Patent ID: 6892858
Filing Date: 2005-05-17
Classification: B25H,E04G,E06C

Abstract:
1. A device for transporting handheld tools and other equipment to an elevated work site, and thereafter safely supporting them from the top surface of an A-frame ladder, a ladder rung, scaffold, a lift, and similar worker supports, in a convenient location for easy worker access, said device comprising: a sturdy bag having four upstanding walls and a bottom surface that together define a large and substantially rectangular interior space, with one of said walls having a top portion, an interior surface, and at least one centrally positioned horizontally-extending slot with a width dimension adapted to fit between a conventional A-frame ladder rails; at least two horizontally-extending rigid braces incorporated as a part of the same one of said upstanding walls containing said at least one slot and extending substantially across said upstanding wall, with a first one of said braces being positioned above said at least one slot and a second one of said braces being positioned below said at least one slot; a support band having a tapering configuration with a distal end that is smaller than its opposed proximal end, with said proximal end depending connected to and centrally from said top portion of the one of said upstanding walls having said at least one slot, said distal end having a width dimension that is slightly smaller than said width dimension of said at least one slot; rigid engagement means attached to said distal end of said support band, with the width dimension of said rigid engagement means being smaller than said width dimension of said at least one slot, said rigid engagement means secured within said at least one slot in a supporting engaged position; shoulder strap means attached to two of the upstanding walls that are opposed to one another and connected to said wall having said at least one slot; and a handle connected to said interior surface of the one of said upstanding walls having said at least one slot in a position near to said proximal end of said support band so that when said support band is stretched taut over a supporting structure and secured by said rigid engagement means in said supporting engaged position so as to suspend said bag in a location for easy worker access, the worker need only apply an upward lifting force to release said handle means to slacken said support band and allow said rigid engagement means on said distal end of said support band to be released via gravity from its engaged position, whereby said bag is thereafter promptly made available for transport by said shoulder strap to a new location.