Automotive roll-up tool kit

• US 4,715,499 A
• Filed: 10/06/1986
• Issued: 12/29/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: RVF Corporation
• Original Assignee: RVF Corporation
• Inventors: Franklin, Randall M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Price, William
• Application Number:
  US06/915,628
• Time in Patent Office: 449 Days
• Field of Search: 383/39, 206/372, 206/373, 206/459, 150/52 C
• US Class Current: 206/373
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 11/26 Roll-up holders with pockets for separate articles
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 5/00 Tool, instrument or work supports or storage means used in association with vehicles; Workers' supports, e.g. mechanics' creepers collecting or removing exhaust gases in workshops B08B15/002; vehicle lifting devices, e.g. jacks, platforms or ramps B66F

Abstract

An automotive roll-up tool kit. The tool kit is of flexible plastic and has a plurality of compartments or open top pockets receiving the tools and increasing in size from one end of the kit to the other. The front of the compartment is constructed of transparent plastic for further identification of the tool with the top flap closed. A top turn over flap ensures that the tools do not fall out and is marked with registering names of the tools. A trouble-shooting instruction manual is inserted in one of the pockets. A tab at one end is provided with Velcro pads adapted to stick to mating Velcro pads on the back of the tool kit when the tool kit is rolled up.

Claims

1. A roll-up automotive repair tool kit comprising a back sheet of flexible plastic, a plurality of vertically extending open top tool pockets receiving commonly used automotive repair tools formed by a flexible plastic pocket sheet member attached to said back sheet and extending sequentially from one end of said cover sheet to an opposite end, a top roll over flap extending laterally from one end of said back sheet to an opposite end and forming a top extension of said back sheet and means for securing the tool kit in a rolled-up position comprising a Velcro-like pad means on the inside of said back sheet adjacent an end thereof and registering Velco-like pad means on a back surface of the back sheet adapted to mate with said first-mentioned Velcro-like pad means in the tool kit rolled-up position, said tool pockets increasing in height from one end of the kit to an opposite end and said flap being connected to said back sheet by a hinge means correspondingly increasing in height to said pockets to closely cover the open top of the tool pockets when closed and said flap being of substantially uniform height.

2. The automotive tool repair kit of claim 1 in which said top flap extends over an open top of said pocket when said flap is closed and is provided with registering tool characters for tool identification.

3. The automotive tool repair kit of claim 1 in which said pocket sheet member is constructed of transparent plastic for visual identification of the tools in said pockets.

4. The automotive tool repair kit of claim 1 in which said back sheet is provided with a vertically extending end tab and said first-mentioned Velcro-like pad means is secured thereto.

5. The automotive tool repair kit of claim 2 in which said pocket sheet member is constructed of transparent plastic for visual identification of the tools in said pockets and said back sheet is provided with a vertically extending end tab and said first-mentioned Velcro-like pad means is secured thereto.

6. The automotive tool repair kit of claim 1 in which said pockets contain in order from the shortest pocket at one end to the other end a fuse puller, electrical tape, a flash light and repair manual, a battery brush, a tire gauge, pliers, an adjustable wrench, a phillips screw driver, a slot screw driver and a flare and distress flag.

7. The automotive tool repair kit of claim 6 in which the flare and distress flag are accessible in the rolled-up tool kit without unrolling the kit.

8. The automotive tool repair kit of claim 1 in which the hinge means is formed by a crease separating the top roll over flap from the back sheet.