Charles W Schlicher

US Patent:

41249151, Nov 14, 1978

Filed:

Aug 15, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/824658

Inventors:

Charles W. Schlicher - Wichita KS

Assignee:

S/V Tool Company, Inc. - Newton KS

International Classification:

A47L 106
B60S 102

US Classification:

15105

Abstract:

A hand tool especially adapted for cleaning automotive windows and windshields has a plate set in the head of a handle and provided with an ice-scraping edge. A squeegee, also set in the head, has a blade for wiping away slush and fog as well as ice broken loose by the edged plate. The rigid plate has a snap fit into the head and a lock for holding the flexible squeegee against displacement. The plate and the blade have strategic locations on the head in relation to each other such as to eliminate the need for tool turn-over or other difficult, time-consuming maneuvers during successive scraping and wiping actions across the surface being cleaned.

US Patent:

40415643, Aug 16, 1977

Filed:

Feb 23, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/660420

Inventors:

Charles W. Schlicher - Wichita KS

Assignee:

S/V Tool Company, Inc. - Newton KS

International Classification:

A46B 1708
A47L 110

US Classification:

15111

Abstract:

An extensible scraping and brushing tool for use in removing ice and snow from vehicle windows or the like has an elongate handle provided with a scraper member at one end and has a brush assembly that is telescopically received in the handle. The brush assembly is nested in the handle when the tool is to be used as a scraper or as a brush of a relatively short length or, the brush assembly may be extended from such a first position to a second position in which the brush assembly extends beyond the handle in order that the tool may be used as a brush having an extended reach. Guide structure for reciprocably shifting the brush assembly and retaining the same in connection with the handle is formed integrally as a part of the handle and brush assembly and is of a configuration providing a relatively high degree of rigidity at the point of connection between the two when the tool is in its extended condition. The brush assembly and the handle are so constructed that the complete tool may be assembled by press-fitting the components together, eliminating the need for fasteners or other special assembly procedures.