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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7305731 | Carpet brush for hair removal A fabric brush comprising a brush head having a top portion and a bottom portion. The bottom portion of the brush head has a plurality of projections extending downwardly therefrom. The plurality of projections comprise at least one row of aligned projections having... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7299614 | Collapsible rake A novel rake minimally consists of: at least two tine frames, each tine frame having a plurality of tines coupled thereto; a tine frame coupling for coupling to proximal ends of each of the tine frames; pivot mechanisms coupled between the tine frames and the tine f... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7131255 | Picking rake with dual handles and dual rake heads for gathering and picking material A household tool for gathering and picking material comprising two rake head and handle units arranged side by side, overlapping, or crisscrossed with both rake heads arranged in substantially the same orientation. The units are temporarily held in this position by ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7096824 | Rake for self-cleaning pet litter apparatus A rake for a cat litter box for collecting clumped litter waste material from within the cat litter box includes a support member. A plurality of tines are connected to the support member. Each of the plurality of tines includes a first section connected to and exte... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7083001 | Multipurpose, hand held, weed extracting, garden tool A handle is attached to a multipurpose gardening implement that has six narrow, parallel (in full length) tines, separated by no less than 6 mm nor more than 7 mm, on one side of the implement head and two narrow, parallel (in full length) tines, separated by no les... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6920938 | Ergonomic rocking earth hole punch An ergonomically designed earth perforating tool consisting of a rectangular top plane and a convexly bowed base from which protrudes a plurality of spikes or times. A length of strap or rope is attached to each short end of the rocking plane to assist user balance.... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6904743 | Leaf rake combo kit A device for combining two rakes to provide a combination raking and picking up apparatus comprises a pair of sleeves pivotally attached to one another. A first rake handle is secured into the first of the connected sleeves. A third sleeve is separately attached to ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6848247 | Golf bunker rake A golf bunker rake has a coupling member adapted to receive a support. First teeth are connected to the support and have substantially round first tips. Second teeth are connected to the support and have substantially round second tips. The first teeth are longer th... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6381938 | Staggered tine rake construction A staggered tine rake construction (10) including an elongated handle member (20) having a lower end (22) operatively connected to both a front (12) and rear (13) rake unit wherein both rake units (12) and (13) include rake members (30) (30') having mount... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6199357 | Reel pickup tine The invention comprises a two-piece pickup tine consisting of a clamp and wing portion removably secured to a finger portion. The clamp portion is also removably securable to any standard pickup reel bar. The tine is designed to work cooperatively with a ... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6122904 | Rake attachment for power lawnmower The combination comprises a non-riding, power lawnmower having a housing mounted on fourwheels and a front mounted rake attachment for attachment to one of the opposite side walls of the housing for sweeping, scraping and thatching the area in the forward... | 09/26/2000 |
| 5927058 | Rake having a gripping mechanism A rake includes a sleeve, a rod rotatably engaged in the sleeve, two tine heads secured to the sleeve and the rod for allowing the tine heads to be rotated relative to each other. A ratchet device may drive the rod relative to the sleeve unidirectionally ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5758480 | Farming and gardening tools with two sets of tines A tool comprising a tubular head having closed ends with an axially enlarge central extend and with an enlarged annular central region with a fixed abutment surface, a plurality of radially extending male threads formed in the head adjacent to the abutmen... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5713193 | Self-cleaning rake A self-cleaning rake consists of a handle, a grip, a spring release button, and two sets of tines. The handle is made from fiberglass and consists of two telescoping pieces. One of the pieces is larger in diameter and the other piece is slidably retained ... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5564267 | Raking and pick-up tool A tool formed by a pivotal connection between a first shaft and a second shaft. One shaft has a scooping head such as a shovel or a rake head. The other shaft has a rake head with a plurality of tines having bent distal end portions extending out in a dir... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5522209 | Lawn rake and rake head An array of tines are connected to and extend out from a rake head support bar at right angles thereto and are connected thereto in two sets with shank portions of a first set of tines disposed in a first plane and shank portions of a second set of tines ... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5511370 | Double rake An improved rake head consisting of multiple tines attached to a rake support member with each tine having two prongs. When the tines of the rake are flexed during use, both prongs on each tine make firm contact with the ground. The firm contact of each p... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5509259 | Lawn debris rake and collection device An array of tines are carried by a frame assembly so that the tines of the tine array are spaced one from the other across the assembly and so that ends of alternate tines form two rows of tine ends. The frame assembly is made of hollow pipe rods connecte... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5437146 | Fruit stripping rakes An apparatus for harvesting olives and like fruit, including the use of opposing rake members on extended supports. The rake members, which include extending tines, are arranged and powered to oscillate during the harvesting process. The opposing and osci... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5357739 | Roller rake apparatus A rake having a plurality of rows of spaced rake tines and a pair of weighted rollers disposed in an operational relationship between the rows of tines. The apparatus includes a substantially rectangular frame having rows of rake tines extending across a ... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5343684 | Rake attachment A rake attachment for cleaning the tines of a hand rake includes a header and a plurality of tines connected thereto. The tines are substantially rigid and are adapted to engage the tines of the rake and clean accumulated leaves and debris therefrom. A pl... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5311733 | Combination golf ball retriever and trap rake A golf ball retriever which can also be used as a trap rake. A head mounted upon an extendible handle includes a plurality of elongated spaced tines extending from pivoted arms. The arms are pivotal between a folded storage position and an extended open o... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5249413 | Rake apparatus The invention comprises a rake apparatus having a handle with three rake heads. The first rake head is fixed to one end of the handle. The second rake head is pivotally mounted to the first rake head, and the third rake head is pivotally mounted to the se... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5177946 | Rake A rake having multiple rows of tines in alternating rows alternate in a lateral position and are spaced from each other sidewise. In a preferred embodiment, the rows of tines are so spaced that the tines of one row are individually offset with respect to ... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5142855 | Push or pull leaf rake Disclosed is a rake for raking leaves and other debris which is operable in either a pulling or pushing mode, depending upon the rotational position of the handle. The rake head has two sets of oppositely directed tines thereon, the tines and head having ... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5133177 | Adjustable rake A rake having an adjustable width or span. The rake has two pivoting rake segments attached to an elongated handle. The rake segments are hinged to a tubular sleeve which is slidably mounted to the middle portion of the handle. The width of the rake can b... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5099638 | Tri-blade yard rake The present invention relates to a rake head for a lawn or garden having three rows (4, 5, and 6) of tines arranged in front to rear staggered fashion. The rake head includes a main frame support member (2) containing a dogleg socket (3) for attaching an ... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5058370 | Yard rake with pick-up head A pick-up head is hingedly attached to the rear side of a lawn rake making lawn work easier and more convenient. The arm attached to the pick-up head is pushed into a clamp on the rear side of the rake handle. This clamp holds the pick-up head assembly se... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5003760 | Garden tool A combination cultivator, rake and hoe having cultivator tines of uneven length parallel to one another and inclined with respect to the handle. A hoe blade, preferably with a sharpened forward edge is connected on one or both ends of the row of cultivato... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4776158 | Self-cleaning leaf rake A conventional rake includes a stripper bar on the teeth which is movable by a push rod on the handle of the rake from a raised raking position to a lowered leaf push-off position. A spring clip holds the stripper bar in the raised position and may be ass... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4744208 | Rake head The present invention relates to a rake head for a lawn or garden rake having plural rows of tines. The rake head includes a support member having a first and second edge. The rake head has a first and a second row of tines to be retained such that they h... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4667458 | Rake An improved rake is provided with a tine end section having downwardly projecting leaf-engaging tine ends and a unitary support section which connects the tine end section to a rake handle. Pile-handling bars extend from the unitary support section in the... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4596113 | Rake with pivotal tines A rake having independently pivotal tines which have eccentric portions designed so that the rake moves through the soil on edge upon displacement of the support in one direction and moves through the ground broadside upon displacement of the rake through... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4514970 | Rake attachment A rake attachment for combining two conventional rakes to be used as a pick-up rake. The attachment provides two handle clamps, which may be substantially identical, each clamp to be attached to the free end of a rake handle. One rake handle is attached t... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4432421 | Garden tool with self-cleaning earth-working elements A garden tool which allows the user to rake, cultivate, thatch, weed and aerate the soil is disclosed. The tool comprises a handle and a work head which includes a number of partially rotatable earth-working elements. One end of each element is specifical... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4406113 | Mobile lawn rake attachment A mobile lawn rake attachment advantageous for use in conjunction with conventional riding mowers or other similar towing vehicles for providing a convenient method of raking large areas of accumulated grass clippings, leaves, and other associated lawn de... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4351145 | Combo hand rake The present invention relates to a hand rake comprised of multiple rows of teeth; one fixed large set of teeth spaced wide apart and one smaller movable set of teeth which come into use in the raking path in the spaces between the large set of teeth, to a... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4318631 | Texturing broom apparatus for roadway pavements A texturing broom apparatus for surface grooving freshly laid uncured concrete pavement comprising a traveling horizontal endless conveyor belt having a texturing broom, provided with a row of straight spring steel tines projecting from a base board in sp... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4312095 | Mobile lawn rake attachment A mobile lawn rake attachment advantageous for use in conjunction with conventional riding mowers or other similar towing vehicles for providing a convenient method of raking large areas of accumulated grass clippings, leaves, and other associated lawn de... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4292794 | Rake A pick-up rake having a main rake head and an auxiliary rake head movably mounted with respect to the main rake head enabling the auxiliary rake head to be moved to an upper laterally-compacted position enabling the rake to be used in conventional fashion... | 10/06/1981 |
