Handy tool case

• US 5,535,882 A
• Filed: 05/26/1995
• Issued: 07/16/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lai-Ho Liu
• Original Assignee: Lai-Ho Liu
• Inventors: Liu, Lai-Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): FIDEI, DAVID
• Application Number:
  US08/452,093
• Time in Patent Office: 417 Days
• Field of Search: 206/373, 206/378, 206/379, 206/818, 206/376, 206/377, 211/69, 211/70.6, 224/252
• US Class Current: 206/377
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 3/003 Holders for drill bits or the like
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/818 Magnet

Abstract

A handy tool case including a case body, which has a plurality of hexagonal chambers at the top side for keeping tool bits, a clip at the back side for hanging on the user'"'"'s belt, two springy hooks at the bottom side for keeping a tool handle outside the case body, and a platform at the front side, a cover pivoted to the case body and turned between the close position covered over the tool bits in the hexagonal chambers and the open position supported on the platform, and a plurality of magnetic plates fitted into respective recessed portions inside the cover for keeping metal accessories by magnetic attraction.

Claims

1. A handy tool case comprising:

a case body made of substantially rectangular shape having a plurality of hexagonal chambers at a top side thereof for holding a variety of tool bits, two springy hooks disposed at two opposite ends of a bottom side thereof for holding a tool handle outside said case body, a platform perpendicularly and outwardly extended from a front side thereof, two opposite pivot pins and two opposite retaining holes at two opposite lateral sides thereof at different elevations, and a clip at a back side thereof for hanging on the user'"'"'s belt or a supporting means;

a cover pivotably connected to said case body and turned between a close position covered over the tool bits in said hexagonal chambers and an open position supported on said platform, said cover comprising two opposite pivot holes at two opposite lateral sides thereof, which receive the pivot pins of said case body respectively for permitting said cover to be turned between said close position and said open position, two raised portions at the two opposite lateral sides of said cover, said raised portions being forced into the retaining holes on said case body to hold said cover in said close position when said cover is closed on said case body, at least one recessed portion on a bottom side thereof, and a top side, the top side of said cover being covered over the tool bits in said hexagonal chambers when said cover is closed on said case body, or supported on said platform of said case body when said cover is turned to said open position; and

at least one magnetic plates respectively fitted into the at least one recessed portion on said cover for keeping metal accessories by magnetic attraction.