Patent ID: 7011278
Filing Date: 2006-03-14
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. A portable holder for lawn bags for facilitating raking or sweeping of leaves and debris into open mouths of lawn bags, said holder comprising: a large bell-shaped loop frame; a pole, having first and second ends, being positioned near the same plane as the large bell-shaped loop frame, and being attached at the first end to the large bell-shaped loop frame; a small curved frame, being positioned near the same plane as the large bell-shaped loop frame; a sliding mount attached to the small curved frame and surrounding the pole, but not attached to the pole; a compression spring coiled around the first end of the pole that is attached to the large bell-shaped loop frame, the spring in an extended position, urging the sliding mount and small curved frame away from the large bell-shaped loop frame; a fixed-position lower handle connected generally perpendicular to the pole; a sliding upper handle connected to the sliding mount generally perpendicular to the pole, parallel to the fixed-position lower handle, located near an end of the pole that is opposite from the large bell-shaped loop frame, said sliding handle, when moved toward the fixed-position handle, compressing the spring and thereby moving the small curved frame closer to the large bell-shaped loop frame.