Tool holder

Abstract

A tool holder particularly suited for carrying a hammer or a hatchet from a wearer's waist belt includes a tool suspension arrangement joined to a waist belt suspended pliant pad. The tool suspension arrangement comprises a pivot rod extending normally from and joined to the pad and a protruding support element. Spaced apart end portions of the support element are riveted to the pad and a forward portion of the support element spaced apart from the pad supports the pivot rod. A swivelable pivot rod supported element includes a lower clip portion engaging a laterally extendable tool loop in frictionally pivotable relationship. The tool loop is movable from a position substantially flush with the pad avoiding inconvenient interference to the wearer, to a tool suspending position extending laterally from the pad. For use, the tool loop is rotated from the flush position to the extended position. The shaft of an implement such as a hammer is placed through the tool loop with the crosspiece of the hammer being suspended therefrom. The tool loop swivels about the pivot rod to maintain the hammer in a generally upright position, even though bending over by the wearer tilts the waistbelt suspended pad, thus preventing the hammer from falling out of the tool loop, and the hammer crosspiece to be readily grasped and rotated about an arc to facilitate insertion and removal.