Support assembly for a hair dryer and like instruments

Claim 1

A support assembly designed to hold a plurality of different instruments such as a hair dryer and curling iron, said assembly comprising: a base including an under portion dimensioned and configured to rest on a supporting surface, a support member attached to one longitudinal end of said base on an exposed surface thereof, said one longitudinal end structured and configured to orient said support member in a preferred angular position relative to said base extending upwardly at an angle of less than 90° to said base and the supporting surface on which said base is disposed, a first aperture formed in said support member and extending therethrough and including a transverse dimension sufficient to receive therein a nozzle of a handheld hair dryer, a plurality of second apertures each formed in said support member and extending therethrough and transversely dimensioned to receive and allow passage at least partially therethrough of a handheld curling iron, said support member being positioned in said preferred angular position and said first and second apertures being cooperatively dimensioned and disposed so as to position handle portions of the different instruments within said apertures in a readily accessible orientation so as to facilitate removal thereof from said support member, a plurality of sleeves each mounted within a different one of said plurality of second apertures and configured for supporting engagement with an instrument positioned within respective ones of said second apertures, and shield means mounted on said exposed surface of said base adjacent at least one of said second apertures and dimensioned and disposed to engage a heated end of an instrument passing through and supported within said one second aperture.