Holder and display device for wrench sockets

Claim 1

In combination, an elongated flat cardboard strip folded along transverse fold lines to form three connected sides defining a triangular hanger loop with an aperture in one of said sides, a socket for a socket wrench tool and a fastening device for anchoring said socket to said triangular loop, said socket having a rectangular recess at one end for receiving a socket wrench tool drive stud and a transverse detent hole in the sidewall of said recess, and said fastening device having a head larger than said aperture and a male plug portion adapted to extend through said aperture inn said side of said loop and be snugly received in said recess, said male plug portion comprising a pair of spaced parallel legs that define in transverse section, a rectangle corresponding to said rectangular recess in said socket, and including a resilient arm located between said legs and adjacent a wall of said recess between said legs with a transversely extending catch adapted to latch in said opening, said resilient arm being movable between a flexed position and an unflexed latching position, whereby when said male plug portion is moved through said aperture in said side of said loop from the inside out and inserted in said recess with said catch in alignment with said detent hole, said resilient arm is flexed until said catch enters said detent hole whereupon said resilient arm returns to its unflexed position to anchor said socket to said loop whereby said loop may be used to hang said socket for display.