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US 5,177,946 AGranted
Rake
AssigneePartnership of Dietz, Ferrara and Gilman
InventorWilliam A. Dietz, Jr.
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Abstract
A rake having multiple rows of tines in alternating rows alternate in a lateral position and are spaced from each other sidewise. In a preferred embodiment, the rows of tines are so spaced that the tines of one row are individually offset with respect to the tines in the next adjacent row and thus are located substantially between the tines of the next row.
Claims18
A rake comprising a handle means, a multiplicity of rows of tines extending from said handle, and means to attach said tines to said handle;
- wherein each tine has a first end which is proximate and attached to said attachment means and a second end which is remote from said attachment means and is adapted to contact a surface intended to be raked;
- wherein the second tine ends of at least some of the tines in a row of tins are spaced from the second tine ends of the next adjacent tines in the next adjacent row of tines both sidewise and front to back;
- wherein the second end of at least some of the tines in one of said rows of tines have lengths and are arranged so as to be adapted to contact the surface intended to be raked, when said rake is in a normal operating position;
- wherein the second ends of tines in the next adjacent row of tines are adapted to contact said surface intended to be raked only upon pressure being exerted on said first row of tines against said surface;
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- wherein the second ends of at least some of the tines in a row of tines extend from said attachment means substantially the same distance as the second ends of the next adjacent tines in the next adjacent row of tines.
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