Sand play shovel with sculpture mold
OwnerPhilip Rosierinventor
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Abstract
A shovel is disclosed which is preferably a play shovel for use by a child or adult for making a molded head and neck of any desired character or object such as a storybook or cartoon character in the sand. The shovel includes a bottom spade portion and a middle handle portion and a top head portion. The head and handle portions have walls forming a mold cavity opening at the back. The head portion has inner and outer surfaces having features of the head of a character formed thereon.
Claims11
A play shovel for use by a child or adult comprising, in combination:
- bottom spade portion means for digging;
- a middle handle portion having a first end portion fixedly connected to the bottom spade portion means and having a second end portion;
- and
- a top mold portion integrally connected at the second end portion, extending in substantially the same linear direction as said middle handle portion, and having a hollow mold cavity means shaped in a facial design for forming for forming a simulated face after filling with a granular substance such as sand.
A play shovel comprising:
- a bottom spade portion;
- a middle handle portion attached to said spade portion further having a hollow mold cavity therein;
- and
- a top mold portion attached to said handle portion having a front and side peripheral wall surfaces enclosing a mold cavity that is in the shape of the face of a storybook character, said hollow mold cavity in said middle handle portion is the neck of the head of the storybook character.
A method for a child or adult molding an object using a play shovel having an elongate handle attached to a face mold located at an end of the handle extending in substantially the same linear direction of the handle, and having a mold cavity formed therein comprising the steps of:
- packing the mold cavity at the end of the handle with a granular substance such as wet sand;
- gripping the handle and turning over the mold cavity with its packed wet sand;
- depositing the molded packed wet sand from the mold cavity on a support surface;
- and
- removing the shovel.
A method for a child or adult molding an object using a play shovel having an elongate handle attached to a head having a mold cavity formed therein comprising the steps of:
- packing the mold cavity with wet sand;
- gripping the handle and turning over the mold cavity with its packed wet sand;
- depositing the molded packed wet sand from the mold cavity on a support surface;
- providing a cavity on the back of said handle;
- and
- packing wet sand into said handle to form a wet sand configuration shaped like the cavity in the back of said handle,
- the object is a cartoon character formed by said mold cavity and the handle cavity forms a neck portion of said cartoon character.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.