Staggered tine rake construction
OwnerWilliam G. Kellyinventor
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Abstract
A staggered tine rake construction (10) including an elongated handle member (20) having a lower end (22) operatively connected to both a front (12) and rear (13) rake unit wherein both rake units (12) and (13) include rake members (30) (30′) having mounting sockets (31) (31′) which captively engage the upper ends of a plurality of rake tines (32) (32′) whose intermediate portions are connected to spacer bars (33) (33′) which are spaced from one another by a spacer collar (42); wherein, the first plurality of tines (32) and the second plurality of tines (32′) are both laterally and horizontally offset relative to one another to produce a staggered tine array.
Claims7
A rake construction comprising:
- a handle unit including an elongated handle member having an upper end and a lower end;
- a front rake unit including a first plurality of tines, each having an upper end associated with the lower end of the handle member, an intermediate portion affixed to a first spreader bar and a lower end, wherein the lower ends of the first plurality of tines are generally equally spaced from one another;
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- a rear rake unit including a second plurality of tines, each having an upper end associated with the lower end of the handle member, an intermediate portion affixed to a second spreader bar and a lower end, wherein, the lower ends of the second plurality of tines are generally equally spaced from one another as well as the lower ends of the first plurality of tines;
- and wherein the first spreader bar is fixed to the second spreader bar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.