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US 2023/0146616 A1Published application
Tool sheath
AssigneeAOB Products Company
InventorsMark Dalton, Dennis W. Cauley, Jr., Timothy S. Kinney, James Tayon
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Abstract
A tool sheath and associated components and methods. The sheath can be configured to receive a pliers. The sheath can include one or more pliers retainers configured to engage the pliers to retain the pliers in a pliers receiving space of the pliers.
Claims19
A pliers sheath for holding a pliers, the pliers having a head and at least two handles connected to the head at a joint, the pliers sheath comprising:
- a mounting portion for mounting the sheath onto a support structure;
- a pliers holder comprising flexible material, the pliers holder including a holder body defining a receiving space for receiving the head of the pliers, the pliers holder including a keeper arranged to engage the pliers to retain the pliers in the sheath, the flexible material being configured to permit the keeper to resiliently deflect away from an at rest position in response to the insertion of the head of the pliers into the receiving space, and the flexible material being configured to resiliently return the keeper toward the at rest position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.