Patent Publication Number: US-6655529-B2

Title: Structure of a portable hand-tool bag

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     (a) Field of Invention 
     The present invention relates to hand-tool bag, and in particular to the structure of a portable hand-tool bag. 
     (b) Description of the Prior Art 
     FIGS. 1 and 2 show types of conventional toolbox containing various types of tools. Conventional type of toolbox provides only one function, i.e., a box used to contain or store tools. As a result, the bag serves only one purpose. Other types of tool bags are used to contain many types of tools and when in use, it is rather laborious to search the right tool, and in some cases, the entire box of tools has to be carried along and it is rather troublesome. Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide you with an improved structure of a portable hand held tool bag which can facilitate carrying along and allows the related tools to be carried along. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     Therefore it is an object of the present invention to provide a portable hand-tool bag, which provides the user an option to carry the related hand tools. 
     It is an object of the present invention to provide a portable hand-tool bag including a hand-held body, and two tool boxes, wherein the hand-held body includes an external layer, two inner boards, two positioning boards and an inner layer, characterized in tat at least two adjacent ends of the positioning board are mounted with a corner member having mounted wit an elastic top plate thereon and the top edge of the elastic top plate being a protrusion; and the two tool boxes are substantially rectangular with a plurality of slots within the center of the box to accommodate tools, one lateral edge of the tool box is provided with a notch corresponding to the protrusion on the top edge of the elastic top plate so that the protrusion is engaged with the notch; thereby the tool boxes containing tools within the slots of the tool boxes are engaged to the corner member and the two tool boxes are mounted to the hand-held body, facilitate the carrying of tool. 
     Yet a further object of the present invention is to provide a portable hand-tool bag, wherein the comer member is located diagonally or at the wider side of the positioning board adjacent to the folding line of the hand-held body. 
     Still another object of the present invention is to provide a portable hand-tool bag, wherein the bag body is folded substantially at the center thereof to form into a bag, facilitating the bag to be carried along. 
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
     FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a conventional portable toolbox. 
     FIG. 2 is a perspective view of another conventional portable toolbox. 
     FIG. 3A shows a perspective view of a portable hand-tool bag according to the present invention. 
     FIG. 3B is a perspective view of the present invention shown in open condition. 
     FIG. 4 is a perspective exploded view of the portable hand-tool bag, showing the tool boxes being separated from the hand held body in accordance with the present invention. 
     FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view of the hand held body of the portable hand-tool bag of the present invention. 
     FIG. 6A is a perspective view of the elastic plate with protrusion and the toolbox containing various types of hand tools in accordance with the present invention. 
     FIG. 6B is a perspective view of the corner member of the present invention. 
     FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the hand tool bag of the present invention, wherein the toolboxes are position on the hand held body and the boxes are positioned by means of the corner members. 
     FIG. 8 is a schematic view showing the carrying of the hand-tool bag in accordance with the present invention. 
     FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing the hand-tool bag being hung on a wall in accordance with the present invention. 
     FIG. 10 is a perspective view of the portable hand-tool bag, wherein the corner members are located at the wider side, close to the center of the handheld bag, in accordance with the present invention. 
     FIG. 11 is a perspective view showing schematically the withdrawing of the toolbox from the sides of the hand held body of the present invention. 
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT INVENTION 
     The following descriptions are of exemplary embodiments only, and are not intended to limit the scope, applicability or configuration of the invention in any way. Rather, the following description provides a convenient illustration for implementing exemplary embodiments of the invention. Various changes to the described embodiments may be made in the function and arrangement of the elements described without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims. 
     Referring now to FIGS. 3A,  3 B,  4 ,  5 ,  6 A and  6 B, there is shown a portable hand-tool bag including a hand-held body  1 , and two tool boxes  2 , wherein the hand-held body  1  includes an external layer  11 , two inner boards  12 , two positioning boards  13  and an inner layer  14 . In accordance with the preferred embodiment, at least two adjacent ends of the positioning board  13  are mounted with corner members  3 ,  4  and the corner members  3 ,  4  include vertical walls  30 ,  40 , upper bending tops  31 ,  41  and end walls  30 ,  40 . The vertical wall  30  of the corner member  3  is provided with an elastic top plate  301  and the top edge of the elastic top plate  301  is provided with a protrusion  302 . 
     The two tool boxes  2  are substantially rectangular boxlike structure with a plurality of slots  20  within the center of the box  2  to accommodate tools, and one lateral edge of the tool box  2  is provided with a notch  21  corresponding to the protrusion  302  on the top edge of the elastic top plate  301  so that the protrusion  302  is engaged with the notch  21 . 
     Accordingly, in accordance with the present invention, the tool boxes  2  containing tools within the slots  20  of the tool boxes  2  are engaged to the corner members  3 , 4  and the two tool boxes  2  are mounted to the hand-held body  1 , facilitate the carrying of tool. The positioning of the tool boxes  2  onto the hand-held body  1  can be seen in FIG.  7 . 
     In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the external layer  11  can be mounted with a pocket body  5  with a cover  50  and VELCRO fasteners  51 ,  52  are used to fasten the cover  50  to the pocket body  5  as shown in FIG.  3 . 
     The top edge of the hand-held body  1  is provided with a carrying member  6  mounted with VELCRO fastener  60  so as to hold the respective carrying members  6  together to facilitate the carrying of the hand tool bag. 
     As shown in FIG. 4, the center region of one lateral edge of the hand held body  1  is provided with VELCRO fastener  7 ,  8  so that the hand held body  1  after folded can be fastened together to enclose the tool boxes  2 . 
     FIG. 8 is a schematic view showing the tool bag can be carried with the pump  100  of the user at the carrying members  6 . FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing the hand-tool bag being hung on a wall in accordance with the present invention, wherein the carrying members  6  are hung over pins  200  or support on the wall. 
     FIGS. 10 and 11 show the position of the corner members  3 ,  4  on the positioning boards  13 . The members  3 ,  4  are mounted at the wider lateral side of the positioning boards  13  close to the folding region of the hand held body  1 . In this case, the tool boxes  2  will be inserted from the corresponding side of the hand held body  1 . Similarly, protrusion  302  is provided to the elastic plate  301 . 
     In accordance with the present invention, the side of the comer members  3 , 4  can be changed to comply with the size of the tool boxes  2  so that the boxes  2  are positioned onto the positioning board  13  when the hand held body  1  is folded for fastening. 
     It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the disclosed process without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. Other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. It is intended that the specification and example be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims.