Patent ID: 6732989
Filing Date: 2004-05-11
Classification: A47F

Abstract:
A tool suspension device for a tool having a stationary handle with a stationary jaw and a moveable handle with a moveable jaw, which are pivotally joined with each other at a pivot point, and the tool suspension device comprising:a suspension board with a front, a right side, a left side, a top and a bottom; a holding assembly mounted on the front of the suspension board and comprising a tool bracket with a front, a top, a bottom and two opposite sides mounted on the front of the suspension board and the tool bracket having an elongated tool slot defined through the top to the bottom of the tool bracket and adapted to hold the handles of the tool; a mounting wing formed respectively at each opposite side of the tool bracket; a positive stop protruded at the top of the tool bracket from each mounting wing of the tool bracket; a spacer slot defined from the bottom of the tool bracket to form a resilient arm at each mounting wing of the tool bracket and each resilient arm having a distal end; and a hook formed on and extended from the distal end of each resilient arm of the tool bracket; and two L-shaped mounting brackets respectively mounted on front of the suspension board corresponding to the mounting wings of the tool bracket and each mounting bracket having a top, a bottom, a short side attached to and extending from the front of the suspension board, an elongated front attached to the short side, a gap formed between each elongated front and the front of the suspension board, and a notch defined in the top of the mounting bracket and corresponding to a respective one of the positive stops on the tool bracket; and two handle guides formed on the front of the suspension board in the tool slot of the tool bracket and adapted to securely hold the stationary handle mounted in the tool wherein each positive stop of the tool bracket is respectively received in the notch in one of the mounting brackets, the mounting wings of the tool bracket are respectively held in the gaps between the suspension board and the mounting brackets, the hook on each resilient arm enrages the bottom of the corresponding one of the mounting brackets, and the tool slot is adapted to allow the movable handle being movably held in the tool slot between the suspension board and the holding assembly.