Glue Gun Holder

This invention provides a convenient and safe place to rest a trigger-controlled glue gun between uses. The holder is sufficiently heavy to prevent it from moving as a glue gun is laid to rest or withdrawn from the holder.

The base forms a platform on which any glue may drip while the gun is resting in the holder. Any puddle of glue may easily be scraped off the base platform when dry.

The glue gun is widely used by the modern-day floral designer and the lack of a satisfactory place to rest the gun between uses prompted this invention.

With regard to the invention, the objectives above are realized by steel supports being welded together to form a cradlelike resting place for a trigger-controlled glue gun. More particularly, the first support is formed and angled to hold the main body of a glue gun; the second support is formed and angled to hold the handle of the glue gun. Both supports are angled in such a manner as to slightly tip the glue gun in a nozzle-downward position to allow the gun to drip on the base platform of the holder.

The first steel support extends on an angle downward to, and is welded to, the base platform which is made of two pieces of steel. The smaller is welded to the larger on an angle to form a shield which helps prevent any glue drips from running off the front of the platform and to keep other objects on the worktable out of the glue drips. The second steel support is welded at a vertical angle to the first support.

The above-mentioned objectives will become apparent upon reading the following detailed description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 shows in perspective view, a trigger-controlled glue gun (pictured by broken lines) resting in a glue-gun holder that is resting on a table surface.

FIG. 2 illustrates a side view of the glue gun holder portion of FIG. 1; and

FIG. 3 illustrates a top view of the same glue gun holder in FIG. 1.

In FIG. 1, a trigger-controlled glue gun 5 is shown by broken lines to rest in the invention as follows:

The body of the gun rests in the cutout in the upper portion of plate 3 and rests on plate 4, the handle of which is the cutout portion of said plate. This positions the gun to slant slightly nozzle downward to allow any glue drips to land to rest on the base plate 1. Plate 4 is welded perpendicularly to plate 3 with weld beads along the junctions at 6 and 7. Plate 3 is welded to base plate 1 on an angle with weld beads along the junctions at 8 and 9. Base plate 2 is welded to base plate 1 on an angle with weld beads along the junctions at 10 and 11 to form a shield to help prevent any hot glue drips from running off the forward end of base plate 1 at junction 10 and also prevents possible movable objects on the worktable from touching any wet glue drips on plate 1, due to the inclined angle at which base plate 2 is welded to base plate 1. Base plate 1 rests on the table surface 12.

FIG. 2 shows the side view of plates 1,2,3, and 4. It also shows the end of the weld beads 6 and 7 where plate 4 is welded to plate 3, at a vertical angle. Also shown are the ends of the weld beads 8 and 9, also 10 and 11, where plates 2 and 3 are welded at the illustrated angles to plate 1.

FIG. 3 shows a top view of the invention, however it does not show weld beads 7,9, and 11 as they would be on the undersides of weld beads 6,8, and 10 respectively, and not visible from top view. Seen in this view is the cutout in plate 3 for the body of the glue gun and the cutout in plate 4 for the glue gun handle; the main weight of the glue gun rests on plate 4 between the cutout in said plate and the weld bead 6.