Keeper device for portable electric hand-drills

• US 4,357,044 A
• Filed: 05/07/1981
• Issued: 11/02/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Clinton A. Woodworth
• Original Assignee: Clinton A. Woodworth
• Inventors: Woodworth, Clinton A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marbert, James B.
• Application Number:
  US06/261,659
• Time in Patent Office: 544 Days
• Field of Search: 294/137, 294/167, 408/238, 408/239 R, 408/239 A, 224/268, 224/247, 224/907, 206/581, 206/427, 211/175, 248/220.4, 248/294
• US Class Current: 294/137
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 3/006 Storage means specially adapted for one specific hand apparatus, e.g. an electric drill
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/041 Allowing quick release of the apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/00 Other supports for positioning apparatus or articles heads thereof F16M11/02 ; undercarriages thereof F16M11/20 ; adapted to be stuck in the ground A45F3/44 ; sockets or holders for poles or posts E04H12/22; Means for steadying hand-held apparatus or articles supports for measuring instruments G01D11/30; supports for casings of remote control switching devices H01H9/025
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/02 for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle

Abstract

Disclosed are keepers for carrying and suspendably storing portable electric hand-drills. The keeper device includes: an upright shank insertable into and removably secureable to the adjustably tightenable chuck of the hand-drill; a cord rack for draping convolutions of the hand-drill elongate electrical cord; and suspendable handle means to permit convenient interim storage of the keeper and hand-drill combination. In the preferred keeper embodiment, the shank, the cord rack (having backing and resilient finger parts), and the handling means are fabricated of permanently bent springy metallic rod stock.

Claims

1. A keeper for carrying and suspendably storing a portable hand-drill of the general type including a housing, an adjustably tightenable chuck, and an elongate flexible electrical cord, said keeper extending uprightly along a longitudinal-axis and comprising:

A. a shank extending uprightly along said longitudinal-axis and having a top-end and a bottom-end providing the keeper lower terminus, said shank bottom-end being insertable into and removably secureable to a hand-drill chuck, whereby the hand-drill housing is positionable wholly remotely below said keeper;

B. an upright cord rack extending longitudinally rigidly uprightly from the shank top-end, said rack including a longitudinally extending upright backing part having a laterally extending finite-width between upright-edges for the backing, said backing including a longitudinally and laterally extending inner-side adapted to support transversely thereagainst convolutions of said flexible electric cord wherein the respective convolutions have a geometric center located below the shaft bottom-end, said rack also including a longitudinally extending upright finger part having a lateral-extent lesser than the backing finite-width and having an upper free-end, said upright finger lower portion being attached to the backing and said finger being resiliently urged toward the backing inner-side so as to maintain cord convolutions normally against the backing part of the cord rack; and

C. suspendable handle means attached to the cord rack backing part and located loftily above the keeper shank.

2. The keeper structure of claim 1 wherein the cord rack finger part at the upper free-end has a terminal leadward-length located transversely away from the backing part inner-side, the major length of said finger part lower portion being located even further transversely away from the backing inner-side than is the finger leadward-length.

3. The keeper structure of claim 2 wherein the backing part has a laterally extending upper-end;

wherein the finger part upper free-end is located below the elevation of the backing upper-end; and

wherein the backing inner-side is substantially planar and coparallel with the keeper longitudinal-axis.

4. The keeper structure of claim 1 wherein the backing part is apertured to provide suspendable handle means.

5. The keeper structure of claim 4 wherein the shank, the cord rack, and the handle components are fabricated of bent rod stock.

6. The keeper structure of claim 1 wherein the backing part includes a hook to provide the suspendable handle means.

7. The keeper structure of claim 2 wherein the shank, the cord rack, and the handle components are provided of bent rod stock.

8. The keeper structure of claim 3 wherein the shank, the cord rack, and the handle means components are fabricated of permanently bent springy metallic rod stock.

9. The keeper structure of claim 1 wherein the backing part is generally planar and co-planar with the shank to provide an exceedingly compact keeper structure for carrying and suspendably storing a hand-drill from the adjustably tightenable chuck thereof.

10. The keeper structure of claim 9 wherein the shank, the cord rack, and the handle components are fabricated of bent rod stock.

11. The keeper structure of claim 10 fabricated of permanently bent springy metallic rod stock.