Patent ID: 8066080
Filing Date: 2011-11-29
Classification: A01B

Abstract:
1. A shovel device for removing edging debris for an edge portion of a lawn, the shovel device comprising: a) a scoop region having a base region, a first longitudinal end, a second longitudinal end, a first transverse side and a second transverse side, the base region further having a lower surface and an opposing upper surface, b) a support portion coupled to the upper surface of the base region, c) a handle attached to the support portion, d) a substantially vertical back plate orthogonal to the first transverse side of the base region, the back plate connected to the base region at the first longitudinal end of the base region, a forward surface of the substantially vertical back plate also attached to the support portion, e) a transverse blade at the second longitudinal end of the base region, f) a vertical sidewall, substantially as tall in the vertical direction as the vertical back plate, having a first side connected to the first transverse side of the base region and having a second side adjacent to the first side connected to the back plate the vertical sidewall further having an outer surface, g) wherein the second transverse side of the base region does not comprise a sidewall, h) the vertical sidewall having a third side opposite the second side forming a vertical blade operatively configured to position on the edge of a lawn and removing edging debris therefrom where the second transverse side of the scoop region defines an open region for allowing portions of the lawn to extend thereout, i) whereas the base region, the back plate and the vertical side wall define a sod holding chamber configured to maintain a cut portion of the lawn therein after edging the portion of the lawn where the lower surface of the base region and the outer surface of the vertical sidewall arrange to meet at a corner juncture without protrusions extending from either the lower surface or the outer surface that would inhibit collecting and removing the cut portion of the lawn j) whereas the removed cut portion of the lawn may be removed from the base region by a transverse tilting of the shovel device as there is no sidewall on the second transverse side.