Patent ID: 7455196

Claim:
A combination of a manual grease gun with a support apparatus providing said manual grease gun with a pedal-mode of operation, said combination comprising: said manual grease gun, having a pumping head and a barrel and lever joined to the pumping head for cycling through pumping and restoring strokes between pumped and restored extremes wherein the restored extreme has the lever and barrel flared apart and the pumping stroke closes the flared and brings the lever and barrel alongside one another, wherein said manual grease gun is operative in a manual-mode of operation by a user who can carry the manual grease gun aloft and with two hands can cycle the barrel and lever through the pumping and restoring strokes; and said support apparatus, comprising: a base having a ground-engaging portion as well as a fixture portion that secures the grease gun's barrel close to ground with the lever thereof projecting away for pedal-style depression in a vertical plane by a foot of the user for said pumping stroke; and a lever-restoring mechanism secured to the base and releasably linked to the lever, yielding to applied force while the lever moves through said pumping stroke, and restoring the lever toward the restored extreme after release of the applied force, wherein said manual grease gun is operative in said pedal-mode of operation whereby said user pumps the lever by the foot; said fixture portion comprising a releasable clamping arrangement that clamps around the grease gun's barrel wherein the user alternately secures the manual grease gun to the base and lever-restoring mechanism for utilization in the pedal-mode of operation, or release the manual grease gun from the base and lever-restoring mechanism for utilization in the manual-mode of operation whereby the manual grease gun including the pumping head, barrel and lever thereof afford the user opportunity to carry aloft without the support apparatus and cycle the barrel and lever with the two hands through the pumping and restoring strokes.