Apparatus and method for picking up stickers in grassy and other areas
OwnerMarilyn S. Viceinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for picking up stickers in grassy or other ground areas. A roller is rotatably mounted on a frame and a stretchable fabric is removably mounted and stretched on an outer surface of the roller. The fabric is of a construction and thickness to pick up stickers as the roller is moved by the frame and rotated in engagement with a grassy or other ground surface. When the fabric is full of stickers, it is removed from the roller and replaced with a new unused stretchable fabric that is removably mounted on the roller.
Claims13
A method of picking up stickers, in grassy or other ground areas, comprising:
- moving a rotatable roller over the grassy or other ground area, the roller being in engagement therewith and having a stretchable fabric removably mounted on an outer surface of the roller,
- the stretchable fabric being of a construction and thickness to pick up the stickers as the roller is moved and rotated over the grassy or other ground area,
- removing the fabric from the roller when it is full of stickers thereon, and mounting a new unused stretchable fabric on the roller to continue the picking up of the stickers by moving and rotating the roller over the grassy or other ground area,
- wherein the roller is rotatably and removably mounted on a frame,
- wherein the frame has laterally spaced legs having end portions with connecting members that are removably connected to the roller, and
- wherein each end portion connection member has an opening therethrough, and the roller comprises an endplate adjacent to the end portion and having a button movably mounted therein and biased to an outer position wherein an outer closed end of the button extends through the opening in the end portion of the frame leg.
A method of picking up stickers, in grassy or other ground areas, comprising:
- moving a rotatable roller over the grassy or other ground area, the roller being in engagement therewith and having a stretchable fabric removably mounted on an outer surface of the roller,
- the stretchable fabric being of a construction and thickness to pick up the stickers as the miler is moved and rotated over the grassy or other ground area,
- removing the fabric from the roller when it is full of stickers thereon, and
- mounting a new unused stretchable fabric on the roller to continue the picking up of the stickers by moving and rotating the roller over the grassy or other ground area,
- wherein the roller is rotatably and removably mounted on a frame,
- wherein the frame has laterally spaced legs having end portions with connecting members that are removably connected to the roller, and
- wherein the legs have laterally aligned openings therethrough, an axle extends through the openings and is rotatable on the legs, the roller is mounted on the axle, the axle has end portions that extend outwardly from the legs and have apertures therethrough, and pins are removably mounted axle apertures to removably and rotatably connect the axle and the roller to the legs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.