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US 5,491,862 AGranted
Chimney scraper
OwnerBruce P. Hurleyinventor
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Abstract
A scraper for removing deposits from an interior of a chimney. The inventive device includes an elongated handle having a scraping plate attached to a lower end thereof for engaging and scraping the interior surfaces of the chimney. The scraping plate can be rectangular, semi-circular, or quarter-round in shape so as to accommodate a plurality of disparate chimney interior shapes.
Claims9
A chimney scraper comprising:
- a handle means for grasping and manipulating by an individual within a chimney, said handle means comprising a plurality of tubular members having threaded ends, and a plurality of hollow couplers having threaded interior surfaces, wherein said hollow couplers are operable to join said tubular members together;
- and,
- a scraping means coupled to a lower end of said handle means for engaging and scraping interior surfaces of said chimney, said scraping means comprising a semi-circular scraping plate having a straight edge along which a straight perimeter flange extends;
- a pair of lateral perimeter flanges extending from respectively opposed ends of said straight perimeter flange;
- and an arcuate perimeter flange connecting said lateral perimeter flanges, said flanges being shaped so as to define an upper perimeter edge spaced from a lower perimeter edge, with said perimeter edges tapering to a point for engaging and scraping the interior surfaces of said chimney.
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A chimney scraper comprising:
- a scraping means for engaging and scraping interior surfaces of a chimney, said scraping means comprising a semi-circular scraping plate having a straight edge along which a straight perimeter flange extends;
- a pair of lateral perimeter flanges extending from respectively opposed ends of said straight perimeter flange;
- and an arcuate perimeter flange connecting said lateral perimeter flanges, said flanges being shaped so as to define an upper perimeter edge spaced from a lower perimeter edge, with said perimeter edges tapering to a point for engaging and scraping the interior surfaces of said chimney.
A chimney scraper comprising:
- a scraping means for engaging and scraping interior surfaces of a chimney, said scraping means comprising a semi-circular scraping plate;
- and an arcuate perimeter flange extending along an edge of said semi-circular scraping plate, with said arcuate perimeter flange being shaped so as to define an upper perimeter edge spaced from a lower perimeter edge, with said perimeter edges of said arcuate perimeter flange tapering to a point for engaging and scraping the interior surfaces of said chimney.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.