Snow mover

• US 4,559,726 A
• Filed: 11/13/1984
• Issued: 12/24/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Marius Moisan
• Original Assignee: Marius Moisan
• Inventors: Moisan, Marius
• Primary Examiner(s): Burr, Edgar S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cohen, Moshe I.
• Application Number:
  US06/671,117
• Time in Patent Office: 406 Days
• Field of Search: 37/265, 37/266, 37/267, 37/285, 294/54.5
• US Class Current: 37/267
• CPC Class Codes: E01H 5/02 Hand implements E01H5/04, E01H5/10, E01H5/12 take precedence shovels or spades in general A01B1/02; brooms, brushes A46B

Abstract

This invention relates to a snow handling equipment comprising a handle grip, a tubular handle, a blade slightly curved in cross section and rectangular in plan and a supporting device securing the blade to the handle. The supporting device allows the pivoting movement of the blade in a plane perpendicular with respect to the plane of the handle to allow the user to adjust the angle of the blade or turn the blade upside down in order to use either edge of the blade to scrape the snow.

Claims

1. A snow mover comprising an elongated handle having a manual grip at one end, a blade slightly curved in cross-section to define a convex rear face and a concave front face, said blade rectangular in plan and having opposite parallel longitudinal edges, first bracket means fixed to said blade at said back face to the central portion of said blade, both longitudinally and transversely thereof, the opposite end of said handle pivoted to said first bracket means for pivotal movement about a first pivot axis parallel to and substantially equidistant from said two longitudinal edges, second bracket means detachably securable to said blade at said back face adjacent either one of said two longitudinal edges at the longitudinally central portion of said blade, securing means for removably securing said second bracket means to said blade, third bracket means fixed to said handle at a distance from said opposite end, link means extending between said second and said third bracket means and pivotally secured to the same at its ends about second and third pivot axes parallel to said first pivot axis, said three pivot axes defining the apices of a triangle, means to adjust the distance between said first and said third pivot axes to adjustably change the angle of said blade in relation to said handle, and means to rotate one of said first and third bracket means through at least 180°

about the longitudinal axis of said handle.

2. A snow mover as defined in claim 1, wherein said third bracket means include a collar slidably and rotatably mounted around said handle, said collar having a locking device to lock said collar in any rotated position and at selected positions along said handle.

3. A snow mover as defined in claim 1, wherein said handle is made of a major tubular section and of a minor section pivoted to said first bracket means about said first pivot axis and telescopically engaged within said tubular section for slidably and rotated adjustment therein, and further including a locking device releasably locking said minor section in adjusting longitudinal and rotated position within said tubular section.

4. A snow mover as defined in claim 1, wherein said securing means include first and second holes made through said blade adjacent to and equidistant from the respective longitudinal edges of said blade, third holes made in said third bracket means on one side of said second pivot axis, hooks carried by said second bracket means on the other side of said second pivot axis and engageable with either one of said two longitudinal edges, and fastener means removably extending through said third holes and through one or the other of said first and second holes.