Gutter Scrapers
Gutter Scrapers is an object of this invention is to provide an ef ficient and inexpensive scraper for use in clean. ing the side walls of gutters of cattle, barns, ant the like. These gutters are located at the real of the cow stalls and have flat bottoms and parallel vertical walls. It is comparatively easy tc clean the bottom of the gutter with a shovel, bu it is not so easy to clean the side walls of the gutter. The result is that a hard deposit accumulates on the side walls of the gutter which is difficult to remove. The statutory requirements are making it more and more imperative to more thoroughly clean all parts of the cow stall. This invention is provided to overcome this difficulty. This and other objects, as will hereinafter appear, are accomplished by this invention which is fully described in the following specification.
In use the scraper is placed in the gutter to be cleaned and the side scrapers adjusted by means of wing nuts 21 so as to substantially fit in the gutter as illustrated, the scraper resting upon the bottom of the gutter. The operator then grasps the handle 16 and moves the scraper forward and backward thereby breaking loose from the sides of the gutter any accumulated matter and thoroughly cleaning these sides.
These are preferably provided at their side edges with fingers 223. The member 214 has a Ushaped member 226 secured thereto as by means of rivets or spot-welding. Rods 227, 228 pass through openings in opposite sides of the member 226 so as to be guided therein and are hingedly connected at their outer ends to ears 228, 230 c5 respectively which are carried by the lateral members 217, 218. The rod 227 is threaded and has a nut 231 screwed therein so as to serve as a stop to limit the outward movement of its member 217. A spring 232 presses against the nut 231 and urges it toward its outermost position in contact with the member 226. The rod 228 is similarly provided with a nut and spring.
Disadvantages
- A gutter scraping device comprising a central body member of a less length than the space between the gutter walls, means supporting said body in scraping contact with the bottom of said gutter and at substantially right angles to the side walls thereof, including a rigid, elongated handle, and relatively rigid side wall scraping elements adjustably mounted on opposite sides of said central member to engage the opposite side walls of said gutter.
- A scraping device for the spaced side walls of an open top gutter comprising a substantially rigid central member having a non-yielding scraping edge adapted to rest upon the bottom of the gutter, an elongated handle rigidly secured to said central member at an acute angle so as to extend above the gutter walls while supporting the central member in a substantially vertical plane between said walls, and said central member having a relatively yieldable side wall scraping portion adjustably connected to said central member to extend in substantially the plane of the supporting edge thereof and engage the opposite side walls of the gutter. 3. A gutter scraping tool comprising an elongated rigid handle, a substantially rectangular center plate having an elongated scraping edge, said plate being rigidly connected to one end of said handle so as to extend at an acute angle thereto when supported thereby on said edge in a vertical position on the bottom of said gutter, and other scraper plates adjustably connected to opposite side edge portions of said center plate, said other scraper plates having relatively yieldable outer scraping edge portions supported in substantially the plane of the lower supporting edge portion of said central plate and in engagement with the opposite side walls of the gutter.
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