Patent ID: 8038020

Claim:
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.