TOOLHOLDING DEVICE

• US 3,603,551 A
• Filed: 05/20/1969
• Issued: 09/07/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Darwin H. Peterson
• Original Assignee: Darwin H. Peterson
• Inventors: Peterson, Darwin H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Foss, Franklin J.
• Application Number:
  US04/826,166
• Time in Patent Office: 840 Days
• Field of Search: 211/60,6T,6S,62,63,65,66,67,89,69,45 248/309,110,111,314
• US Class Current: 248/314
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 7/0028 with one compartment or recess for each article A47F7/0035 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 3/04 Racks

Abstract

A device for yieldably gripping long slender shanks of tools or implements of different cross-sectional sizes and shapes for demountably supporting the tools or implements in a stored position and without the use of magnets.

Claims

1. A toolholding device comprising a substantially rigid support member and a thick resilient member carried by the support member;

said support member being of one-piece construction including a top wall and depending sidewalls, one sidewall having an inwardly extending bottom flange, the other sidewall having a depending extension provided with an inwardly turned back ply, said extension and ply have aligned apertures adapted to receive driven fastenings for mounting the support member on a supporting surface, said ply having an inturned flange at its upper end disposed coplanar with the first mentioned flange and spaced therefrom to provide a space between the flanges, said top wall having an opening aligning witH said space;

said resilient member having intersecting cross slits disposed in alignment with said opening, said cross slits extending through the resilient member and forming corresponding inwardly tapered segments adapted to yieldably grip a long slender shank or stem of a tool or implement when inserted through the opening and the slitted portion of the resilient member and through said space for yieldably supporting the shank in the toolholding device.

2. A toolholding device as in claim 1, said top wall, sidewalls and flanges defining a portion of channel-shaped cross section in which said resilient member is confined.