Patent ID: 8292338

Claim:
An apparatus operable by movement of a hand, comprising: a dowel with at least one removable dowel fastener; a rigid plastic outer scoop with an outer front wall extending from an outer base wall; an inner rigid plastic scoop with an inner front wall extending from an inner base wall, said inner scoop being pivotally connected to the outer scoop about the dowel; an outer base wall handle secured to the outer base wall; and an inner base wall handle secured to the inner base wall; wherein the inner scoop and the outer scoop form an overlapping jaw for picking up an object held in an inner space of the apparatus in a closed position and the inner scoop and the outer scoop open away from each other about the dowel as the apparatus moves from the closed position to an open position; wherein an interior enclosure space is defined by the rigid plastic outer scoop and the inner rigid plastic scoop in the closed position in which the inner front wall is held substantially within said interior enclosure; and wherein movement of the outer base wall handle and the inner base wall handle relative to each other are controlled by opposition of a thumb and at least one finger of the hand such that the thumb and the at least one finger of the hand exert force on the inner rigid plastic scoop and the rigid plastic outer scoop toward each other as the apparatus moves from the open position to the closed position and the thumb and the at least one finger of the hand exert force on the outer base wall handle and the inner base wall handle as the apparatus moves from the closed position to the open position.