Timothy L Choate

US Patent:

20040049925, Mar 18, 2004

Filed:

Sep 12, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/242170

Inventors:

Sieglinde Verges - Texarkana TX, US
Timothy Choate - Texarkana TX, US

Assignee:

Electrolux Home Products, Inc. - Cleveland OH

International Classification:

B27B017/02

US Classification:

030/383000

Abstract:

A pole pruner that is lighter in weight than professional-grade pole pruners is provided, thereby making available a consumer-grade a pole pruner that is lightweight, low in cost, and easy to use. Additionally, a pole pruner according to one aspect of the present invention has a compact and contoured profile, thereby substantially preventing the pole pruner from becoming lodged or ensnared in tree limbs or other vegetation. Further, a pole pruner according to another aspect of the present invention includes a gear design that reduces noise and produces less vibration than prior pole pruners.

US Patent:

20130276260, Oct 24, 2013

Filed:

Oct 8, 2010

Appl. No.:

13/824456

Inventors:

Anna Maria Abdelgalil - Texarkana TX, US
Timothy Choate - Texarkana TX, US
Danny Sparks - New Boston TX, US
Mosheer Abdelgalil - Texarkana TX, US

Assignee:

HUSQVARNA FORESTRY PRODUCTS N.A., INC. - Charlotte NC

International Classification:

A47L 5/14

US Classification:

15345

Abstract:

Hand-held blower devices with vacuum function are provided. In this regard, a representative device includes: a housing defining an interior, an intake and an exhaust; an impeder mounted within the interior and being operative to rotate such that air is drawn into the interior through the intake and expelled from the interior through the exhaust; a locking mechanism mounted to the housing, the locking mechanism being movable between an unlocked position and a locked position; and a vacuum tube assembly having an inlet end and an outlet end and defining an air passageway between the inlet end and the outlet end, the outlet end being operative to engage the intake of the housing for the vacuum mode of operation; the locking mechanism being operative to interface with the vacuum tube assembly to retain the outlet end of the vacuum tube assembly in engagement with the intake of the housing for the vacuum mode of operation.