Tool holder for hexagonal wrenches

• US 5,938,028 A
• Filed: 10/02/1998
• Issued: 08/17/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bobby Hu
• Original Assignee: Bobby Hu
• Inventors: Hu, Bobby
• Primary Examiner(s): Gehman, Bryon P.
• Application Number:
  US09/165,557
• Time in Patent Office: 319 Days
• Field of Search: 206/376-378, 206/372, 211/69, 211/70.6, D 3/274, D 3/905, D 8/71, D 6/469
• US Class Current: 206/377
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 3/04 Racks

Abstract

A tool holder includes a main body having a bottom wall and a number of substantially L-shaped separation walls formed on the bottom wall, thereby defining a substantially L-shaped receiving compartment between each two adjacent separation walls. Each separation wall includes a first section and a second section. A resilient retaining member is mounted on the first section of each separation wall. Each receiving compartment includes a relatively longer section and a relatively shorter section. A guiding wall is extended across two second sections respectively of two adjacent separation walls. The guiding wall includes a downwardly extending guiding surface that faces the bottom wall. The downwardly extending guiding surface is preferably arcuate and inclines downwardly toward the bottom wall. The bottom wall includes a guiding surface section that is located below the downwardly extending guiding surface of the guiding wall and inclines downwardly along a direction parallel to the extending direction of the downwardly extending guiding surface of the guiding wall. The main body further includes a retaining wall provided to the relatively shorter section of each receiving compartment. The lower retaining wall includes an inner holding surface that faces the bottom wall. The bottom wall includes a holding surface section located above the guiding surface section. The downwardly extending guiding surface of the guiding wall and the guiding surface section of the bottom wall together guide a hexagonal wrench to be received in an associated receiving compartment. The inner holding surface of the retaining wall, the holding surface section of the bottom wall, and the retaining member together hold the hexagonal wrench in place.

Claims

1. A tool holder comprising:

a main body including a bottom wall and a plurality of substantially L-shaped separation walls formed on the bottom wall, thereby defining a substantially L-shaped receiving compartment between each two adjacent said separation walls, each said separation wall including a first section and a second section, a resilient retaining member being mounted on the first section of each said separation wall, each said receiving compartment including a relatively longer section and a relatively shorter section,

a guiding wall being extended across two said second sections respectively of two adjacent said separation walls, the guiding wall including a downwardly extending guiding surface that faces the bottom wall, the downwardly extending guiding surface inclining downwardly toward the bottom wall, the bottom wall including a guiding surface section that is located below the downwardly extending guiding surface of the guiding wall and inclines downwardly along a direction parallel to the extending direction of the downwardly extending guiding surface of the guiding wall, and

the main body further including a retaining wall provided to the relatively shorter section of each said receiving compartment, the retaining wall including an inner holding surface that faces the bottom wall, the bottom wall including a holding surface section located above the guiding surface section,

whereby the downwardly extending guiding surface of the guiding wall and the guiding surface section of the bottom wall are adapted to together guide a hexagonal wrench to be received in an associated said receiving compartment, while the inner holding surface of the retaining wall, the holding surface section of the bottom wall, and the retaining member together hold the hexagonal wrench in place.

2. The tool holder as claimed in claim 1, wherein the resilient retaining member includes a protrusion on an end thereof that is distal to the bottom wall of the main body.

3. The tool holder as claimed in claim 2, wherein the other end of the resilient retaining member and an associated said separation wall includes a recess defined therebetween to allow deformation of the resilient retaining member.

4. The tool holder as claimed in claim 1, wherein the downwardly extending guiding surface is arcuate.