Patent ID: 7654592

Claim:
A snow shovel apparatus comprising: a) a frame having; i) an upwardly and rearwardly extending handle; ii) an upright post extending from a front portion of the frame, said post having a lower end portion carried by the frame, an upper end portion having a slide stop, and a central portion having a lower slide, and an upper slide; and, iii) a lever having a central portion hinged to the frame, a rearwardly extending end portion, and a forwardly extending slide lift end portion, attached and configured through a slide lift connection means to lift the lower slide when the rearwardly extending end portion thereof is depressed; b) a shovel portion having a bottom snow carrying portion and an upright back portion; c) a lower shovel arm having one end portion hinged to a lower portion of the upright back portion of the shovel portion, and having the other opposite end portion hingably connected to the upper slide; d) an upper shovel portion projecting/dumping linkage, having an upper shovel arm having one end hinged to an upper portion of the upright back portion of the shovel portion and having the other end hingably connected to an upper end portion of a pivoting arm, said pivoting arm having the other end portion hingably connected to the lower slide and a central portion pivotably pinned to a central portion of the lower shovel arm; so that when the slides are lifted, the shovel portion is first lifted up the post by the lift end portion of the lever, and then when the upper slide is prevented by the slide stop from further upward sliding therealong, the lower slide continues to move upwardly therealong, causing the other ends of the lower arm and the pivoting arm to move together while generally maintained in vertical alignment, thereby causing the shovel portion to extend outwardly and turn from a snow collection to a dumping position.