Patent ID: 7520386

Claim:
A saw blade holding apparatus configured for holding and storing a plurality of saw blades having different sizes, said apparatus comprising: a plurality of flexible pockets, each of said flexible pockets having a back wall and a front wall joined along their bottom and lateral edges, each of said pockets having a top edge having an opening extending therein and defining a primary opening, each of said pockets having an approximately same width and height with respect to each other, said width of said pockets being a distance between said lateral edges, each of said plurality of pockets including one or more sleeves configured for receiving at least one of the saw blades, each of said sleeves including lateral and bottom boundaries formed by attached portions of said front and back walls; said plurality of pockets including at least one combination blade pocket having a plurality of elongated sleeves therein extending toward said bottom edges, said elongated sleeves of said at least one combination blade pocket including at least one full length sleeve, said elongated sleeves of said at least one combination blade pocket including at least one intermediate length sleeve having an inner height less than an inner height of said full length sleeve measured from said top edge of said front wall to said bottom boundary of said at least one intermediate length sleeve, said elongated sleeves of said at least one combination blade pocket including at least one short length sleeve having an inner height less than said inner height of said at least one intermediate length sleeve measured from said top edge of said front wall to said bottom boundary of said at least one short length sleeve, said front wall of said at least one combination blade pocket having at least one opening therein positioned beneath said at least one short length sleeve and opening into at least one lower sleeve positioned beneath said at least one short length sleeve, said front wall of said at least one combination blade pocket having at least one opening therein positioned beneath said at least one intermediate length sleeve and opening into at least one bottom sleeve positioned beneath said at least one intermediate length sleeve.