US826928A - Shovel. - Google Patents

Description

G. W. FLEGK.

ISHOVEL.

APPLICATION FILED APE.23, 1906.

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PATENIED JULY '24; 1906.

PATENT OFFICE.

' GEORGE W. FLECK, OF BARNHILL, OHIO.

SAHOVEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24, 1906.

Application filed April 23, 1906. Serial No. 313,261.

To aZZ whom it may concern: Be it known that I, GEORGE W. FLEoK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Barnhill, in the county of Tuscarawas and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shovels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention pertains to shovels; and it contemplates the provision of a shovel having an auxiliary handle-bar so arranged relative to the ordinary handle-bar that the user is enabled to manipulate the shovel and lift a load on the blade thereof without the imposition of undue strain on his back and is also enabled to take hold of the shovel closer to the blade and the weight thereon than with any form of handle extant.

Other advantageous features of the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when the same are read in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the shovel constituting the preferred embodiment of my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a modified shovel constructed in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail section illustrating the means which I prefer to employ for connecting the auxiliary andle-bar to the ordinary handle-bar and for holding the said bars at the proper distance apart.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, and more particularly to Figs. 1 and 3 thereof, A is a shovel-blade which may be of the ordinary construction or of any other construction compatible with my invention and is preferably made of metal, and B is an ordinary handle-bar. The said handle-bar B is preferably of wood and is connected to the blade A in the usual or any other approved manner.

C is my novel auxiliary handle-bar, which is also preferably of wood. The said auxiliary handle-bar C is arranged above and in the plane of the handle-bar B throughout the length of the straight rear portion of the latter and isfixedly connected to the said handlebar B, preferably through the medium of bolts D, which extend through the bars B and C and have their ends upset against the same, as indicated by a, and tubular blocks E, preferably of Wood, arranged on the bolts D and between the two bars, the office of the cribed to the latter.

said tubular blocks E being to hold the bars B and C at the proper distance apart and in fixed relation to each other. the auxiliary handle-bar O terminates in a handhold F, and this latter preferably extends in rear of the ordinary handle-bar B, as illustrated.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that a person using my novel shovel is enabled by grasping the auxiliary handle-barC to manipulate the shovel and lift a load on the blade thereof without stooping to an undue extent and without placing undue strain on his back and is also enabled to take hold of the shovel at a point close to the blade and the weight thereon, as is always desirable. It will also At its rear end be gathered that inasmuch as the shovel comprises two handle-bars the bars may be made smaller in cross-section than the handle-bars of ordinary shovels, and hence may be more easily gripped.

In the modified construction shown in Fig. 2 a plain auxiliary handle-bar O is employed and the handhold F is provided on the rear end of the ordinary handle-bar B. In all other respects, however, the modified construction of Fig. 2 is similar to the embodiment shown in Fig. 1 and is possessed of practically all of the advantages hereinbefore as- It may be said, however, that the embodiment shown .in Fig. 1 is calculated to give the reatest satisfaction unless the ordinary hand e-bar is possessed of considerable raise.

Notwithstanding the practical advantages possessed by my novel shovel, it will be noted that the same may be made almost if not quite as cheaply as an ordinary shovel; also, that my novel shovel is not appreciably heavier than an ordinary shovel. It will further be noted that when the embodiment shown in Fig. 2 is resorted to my improvements may' be readily applied to shovels at present on the market or in use.

I have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the parts embraced in the present and preferred embodiments of my invention in order to impart a definite understanding of the said embodiments. I do not desire, however, to be understood as confining myself to the specific construction and relative arrangement or parts, as such changes or modifications may e made in practice as fairly fall within the scope of my claimed invention.

l-la'vi-ng described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A shovel comprising a blade, a handle- 5 bar fixed thereto, and an auxiliary handlebar extending in the direction of the length of the handle-bar at a sli ht distance above same and from a point a jacent to the blade to a point adjacent to the rear end of the handle-bar and fixedly connected at its ends to said handle-bar.

2. A shovel comprising a blade a handlebar fixed thereto, and an auxiliary handlebar extending in the direction of the length of the handle-bar at a sli ht distance above same and from a point a jacent to the blade to a point adjacent to the rear end of the handle-bar and fixedly connected at its ends to said handle-bar and terminating at its rear end in a handhold.

3. A shovel comprising a blade, a handlebar connected thereto, an auxiliary handlebar extending in the direction of the length of the handle-bar and arranged at a slight distance from the same, bolts extendin through and connecting the end ortions o the two bars, and blocks mounte 0n the bolts and interposed between the bars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE W. FLECK.

Witnesses:

JOHN S. GRAHAM, JOHN L. KENNEDY. 1

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