Abstract: The present invention provides a thinner, movable load bearing structure having indentations, grooves, valleys, channels or other similar depressions on its underside. These depressions are mated with corresponding features for improved loading bearing capabilities. The load bearing structures also includes roughened side edges for improving the strength of the edges. The load bearing structure may be a dunnage platform or a container for storing and/or shipping cargo.

Abstract: The bucket hawk provides a readily usable, inexpensive and easily assembled device for transporting and holding drywall joint compound that has been removed from the plastic container that may range in size from a container having several pounds to tens of pounds of compound therein. The bucket hawk provides a removable handle that is attached to the bucket lid. The lid is removed and the handle attached to the underside of the lid, preferably. The compound is removed from the bucket and placed on the hawk/lid. After use, the handle may be removed and the lid placed back on the bucket/container. If a sufficient amount of the compound has been removed, the handle may remain on the underside of the lid when replaced on the container. The handle may be placed on the underside or topside of the lid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thinner, movable load bearing structure having indentations, grooves, valleys, channels or other similar depressions on its underside. These depressions are mated with corresponding features for improved loading bearing capabilities. The load bearing structures also includes roughened side edges for improving the strength of the edges. The load bearing structure may be a dunnage platform or a container for storing and/or shipping cargo.

Abstract: An ergonomic drywall hawk used to provide staging of drywall joint compound, provides enhanced ergonomic features. The hawk includes a flat upper surface plate having a subjacent horizontal handle in lieu of a conventional vertical handle. The horizontal handle provides improved hand and wrist positioning resulting in reduced risk of wrist or hand pain or other ergonomic injuries.

Abstract: A compound-holding device for use with a working material in one embodiment comprising a plate having a top and a bottom surface. A magnet for retaining tools is mounted on the bottom surface of the plate. In another embodiment of the invention, the handle is hollow and a magnet is placed inside the handle for retaining elongated tools such as screwdrivers within the handle. Other retaining means are threading, a clip or a locking pin system. In another embodiment a pan is disclosed having a bottom surface and sides extending upwardly and outwardly therefrom. Magnets for retaining tools are mounted on the sides of the pan for holding tools. A magnet-free zone enables holding by hand without interference of protruding magnets.

Abstract: The present invention provides a uniform pan holder assembly adapted to receive a drywall pan and including a support having a pair of uprights spanning a cross member and terminating at an arcuate edge, the uprights and cross member defining a supporting area. Each arcuate edge is generally associated with the top edge and adapted to retain the pan within the supporting area.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved mortarboard configuration that is lightweight and durable. In a preferred configuration of the invention, the upper surface of the mortarboard is continuously contoured or dished to enhance retention of the material carried thereby and any water or other liquid used for retempering the material, and to provide for improved material workability. The mortarboard may have a handle to improve portability and handling.

Abstract: A container for containing an amount material or another container. The container includes a support for engaging an arm of a user. The container also includes a handle. The apparatus also can employ an adjustable handle, adjustable from a first position to a second position. The container is particularly suited for drywall administrators and builders.

Abstract: A brace assembly for supporting a drywall pan including a support frame positionable within a user's hand adapted for holding a drywall pan. An arm and wrist brace is adapted for being secured to a user's arm and wrist. A connection brace extends between the support frame and the arm and wrist brace.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved mortarboard configuration that is lightweight and durable. In a preferred configuration of the invention, the upper surface of the mortarboard is continuously contoured or dished to enhance retention of the material carried thereby and any water or other liquid used for retempering the material, and to provide for improved material workability. The mortarboard may have a handle to improve portability and handling.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hawk, which comprises a surface for applying a material, in particular a filler, and a handle. To provide a hawk, which is ergonomically designed such that even relatively long working with the hawk is possible, it is proposed in the scope of the invention that the handle on the underside of the hawk is designed with an essentially L-shaped cross-section. By this means it becomes possible to hold the hawk by means of two fingers, which are inserted laterally into the handle, it thereby being possible, by virtue of the natural clenching tendency, to hold the hawk without quickly becoming tired. In a further development of the invention, the handle has a T-shaped cross-section.

Abstract: A mud pan support device magnetically attachable to, and releasable from, a flat bottom panel of a mud pan to be carried in one hand while applying joint compound with a trowel or mud spreading tool held in the other hand. The device includes an elongated substantially flat support panel and a handle connected to and extending from a central area of one surface of the support panel. A substantially flat magnetized panel is connected to, and is at least partially coextensive with, another surface of the support panel and is sized to be at least partially coextensive with the bottom panel of the mud pan. The magnetized panel is of sufficient magnetically attractive strength to serve as an only means for secure magnetic engagement between the magnetized panel and the bottom panel when the mud pan is filled with mud or plaster.