Handle Forward Of Tool Patents (Class 172/357)
  • Patent number: 9963882
    Abstract: A manually operated snow removal device designed for generally flat surfaces such as roofs includes a box-shaped device having a scalloped or undulating front and rear edge to cut through the snow; a leading bottom edge which protrudes from the box-shaped device to prevent the device from falling off roofs and a load belt made of a length of HPDE material for transporting the snow loaded on the load belt. A telescopic pole attaches to the device and allows the operator to remove approximately 10 square feet of snow and subsequently moved that snow to a desired location on the roof. The operator than moves the device such that the load belt folds over the edge of the roof dumping the snow in a desired location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: SNO DOLLY, INC.
    Inventor: James Daneau
  • Patent number: 5265681
    Abstract: A landscape leveling and raking apparatus has a frame, a handle protruding upwardly from the frame, a rake pivotally coupled to the frame to protrude downwardly and rearwardly therefrom, a screed fixed to the frame forwardly of the rake, a plurality of tiller blades rotatably mounted along a forward, open end of the frame, a motor which rotatably drives the tiller blades, and a mechanism for raising or lowering the tiler ,blades relative to the frame. As the blades rotate, they till the soil and propel the apparatus forward. The frame is open along its front edge. This allows soil to accumulate within the frame as the apparatus moves forward. The soil gradually escapes from the frame by passing beneath a screed fixed along the lower rear edge of the frame. The screed levels the soil before it is raked by the tines of the rake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Inventor: Frank Kincses