Abstract: A garment carrier, and a blank for forming a garment carrier, may be used once or a few times for transport of one or a few garments on hanger hooks, and then discarded. The carrier has a body of thin material, e.g. corrugated cardboard or biodegradable, or other plastic, forming a handle and defining an orifice for receiving the free end of one or a few hangers. A hinged flap extends at least across the body and may be secured thereto, and a securement tab connected to the flap extends through another orifice in the body to define a limited securement region containing the hangers. In preferred embodiments, another flap connected to the first extends about the body and also serves to restrict movement of the free end of the tab extending through the orifice.

Abstract: A portable hand held carrier for plastic, net or canvas bags and other similar handled objects which has an elongated handle section with hinge bosses fixed at the breech end, that is connected to an elongated connecting arm tongue with a hinge pin. The elongated handle section has an internal spring-loaded pull pin bougie that extends through both ends of the elongated handle section. The connecting arm section has a connecting arm locking hole which is to be engaged by the elongated handle section spring-loaded pull pin. The connecting arm section is convexed away from and biased from the elongated handle section. The spring-loaded pull pin can be retracted to disengage the connecting arm section from the elongated handle section which allows item handles to be passed on to and off of the connecting arm section and then to be re-engaged and hand carried by the elongated handle section.

Abstract: A hand grip device that is easily attached to and removed from the carrying handle of an article such as a plastic merchandise bag, bucket, pail or the like, to provide a relatively wide support surface for improved comfort to the hand of the user, and to prevent separation of the carrying handles of a plastic merchandise bag when the bag is set down. The device comprises a flexible, normally flat body that is easily stored and carried when not in use, and which may be folded about the carrying handle of an article and adjusted along the handle for proper balance. The hand grip device has a longitudinal slit formed in each end, terminating at an enlarged opening for receiving and retaining the carrying handle, and a plurality of flexible fingers or teeth are formed along the slit to facilitate application of the device to a handle, and to securely grip the handle when the device is released, as when the article is set down.

Abstract: A detachable carrier device for bulky articles includes a coupling portion and a handling portion. The coupling portion has an elongated aperture adapted to be engaged by the head of a screw threaded into the article. The aperture includes a large diameter portion for initially cooperating with the screw head under no load conditions, and a smaller diameter portion for cooperating with the screw head under load conditions whereby the article can be safely supported and transported by the carrier device.

Abstract: A flat, open handle clips onto the end of a bag such as, for example, a shrink-wrap plastic bag, for frozen poultry or similar frozen food items. The handle has an elliptical ring at one end through which the end of the bag fits, and is provided with flexible converging fingers to retain the bag within the ring once it is inserted. The gripping portion of the handle which the fingers of the user grip is at the opposite end. Relatively flexible arms interconnect the gripping portion and the ring. To strengthen the handles and also to guide the bag toward the ring after its end has been inserted in the opening in the handle, guides are provided. In one form of the invention the guides extend inwardly from each arm, then bend obliquely to merge with the retaining fingers. In another form of the invention the guides are thin ears which have rounded inner edges.

Abstract: A wire dispensing apparatus (10) and method for dispensing wire or sheathed electrical cable (14) from an annular coil (13) mounted within a storage container (12). The wire dispensing apparatus (10) includes a support axle (24) dimensioned for insertion into a central opening (16) of the coil, and having opposed ends (28, 30) and a length dimension (L) therebetween which is at least about equal to the height dimension (H) of the coil (13). The wire dispensing apparatus further includes a coil retaining assembly (34) which is mountable to the exterior of the container (12), generally in alignment with the opposed ends (28, 30) of the support axle (24) cooperate with the axle (24) to retain or hold the container side walls (20, 22) against the axle ends (28, 30).

Abstract: A flat handle for hand-carrying a heavy, large book; the handle including a lower bar over which the book is draped, a spaced apart upper bar having a handhold for being held in a hand, and a pair of opposite side legs connecting between the bars; the device being molded of relatively rigid plastic.

Abstract: An umbrella with a carrying strap retractable interiorly of the umbrella's handle to a storage position when use of the strap is not desired, and extendable exteriorly of the handle into a use position when it is desired to carry the umbrella with aid of the strap.

Abstract: An improved deer hauling device (10) is described. The hauling device includes a handle (12) preferably in the form of an elongated ellipse, secured to one end of an intermediate shank (11), and a spaced apart hook (13) formed from the other end of the shank. The shank is positioned offset from the short axis (a--a) of the handle which bisects the sides (12c, 12d) of the handle so that the apex of the V-shaped hook is centered on the short axis of the handle. This construction helps to distribute the dragging weight evenly across the hunter's palm by preventing the game from sliding along the hook.

Abstract: A combination handle/bracket member is provided for use with a device, such as a suction pump, that is operated in conjunction with a separate component, such as a collection jar. The member is preferably a single-piece member with a 90.degree. bend separating a manual grasping area from a component receiving area. Also preferably the member is secured to the device with fasteners that are already used to secure portions of the device together so that no additional fasteners are required.

Abstract: A carrying handle for supporting a shopping bag and its contents comprising a central portion having a first end and a second end, a first end member integrally attached at the first end, a second end member integrally attached at the second end, the central portion being an arc with a large radius of curvature, each of the first and second end members being J-shaped comprising an arc with a small radius of curvature, joined to a straight arm portion. The first and second end members are directed inwardly toward each other. The central portion and the end members are all in the same plane. The central portion curves toward the J-shaped members, and each of the J-shaped members curve toward the central portion, By inserting an intermediate section between the central portion and the end member, and by having the end member U-shaped, a second embodiment is provided.

Abstract: An umbrella with a carrying strap retractable interiorly of the umbrella's handle to a storage position when use of the strap is not desired, and extendable exteriorly of the handle into a use position when it is desired to carry the umbrella with aid of the strap.

Abstract: In order to permit a flexible carrying handle to be more easily fitted into nd removed from a known securing eyelet in an umbrella handle, a permanently open threading slot running the length of the eyelet is provided. The slot is narrower than the eyelet. The carrying handle can be squeezed along the slot into the eyelet, where the carrying handle regains its normal shape and thus will not unintentionally slip back out of the eyelet.

Abstract: A receptacle is provided for the collection and transport of empty beverage cans for return to the store for refund. It comprises a reusable bag loader and a standard paper grocery bag. The loader comprises a cluster of open ended tubes. It is insertable into the bag to receive cans in the predetermined formation of rows and columns of the tubes. It is removable from the bag while the cans remain in the bag for transport thereby to the store.

Abstract: A dish carrier has a rectangular base plate that has a flat top surface and four side edges. The base plate is formed with four rows of slots that extend from adjacent the four side edges towards the base center. Four resilient arms are releasibly mounted to the four rows of slots selected with regard to the size of dishes to be carried stacked upon the base top surface with their sides held by the arms.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed which is used to hold a hanger or hangers. The apparatus claimed provides a loop for attaching one or more hangers and is constructed in such a way to cause the hangers to align in a position comfortable for carrying. A handle is attached to the loop allowing a relatively large number of hangers to be comfortably carried.

Abstract: A carrying handle is provided for use in conjunction with wrapped food items wherein the wrapping is secured at one end with a retaining clip. The carrying handle has a finger hold allowing the user to grab the handle with one or more fingers, a pair of flexible arms which allow the carrying handle to either lie flat against the food item or to be lifted away from the food item, a clamp which is drawn into position around the shrink wrapping and a pair of flexible fingers which bend outwardly as the wrapping is inserted into the clamp and then return to their normal position in which they engage the wrapping and keep the wrapping in the clamp.

Abstract: For convenient handling of a core member or a roll of material comprising a core member, a strap is attached to the core member. An intermediate section of the strap is preferably looped and extends outwardly of the core. The strap ends are either fixed to the outer surface of the core or through at least one opening in the core and underlie the winding, or contemplated winding. In the case of a tubular core, such ends cna be fixed to the core's inner surface of a plug element.

Abstract: A dish carrier for transporting and storing a stack of dishes comprises a base from the periphery of which a set of resilient wire arms upwardly extends. A cover is slidably mounted onto the arms and a handle releasibly attachable to the ends of two opposing arms. So constructed, dishes may be stacked upon the base and maintained in their stacked configuration by the upright arms and the cover passed downwardly over the arms and onto the top of the stack of dishes.

Abstract: A bag carrier having a tubular handle and hooks attached to each end of the handle for supporting the handles of a bag to be carried. Flexible straps are provided in association with the hooks to selectively restrain the bag handles positioned on the hooks.

Abstract: A carrying handle for carrier bags comprises a plastic rod or bar bent in its central area to form an open ring whose central axis is parallel to the two ends of the plastic rod which has a common longitudinal axis and which is open in the transition area to the two bar ends.

Abstract: A handle having a cap and sleeve that cooperate to define a peripheral groove on the handle's exterior surface. The peripheral groove is interrupted by two posts located within the groove and spaced one from the other, each post defining an inner face positioned closer to the handle's axis that the groove's floor. A connector loop portion of a closed loop carrying strap is positioned within the groove, the posts cooperating with slot structure in the groove's floor to deflect the strap interiorly of the handle's wall and then out through a strap slot where a hand loop portion is formed.

Abstract: A bag clamping arrangement, such as an arrangement for automatically controlling the filling volume and overflow of a liquid conducted into a flexible bag which is clamped in the arrangement. The bag clamping arrangement is essentially constituted of a rigid upwardly open receptacle of substantially rectangular or a relatively large upper compartment, and wherein a narrow compartment which in open communication with the upper compartment depends downwardly from the bottom of the upper compartment so as to extend longitudinally and generally centrally across the full width of the receptacle. The lower compartment includes opposite parallel sidewalls which are down so as to form a reducing compartment width therebetween. Towards the lower end of the compartment is a plate-like clamping arrangement essentially constituted of a flat plate member which may be manually engaged through an elongate slot and gripping portion proximate its upper horizontal edge.

Abstract: A device for carrying firewood, kindling and the like includes an arcuate body with a hand grasp located at one longitudinal edge for grasping by a hand, and a channel on the convex side of the arcuate body for locating a human arm. In use, the wood carrying device is supported on an arm with the convex side of the arcuate body cradled by the upper arm and forearm with the hand of the arm grasping the hand grasp. The wood to be carried is placed on the concave surface of the arcuate body.

Abstract: A device for carrying and storing pistol shaped appliances such as an air chisel, an electric hand drill, a soldering gun or an electric hair dryer. The appliance is held or clamped to a rigid planar structural member, with the grip and barrel axes oriented substantially parallel to the structural member. The device is carried and stored with the plane of the structural member generally vertical. A reel means can be provided, by a plurality of projections from the structural member near it's periphery for receiving the electric cord or air hose of the pistol shaped appliance as it is wound. The structural member can contain a hand hole for carrying or positioning over a cantilevered support when storing against a generally vertical surface. Projections can be added to the structural member for carrying accessories or retaining the end of the electric cord or air hose.

Abstract: A carrier for returnable beverage containers such as metal cans of aluminum or the like and bottles which includes a plurality of substantially rigid tubes connected together by clips or other connectors to form the carrier. Each of the tubes is vertically elongated to receive a plurality of vertically oriented containers in stacked relation. Carrying handle structure is attached to the carrier to enable it to be easily carried and the bottom ends of the tubes have a retainer which can be rendered ineffective to enable the returned containers to be discharged by gravity from the lower ends of the tubes thereby enabling a plurality of returnable containers to be easily returned to the point of purchase for refund of a deposit with the modular construction of the tubes and the interconnecting clip arrangements enabling variation in the capacity of the carrier.

Abstract: A book support system (10) is provided to allow manual holding and reading of book (12) in one hand of a user. The book support system (10) includes a housing (18) having a recess (20) formed therein. The recess (20) is of predetermined contour and is adapted for insert and receipt of the book (12). A releasable constrainment mechanism (56) including orthogonally directed first and second resilient members (58 and 60) are included to constrain the book (12) within the recess (20). The releasable constrainment mechanism (56) is secured to the housing (18) and a tab member (48) is provided in a lower section of the housing (18) to allow the user to hold the book support system (10) in one hand while reading.

Abstract: A carrier apparatus comprises a first larger rigid loop, a second or smaller rigid ring and a straight rigid bar. The rigid loop extends along a first plane and has a maximum diameter of about 3 inches and a minimum diameter of about 2 inches. The smaller rigid ring has an outside diameter of about 1 inch and extends in a second plane transverse to the first plane. The loop and ring have a common axis of symmetry. The rigid straight smooth surface bar extends about 4 inches transversely to the axis of symmetry and along the second plane and is rigidly joined to the loop and ring. The carrier apparatus cooperates with the structure of the human hand to provide means for loading, transporting and unloading a load of clothes comfortably and efficiently.

Abstract: A portable carrier for hand conveyance of cylindrical tanks in a substantially horizontal position, particularly useful for carrying SCUBA compressed air storage tanks. The carrier includes a rigid saddle contoured to mate against a portion of the circumference of the cylindrical tank to be carried, a handle rotatably mounted on the saddle, and a flexible strap for surrounding the remaining portion of the perimeter of the tank. One end of the strap is connected to one end of the saddle and the other end of the strap is wrapped around a portion of the handle such that as the handle is lifted, the strap is tightened against the tank. Length of the strap is adjustable to accommodate different diameter tanks and to provide optional means for rotating and holding the handle against the saddle in a fixed stored position. The carrier is also releasable and quickly removable from the tank.

Abstract: This invention relates to carrying cases for fragile items in general, and more specifically to a unique carry case having cooperating panels that can be adjusted relative to one another to support various sized artist oil canvas.

Abstract: An electrical supply apparatus particularly for hand-tools, in the form of a housing having a handle at its upper end and a bottom constituting a skid, the housing having a vertical, longitudinal median plane along which the skid bottom is elongated. An electrical cable can be wound in a recess above this bottom and emerges from an opening below the center of gravity of the apparatus by being connected to the housing by a stress relief. The curvature of the skid is greater in the longitudinal direction than in its transverse direction.

Abstract: Disclosed are keepers for carrying and suspendably storing portable electric hand-drills. The keeper device includes: an upright shank insertable into and removably secureable to the adjustably tightenable chuck of the hand-drill; a cord rack for draping convolutions of the hand-drill elongate electrical cord; and suspendable handle means to permit convenient interim storage of the keeper and hand-drill combination. In the preferred keeper embodiment, the shank, the cord rack (having backing and resilient finger parts), and the handling means are fabricated of permanently bent springy metallic rod stock.

Abstract: A carrier for releasably receiving, retaining and carrying hook portions of a plurality of coat hangers includes a C-shaped member having upper and lower portions which overlie each other and which extend substantially in a common plane. The upper leg portion is of sufficient size relative to the size of one's hand to effectively distribute the load of a plurality of garment-carrying hangers across the width of one's hand. The lower leg portion is provided with a hanger-hook receiving structure which defines an opening extending parallel to at least a part of the lower leg portion for releasably receiving and retaining hook portions of a plurality of hangers with such hangers extending substantially within the common plane. In one embodiment, the receiving structure includes a depending formation defining the opening into which a plurality of hanger-hooks are insertable.

Abstract: An elongated, generally hourglass shaped weight-cushioning device for attachment to the handles of a bowling ball carrying bag has an outer layer of relatively thin vinyl material and a somewhat thicker inner layer of foam padding material. The outer layer has a shape substantially identical to but slightly longer than that of the inner layer. In constructing the device, the layers are superimposed with an end of the first layer being aligned with an end of the second layer. The layers are then simultaneously bent longitudinally and attached by a continuous line of stitches around and adjacent the peripheral edges of the layers in a manner such that, subsequent to the attachment, the peripheral edges of the outer and inner layers are brought into congruent alignment. This imparts a slight longitudinal curvature to the device, the outer layer being curved outwardly of the inner layer.