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US 5,490,701 AGranted
Pine cone retriever
AssigneeCone Swallow Inc.
InventorRoger M. Glass
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Abstract
A pine cone retrieving tool having an array of three flexible, elongated tines extending downwardly from a flat support plate on the lower end of an elongated handle with the tines arranged in a downwardly converging array in which the separations between adjacent sides of the lower ends of each of the respective pairs of adjacent tines are unequal distances correlative to straddling dimensions of pine cone varieties.
Claims6
A tool for retrieving pine cones comprising:
- an elongated handle,
- a support plate extending transversely of a lower end of said handle,
- a plurality of three elongated, flexible tines having upper ends affixed to said support plate at unequally spaced apart, triangularly oriented locations and arranged to extend downwardly from said support plate with individual tines converging along their length such that the separations between adjacent sides at the lower ends of each of the respective pairs of adjacent tines comprising the three-tine array are unequal distances correlative to straddling dimensions of pine cone varieties.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.