CONTAINER FOR HAND TOOLS

• US 3,749,233 A
• Filed: 11/18/1971
• Issued: 07/31/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William J. Mccormick Jr
• Original Assignee: William J. Mccormick Jr
• Inventors: McCormick, William J. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dixson, Jr., William T.
• Application Number:
  US05/200,114
• Time in Patent Office: 621 Days
• Field of Search: 206/16R,DIG.29 150/1R,52C,34 D87/1R 229/53,68,72
• US Class Current: 206/373
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 11/26 Roll-up holders with pockets for separate articles
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 3/00 Storage means or arrangements for workshops facilitating access to, or handling of, work tools or instruments containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents B65D83/00; nail dispensers B25C3/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 312/902 Carrying case

Abstract

A container for hand tools, such as wrenches, screwdrivers, a hammer, a pliers and the like, includes a substantially rectangular, opaque, flexible, sheet-like base member. Flexible holding elements are secured in parallel relationship to the base member to define a plurality of pockets, which expand to receive the hand tools. The holding elements are transparent so that the tools are visible within the pockets. Pictorial representations of the hand tools are formed on the base member and are visible through the transparent holding elements so that the tools are placed in the proper pockets. Each representation corresponds to one pocket and to a hand tool to be contained in that pocket. A package is comprised of the container and of the hand tools disposed in the container.

Claims

1. A container for receiving and holding in spaced, parallel relationship a plurality of hand tools, such as wrenches, screwdrivers, a hammer, a pliers, and the like, comprising:

a. a substantially rectangular, opaque, flexible, sheet-like base member; and

b. a plurality of parallel, transparent, flexible holding elements secured along three edges thereof to one surface of said base member, said holding elements cooperable with said base member to define a plurality of pockets therebetween, each said pocket lying flat when empty but being adapted to expand to receive one of the hand tools such that the hand tool is visible through said transparent holding element and held in spaced, parallel relationship with the other hand tools;

wherein the improvement comprises;

c. means formed on said base member and visible through said transparent holding elements and defining pictorial representations of the hand tools to be contained to assist the user in placing the hand tools in the proper pockets, said means corresponding to said pockets and to the hand tools to be contained in the respective pockets; and

d. printed characters located adjacent said means defining pictorial representations and visible through said transparent holding elements, said printed characters explaining and reinforcing the impression of said means defining pictorial representations such that the user places the hand tools in the proper pockets of said container.

2. A container in accordance with claim 1 wherein at least one of said pockets is smaller in at least one dimension than the hand tool to be contained therein and wherein one of said means defining pictorial representations is located within said one pocket and overlaps and extend into an adjacent pocket.

3. means formed on said base member and visible through said transparent holding elements and defining pictorial representations of the hand tools to be contained to assist the user in placing the hand tools in the proper pockets, said means corresponding to said pockets;

and

4. A package of assorted hand tools, comprising:

a. a container for receiving and holding in spaced, parallel relationship a plurality of the hand tools and comprising;

5. A container in accordance with claim 1 wherein said printed characters indicate the names of the hand tools to be contained in the pockets.

6. A container in accordance with claim 1 wherein said means defining pictoral representations are two-dimensional and have substantially the same sizes and shapes as the hand tools to which said means correspond.

7. In a container for receiving and holding a plurality of hand tools having a substantially rectangular, opaque, flexible, sheet-like base member and a plurality of transparent, flexible holding elements mounted to one surface of said base member, each said holding element being adapted to receive and hold one of the hand tools such that the hand tool is visible through said holding element, the improvement comprising two-dimensional pictorial representations of the hand tools to be contained located on said one surface of said base member and visible through said holding elements, said pictorial representations having substantially the same sizes and shapes as the hand tools and corresponding in size to said holding elements to assist the user in locating the hand tools in the proper places in the container.