Pick-up tool with hands-free lighting

A lighting assembly for use with a pick-up tool having linkage which slideably projects from a body and is coupled to opposing engagement elements, said pick-up tool including a pivoting control component providing user control of said engagement elements via said linkage, said lighting assembly comprising:

• a lighting element for coupling to said body;
• a sensed device for coupling to said linkage;
• and
• a proximity switch for coupling to said body, said proximity switch causing said lighting element to emit light upon detecting said sensed device at an effective close distance relative to said proximity switch.

A pick-up tool, comprising:

• an elongated body having first and second pick-up fingers extending divergently outward from a distal end of said body;
• means for engaging objects, individually located at terminating outer ends of each of said first and second pick-up fingers;
• means for linking said first and second pick-up fingers with a control component;
• selectively actuable means for lighting coupled to said body;
• means for detecting proximity of a sensed device coupled to said means for linking;
• and
• means for drawing said means for linking rearward, said means for drawing causing said means for engaging objects to move closer together, and substantially simultaneously causing said sensed device to effectively engage said means for detecting proximity, resulting in said means for lighting to emit light.

A pick-up tool, comprising:

• an elongated body having first and second pick-up fingers extending divergently outward from a distal end of said body, and a handle coupled to a proximal end of said body;
• engagement elements individually located at terminating outer ends of each of said first and second pick-up fingers;
• first and second linkages respectively extending from said first and second pick-up fingers;
• a lighting element coupled to said body;
• a sensed device coupled to said first pick-up finger;
• a proximity switch coupled to said distal end of said body, said proximity switch causing said lighting element to emit light upon detecting said sensed device at an effective close distance relative to said proximity switch;
• and
• a control component pivotally coupled to said body for drawing said first and second linkages rearward, causing said engagement elements to move closer together, and substantially simultaneously causing said sensed device to effectively engage said proximity switch.