Support means

US4482521A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Secretary of State for Social Services in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Gritain and Northern Ireland · GB

Inventors

• Roger A. Bunce · Kings Norton, GB
• Rolf Studer · Basel, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: May 21, 1981
• Grant date: Nov 13, 1984
• Expiry date: May 21, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S436/809
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A support means for supporting more than six objects is disclosed. The surt means comprises a substantially planar member having more than six siting means therein; and fixed thereto, one to each siting means, cage-like structures extending from said planar member substantially normal thereto, each cage-like structure being at least constricted at its end remote from said planar member; so that in use an object inserted in any one of said cage-like structures, and allowed to fall therein, is retained at the end thereof remote from said planar member. The planar member may be a substantially flat plate and each siting means a hole in said flat plate. The cage-like structure may, for example, be of helical form or of basket form.