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US 5,704,672 AGranted
Stand-up snow shovel with flexible auxiliary handle
OwnerAlan M. Simsinventor
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Abstract
A snow shovel having a conventional blade (10) and handle (13) includes an auxiliary handle (18) tethered to the shovel by means of a resilient and/or flexible cord (19). The cord may be a folded bungee cord, the ends (20, 21) of which are secured to holes (30, 31) in the blade by means of hooks (28, 29) on the ends of the cord. A pliable tubing (33) may contain the bungee cord ends.
Claims6
A snow shovel having a blade and a main handle characterized by the improvement comprising:
- an auxiliary handle secured to the shovel near the juncture of said handle with said blade by means of a longitudinally resilient flexible cord.
A snow shovel having a blade and a main handle characterized by the improvement comprising:
- an auxiliary handle resiliently tethered to said snow shovel by a bungee cord near a point where said handle joins said blade.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.