Snow shovel and pusher combination with 8 adjustable settings

Abstract

The invention provides a single improved snow shovel and pusher combination with eight adjustable settings that is capable of providing the user an opportunity to adjust it according to their need during the process of snow removal from ground or the surface to be cleaned that could be but not limited to driveways, walkways, passages, stairs, docks and decks. To select any one of the 8 settings or adjustments of this invention, the D shaped hand grip needs to be rotated 45 degrees in clock wise direction which will change its setting or locking position. These multiple settings are useful in situations when the snow is also required to be pushed simultaneously towards right or left hand side while pushing forward before lifted and thrown away by using the snow shovel mode/setting.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . The snow shovel and pusher combination with eight adjustable settings comprising:
 a D shaped hand grip;   an elongated long handle having a first end and a second end;   a blade body with a first female receptacle;   a stationary flange with a male component, also an extended part of the stationary flange is a flat circular sliding face or flange face with 8 concave recesses at equal centre to centre distance from rotational axis of the flange, each of the recess is to provide a stop or lock position for each of the settings;   a rotary flange with a second female receptacle to be used for connecting to one end of the long handle, also an extended part of the stationary flange is a flat circular sliding face or flange face with two housings formed at the same centre to centre distance as the 8 concave recesses in the stationary flange, each to take up a spring loaded steel ball;   a set of a bolt, lock nut and two plain washers to assemble the stationary and rotary flanges together with the two spring loaded balls inside the housings of rotary flange, these components when assembled together is to be defined as “rotating joint assembly”;   the second female receptacle of the rotary flange is formed with an offset angle of 22.5 degrees in relation to the rotational axis of the rotating joint assembly, this angle is defined as the “handle offset angle”;   the blade body with the first female receptacle is also formed at 22.5 degrees in relation to the face line angle of the blade to take up the male component of the stationary flange, this angle is defined as the “blade offset angle”;   the “handle offset angle” and the “blade offset angle” are required to create the eight adjustable settings of the snow shovel and pusher combination;   each 45 degree rotation of the D shaped hand grip on its rotational axis from one stop or lock position to next stop or lock position provides the operator to select one of the 8 adjustable settings of choice.   
     
     
         2 . The snow shovel and pusher combination with eight adjustable settings of  claim 1 , be used as a straight snow pusher with the D shaped hand grip parallel to the surface to be cleaned and blade body nearly vertical to the surface to be cleaned, this position is be defined as initial or start position. 
     
     
         3 . The snow shovel and pusher combination with eight adjustable settings of  claims 1 - 2 , the initial or start position be numbered as setting 1 and each consecutive clockwise rotation of 45 degree or next locking position be given numbers as 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, then each consecutive movement of 45 degrees will bring the following changes to the use of this invention:
 Position 2 will provide pushing and side shifting of snow simultaneously towards right;   Position 3 will provide pushing and relatively more side shifting of snow simultaneously towards right as compared to position 2;   Position 4 will provide pushing and relatively more side shifting of snow simultaneously towards right as compared to position 3 with some scooping action;   Position 5 will convert the pusher into shovel, at this stage the blade position will be horizontal to the surface to be cleaned and the D shaped hand grip will be parallel to the surface to be cleaned;   Position 6 will provide pushing and side shifting of snow simultaneously towards left as compared to position 5 with some scooping action;   Position 7 will provide pushing and relatively less side shifting of snow simultaneously towards left as compared to position 6;   Position 8 will provide pushing and relatively less side shifting of snow simultaneously towards left as compared to position 7.