Tool kit assembly

• US 5,102,021 A
• Filed: 05/20/1991
• Issued: 04/07/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Claude D. Perea
• Original Assignee: Claude D. Perea
• Inventors: Perea, Claude D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Recla, Henry J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): JACYNA, J CASIMER
• Application Number:
  US07/702,830
• Time in Patent Office: 323 Days
• Field of Search: 224/34-36, 224/39, 224/41, 224/30 R, 224/30 A, 224/31, 224/32 R, 224/32 A, 224/42.03 A, 224/42.07, 224/42.08, 224/319, 206/372, 206/373, 312/DIG. 33
• US Class Current: 224/440
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 9/40 specially adapted for tools or spare parts

Abstract

A tool kit assembly for motorcycles and the like preferably mounts on the front steering fork and supports the name plate. The assembly includes an outer housing and a relatively thin rigid tool box that slides into the housing and is rigidly and resiliently fastened thereto. The tools are resiliently held on a plate by flexible loop members which plate is readily removable from and reinsertable into the tool box. A name plate mounts to the front of the outer housing.

Claims

1. A tool kit assembly comprising:

an outer housing having two pairs of spaced, opposed wall portions arranged in a box-like configuration and having an access opening, said front wall of said outer housing being provided by a top flange section extending down from an edge of said top wall and a bottom flange section extending up from an edge of said bottom wall leaving a central space in said front wall,

attaching means to secure said housing to a support,

a tool box received in said outer housing via said access opening, said tool box having two pairs of spaced, opposed wall portions arranged in the same configuration as said housing to be surrounded by said housing and disposed in a close-fitting relation to associated wall portions of said housing with inner surfaces of said housing wall portions providing a guideway for the guided sliding movement of said tool box in said housing, one of said wall portions of one of said two pairs of spaced, opposed wall portions of said housing being a transverse wall portion opposite and spaced from said access opening, one of said wall portions of one of said two pairs of spaced, opposed wall portions of said tool box being adjacent said transverse wall portion, one of said two pairs of spaced, opposed wall portions of said outer housing being top and bottom walls and another of said two pairs of said opposed wall portions of said outer housing being front and rear walls and pair of side walls connect with said top, bottom, front and rear to form a tool box receiving inner compartment, said tool box having a cover arranged to move between an open position to provide access thereinto and a closed position,

means in said tool box to cushion selected tools contained in said box, and

fastening means for releasably securing said tool box in said outer housing whereby said tool box may be readily inserted into and removed from said housing, said fastening means including at least one first releasable fastening portion carried by said one wall portion of said tool box, and a second releasable fastening portion operatively associated with said first releasable fastening portion, one of said releasable fastening portions extending through said transverse wall portion when said tool box is in said outer housing and the other of said releasable fastening portions being outside said transverse wall portion, said fastening portions being operable to draw said one wall portion of said tool box toward said transverse wall portion to provide a wall to wall connected mounting for said tool box within said outer housing.

2. A tool kit assembly as set forth in claim 1 wherein a plate is fastened to said front wall, said plate having indicia for identification purposes.

3. A tool kit assembly as set forth in claim 1 wherein said cover has a cushion layer on the inside surface to bear against the tools when in the closed position.

4. A tool kit assembly as set forth in claim 1 wherein said tool box has a handle to facilitate removal and replacement of said tool box from said outer housing.

5. A tool kit assembly as set forth in claim 1 wherein said first releasable fastening portion includes a pair of spaced externally threaded bolt fasteners extending from said transverse wall portion and through said one wall portion of said outer housing and said second releasable fastening portion is in the form of a wing nut secured to the outer end of each bolt fastener.

6. A tool kit assembly as set forth in claim 5 including resilient cushion members on said bolt fasteners between adjacent walls of said box and said outer housing to cushion said box in said housing.

7. A tool kit assembly as set forth in claim 1 further including resilient cushion means between said transverse wall portion and said one wall portion of said tool box with said fastening means drawing said wall portions against said cushion means to cushion said tool box in said housing.

8. A tool kit assembly comprising:

an outer housing having two pairs of spaced, opposed wall portions arranged in a box-like configuration and having an access opening,

attaching means to secure said housing to a support, said attaching means including clamping means on said housing arranged for fastening to a pair of laterally spaced tubular members which are part of a front steering fork of a motorcycle,

a tool box received in said outer housing via said access opening, said tool box having two pairs of spaced, opposed wall portions arranged in the same configuration as said housing to be surrounded by said housing and disposed in a close-fitting relation to associated wall portions of said housing with inner surfaces of said housing wall portions providing a guideway for the guided sliding movement of said tool box in said housing, one of said wall portions of one of said two pairs of spaced, opposed wall portions of said housing being a transverse wall portion opposite and spaced from said access opening, one of said wall portions of one of said two pairs of spaced, opposed wall portions of said tool box being adjacent said transverse wall portion, said tool box having a cover arranged to move between an open position to provide access thereinto and a closed position,

means in said tool box to cushion selected tools contained in said box, and

fastening means for releasably securing said tool box in said outer housing whereby said tool box may be readily inserted into and removed from said housing, said fastening means including at least one first releasable fastening portion carried by said one wall portion of said tool box, and a second releasable fastening portion operatively associated with said first releasable fastening portion, one of said releasable fastening portions extending through said transverse wall portion when said tool box is in said outer housing and the other of said releasable fastening portions being outside said transverse wall portion, said fastening portions being operable to draw said one wall portion of said tool box toward said transverse wall portion to provide a wall to wall connected mounting for said tool box within said outer housing.

9. A tool kit as set forth in claim 8 wherein said clamping means includes two sets of laterally spaced upper and lower clamps secured to said tool box for encircling associated of said tubular members.

10. A tool kit assembly mounted on a steering fork of a motorcycle comprising:

a rigid outer housing having two pairs of spaced, opposed wall portions arranged in a box-like configuration and an access opening,

attaching means securing said housing to said front steering fork,

a name plate attached to the front of said outer housing,

a rigid tool box slidably received in said outer housing via said access opening, said tool box having two pairs of spaced, opposed wall portions arranged in the same configuration as said housing to be surrounded by said housing and disposed in a close-fitting relation to associated wall portions of said housing with inner surfaces of said housing wall portions providing a guideway for the sliding movement of said tool box in said housing, one of said wall portions of one of said two pairs of spaced, opposed wall portions of said housing being a transverse wall portion opposite and spaced from said access opening, one of said wall portions of one of said two pairs of spaced, opposed wall portions of said tool box being adjacent said transverse wall portion when said tool box is disposed in said housing, said tool box having a cover arranged to move between an open position to provide access thereinto and a closed position,

a removable tool holder in said box, said tool holder including a support plate and a plurality of flexible loop members mounted to said support plate for receiving and holding selected tools on said support plate, and

fastening means for releasably securing said tool box in said outer housing whereby said tool box may be readily inserted into and removed from said housing and said tool holder readily removed from said tool box for access to selected of said tools, and fastening means including at least one first releasable fastening portion carried by said one wall portion of said tool box, and a second releasable fastening portion operatively associated with said first releasable fastening portion, one of said releasable fastening portions extending through said transverse wall portion when said tool box is in said outer housing and the other of said releasable fastening portions being outside said transverse wall portion, said fastening portions being operable to draw said one wall portion of said tool box toward said transverse wall portion to provide a wall to wall connected mounting for said tool box within said outer housing.

11. A tool kit assembly as set forth in claim 10 wherein said support plate has pairs of holes at selected positions, each said loop member including a flexible band having an end portion extending through one hole of each pair and back out the other hole of each pair and having a knot tied in each end to prevent each end of each loop member from pulling through the associated hole, there being a backfolded end section on the bottom side of said support plate.

12. A tool kit assembly as set forth in claim 11 wherein each end section forms a resilient cushion between the bottom of said support plate and said base wall of said tool box.