Manual pickup device
CA 2212880 A1 · Owner: Kaluzny, William · Inventors: Kaluzny, William
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
The present invention provides a manually operated pick-up device particularly of the type for picking up items outside of normal reach. The manual pick-up device comprises a shaft pick-up blades mounted at a, bottom end of the shaft a handle grip mounted at a top end of the shaft and actuator mounted on the handle grip. The pick-up blades are mounted at an angle to the shaft such that with the shaft angled downwards the contact edges of the blades lie in a substantially horizontal plane. Actuating the actuator causes the pick-up blades to move between an open position and a closed position causing the pick-up blades to pick up an item
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed August 12, 1997. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 12, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 12, 2019.
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Sources & verification
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