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US 11,945,489 B2Granted
Concrete tool support shelf or rack for a concrete wheelbarrow or similar device and a method of using a concrete tool support shelf or rack to clean concrete materials from concrete tools
OwnerDennis K. Wattersinventor
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Abstract
A concrete tool support shelf or rack for a concrete wheelbarrow or similar device and a method of using a concrete tool support shelf or rack to clean concrete materials from concrete tools.
Claims2
A concrete wheelbarrow shelf arrangement configured to support concrete tools thereon, said concrete wheelbarrow shelf arrangement comprising:
- a main body portion being configured, upon installation on a wheelbarrow, to be disposed to cover over or span across a portion of a wheelbarrow basin;
- said main body portion comprising openings therein to permit water and concrete material to pass through said shelf and into the wheelbarrow basin upon cleaning of concrete tools;
- an outer flange being disposed to extend transverse to or essentially perpendicular to said upper surface of said main body portion;
- said outer flange being configured to minimize or prevent sliding movement of said shelf arrangement along a lip of the wheelbarrow basin;
- at least one inner flange being disposed to extend transverse to or essentially perpendicular to said lower surface of said main body portion;
- said at least one inner flange being configured to minimize or prevent sliding movement of said shelf arrangement along a lip of the wheelbarrow basin;
- a scraping flange being disposed to project out of an upper surface of said main body portion and being configured to be used to scrape concrete material off of concrete tools being rubbed back and forth against said scraping flange;
- a retaining bracket being configure to suspend said shelf arrangement from the lip of the wheelbarrow basin in a storage position adjacent a rear surface of the wheelbarrow basin adjacent handles of the wheelbarrow upon said shelf arrangement not being in use to clean concrete tools;
- at least one brush device being connected to said main body portion to permit a worker to rub concrete tools against said at least one brush device to clean the concrete tools;
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- at least one holding ring being configured to hold brushes or similar cleaning implements.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.