handheld spreader
AssigneeSK & Y Agricultural Equipments Co., Ltd.
InventorJui-Chang Wu
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Abstract
A handheld spreader has a main body, a discharging switch and a locking unit. The main body has a storage space, a feeding opening connected to the storage space, a discharging opening and a handle. The discharging switch is combined with the opening and closing function of the locking unit, which not only frees the fingers from continuously pushing the toggle knob, making the structure more labor-saving to use, but also allows the locking unit to be displaced and positioned on the adjusting portion, further limiting the displacement path of the discharging switch, so as to adjust the material quantity.
Claims6
A handheld spreader comprising a main body, a discharging switch and a locking unit;
- wherein
- the main body is formed from two symmetrical cases and comprises a storage space, a feed opening connected to the storage space, a discharge opening, and a handle, wherein the handle is arranged above the feed opening, and the handle further downwardly has an adjusting portion and a spring groove in sequence toward the discharge opening;
- a track is disposed at an inner top surface between the handle and the adjusting portion, and an open slot is disposed on an upper surface of the handle and connected to the track;
- a guiding slot is disposed and connected between an end of the track and the discharge opening;
- the adjusting portion is convex and hollow with a channel connected to the track, and a positioning slot is disposed on the adjusting portion and having a width smaller than a width of the channel;
- the discharging switch is disposed among the track, the guiding slot and the discharge opening, and is integrally formed to include an adjusting section, a positioning section, a spring section and a gate section in sequence;
- the adjusting section has a toggle knob and is limited in the open slot;
- the positioning section has a positioning column protruding out of the positioning slot;
- the spring section is provided with a raised plate with a protruding pillar facing the positioning column, and the protruding pillar is jacketed with a spring member and is arranged in the spring groove;
- the gate section is normally closed between the discharging opening and the storage space;
- and
- the locking unit is installed on the adjusting portion and includes a locking screw rod, a switching panel, a locking nut and a fastening member;
- a slidable plate is formed at a bottom end of the locking screw rod and is slidably accommodated in the channel;
- the locking screw rod is positioned to pass through the positioning slot, a through aperture is disposed on one end of the switching panel through an upper and lower surfaces, the switching panel passes through the locking screw rod through the through aperture, and two shaft apertures are disposed on opposite sides of the switching panel;
- the locking nut and the locking screw rod are screwed together to further tighten the locking screw rod and the switching panel onto the positioning slot;
- the fastening member has two buckle arms, a convex shaft is mounted inside the two buckle arms and assembled to each of the shaft aperture on opposite sides of the switching panel, so that the fastening member is rotatably assembled on the switching panel;
- and the fastening member is further provided with a fastening hole between the two buckle arms, the fastening hole used to engage with the positioning column of the discharging switch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.