Tool box

• US 5,029,707 A
• Filed: 08/21/1990
• Issued: 07/09/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yee-Chang Feng
• Original Assignee: Yee-Chang Feng
• Inventors: Feng, Yee-Chang
• Primary Examiner(s): Foster, Jimmy G.
• Application Number:
  US07/570,444
• Time in Patent Office: 322 Days
• Field of Search: 206/370-379, 206/443, 211/60.1, 211/69.1, 211/69.2, 211/69.9, 211/70.6, 211/70.7, 312/129, 312/130
• US Class Current: 206/374
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 3/003 Holders for drill bits or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 3/022 in fixed relationship

Abstract

A compact tool box capable of being neatly hung for a screwdriver having a driving handle selectively securing thereto one of a plurality of different driving pieces is provided. The tool box includes a base plate spacedly mounting thereon a plurality of vertical supporters, and a plurality of vertically spaced positioners each of which includes a plurality of positioning indentations and is held attached to the supporters in a manner that the supporters and the positioners cooperatively generally form a crosssectionally polygonal body having a fully open vertical side from which the driving handle can be inserted into the polygonal body.

Claims

1. A tool box for a screwdriver having a driving handle capable of selectively securing thereto one of a plurality of driving pieces having a different end shape and/or size, comprising:

a base plate;

a plurality of vertical supporters spacedly mounted on said base plate; and

a plurality of vertically spaced positioners each of which includes a plurality of positioning indentations and is held attached to said vertical supporters in a manner that said supporters and said positioners cooperatively generally form a crosssectionally polygonal body having a fully open vertical side from which said driving handle can be inserted into said polygonal body.

2. A tool box according to claim 1, further comprising a cover having a bottom opening from which said supporters and said positioners can be received in said cover.

3. A tool box according to claim 2 wherein said cover has a top slot and said ploygonal body has a top extension having a hanging hole and protruding through said top slot of said cover when said cover is covered on said polygonal body.

4. A tool box according to claim 2 wherein said cover is transparent.

5. A tool box according to claim 2 wherein each of said indentations is generally U-shaped and has an open end thereof provided with two diametrically opposite and relatively small protuberances for better retaining said one driving piece in said each indentation.

6. A tool box according to claim 2 wherein said supporters integrally form thereto said positioners.

7. A tool box according to claim 2 wherein said polygonal body includes two inwardly concave top sides for better retaining said driving handle in said polygonal body.