Patent ID: 7481394

Claim:
A caddy for carrying spools, comprising: two opposite side walls held in fixed relation by members and having complementary T-shaped slots formed in each wall, each T-shaped slot comprised of a central release track and a perpendicular travel slot, the members affixed to each side wall are oriented to form a cage to hold one or more spools of similar diameter, at least one of the members is a locking member that moves within the central release tracks and the perpendicular travel slots of the two complementary T-shaped slots, the locking member moves along the perpendicular travel slots under the force of gravity to retain the spools within the cage as the caddy is moved to different orientations to a surface, and when the locking member is moved along the central release tracks away from the perpendicular travel slots sufficient clearance is provided to allow a spool to be added or removed from the cage.