DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

[0018] Referring to the drawings, and initially to FIGS. 1 and 2, a tool carrying device in accordance with the present invention comprises one or more C-shaped brackets 40 for slidably attaching onto a belt 60 (FIG. 2), a beam 70 (FIG. 1) or the like. The belt 60 may be attached onto a user with a buckle device 61 or the like. The beam 70 may be secured onto a supporting surface or a wall or the like. The brackets 40 each includes a U-shaped socket 401 provided thereon and having a channel 402 formed therein, and having an orifice 42 and a slot 41 formed in a front wall 403 thereof. The width of the slot 41 is smaller than the diameter of the orifice 42.

[0019] Referring next to FIGS. 3 and 4, the tool carrying device includes a block 20 having one or more apertures 22 formed therein for threading with fastener belts 30, and having a surface 23, such as a curved surface 23, and having a number of teeth 24 formed on the surface 23 for engaging with the tool members 50 (FIGS. 1, 2). The blocks 20 each includes an extension 12 extended therefrom and having a cut-off portion or a flat surface 13 formed therein, and a head 10 formed or provided on the end of the extension 12. The block 20 may include a panel 27 extended therefrom or perpendicular thereto for solidly engaging with the tool members 50. Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 5, the fastener belts 30 may be formed integral with the block 20 with a molding or mold injection process.

[0020] In operation, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the block 20 may be secured onto various kinds of tool members 50, such as the hand drills, the plier devices, the hammers, the wrenches, the screw drivers, the sprayer guns, etc., with the fastener belts 30. The head 10 is then engaged into the channel 402 of the socket 401 by engaging the extension 12 through the slot 41 into the orifice 42 of the socket 401. The extension 12 may be engaged through the slot 41 of the socket 401 by rotating the cut-off portion or the cut surface 13 of the extension 12 relative to the socket 401, in which the extension 12 having the cut-off portion or the cut surface 13 formed thereon has a width narrower than that of the extension 12 such that the extension 12 may be engaged through the slot 41 of the socket 401. After the extension 12 has been engaged through the slot 41 of the socket 401, the cut-off portion or the cut surface 13 of the extension 12 is arranged to be rotated toward the upper portion of the extension 12 by the weight of the tool member 50 such that the extension 12 may be solidly retained in the orifice 42 of the socket 401 and may be prevented from being disengaged from the socket 401 of the tool carrying device inadvertently.

[0021] The tool members 50 may each include a head 10 and an extension 12 extended or provided thereon directly for engaging onto the socket 401. As shown in FIG. 1, the head 10 and the extension 12 may also be extended or provided on a sleeve 80 that may be used for receiving various kinds of tool members 50.

[0022] Accordingly, the tool carrying device in accordance with the present invention may be used for carrying various kinds of tool members, and includes a latching or retaining device for solidly retaining the tool members in the tool carrying device and for preventing the tool members from being disengaged from the tool carrying device inadvertently.

[0023] Although this invention has been described with a certain degree of particularity, it is to be understood that the present disclosure has been made by way of example only and that numerous changes in the detailed construction and the combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed.