Patent Application
20190082581
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The disclosure and prior art relates to lawn care devices and more particularly pertains to a new lawn care device for raking, receiving and moving leaves.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a blade that has a scalloped edge. The scalloped edge is configured to be used to rake leaves and receive the leaves on the blade. The blade comprises a front side, a back side, a top edge, a bottom edge, a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge. The front side is concavely arcuate from the bottom edge to the top edge. The bottom edge comprises a serrated edge that includes a plurality of alternating concave indentations and points. The indentations extend inwardly from the front edge a distance greater than 1.5 inches. A plurality of ridges is attached to the front side and extends outwardly therefrom. A handle is attached to the blade and extends upwardly therefrom.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A plurality of ridges 34 is attached to the front side 16 and extends outwardly therefrom. Each of the ridges 34 is orientated parallel to each other and is orientated perpendicular to the top edge 20. Each of the ridges 34 is adjoined to and extends from one of the points 32 and toward the top edge 20. Each of the ridges 34 has its greatest height in a central area of the front side 16 and decreasing in height as the ridges 34 extend in opposite directions from the central area and toward each of top edge 20 and the points 32. Each of the ridges 34 is spaced apart from each other a distance of between 1.0 inches and 4.0 inches.
A peripheral wall 36 is attached to and is coextensive with the top edge 20, the first lateral edge 24 and the second lateral edge 26. The peripheral wall 36 extends forward from the front side 16.
A handle 38 is attached to the blade 12 and extends upwardly therefrom. The handle 38 includes a shaft 40 that has a first end attached to the blade 12 adjacent to the top edge 20 and a grip that is attached to the shaft 40 distal to the blade 12. The shaft 40 may comprise of a rigid material such as wood or metal, but may be any rigid material.
In use, the handle 38 is used conventionally to direct the blade 12. The user positions the blade 12 over a ground surface with the points 32 directed towards the ground surface. The user then engages the points 32 with the ground surface and drags the points 32 along the ground surface gathering any leaves thereon. The user can use the bottom edge 22 to use the assembly as a shovel to gather the leaves onto the front side 16. Once positioned on the front side 16 a user my dispose of the leaves into a trash bag or other means of removing the leaves from the lawn.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
