Patent ID: 7624521

Claim:
An improved snowthrower of the type having a chute rotatable about a substantially vertical axis for directing a snow stream being thrown by the snowthrower, a handle assembly comprising a pair of upwardly and rearwardly extending, laterally spaced handle tubes, and a control on the snowthrower for operating the chute, wherein the improvement relates to the control which comprises: (a) a slidable hand grip carried on one of the handle tubes of the snowthrower for sliding upwardly and downwardly along a portion of the length of the one handle tube, wherein the slidable handle grip has a passageway through which the one handle tube passes with the passageway substantially encircling the handle tube on all sides of the handle tube such that the slidable hand grip slides up and down around the one handle tube; and (b) at least one flexible connection member coupling the hand grip to the chute for rotating the chute in opposite directions when the hand grip is slid up and down, respectively, on the one handle tube wherein the flexible connection member has a portion carried on the handle assembly and another portion extending between the handle assembly and the chute, and wherein the portion of the flexible connection member carried on the handle assembly is carried only on the one handle tube.