Upright trowel
AssigneeBeno J. Gundiach Company
InventorLawrence G. Meyers
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Abstract
A trowel device for use by an operator in an upright position comprises a trowel blade receiving assembly and a first elongate handle section, operably coupled to and extending away from the blade receiving assembly toward a proximal end of the device. A second elongate handle section is rotatably fixable with respect to the first elongate handle section and extends away from the blade receiving assembly toward the proximal end of the device. The first handle section is rotatable with respect to the second handle section about a longitudinal axis common to each of the handle sections to allow the operator to adjust an angle of a trowel blade of the trowel blade receiving assembly while the operator is an upright position.
Claims10
A trowel device for use by an operator in an upright position, comprising:
- a trowel blade receiving assembly;
- a first elongate handle section, operably coupled to and extending away from the blade receiving assembly toward a proximal end of the device;
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- a second elongate handle section, rotatably fixable with respect to the first elongate handle section and extending away from the blade receiving assembly toward the proximal end of the device;
- the first handle section being rotatable with respect to the second handle section about a longitudinal axis common to each of the handle sections to allow the operator to adjust an angle of a trowel blade of the trowel blade receiving assembly while the operator is an upright position;
- wherein the second elongate handle section includes a length at least about ⅓ of an overall length of the trowel device.
A method of spreading flooring material from an upright position, comprising:
- engaging flooring material disposed on a flooring surface with a trowel blade coupled to an upright trowel device;
- grasping a first elongate handle section of the upright trowel device to thereby control an angle between a handle of the trowel device and the flooring surface;
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- grasping and rotating a second elongate handle section of the upright trowel device to thereby alter a relative angle between the trowel blade and the handle of the trowel blade device;
- the first and second elongate handle sections being rotatable with respect to one another about a common longitudinal axis to allow rotation of the trowel blade by an operator in an upright position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.