Apparatus having a tool on an elongate pole and method of using the apparatus
OwnerRon Carlson, Daniel De Layinventors
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Abstract
A method of using an apparatus having an elongate pole with a proximal region, a distal region, an intermediate region, and a tool at the distal region. The method includes the steps of: providing a harness with a support; placing the harness on a user so that the harness is maintained in an operative position on the user; releasably placing the apparatus in a holding position upon the support with the harness in the operative position wherein at least a part of the weight of the apparatus is borne by the support; controllably repositioning the tool by manipulating the elongated pole from a region spaced from the distal region; and performing an operation on an object through the tool.
Claims28
A method of using an apparatus comprising an elongate pole with a proximal region, a distal region, an intermediate region between the proximal and distal regions, and a tool at the distal region, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a harness with a support;
- placing the harness on a user so that the harness is maintained in an operative position on the user;
- releasably placing the apparatus in a holding position upon the support with the harness in the operative position wherein at least a part of the weight of the apparatus is borne by the support;
- controllably repositioning the tool by manipulating the elongate pole from a region spaced from the distal region;
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- performing an operation on an object through the tool.
In combination:
- a) an apparatus comprising an elongate pole with a proximal region, a distal region, an intermediate region between the proximal and distal regions, and a tool at the distal region;
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- b) a harness that can be maintained in an operative position on a user and comprising a support,
- the support defining an upwardly opening U-shaped receptacle into which a part of the apparatus is releasably directed with the apparatus in a holding position wherein at least a part of the weight of the apparatus is borne by the support.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.