Patent ID: 7740231
Filing Date: 2010-06-22
Classification: A47G

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for installing carpeting, said apparatus comprising: (a) a substantially flat member having a predetermined shape and formed of a predetermined material; (b) a plurality of teeth disposed on an underside of said substantially flat member, said plurality of teeth for biting into carpeting during stretching of such carpeting; (c) a handle member attached at one end thereof to a first predetermined portion of said substantially flat member; (d) an elongated power transmission means engageable on a first end with a second predetermined portion of said substantially flat member at substantially a midpoint thereon for causing said apparatus to stretch such carpeting; (e) a connecting means engageable with said handle member on a first end thereof and with said elongated power transmission means on a second end thereof for causing said power transmission means to force said apparatus to stretch such carpeting when said handle member is cranked; and (f) an attachment means engageable on a first end thereof with a second end of said elongated power transmission means and at a second end thereof with one of carpeting, such carpeting disposed on one of concrete and wood for assisting in stretching such carpeting when said apparatus is in use, said attachment means having a bent tube with a spade member disposed on a second end thereof for engagement with a vertex of a previously carpeted stair between a riser portion and a flat stair portion for securing said spade member against such vertex.