Patent ID: 7014158

Claim:
A tool storage system comprising (a) a building structure; (b) a vertically oriented wall in said building structure; (c) a floor in said building structure; (d) at least first and second tool storage units mounted side-by-side above said floor on said wall, each unit including (i) a base having a first side with a tongue and a second side with a U-shaped opening, said opening of said first unit receiving said tongue of said second unit, (ii) a horizontally oriented nest of hollow tubular side-by-side interconnected tool storage elements fixedly mounted on and extending outwardly from said base, each of said elements (A) including a cylindrical wall, said wall of one of said storage elements connected to the wall of said storage elements immediately adjacent said one of said storage elements, (B) including a mouth, said mouths of said storage elements generally lying in a common plane parallel to a horizontally oriented line, (C) canting away from said wall; and (D) shaped and dimensioned to receive the handle of a tool such that a portion of the tool is prevented from extending laterally past said mouth of said element.