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A tool-carrying assembly to be secured by a waist-encircling belt, and, additionally, by straps encircling the legs of a workman using the belt assembly. The assembly is thus stabilized, and enhanced weight distribution is achieved. Elements of the belt assembly include a waist-encircling band suppo

A tool-carrying assembly to be secured by a waist-encircling belt, and, additionally, by straps encircling the legs of a workman using the belt assembly. The assembly is thus stabilized, and enhanced weight distribution is achieved. Elements of the belt assembly include a waist-encircling band supporting a pair of laterally spaced, depending panels each carrying tool-accepting pockets. The pockets preferably carry visual markings and coding as well as other indicia identifying clearly the specific tools to be "housed" or carried in and to be returned to each pocket after use. Inventory control of the tools is thereby significantly enhanced. Pivotal flaps depending from the band-carried panels serve to cover the tools when not in use, and to prevent the tools from scratching or otherwise marring any article, or fixture, or "workpiece" requiring the workman's attention. The panels and the tools carried thereby are disposed in lateral, spaced zones at the wearer's sides (and not directly in the front of one's body) thus further to reduce any likelihood of the tools coming into damaging physical contact with an article being worked upon. That is, both frontal and rearwardly located zones about the wearer of the tool belt assembly are rendered essentially free and clear of all tools and other mechanical impediments. While wearing the tool assembly of the invention, a worker can, without any discomfort, lie upon and use a "creeper". Significantly, a frontal sector of the belt itself is covered with a relatively soft, non-marring protective pad, composition, or surface material effective to prevent possible damage from a workman's belt buckle. An additional feature of the invention is that the panels may be structured to constitute a core sandwiched between a pair of encasing sheet-like webs. The resulting composite is readily formable to provide selectable visual patterns, designs or indicia, for example, to identify product name or sources and/or to constitute decorations.

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1. A belt assembly to be worn by a workman, the assembly being adapted for storage therein and for retrieval therefrom of workmen's tools to be carried therewithin, the belt assembly comprising:a waist-encircling, belt-like band including end sectors for closing and for opening the band, and a forwa

1. A belt assembly to be worn by a workman, the assembly being adapted for storage therein and for retrieval therefrom of workmen's tools to be carried therewithin, the belt assembly comprising:a waist-encircling, belt-like band including end sectors for closing and for opening the band, and a forwardly-presented, generally-centered lineal sector including a relatively soft, non-abrasive outer surface material for protecting objects from possible physical damage resulting from pressure forces impressed against an object to be protected from physical abrasion and damage during a wearer's employment of the belt assembly; means for securing the end sectors to one another to convert the band into a closed loop for encircling a waist of a wearer of the belt assembly; a panel carried by and depending from the band at each of a pair of annularly spaced positions along the band, and each panel carrying upwardly-opening compartments for housing selectable tools to be carried by the belt assembly; means secured to and depending from each panel from a zone above the compartments for overlying the compartments and for covering tools contained therein, said means for overlying and covering being hingedly pivotal for establishing, selectively, covered and exposed configurational modes for the compartments for facilitating protective storage of tools contained therein and for enhanced ready retrieval of stored tools for use of the tools as desired; and means secured to each panel at each of a lower margin thereof for encircling and gripping, respectively, each leg of a workman, for stabilizing the belt assembly and for providing enhanced distribution thereof.