Patent Application
20240044159
The disclosure relates to tile removal devices and more particularly pertains to a new tile removal device for removing tiles from a hard floor surface. The device includes a handle and a head that is attached to the handle. The head has a claw portion and a chisel portion extending away from the handle in opposite directions with respect to each other. The claw portion has a thickness that is sufficiently thin to facilitate the claw portion to flex and the chisel portion has a thickness that is sufficiently thick to inhibit the chisel portion from flexing.
The prior art relates to tile removal devices including a tile removal tool that has an elongate handle, a grip oriented at an angle with the elongate handle and a pair of claws being spaced from the elongate handle. The prior art discloses a fireman's axe with has a spike oriented perpendicular to a handle and a claw which curves toward the handle. The prior art discloses a fireman's tool which includes a striking surface and a cutting edge. The prior art discloses a multipurpose tool that includes a prying plate disposed on a first end of a handle and a head disposed on a second end of the handle which includes a claw extending laterally away from the head and a pick oriented collinear with the head. The prior art discloses a demolition tool that includes a prying element disposed on a first end of a handle and a head disposed on a second end of the handle. The head includes a striking surface and a pair of jaws. The prior art discloses an ornamental design for a hammer that combines a claw hammer and a crow bar.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a tool that has a handle and a head attached to the handle. The head has a claw portion extending laterally away from the handle and a chisel portion extending laterally away from the handle in an opposite direction from the claw portion. The claw portion has a thickness that is sufficiently thin to facilitate the claw portion to flex when the head is swung toward a tile is bonded to a hard floor surface. In this way the claw portion can travel between the tile and the hard floor surface to facilitate a user to drive the claw portion beneath the tile without requiring the user to swing the tool with a high degree of accuracy. The chisel portion has a thickness that is sufficiently thick to inhibit the chisel portion from flexing thereby facilitating the chisel portion to pry a fixed object.
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
As best illustrated in
The handle 14 has an upper end 28, a lower end 30 and an outer surface 32 extending between the upper end 28 and the lower end 30, and the handle 14 is elongated between the upper end 28 and the lower end 30. The outer surface 32 has a bulbous portion 34 curving outwardly from an axis extending between the upper end 28 and the lower end 30, and the bulbous portion 34 is spaced from the upper end 28. The outer surface 32 gradually flares outwardly between the bulbous portion 34 and the lower end 30. The handle 14 may have a length ranging between approximately 25.0 cm and 35.0 cm.
The head 16 has a top surface 36, a bottom surface 38 and an outer edge 40 extending between the top surface 36 and the bottom surface 38, and the outer edge 40 has a first lateral side 42, a second lateral side 44, a back side 46 and a front side 48. The back side 46 is associated with the claw portion 18 and the front side 48 is associated with the chisel portion 20. The head 16 has a prominence 50 extending downwardly from the bottom surface 38 and the prominence 50 is positioned closer to the front side 48 than the back side 46 of the outer edge 40. Furthermore, the prominence 50 has a distal end 52 with respect to the bottom surface 38 and the distal end 52 is flattened. Each of the first lateral side 42 and the second lateral side 44 curve outwardly at the chisel portion 20 such that the chisel portion 20 has a width that is greater than the width of the claw portion 18.
The head 16 has a well 54 extending upwardly through the distal end 52 of the prominence 50 toward the top surface 36 of the head 16. The handle 14 extends into the well 54 such the bulbous portion 34 is spaced downwardly from the distal end 52 of the prominence 50. Additionally, the bulbous portion 34 has a diameter that is greater than a diameter of the well 54 such that the bulbous portion 34 inhibits the head 16 from sliding downwardly along the handle 14. The claw portion 18 curves downwardly toward the lower end 30 of the handle 14 between the prominence 50 and the back side 46 of the outer edge 40 and the claw portion 18 reduces in thickness between the prominence 50 and the back side 46. The chisel portion 20 lies on a flattened plane between the prominence 50 and the front side 48, and the chisel portion 20 has a uniform thickness between the prominence 50 and the front side 48 of the outer edge 40.
The front side 48 of the outer edge 40 has a notch 56 extending toward the prominence 50 thereby facilitating the notch 56 to engage a nail for pulling the nail. The notch 56 is centrally positioned along the front side 48 and the notch 56 has pair of bounding edges 58 intersecting each other at a point such that the notch 56 has a triangle shape. As is most clearly shown in
In use, the handle 14 is gripped and the handle 14 is swung in a downward arc to facilitate the claw portion 18 of the head 16 to be driven beneath a tile 22 and the hard floor surface 24. Additionally, the flexibility of the claw portion 18 facilitates the claw portion 18 to flex when the claw portion 18 strikes the hard floor surface 24 thereby facilitating the claw portion 18 to pass beneath the tile 22. The handle 14 is subsequently pushed away from the tile 22 to facilitate the claw portion 18 to urge to tile 22 upwardly to dislodge the tile 22 from the hard floor surface 24. The chisel portion 20 can be driven beneath a board 60, for example, which is fastened with a nail to pry the board loose. The notch 56 in the chisel portion 20 can be positioned against a nail 62 to pry the nail 62 upwardly and remove the nail 62 from a surface in which the nail 62 had previously been driven.
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.
