Guide handle for a manually steered machine
AssigneeWacker Corporation
InventorGregory Kruepke
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Abstract
A guide handle of a handle assembly for an industrial machine such as a walk behind trowel has the open-ended handlebar characteristics of a so-called “bicycle” style guide handle and the belly bar and gripping versatility characteristics of a “whale tail” style guide handle. The belly bar spans the gap between the two handgrip portions, and both portions are mounted on a center post of the handle assembly at the bottom leg of a generally U-shaped mounting portion. The mounting portion can be welded or otherwise affixed to a post of the handle assembly at any desired angle, thereby permitting the orientation of the guide handle to be optimized for a given guide handle height.
Claims22
A guide handle for an industrial machine, comprising:
- (A) first and second opposed handlebars, each of which is generally U-shaped, having an upper leg, a center leg, and a lower leg that extends laterally inwardly from said center leg to a free end thereof;
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- (B) a belly bar which extends at least generally horizontally between the handlebars.
A handle assembly for guiding an industrial machine, comprising:
- (A) a post adapted for connection to the industrial machine;
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- (B) a guide handle mounted on said post, said guide handle including
- (1) first and second opposed handlebars, each of which is generally U-shaped, having an upper leg, a center leg, and a lower leg that extends laterally inwardly from said center leg to a free end thereof;
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- (2) a belly bar which extends at least generally horizontally between the handlebars.
A walk behind trowel, comprising:
- (A) a frame;
- (B) a motor that is mounted on said frame and that has a rotatable output;
- (C) a rotor that includes a plurality of blades which are rotatable about a rotational axis;
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- (D) an-operator controlled handle assembly including
- (1) a post extending upwardly and rearwards from said frame, and
- (2) a guide handle mounted on said post, said guide handle including
- (a) first and second opposed handlebars, each of which is generally U-shaped, having an upper leg, a center leg, and a lower leg that extends laterally inwardly from said center leg to a free end thereof, and
- (b) a belly bar which extends at least generally horizontally between the handlebars.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.