Package and article carriers – Carried by animate bearer – Including magnet
Reexamination Certificate
2000-05-25
2001-07-31
Cronin, Stephen K. (Department: 3727)
Package and article carriers
Carried by animate bearer
Including magnet
C224S610000, C224S615000, C206S350000, C206S373000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06267277
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to portable tool holders. In particular, the invention relates to flexible, portable tool holders and tool bags having magnets therein.
2. Description of the Related Art
Boiler makers in particular, and other workers working around metal structures in general, including millwrights, electricians, welders and the like, commonly carry their tools and equipment in buckets. Such tools and equipment may include wrenches, pliers, screw drivers, hammers, chipping hammers, measuring taps, levels, squares, welding rods and the like. The buckets are carried to the work location and placed beside the worker for easy access.
When the worker is working on a tall or elevated structure, the bucket of tools and equipment must be carried by the worker up a stairway or ladder, or the bucket may be attached to a rope and pulled up by the rope. Since the bucket must be grasped by one of the worker's two hands, climbing stairways or ladders with a bucket of tools and other equipment is difficult and dangerous. In addition, the bucket of tools may be accidently kicked over or turned over and tools spilled therefrom.
The surface on which the bucket of tools is placed, such as a scaffold, may be small and have openings therearound through which tools may fall. In some work locations there may be no surface on which to place a worker's tool bucket. Tools in buckets being used above ground level may fall downwards onto other workers and cause serious injury or death.
Magnetic tool holders are known in the art. Exemplary of the Patents of the related art are the following U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,758,807; 5,743,394; 5,725,096; 5,660,276; 5,639,003; 5,341,975; 5,274,937; 5,213,240; 5,024,361; 4,932,576; 4,826,059; and 4,482,049.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the invention to provide a portable, flexible tool holder which may be attached to a metal surface by magnets.
It is another object of the invention to provide a portable, flexible tool holder having side edges which may be rolled together to tightly enclose tools therein and prevent tools from falling therefrom even when the tool holder is inverted.
It is an additional object of the invention to provide a portable, flexible tool holder having side edges which may be rolled together to tightly enclose tools therein and secured with a strap which may be fitted over the user's shoulder to carry the tool holder.
In accordance with the first embodiment of the invention there is provided a portable, flexible tool holder having a generally rectangular flexible body, the body having an inner surface and an outer surface and an upper edge, a lower edge and two side edges, the outer surface having a plurality of magnets connected thereto, the inner surface having a plurality of pockets an loops thereon for holding tools and equipment, either of the side edges being foldable toward the other of the side edges to enclose the inner surface of the body inside the outer surface of the body to tightly hold tools and equipment within the tool holder, and the upper edge having receivers for attaching a carrying device to the tool holder.
In accordance with a second embodiment of the invention there is provided a portable, flexible, tool holder having a generally rectangular body, the body having an inner surface and an outer surface, the outer surface having a plurality of magnets connected thereto, the inner surface having a pocket for holding welding rods and a strap assembly located beneath on the lower end of the pocket for holding tools and equipment, and the tipper edge having a receiver for attaching a carrying device to the tool holder.
The tool holders of both embodiments of the invention have the advantage of being capable of supporting and connecting tools and equipment to a metal surface adjacent to the user.
The tool holder of the first embodiment of the invention has the additional advantage of being foldable about the tools held by the tool holder to prevent tools from falling from the tool holder when the tool holder is inverted or dropped.
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Cronin Stephen K.
Ray David L.
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