Automatic holding device for gasoline pump handles

Claim 1

A gasoline pump handle holding device with a frontal portion and a posterior portion for longitudinal insertion in a gasoline pump handle support frame to hold the gasoline pump handle upwardly in an open position within said support frame, wherein the support frame has a flat surfaced bottom and is adapted for holding therein the gasoline pump handle, the lower surface of which gasoline pump handle is curved such that portions of the lower surface of such gasoline pump handle lie at a variable distance from the flat surface bottom of the support frame forming a lowest and a highest part, said handle holding device comprising: (a) a longitudinally extending functional member, said longitudinally extending functional member having upper and lower edges, said upper edge and lower edge being sloped downwardly towards the frontal portion thereof, thereby creating a forward portion which is shorter in height than the remaining portions of such holding device, and which forward portion is longitudinally insertible under the lowest part of the lower surface of the gasoline pump handle and above the flat surface bottom of the support frame; (b) rounded handle means on the posterior portion of such upper and lower edges of said longitudinally extending functional member for manual handling purposes and said rounded portion is disposed on the posterior portion creating a rearward portion which is integral with and higher in height than the other portions of such holding device for mating engagement at the highest part between the flat bottom surface of the support frame and the posterier portion of the lower surface of the pump handle.