US 8,038,020 B2 · Support for a set of tools

Abstract

A support for a series of tools, each tool including at least one head and one handle, includes a base; a plurality of housings, each housing being intended to receive and retain the handle; a plurality of means for receiving and retaining a head, each receiving and retaining means being intended to receive and retain the head; the housings and the receiving and retaining means being secured to the base, each housing comprising two partitions, at least one of the partitions including a means for positioning the handle. At least one partition, which is formed integrally with the base, is designed to flex elastically and transversely to allow the handle to overcome the means for positioning the handle.

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Dependent claims

A support for a set of wrenches, each wrench comprising an operating head and a handle having a longitudinal direction and a transverse cross section having a larger dimension and a smaller dimension, said support comprising:

a base which is generally substantially planar;
a plurality of mutually parallel housings, each housing being configured to receive and retain the handle of a corresponding wrench from the set in a predetermined position in said support;
a plurality of receiving portions for receiving and retaining the operating head of the corresponding wrench in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, each receiving portion being associated with a housing and being configured to receive and retain the operating head of the corresponding wrench in a predetermined position in said support;
wherein said plurality of housings and said plurality of receiving portions are fixedly joined to said base,
wherein each housing comprises two substantially mutually parallel partitions which delimit a channel, at least one of said partitions comprising a protuberance for positioning the handle,
wherein each channel has a width which is slightly greater than the smaller dimension of the handle of the corresponding wrench,
wherein said base comprises a retention stop against which the operating head of each wrench is in abutment when the operating head is in the predetermined position, and
wherein said retention stop retains the operating head of each wrench in the longitudinal direction when the operating head is in the predetermined position, and said plurality of receiving portions retains the operating head of each wrench in the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction when the operating head is in the predetermined position.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Description3,550 words

Summary731 words

#(1) Field of the Invention

#The present invention relates to a support for a set of tools, in particular for spanners or ring spanners, each tool comprising at least one operating head and a handle.

#(2) Description of the Related Art

Brief description of the drawings9 figures

#The invention and its advantages will be better understood from a reading of the following description, given purely by way of example, and with reference to the appended drawings, in which:

#FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a support for a tool set according to the invention;

#FIG. 2 is a rear view of the support for a tool set illustrated in FIG. 1;

Detailed description2,612 words

#FIGS. 1 to 5 illustrate a support 10 for a set of tools 12 (FIG. 3), in particular for spanners, each tool comprising at least one operating head 14 and 16 and a handle 18, the head 14 being of the type having an open fork-shaped profile and the head 16 being of the type having a closed ring-shaped profile in the example illustrated in FIG. 3. The support 10 is moulded in one piece by means of thermoplastic injection from a thermoplastic elastomer material, which is, for example, a thermoplastic elastomer having a hardness of between 50 Shore D and 90 Shore D.

#The support 10 comprises a base 20 which is generally substantially planar and in the form of a trapezium.

#A plurality of housings 22 extend in a mutually parallel manner from the base 20, each housing being intended to receive and retain the handle 18 of a corresponding tool of the set in a predetermined position in the support 10.

Facts

Application

12/308,867Filed 11 Jun 2007

Priority

FR 06 0589929 Jun 2006

Published

US 2010/0044327 A125 Feb 2010

Granted

18 Oct 2011

Term ends

11 Jun 2027

Estimated · how

20 years from earliest known nonprovisional domestic filing plus recorded patent term adjustment. Maintenance-fee lapses, terminal disclaimers and statutory extensions have not been checked. The continuity chain may be incomplete; this is not an enforceability determination.

Classification2 codes

B25H 3/04
Storage means or arrangements for workshops facilitating access to, or handling of, work tools or instruments: racks
B25H
Workshop equipment

Timeline

29 Jun 2006Priority claimedFR 06 05899
11 Jun 2007Application filedUS 12/308,867
14 Sep 2009Assigned to Facomassignment of assignor's interest
25 Feb 2010PublishedUS 2010/0044327 A1
6 Oct 2011Assigned to Stanley Works (Europe) AGassignment of assignor's interest
6 Oct 2011Assigned to Stanley Works (Europe) GmbHchange of name
18 Oct 2011GrantedUS 8,038,020 B2
22 Feb 2018Assigned to Stanley Black & Decker Mea Fzeassignment of assignor's interest
12 Oct 2026TodayWithin its term
11 Jun 2027Term endsEstimated

Support for a set of tools

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