Pick-up device

Abstract

A pick-up device for picking up debris or other objects that includes a base to which an operating handle is attached by way of a swivel. A supply of sticky elements is releasably held to the base by retaining structure. The supply includes a plurality of tacky sheets arranged in a stack that are attached to a backing member. The structure for holding the supply to the base may comprise retainers and tabs, pins frictionally engaged in corresponding apertures, hook and loop elements or clips forming part of the base. The tablet-like supply includes an outermost sheet having a tacky surface to which debris or objects are held. An exhausted sheet is peeled from the stack to expose the tacky surface of an adjacent sheet.

1 . A pick-up device comprising:
 a) a base;   b) a supply of sticky elements removably connected to said base;   c) said supply including a backing member releasably engaged by said base and said sticky elements comprising a stack of sheets, each sheet having at least one sticky surface.   
   
   
       2 . The pick-up device of  claim 1  wherein said base is substantially rigid and includes a planar surface that abuts said backing member of said supply. 
   
   
       3 . The pick-up device of  claim 2  wherein said base and backing member are rectangular in shape. 
   
   
       4 . The pick-up device of  claim 1  further comprising an operating handle operatively connected to said base. 
   
   
       5 . The pick-up device of  claim 1  wherein said supplies arranged as a tablet wherein an exhausted outermost sheet is peeled from the stack to expose the sticky surface of an adjacent sheet. 
   
   
       6 . The pick-up device of  claim 1  further including retainers forming part of said base that are engageable with tabs defined by said supply. 
   
   
       7 . The pick-up device of  claim 1  wherein said supply is removably attached to said base by hook and loop elements. 
   
   
       8 . The pick-up device of  claim 1  wherein said backing member is removably attached to said base by pins forming part of said hook or said supply that are frictionally received in apertures in the other of said base and supply. 
   
   
       9 . The pick-up device of  claim 1  wherein said supply is removably connected to said base by clips forming part of said base. 
   
   
       10 . A supply of sticky elements for use with a pick-up device that includes a base, the supply comprising:
 a) backing member that is removably engageable with said base;   b) a plurality of stacked sheet-like sticky elements, each of said elements including at least one sticky surface, each of said sticky elements removable from said stack to expose a fresh adhesive surface of an adjacent sticky element.   
   
   
       11 . The pick-up device of  claim 10  wherein said adhesive surface of said sticky element is planar and is co-planar with a surface defined by said base against which said backing member abuts. 
   
   
       12 . The apparatus of  claim 10  wherein said supply of sheet-like sticky element is rectangular in shape. 
   
   
       13 . A pick-up device comprising:
 a) a base having at least one substantially planar surface;   b) an operating handle attached to said base by which said pick-up device is manipulated;   c) a tablet-like supply of tacky sheets releasably connected to said base, said supply including a plurality of sheets having at least one tacky surface that are arranged in a stack such that a tacky surface of an outermost sheet is exposed by which objects are held to the sheet, said outermost sheet being peelable from said stack to expose a tacky surface of an adjacent sheet.   
   
   
       14 . The pick-up device of  claim 13  wherein said supply includes a backing member to which said stack of adhesive sheets are attached, said backing member including a structure releasably engageable by said base. 
   
   
       15 . The pick-up device of  claim 14  wherein said structure comprises retainers on said base and tabs on said backing member. 
   
   
       16 . The pick-up device of  claim 14  wherein said structure comprises hook and loop elements. 
   
   
       17 . The pick-up device of  claim 14  wherein said structure comprises pins frictionally received in associated apertures. 
   
   
       18 . The pick-up device of  claim 14  wherein said structure comprises clips formed on said base for gripping said backing member.