Abstract: A support assembly for coffee filters comprises an annular or ring-like member adapted to nest inside the coffee filter basket of an automatic "drip" style coffee machine with the ring member being adapted to fit concentrically inside the circumference of the replaceable filter element in a manner to maintain the filter in engagement against the inside wall of the basket during the coffee brewing cycle. A portion of the ring member is tubular and flexible whereas another portion of the ring comprises a rod having its opposite ends received inside corresponding opposite ends of the tubular portion so that the rod portion may be telescopically displaced relative to the tubular portion. Resilient biasing means in the interior of the tubular portion tends to resist such relative telescopic displacement and urges the ring member to assume its normal diameter.