BOTTOM SIDES AND BEING SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER FROM THE OUTER FREE ENDS THEREOF TOWARD SAID FIRST RETAINING MEANS, SAID SEPARATED FINGERS BEING FLEXIBLE AND INDEPENDENTLY MOVABLE FROM UNFLEXED TO FLEXED POSITIONS IN ADJACENT VERTICAL PLANES WHICH PASS LENGTHWISE THROUGH SAUD FUNGERS AND ARE SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICULAR TO SAID ONE RETAINING MEANS, SAID SEPARATED FINGERS IN THEIR INFLEXED POSITIONS EXTENDING ACROSS THE SUPPORTING SURFACE FROM SAID FIRST RETAINING MEANS TOWEARD SAID SECOND RETAINING MEANS AND HAVING BOTH THE TOP AND BOTTOM SIDES THEREOF SLOPING DOWNWARD TOWARD THEIR OUTER FREE ENDS FROM A FIRST REGION AT ONE LEVEL TO A SECOND REGION AT A LOWER LEVEL, AND SAID FINGERS BEING POSITIONED SO THAT THE OUTER FREE ENDS THEREOF ARE REMOVED FROM SAID SUPPORTING SURACE AND SAID SECOND RETAINING MEANS IN THEIR UNFLEXED AND FLEXED POSITIONS, EACH OF SAID FINGERS WHEN MOVED TO A FLEXED POSITION BY A BOTTLE POSITIONED IN SAID RECEPTACLE ADJACENT TO SAID SECOND RETAINING MEANS FUNCTIONING TO RESILIENTLY BIAS THE BOTTLE AGAINST THE LATTER.