Handle and handle set for collecting and transporting a load in a tarpaulin
OwnerWilliam C. Crutcherinventor
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Abstract
Four identical handles for manipulating a tarpaulin with grommets in the four corners to collect and transport a load. Each handle has a handgrip with a hook on each end, a staking member, and an attachment system to hold a grommeted corner of the tarpaulin. The hooks are dimensioned to admit and support the handgrips of other handles. Two handles are grasped together by a user and the handgrips of the other two handles are hung on opposite pairs of hooks of the grasped handles that the load in the tarpaulin may be gathered and transported by the grasped handgrips.
Claims16
A handle for manipulating a tarpaulin together with a plurality of other ones of said handles to collect and transport a load, said tarpaulin having a plurality of corners, said handle comprising:
- a longitudinal handgrip having opposite ends,
- a pair of hook means, each hook means of said pair disposed near and extending longitudinally outwardly from a respective opposite end of said handgrip,
- attachment means adapted to connect said handle to one of said corners of the tarpaulin, and
- a staking member extending from said attachment means and adapted for insertion into the ground to hold down a corner of the tarpaulin while collecting a load thereon,
- said handle being constructed and dimensioned to be grasped by a user and such that a hook means of said handle will admit a handgrip so as to support another one of said plurality of other ones of said handles, whereby the load in the tarpaulin may be gathered and transported by a grasped handgrip.
A set of four substantially identical handles for manipulating a tarpaulin to collect and transport a load, said tarpaulin having at least four corners each having a grommet therein, each of said handles comprising:
- a longitudinal handgrip having opposite ends,
- a pair of hook means, each hook means of said pair disposed near a respective opposite end of said handgrip,
- attachment means adapted to connect one handle of said set of handles to one of said corners of the tarpaulin, and
- a staking member extending from said handle and adapted for insertion into the ground to hold down a corner of the tarpaulin while collecting a load thereon,
- each handle of said set being constructed and dimensioned such that the handgrips of two of said handles may be grasped together by a user and such that a hook means on either end of the handgrips of said two grasped handles will admit a handgrip of another of said handles, whereby the load in the tarpaulin may be gathered and transported by said grasped handgrips.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.