US 7,320,445 B2
Electrician's caddy
Kenneth Brian Eastwood, Fort Collins, Colo. (US); and Sondra Kay Eastwood, Fort Collins, Colo. (US)
Assigned to E5 Products, Inc., Las Vegas, Nev. (US)
Filed on Apr. 15, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/107,482.
Prior Publication US 2006/0231672 A1, Oct. 19, 2006
Int. Cl. B65H 49/26 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 242—598.4  [242/594.4; 242/598.6; 242/588.6] 37 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrician's caddy, comprising:
a. a bottom portion;
b. at least one well located in said bottom portion having a pair of opposed walls and a well surface configured to receive a wire spool;
c. an axle having a pair of ends each of which correspondingly engage one of said pair of opposed walls which provides an axis about which said wire spool rotates, and wherein said axis of said axle has a location in said at least one well which maintains a distance between each of a pair of spool ends and said well surface, and wherein said distance maintained between each of said pair of spool ends and said well surface comprises a distance of less than a diameter of said wire wound on said wire spool which maintains said wire between said pair of spool ends;
d. a cover which releasably secures to said bottom portion, wherein releasable securement of said cover to said bottom portion retains said wire spool in said at least one well; and
e. an aperture which communicates between opposed surfaces of said cover configured to allow a wire wound on said wire spool to be drawn through said aperture from said at least one well.