Tangle free wire holder

Claim 1

A cord winding device for storing an electrical extension wire cord in a manner to prevent tangling of the wire cord comprising an elongated, flat, substantially solid member generally defining an elongated rectangle, said member having two identical and directly opposed, isosceles-triangularly and wedge shaped cutouts on its shorter sides, the apex of each triangularly shaped cutout being rounded off in a smooth curve, and having two, spaced channels having parallel sides extending into and from one of its longer sides, said spaced channels forming acute angles with the longer sides from which they extend, identical in degree but opposite in direction, each of said channels ending in a circular hole having a diameter greater in dimension than the width of the channel, the center of said hole being offset from the centerline of said channel, the portions of the wire cord near its plug ends being slid down said channels and placed in said circular holes for cord storage and the body of the cord being wrapped around said member about its longer dimension and within said opposed cutouts for cord storage, said opposed cutouts occupying the full width of said shorter sides thereby forming with the ends of said longer sides legs upon which the device may be stood up, said member further having a slot near and parallel to the same longer side from which the channels extend to serve as a means for grasping and carrying said device, said slot having parallel sides and ending at either end in a smoothly flowing curve.