Trash picker

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1976-11-02

1978-03-28

Blum, Daniel

Handling: hand and hoist-line implements

Spears

A01D 906

Patent

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040811921

ABSTRACT:
A trash picker comprising a handle, a block at one end of said handle normally disposed thereto, a plurality of spikes mounted in said block to extend normally therefrom in a direction remote from said handle. A stripper plate having a plurality of holes therein to accommodate said spikes that pass therethrough. First end flanges disposed on said stripping plate which flanks said block and extends upwardly towards said handle. Second end flanges slideably disposed over said first end flanges and provided with screw and slot means to fasten said first and second flanges together and therefor the user may vary their combined extent, a pressure plate connected to said second end flanges at an area remote from and parallel to said stripper plate overlying a portion of said handle and above said block, and spring means connected from said handle to said pressure plate so that said stripper plate is normally in a position to leave said spikes exposed.

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Article entitled Litter Picker Cleans Itself-Popular Science-Jan. 1950, p. 107.

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