Garden tool rack

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Claims:

What the invention claimed is:

1. A garden tool rack comprising: a rack body, said rack body comprising a plurality of plugholes vertically extended through top and bottom walls thereof and aplurality of bottom barrels respectively downwardly extended from the bottom wall around each said plughole; a plurality of tool holders respectively axially fastened to the plugholes of said rack body for holding garden tools; a plurality of end capsrespectively fastened to the bottom barrels of said rack body; and a plurality of anchoring devices respectively coupled to said end caps and adapted for fastening said rack body to earth.

2. The garden tool rack as claimed in claim 1, wherein each said end cap comprises a cylindrical cap body fitted into one said tool holder, a cap head stopped outside one said bottom barrel of said rack body, and a shoulder connected betweensaid cap body and fitted into one said bottom barrel of said rack body.

3. The garden tool rack as claimed in claim 1, wherein said anchoring devices each comprise a cylindrical base connectable to one said end cap, and an anchoring tip axially extended from one end of said cylindrical base for fastening to earth.

4. The garden tool rack as claimed in claim 3, wherein each said end cap comprises an axially extended center through hole adapted to receive the cylindrical base of one said anchoring device, and at least one longitudinal groove formed in saidaxially extended center through hole and axially extended through two distal ends of said axially extended center through hole; each said anchoring device comprises at least one peg perpendicularly extended from the cylindrical base thereof forinsertion through the at least one longitudinal groove and stoppage at one end of the respective end cap after insertion of said at least one peg through said at least one longitudinal groove.

5. The garden tool rack as claimed in claim 4, wherein each said end cap further comprises at least one locating notch at one end of the cylindrical cap body thereof for receiving the at least one peg of one said anchoring device.

6. The garden tool rack as claimed in claim 5, wherein each said end cap comprises at least one locating protrusion respectively suspended between one of said at least one locating notch and one end of one of said longitudinal groove.

7. The garden tool rack as claimed in claim 4, further comprising a plurality of anchoring device receiving structures provided at the bottom wall of said rack body and adapted to receive said anchoring devices after removal of said anchoringdevices from said end caps.

8. The garden tool rack as claimed in claim 7, wherein each said anchoring device receiving structure comprises a pair of lugs downwardly extended from the bottom wall of said rack body for receiving the cylindrical base of one said anchoringdevice between said lugs, said lugs each having a locating notch adapted to accommodate the at least one peg of one said anchoring device.

9. The garden tool rack as claimed in claim 8, wherein each said anchoring device receiving structure further comprises a rib radially provided at the bottom wall of said rack body, said rib comprising a locating notch adapted to hold theanchoring tip of one said anchoring device.

10. The garden tool rack as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a plurality of axial positioning structures adapted to stop said tool holders from axial movement relative to said plugholes of said rack body after insertion of said toolholders into said plugholes of said rack body.

11. The garden tool rack as claimed in claim 10, wherein each said axial positioning structure comprises an inside protruding block protruded from an inside wall of one said bottom barrel of said rack body, and a vertical retaining spring leafsuspended from one said tool holder and adapted to hook on a bottom side of the inside protruding block at one said bottom barrel of said rack body.

12. The garden tool rack as claimed in claim 11, further comprising a plurality of rotary positioning structures adapted to stop said tool holders from rotary motion relative to said plugholes of said rack body after insertion of said toolholders into said plugholes of said rack body.

13. The garden tool rack as claimed in claim 12, wherein each said rotary positioning structure comprises one longitudinal groove formed in the inside protruding block inside one said bottom barrel of said rack body, and at least one horizontalspring leaf transversely suspended from one said tool holder and adapted to engage the longitudinal groove in the inside protruding block inside one said bottom barrel of said rack body.

14. The garden tool rack as claimed in claim 1, wherein said rack body further comprises a vertical barrel vertically disposed at the center thereof for holding a tool handle.

15. The garden tool rack as claimed in claim 1, wherein each said tool holder comprises a top holder body for receiving a garden tool, and a bottom mounting tube axially extended from one end of said top holder body for insertion into oneplughole of said rack body.

16. The garden tool rack as claimed in claim 15, wherein each said tool holder further comprises a skirt-like shoulder provided between said top holder body and said bottom mounting tube and adapted to support said top holder body above the topwall of said rack body.

Patent number:
    7156242
View patent at USPTO

Filing date:
    May 28, 2004

Issue date:
    January 2, 2007

Inventor:
Pei-Ying Lin (Taichung Hsien, TW)

Assignee:
Global Industries Holdings Ltd. (Northfield, IL)

Primary Examiner:
Sarah Purol

Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Current U.S. Classification: 211/70.6

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