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US 4,906,323 AGranted
Carpet stripping assembly
OwnerPhilip D. Thomasinventor
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Abstract
A gripping assembly designed for the stripping or removing of adhesively secured carpeting from a floor surface which includes a pulling assembly designed to fit around the torso or other applicable portion of the body of one removing the carpet such that the user can use the legs and thereby exert maximum pulling force on the gripping assembly to strip the carpet from the floor.
Claims16
A stripping assembly designed to remove adhesively attached or similarly secured carpeting from a floor surface, said assembly comprising:
- a. a gripping means for gripping a portion of the carpeting being removed and including a base and a gripping jaw mounted thereon in attachable relation to the carpeting,
- b. said gripping jaw mounted substantially on one end of said base and being structured to be removably attached to the carpeting,
- c. a pulling means connected to said base for applying a stripping force to the carpeting when said gripping means is attached thereto,
- d. said pulling means comprising a harness means structured for removable attachment to a person and at least one elongated connecting strap,
- e. said connecting strap secured at one end thereof to said base and having an opposite end thereof secured to said harness means,
- f. said harness means and said one connecting strap structured and cooperatively disposed relative to said gripping means to exert a pulling force on the carpeting by a person wearing said harness means.
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