Handling: hand and hoist-line implements – Hand forks and shovels – Snow shovel
Patent
1977-04-14
1978-08-01
Cherry, Johnny D.
Handling: hand and hoist-line implements
Hand forks and shovels
Snow shovel
294 58, A01B 122, E01H 502
Patent
active
041039548
ABSTRACT:
A snow shovel having a plate-shaped scoop, a main handle and an adjustable auxiliary handle, arranged so as to enable snow to be shoveled without the user having to bend over, is disclosed. The main handle is a rod rigidly affixed to one end to the scoop and having a first hand grip at th other end. The auxiliary handle includes a pair of rods which diverge from one another in the direction from closely juxtaposed first ends to widely spaced second ends. A second hand grip is secured to the auxiliary handle rods at the first ends thereof, and respective hinges interconnect the auxiliary handle rods at their second ends to the scoop adjacent the top edge thereof. A rigid cross-brace bar, which may be medially foldable, is swivelly connected at one of its ends to the auxiliary handle rods adjacent the juncture thereof with the second hand grip and is releasably locked at its other end to the main handle rod for adjustability to different positions. The auxliary handle structure per se may be combined ith existing, conventional show shovels by providing the free ends of the auxiliary handle rods and the cross-brace bar with suitable, preferably quick-disconnect, coupling means. This abstract is not to be taken either as a complete exposition or as a limitation of the present invention, however, the full nature and extent of the invention being discernible only by reference to and for the entire disclosure.
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Cherry Johnny D.
Holler Norbert F.
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