A support apparatus for supporting components of a dental material includes two
individual bottles each capable of receiving therein a component which can be shaken.
Each individual bottle has a coding associated therewith and a cover has cover
regions with respective codings corresponding to the bottle coding. A mixing base
has a pair of recesses each with individual coding corresponding to the coding
of a respective one of the individual bottles, whereby each respective bottle has
a respective cover region and a respective recess of the mixing base associated
therewith and identifiable as associated therewith by virtue of the corresponding
coding thereon. The individual bottles collectively comprise a bottle unit and
are closeable by a common cover.