Multiple tool holder with retainer and drive socket

A holder for elongated tools comprising a set of elongated tools and laterally extending retainer means thereon, an elongated holding portion having tool storage recesses extending longitudinally from one end of said elongated holding portion for selective storage of said tools therein and a drive socket disposed in said one end of said holding portion for selective reception of said tools thereinto for driving use of said tools, a generally tubular and cylindrical retainer substantially closed at one end thereof and disposed with said closed end in covering relation to said one end of said elongated holding portion, said retainer having a longitudinally extending slot therein extending into said closed end of said retainer for allowing movement of said tools into said drive socket and having means for rotatable securement of said retainer on said holding portion and being selectively movable thereon to positions for retaining said tools in said storage recesses and to other positions for covering all of said recesses simultaneously for said retaining said tools or for selective exposure of each of said recesses through said slot for selective release through said slot of said tools individually for permitting movement thereof between said tool storage recesses and said drive socket for use of said tools, and channel means defined between said elongated holding portion and said retainer for retained movement therein of said laterally extending retainer means of said tools during said movement thereof between said tool storage recesses and said drive socket for retention of said tools on said elongated holding portion for preventing loss of said tools from said holder during said release and movement thereof between said tool storage recesses and said drive socket, said tools being compositely constructed, each tool comprising a commercial standard tool bit having a drive shank at the end thereof opposite the working portion thereof, a tool adapter having a mating guide socket at one end thereof for reception of said drive shank of said standard tool bit and a larger drive shank including two generally parallel sides for engagement with said recesses for prevention of relative rotation therebetween about the longitudinal axes of said tools and for insertion of said tool into said drive socket of said elongated holding portion for use of said tool, and means for securing said shank of said tool bit into said mating guide socket of said tool adapter, said tool bits including commercial taps and said elongated holding portion having a portion having sockets for holding threading dies in fixed position for use.