Brushing – scrubbing – and general cleaning – Implements – Particular handle
Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-20
2001-07-10
Chin, Randall E. (Department: 1744)
Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning
Implements
Particular handle
C015S144100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06256829
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a collapsible sweeping device and more particularly pertains to a new telescoping broom for providing an extendable and useful sweeping tool.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of a collapsible sweeping device is known in the prior art. More specifically a collapsible sweeping device heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 5,661,868; U.S. Pat. No. 3,153,252; U.S. Pat. No. 3,704,479; U.S. Pat. No. 1,185,732; U.S. Pat. No. 3,029,455; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 364,741.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new telescoping broom. The inventive device includes a rectangular shaped support member having a plurality of bristles attached to the bottom thereof and having a longitudinal slot extending in the top and extending through an end thereof with a pair of tracks being disposed in the side walls of the longitudinal slot; and also includes elongate members, a first one of which is pivotally attached in the tracks and has a bore therein for receiving a second one of the elongate members which has a bore therein for receiving a third one of the elongate members; and further includes a handle locking member having a first end portion biasedly extending through an opening in the first end of the first one of the elongate members, and further having a second end portion which extends through a slot in the first one of the elongate members for moving the first end portion; and also includes a pair of handle support members pivotally disposed in the first one of the elongate members and being adapted to be movably received in the tracks.
In these respects, the telescoping broom according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing an extendable and useful sweeping tool.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of collapsible sweeping device now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new telescoping broom construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing an extendable and useful sweeping tool.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new telescoping broom which has many of the advantages of the collapsible sweeping device mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new telescoping broom which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art collapsible sweeping device, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a rectangular shaped support member having a plurality of bristles attached to the bottom thereof and having a longitudinal slot extending in the top and extending through an end thereof with a pair of tracks being disposed in the side walls of the longitudinal slot; and also includes elongate members, a first one of which is pivotally attached in the tracks and has a bore therein for receiving a second one of the elongate members which has a bore therein for receiving a third one of the elongate members; and further includes a handle locking member having a first end portion biasedly extending through an opening in the first end of the first one of the elongate members, and further having a second end portion which extends through a slot in the first one of the elongate members for moving the first end portion; and also includes a pair of handle support members pivotally disposed in the first one of the elongate members and being adapted to be movably received in the tracks.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new telescoping broom which has many of the advantages of the collapsible sweeping device mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new telescoping broom which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art collapsible sweeping device, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new telescoping broom which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new telescoping broom which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new telescoping broom which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such telescoping broom economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new telescoping broom which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new telescoping broom for providing an extendable and useful sweeping tool.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new telescoping broom which includes a rectangular shaped support member having a plurality of bristles attached to the bottom thereof and having a longitudinal slot extending in the top and extending through an end thereof with a pair of tracks being disposed in the side walls of the longitudinal slot; and also includes elongate members, a first one of which is pivotally attached in the tracks and has a bore therein for receiving a second one of the elongate members which has a bore therein for receiving a third
Hatch Michael D.
Hatch Robin L.
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