Releasable holder for container

Claim 1

A holder for releasably securing an elongated container to a tubular member such as a handle bar of a power-operated implement, said holder comprising: a first part of yieldable material having a base portion and yieldable container gripping walls projecting from one face thereof, said base portion having a central raised longitudinal portion thereof designed to engage a container held between said gripping walls, said central raised portion being spaced transversely from said gripping walls to provide two spaced slots therein, said first part further having a longitudinal groove in the opposite face thereof and adapted to engage such a tubular member, a second part having a longitudinal groove in one face thereof facing said longitudinal groove in the first part thereof, and a pair of longitudinal edge slots in the opposite sides thereof and designed opposite to the spaced slots in said first part, and two pairs of clamping means extending between said first and second parts inwardly of the outer edges thereof to clamp the same against such a tubular member with said recesses oppositely engaging the tubular member, each of said clamping means having opposite, relatively adjustable abutment portions, corresponding abutment portions of each of said clamping means being disposed in said spaced slots of said first part beneath the outer edges of said slots so that they are disposed behind a container secured in said gripping walls, and the opposite abutment portions of each of said clamping means being disposed in said edge slots, said opposite abutment portions being sufficiently small in a transverse direction that they do not extend beyond the adjacent outer edges of said second part.