Drawer arranger

Claim 1

An insertable and removable universal arranger for holding a set of tools in a spaced array in a drawer which comprises in combination: A. a drawer having at least two pairs of opposite facing vertical members; B. two interchangeable tool-holding elements in the form of insertable and removable elongated strips having flat planar end portions and upwardly facing and opening notches in an upper edge thereof, said notches being shaped to receive said tools and spaced to hold said tools out of contact with and generally parallel to each other when they are held in adjacent notches, each of said notches being of inverted-sawtooth configuration comprising only two edge surfaces which intersect at a point spaced upwardly from the lower edge of said element and which extend divergently upwardly therefrom and terminate at said upper edge of said element, each said notch being capable of securely accommodating tools of varying shank diameters and shapes by permitting any tool to rest in simultaneous support contact with each of said notch surfaces at a level measured vertically upwardly from said point of intersection where the lateral distance between said notch surfaces is equal to said particular tool''s shank diameter at the point of support contact; and C. first and second spacing means inserted in said drawer, each in respective contact with one pair of opposite facing vertical members of said drawer, each said spacing means having angularly related walls defining an obtuse angle therebetween and defining with said associated drawer member a generally enclosed triangular chamber, said spacing means further having parallel vertical slots extending through said walls receiving said end portions of said tool-holding elements in selected angular dispositions and with said end portions being disposed within said chambers, said slots being spaced generally along the length of said spacing means and having walls which extend only vertically and generally normal to said length of said spacing means, each said spacing means being further held in contiguous contact with said respective vertical members of said drawer solely by said opposite ends of said tool-holding elements, said spacer means being inserted but releasably removable from said drawer, and D. each of said tool-holding elements having its opposite ends engaged, respectively, in a vertical slot of each said first and second spacing means with its notched edge up, and further being inwardly spaced from the other pair of opposite vertical members of said drawer.