Patent ID: 6902216

Claim:
A supplementary stretcher for laying carpet comprising: a flat head having a plurality of tines on the underside protected by a cap thereon and a lug on the rear end including a pair of aligned through holes and a pair of aligned screw holes wherein said aligned through holes each having a steel ball and a first spring disposed therein secured by a bolt; a hollow interior handle having an upper portion and a lower portion secured to the upper portion by a plurality of screws, said handle having a pair of pivotal holes and a pair of positioning holes spacedly formed in a downward arcuate front end respectively engaged with the screw holes and the through holes of said lug and movably secured by the pair of steel balls and a quickly applied lock which has a threaded shank screwed into the aligned screw holes of said lug and the pivotal holes of said handle and a lateral handle thereof, a groove in a top of said handle adjacent the rear end thereof, a detent means disposed in said handle under said groove having a retaining frame and a pressing plate on a top engaged within said groove, an elastic plate having one end secured to a top inner wall by a screw and another end engaged with said pressing plate; a sliding bar slidably inserted into the rear end of said handle through the retaining frame of said detent means having a plurality of serrations on underside engageable with said retaining frame and a pair of aligned through holes adjacent rear end thereof; a pushing plate connected with a soft plate on outer surface secured by a plurality of screws and having an inverse U-shaped member centrally formed on inner side including a pair of aligned screw holes in lateral walls engaged with the aligned through holes of said sliding bar and pivotally secured by a screw with a spring engaged therebetween.