Socket caddy

A tool caddy apparatus for organizing a variety of different sized wrench sockets comprising:

• a tool box having a tray therein, said tray having a bottom consisting a supporting surface;
• a socket support member having a flat planar surfaced plate with a plurality of different sized openings provided within its perimeter;
• said plate having a downwardly depending flange about its perimeter and terminating with an edge adapted to engage with said supporting surface;
• retaining means associated with each of said plate openings for releasably holding a socket therein;
• said retaining means includes at least three pliable elements carried on said plate at each of said openings and projecting in a plane defined by said plate into said openings to provide an interference fit with said socket;
• said retaining means includes a magnetic layer disposed beneath said plate between portions of said flange and having a magnetic flux field occupying an area defined between the underside of said plate and said magnetic layer;
• said plate includes indicia adjacent each of said openings for identifying that opening with a particular socket;
• said indicia is raised above the upper surface of said plate augmenting its visual observance;
• said plurality of openings are arranged substantially in rows and columns across said plate in fixed spaced-apart relationship.