Patent ID: 8689533

Claim:
An attachment for a lawn rake, the lawn rake (i) having a tine structure with an upper end connected to a rake handle and a lower end including a number of raking tines which are spaced apart side-by-side along a raking line, the raking tines each including a root portion and a distal portion, each root portion lying in a first plane and each distal portion extending at an angle to the first plane, and (ii) being operable in a rake operating position in which the rake handle extends at an acute angle to a surface being raked in a raking direction and in which the distal portion of each raking tine extends downwardly toward the surface being raked and terminates at a position below the first plane, the attachment including: (a) a connector arrangement operable to provide a connection between the attachment and the lawn rake to hold the attachment in a connected position relative to the lawn rake; and (b) a capture structure defining a rear boundary of a raked debris containment volume, the capture structure being connected to the connector arrangement such that when the attachment is in the connected position relative to the lawn rake and the lawn rake is in the rake operating position with the rake handle at 45 degrees to the surface being raked, (i) the capture structure is located entirely above the first plane with a lower edge of the capture structure closest to the raking tines located at approximately the level of the distal ends of the raking tines, and (ii) both an upper edge of the capture structure and the lower edge of the capture structure closest to the raking tines are separated a respective effective distance in a rake trailing direction from a rearmost part of the tine structure, the rake trailing direction being opposite to the raking direction and the rearmost part of the tine structure being that part of the tine structure that extends furthest from the rake handle in the rake trailing direction.