Adjustable double handled shovel
AssigneeWork Made Easy, Inc.
InventorThomas G. Rutledge
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Abstract
An adjustable double handled shovel in which both handles are composed of grooved, telescopically mated sections for independent relative length adjustment and which are releasibly interconnected by a cross bar that both strengthens the handle assembly and permits adjustment of the relative angle between the two handles. Fasteners received with the grooves secure the mated sections together at the selected length. Adjustable handle grips are also releasibly secured to the ends of both handles by means of telescopic connectors and groove with fasteners for relative rotary movement relative to the handles. The blade portion of the shovel has a sharpened notched portion which engages and cuts obstructions while digging.
Claims19
A fixedly adjustable double handled shovel, comprising:
- a substantially planar blade;
- a pair of elongate, length adjustable handles;
- means for fixedly attaching one of the elongate, length adjustable handles to the blade;
- means for pivotally mounting another of said pair of length adjustable handles to the blade for angular movement relative to the one length adjustable handle only in a plane substantially transverse to that of the blade and in which part of said fixedly attaching means, said pivotally mounting means, part of the one handle fixedly attached to the blade and the blade comprises an integral piece of rigid material to which the remaining part of the one handle and the entire other elongate, length adjustable handle are removably attached;
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- angle securing means releasibly securing said first and second elongate, length adjustable handles at selected ones of relative angles therebetween.
An adjustable, doubled handled shovel, comprising:
- a blade;
- a first elongate handle;
- a second elongate handle of adjustable length having first and second handle sections mounted to one another for sliding movement relative to one another to different relative positions corresponding to different adjusted lengths;
- means for fixedly attaching one of said first and second handles to the blade;
- means for mounting the other of said first and second handles to the blade for pivotal movement to different angular positions relative to the one handle;
- adjustment securement means for performing the duel functions of fixedly securing the first and second sections of the second handle in a preselected relative position corresponding to a preselected adjusted length and for releasibly securing the first and second handles in a preselected relative angular position.
An adjustable, double handled shovel, comprising;
- a blade:
- a pair of elongate length adjustable handles mounted to the blade, each of said handles having a pair of telescopically mated sections, an inner one of said sections having a groove with a bottom and side walls extending along its length and its mating outer section and carrying a fastener for removable receipt within said groove, said fastener when in the grove engaging said side walls to block substantial relative rotary movement between the sections while frictionally engaging the bottom of the groove to prevent relative longitudinal sliding movement between the sections;
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- means for selectively adjusting angular position of one of said handles relative to the others.
A method of adjusting a shovel having two length adjustable handles and a substantial planar blade connected thereto comprising the steps of:
- adjusting the length of one of said handles relative to the blade;
- adjusting the length of the other of said handles relative to the adjusted position of the one blade;
- pivoting one of said length adjusted handles in a plane substantially transverse to that of the blade to one of a plurality of selected desired angular positions relative to the other handle;
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- releasibly securing said one handle in said one desired position relative to the other handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.