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US 6,059,515 AGranted
Hand truck having tines and an arm for separating flakes from bales of hay and like material
OwnerWilliam A. Keller, Sharon L. Kellerinventors
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A hand truck has a pivoting wedge that initiates a fracture within a bale of hay, straw and similar materials and assists in retaining the material onto the truck. The wedge pivots out of the way when not in use. A toe consists of long slender tines which may serve the dual purpose of sliding under and/or piercing baled material. The toe is removable from the hand truck for shipping and storage purposes. A guard rack is also provided to provide enhanced support for loose material carried by the truck and to prevent the material from getting caught up in the tires or being dragged inadvertently. According to a method of the invention, the hand truck is engaged with the bale, the wedge used to separate a flake, and then the flake is transported on the hand truck.
An apparatus for both separating a flake having a top surface and a bottom surface from a bale of loosely aggregated material and also transporting said flake over a surface, comprising:
A method of separating and transporting flakes from a bale of loosely aggregated material to another location using an improved hand truck having an integral separating and retaining means, comprising the steps of:
A hand truck particularly adapted for handling a multitude of discrete, separable materials originally assembled into a bale, having a toe extending primarily perpendicular from a frame to a toe end, a handle distal from said toe on said frame, a plurality of wheels upon which said hand truck may travel when balanced by a person, wherein the improvement comprises a means attached to an upper part of said frame for pivotally wedging and dividing a top surface of said bale, wherein said wedging and dividing means, responsive to a pivoting of said hand truck, separates a flake of said separable material from said bale and retains said flake between said wedging and dividing means, said frame and said toe.
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