Adjustable laboratory glassware funnel support

Claim 1

A funnel stand for laboratory glassware comprising a stand and shelf made of rods or wires fastened together, plastic neoprene rubber material covering all of said stand and shelf, said stand comprising spaced apart inverted U-shaped vertical end members with displaced horizontal stringers attached in matched pairs across the closed end of said U-shaped members, the ends of said shelf being shaped to be supported on oppositely disposed matched pairs of said stringers, said shelf ends and said pairs of stringers making contact in only one horizontal plane, said shelf comprising an elongated device with first openings distributed along the length of each side of the shelf in said one horizontal plane, a second opening coaxial with said first opening to form coaxial pairs of openings, said pairs of openings being spaced parallel and vertically disposed to form coaxial round funnel openings, each of said funnel openings having front slots, one of said openings of each coaxial pair being formed by a wire having a circular bight terminating in downwardly extending leg supports attached adjacent the front slot in the other of said coaxial pair of openings, and each pair of coaxial openings including an upper opening having a diameter which is sufficiently larger than the diameter of the lower paired openings to nestingly receive and embrace a tapered glassware device at two axially displaced circumferential positions.