Tool holder preventing being dismantled from a tool

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10138040-B2
Application number	US-201414554125-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 26, 2014
Priority date	Jul 21, 2014
Publication date	Nov 27, 2018
Grant date	Nov 27, 2018

Abstract

A tool holder includes first and second holding members incorporable to form a holding space. The first holding member includes at least one restraining protrusion defining a first restraining side with a first hooking structure having a first height and a second restraining side. The second holding member includes at least one catching slot including a first limiting structure having a second height and a second limiting structure. The tool holder has a first arrangement in which the at least one first restraining protrusion engages in the at least one first catching slot, the first hooking structure engaging with the first limiting structure, as well as the second restraining side and the second limiting structure having a gap tolerance therebetween not greater than the first and second heights.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A tool holder comprising:
a first holding member having first and second ends and first and second sides extending between the first and second ends thereof, with the first holding member including at least one restraining protrusion adjacent to the first side of the first holding member and having a fixed end fixed to the first holding member and a free end opposite the fixed end, with the at least one restraining protrusion including a first edge thereof defining a first restraining side with a first hooking structure having a first height and a second edge thereof opposite the first edge defining a second restraining side, with the first hooking structure including at least one first tooth; and
a second holding member incorporable with the first holding member to form a holding space, with the second holding member having first and second ends and first and second sides extending between the first and second ends of the second holding member, with the second holding member including at least one catching slot adapted to engage with the at least one restraining protrusion, with the at least one catching slot including a first edge thereof including a first limiting structure having a second height and a second edge thereof opposite the first edge of the at least one catching slot and including a second limiting structure, with the second limiting structure extending from the second edge of the at least one catching slot having a free end spaced from the second edge of the at least one catching slot, with the second limiting structure being cuttable from the second edge of the at least one catching slot, with the first limiting structure including a ridge; wherein the first and second holding members in a first arrangement include:
the holding space formed therebetween with the first and second holding members prevented from being separated from one another,
the first sides of the first and second holding members connected together and the second sides of the first and second holding members connected together,
the first and second holding members include the ridge engaging with the at least one first tooth,
the at least one restraining protrusion engaging in the at least one catching slot,
the first hooking structure engaging with the first limiting structure,
the second restraining side and the second limiting structure having a gap tolerance therebetween not greater than the first and second heights,
the free end spaced from the second edge of the at least one catching slot with the gap tolerance, and
the first hooking structure of the at least one restraining protrusion disengaging from the first limiting structure when the second limiting structure is cut from the at least one catching slot.

2. A tool holder comprising:
a first holding member having first and second ends and first and second sides extending between the first and second ends thereof, with the first holding member including at least one restraining protrusion adjacent to the first side of the first holding member and having a fixed end fixed to the first holding member and a free end opposite the fixed end, with the at least one restraining protrusion including a first edge thereof defining a first restraining side with a first hooking structure having a first height and a second edge thereof opposite the first edge defining a second restraining side, wherein the first hooking structure includes a plurality of first teeth; and
a second holding member incorporable with the first holding member to form a holding space, with the second holding member having first and second ends and first and second sides extending between the first and second ends of the second holding member, with the second holding member including at least one catching slot adapted to engage with the at least one restraining protrusion, with the at least one catching slot including a first edge thereof including a first limiting structure having a second height and a second edge thereof opposite the first edge of the at least one catching slot and including a second limiting structure, with the second limiting structure extending from the second edge of the at least one catching slot having a free end spaced from the second edge of the at least one catching slot, with the first limiting structure including a ridge, and wherein the first and second holding members in the first arrangement thereof include:
the holding space formed therebetween with the first and second holding members prevented from being separated from one another,
the first sides of the first and second holding members connected together and the second sides of the first and second holding members connected together,
the ridge protruding and disposed in a gap between two adjacent first teeth of the plurality of first teeth,
the first and second holding members include the ridge engaging with one of the plurality of first teeth,
the at least one restraining protrusion engaging in the at least one catching slot,
the first hooking structure engaging with the first limiting structure,
the second restraining side and the second limiting structure having a gap tolerance therebetween not greater than the first and second heights, and
the free end spaced from the second edge of the at least one catching slot with the gap tolerance.

3. The tool holder as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the plurality of first teeth is disposed one after another along a longitudinal direction of the first restraining side, and wherein the fixed end and the free end of the first restraining side are distal from one another in the longitudinal direction of the first restraining side.

4. The tool holder as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the first height is measured between top and bottom lands of each of the plurality of first teeth, with the bottom land of each of the plurality of first teeth disposed on the first edge of the first restraining side and distal to the top land of each of the plurality of first teeth, and wherein the second height is measured between a top and a root of the ridge, with the root of the ridge disposed on the first edge of the at least one catching slot.

5. The tool holder as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first height equals the second height.

6. The tool holder as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the first height equals the second height.

7. The tool holder as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the second limiting structure includes a protuberance including the free end, with the protuberance capable of being cut intermediate the free end and the second edge of the at least one catching slot.

8. The tool holder as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one restraining protrusion includes another restraining protrusion adjacent to the second side of the first holding member, and wherein the at least one catching slot includes another catching slot adapted to engage with the other restraining protrusion adjacent to the second side of the first holding member.

9. The tool holder as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first and second holding members pivotally connect to one another.

10. The tool holder as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the second side of the first holding member and the second side of the second holding member include an extension extending therebetween, and wherein the extension allows the first holding member to pivotally connect to the second holding member.

11. The tool holder as claimed in claim 9 , wherein one of the first and second holding members includes two pivots extending therefrom and another of the first and second holding members includes two notches adapted to pivotally receive the two pivots respectively.

12. The tool holder

Assignees

• Hong Ann Tool Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Su Cheng-Wei

Classifications

• B65D73/0064 Primary

  the articles being supported by or suspended from a tag-like element · CPC title

• B25H3/04

  Racks · CPC title

• B65D73/0014

  by means of separate fixing elements, e.g. clips, clamps, bands · CPC title

• B65D2211/00

  Anti-theft means · CPC title

• B65D55/02

  Locking devices; Means for discouraging or indicating unauthorised opening or removal of closure · CPC title