Paint bucket holder with attaching bracket and tool stowing means

Claim 1

A READILY APPLICABLE AND REMOVABLE MULTIPURPOSE ATTACHMENT FOR EITHER AN EXTENSION LADDER OR A STEPLADDER, AS THE CASE MAY BE, COMPRISING: A RING-LIKE PAINT BUCKET ENCIRCLING HOOP, SAID HOOP BEING RESILIENT BUT RADIALLY EXPANDSIBLE AND CONTRACTIBLE AND EMBODYING A LINEARLY STRAIGHT PORTION ADAPTED TO ABUT AND EXTEND ACROSS AN OUTSIDE SURFACE OF THE LADDER''S RAIL AND HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY CIRCULAR PORTION WITH A FREE END DIRECTED TOWARD BUT TERMINATING SHORT OF AND IN SPACED RELATION RELATIVE TO ONE END OF SAID STRAIGHT PORTION, AN INVERTED SUBSTANTIALLY V-SHAPED ATTACHING AND RETAINING BRACKET VERTICAL AND PERPENDICULAR TO THE NORMAL HORIZONTAL PLANE OF SAID HOOP, SAID BRACKET EMBODYING A PAIR OF OUTWARDLY AND DOWNWARDLY DIVERGING LEGS, THAT IS, A LONG FRONT LEG AND A REAR SHORT LEG, THE LOWER END OF SAID FRONT LEG DEPENDING TO A PLANE BELOW THAT OF THE REAR LEG AND HAVING ITS EXTREMITY JOINED TO A COACTING END PORTION OF SAID STRAIGHT PORTION BY A CONNECTOR, SAID CONNECTOR BEING ADAPTED TO BRIDGE OVER A FRONT SURFACE OF THE LADDER''S RAIL AND CONSTITUTING A RAIL ABUTTING LIMIT STOP, THE LOWER END OF THE REAR LEG IS LATERALLY AND REARWARDLY OFFSET IN A MANNER TO RELEASABLY HOOK OVER AN EDGE PORTION OF THE LADDER STEP WITH WHICH IT IS COOPERABLE.