Patent ID: 6568729
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: A01B

Abstract:
A fiber shovel for shoveling fibrous material, said fiber shovel comprising:an elongated handle having a handgrip end and a scoop end; a scoop assembly comprising a scoop formed of a sheet of metal; an attaching member at a back end of the scoop for attaching the scoop assembly to the scoop end of said elongated handle; said scoop assembly further including a plurality of elongated pointed members attached to a forward end of said scoop, opposite said back end of said scoop, said pointed members including V-shaped teeth formed in said sheet metal of said scoop, each of said V-shaped teeth having side edges extending at angles greater than 50Â° to a plane perpendicular to the elongated handle, with side edges adjacent to other V-shaped teeth intersecting the side edges of the other adjacent V-shaped teeth forming V-shaped troughs between the V-shaped teeth; wherein a length of each pointed member from its outer tip to the adjacent troughs of its V-shaped tooth is at least 5 inches; and wherein the length of each pointed member is not less than 30% nor not more than 67% of the total length of the scoop assembly in the direction of the elongated handle; wherein each V-shaped tooth includes a crimp in the sheet metal thereof; wherein the crimps are V-shaped with the points of the crimped Vs being aligned with, and directed in the same direction as, the outer tips of the V-shaped teeth; wherein there are at least four elongated pointed members; and wherein each elongated pointed member includes a tine extending outwardly from an outer tip of the V-shaped tooth.