Excavating – Snow or ice removing or grooming by portable device – Vehicle mount with obstacle responsive trip – or yieldable tool
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-07
2006-11-07
Beach, Thomas A (Department: 3671)
Excavating
Snow or ice removing or grooming by portable device
Vehicle mount with obstacle responsive trip, or yieldable tool
C037S231000, C037S267000, C172S811000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07131221
ABSTRACT:
A self-adjusting snow plow for use with pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles is disclosed. The snow plow includes a mounting apparatus for attachment to a vehicle and a plow blade having first and second ends, a top, a bottom, a plurality of retention members and a rubber scraper. The mounting apparatus preferably includes a pair of mounting uprights and a hitch tongue which is easily mounted in a hitch receiver which is secured to the front of a vehicle. The retention members are preferably constructed and arranged to at least partially encircle and slideably engage one of the respective mounting uprights and the retention members allow the respective ends of the plow blade to slide upward relative to the mounting upright most proximate to that end of the plow while the other end of the plow remains generally in the same position relative to the mounting upright proximate that end of the plow blade. The preferred retention members also permit the bottom of the plow blade to pivot away from the respective mounting uprights when the plow blade is engaged with the mounting apparatus in a working orientation and the vehicle is in motion in a direction rearward of the plow blade.
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Agri-Cover, Inc.
Beach Thomas A
Freed Robert C.
Moore & Hansen PLLP
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