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A portable beverage container carrier for an automotive vehicle is formed of a single sheet of flat, stiffened material, such as cardboard, formed with creases to create a rectangular floor, a front, a back and sides. A pair of arms extend laterally from the front and back and are adaptable for inse

A portable beverage container carrier for an automotive vehicle is formed of a single sheet of flat, stiffened material, such as cardboard, formed with creases to create a rectangular floor, a front, a back and sides. A pair of arms extend laterally from the front and back and are adaptable for insertion into slots in the sides. The arms terminate in hook and loop fabric fasteners which are engageable with mating fabric fasteners on the inside surfaces of the side panels. The front, back and sides can thereby be folded up from the floor panel to form a tray. The front and sides are provided with reinforcement flaps that are foldable inwardly to reinforce the structure of the tray. One of the side flaps is formed with an articulated intermediate panel having apertures therein to receive accessories, such as straws and plastic eating implements. The sheet of stiffened material is formed with a detachable section that can be folded into a dihedral to form an adjustable brace. A hanger opening in the back panel allows the carrier to be hung from a hook on the dashboard, and the brace props the tray up to hold the floor panel in a substantially horizontal disposition.

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A portable beverage container carrier formed of a single sheet of stiff, folded stock comprising: a rectangular floor panel bounded on all sides by first and second pairs of creases in said stock, wherein said creases of said first pair are perpendicular to said creases of said second pair, a first

A portable beverage container carrier formed of a single sheet of stiff, folded stock comprising: a rectangular floor panel bounded on all sides by first and second pairs of creases in said stock, wherein said creases of said first pair are perpendicular to said creases of said second pair, a first pair of wall panels having linear side edges extending outwardly from said first pair of creases, wherein one of said wall panels in said first pair is a front panel and the other of said wall panels in said first pair is a back panel, and said back panel is provided with a plurality of mutually parallel brace support slots extending parallel to said creases in said first pair of creases, and further comprising a stabilizing brace formed in the shape of a dihedral and having end tabs on its edges which extend into said brace support slots in said back panel, a second pair of wall panels having linear side edges extending outwardly from said second pair of creases, fastening arms extending laterally from the side edges of said wall panels in one of said pairs of wall panels, fastening means for said fastening arms engageable to hold all of said wall panels in fixed orientation relative to said floor panel with said side edges of said wall panels in said first pair meeting said side edges of said wall panels in said second pair, including first fastening elements disposed on said fastening arms and second fastening elements disposed on the other of said pairs of wall panels, thereby defining a concave beverage container receptacle in which said first and second fastening elements are mutually engaged with each other at said wall panels in said other pair and above said floor panel, whereby said floor panel resides within the confines of said wall panels in an upwardly facing, exposed condition.