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US 5,533,578 AGranted
Two pointed shovel
OwnerEdward C. Powellinventor
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Abstract
A two pointed shovel comprising a structure bifurcated at a bottom edge of a shovel blade, for digging into and scraping the ground, so as to make the shovel blade more stable and less susceptible to rolling from side to side. The shovel blade is more efficient to use in removing various objects from the ground. A component between the bifurcated structure at the bottom edge of the shovel blade, is for cutting cleanly through a root when the root is encountered while digging into the ground.
Claims1
A two pointed shovel comprising:
- a) a shovel blade having front and rear faces laterally and longitudinally curved to produce a depression in the front face;
- b) a turned step on a top edge of said shovel blade;
- c) a frog centrally mounted transversely to said turned step on the top edge of said shovel blade;
- d) a socket formed in said frog;
- e) an elongated handle extending rearwardly from said socket;
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- f) means bifurcated at a bottom edge of said shovel blade, for digging into and scraping the ground, so as to make said shovel blade more stable and less susceptible to rolling from side to side, said bifurcated means consisting of a pair of prongs, the side edges of said shovel being continuous and terminating in said prongs forming an indentation of shallow depth of about three quarters of an inch from the tips of said prongs and a width between said tips of said prongs of about three inches and cutting edges lining said indentation for cutting cleanly through a root when the root is encountered while digging into the ground, said shovel blade being thereby more efficient to use in removing various objects from the ground while digging, said shovel blade including said bifurcated means being fabricated out of a single piece of durable non-corrosive material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.