Support unit for packaged convenience foods

Claim 1

A suspendable mobile support for packages or containers of convenience food items such as hamburgers, french fried potatoes, beverages and the like, comprising: an elongated standard with means for suspending same in pendulum fashion at its upper end from a support, for example a motor vehicle interior; said standard including a central, longitudinally extending, generally planar web portion having at least two laterally spaced rows of longitudinal slot like openings extending therethrough along its length, said openings including enlarged portions; a set of holding members for holding said packages, each holding member including a reentrant portion for engaging said packages, and a base portion arranged to be mechanically quickly interlocked with the standard without a separate fastener means; each base portion of said holding members including a flat body portion from which protrudes an elongate rib and an enlarged head, said rib and head arranged to mechanically interlock in quick fashion with one of said slot-like openings in said web of the standard with said head extending through the opening for retaining said holding member at a single position against the web in stable fashion; said set of holding members including at least one holding member including means for impaling and supporting the bottom edge of a hamburger package or container; at least one holding member for engaging and retaining the upper portion of a beverage container; and at least one holding member including retaining lip means for engaging and supporting the bottom portion of a beverage container adjacent the standard, said last-mentioned holding member having a depending, hook-like member disposed below said retaining lip means, said hook-like member arranged to engage and support another food package beneath a beverage container supported by said last-mentioned holding member.