E01H5/061

Rotatable plow shovel apparatus
11326315 · 2022-05-10 ·

A rotatable plow shovel apparatus for clearing a path without having to lift includes a plow blade and a shaft housing having a curved front face coupled to a back side of the plow blade. A shaft aperture extends through a top side of the shaft housing to proximal a bottom side and the back face has a plurality of adjustment apertures extending through to the shaft aperture. A handle shaft has a vertical engagement portion rotatably engaged within the shaft aperture and an angled extension portion coupled to the engagement portion. A locking pin is coupled to the engagement portion and is selectively engageable with each of the plurality of adjustment apertures of the shaft housing to lock the handle shaft in a straight position, at least one alternative left tilt position, and at least one alternative right tilt position.

SWEEPING BLADE DEVICE AND SWEEPING BLADE ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE
20230257948 · 2023-08-17 ·

There is provided a sweeping blade assembly configured to be attached to a plow blade of a vehicle for sweeping debris on a ground surface. The sweeping blade assembly comprises: a blade support securable to the vehicle, a sweeping blade device, and a blade tilting control assembly. The sweeping blade device comprises: a blade main portion mounted to the blade support and tiltable about a pivoting axis. The blade tilting control assembly comprises a protruding abutment protruding from one of the blade supports and the blade main portion and an abutment receiving aperture defined in the other one of the blade support and the blade main portion. The abutment receiving aperture is delimited by an inner peripheral wall. The protruding abutment is engageable in the abutment receiving aperture and displaceable with respect to one another upon tilting of blade main portion about the pivoting axis with the inner peripheral wall of the abutment receiving aperture limiting the tilting of blade main portion. There is also provided a sweeping blade device and a snow plow comprising the sweeping blade assembly.

PLOW ASSEMBLY
20220136191 · 2022-05-05 ·

A snow plow having a wing that is rotatably coupled to a side of a primary plow, and configured to rotate about a first axis substantially parallel to the side of the primary plow. A portion of the wing is operable to rotate about a second axis that is non-parallel to the first axis, where the portion is operable to rotate upward about the second axis relative to the ground in response to the wing encountering an obstruction. A snow plow having a receiver coupled to a surface of the primary plow and an actuator coupled to the receiver. The receiver allows the snow plow to move proximally and distally with respect to a vehicle.

SWEEPING BLADE DEVICE AND SWEEPING BLADE ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE
20220120048 · 2022-04-21 ·

A sweeping blade assembly includes a sweeping blade device and is configured to be attached to a plow blade of a vehicle for sweeping a ground surface. The assembly comprises a blade support which is securable to the plow blade and a plurality of sweeping blade devices which can be mounted to the blade support. Each sweeping blade device includes a blade main section and a wear block which can be attached to a front section of the blade main section in a lower portion thereof. The wear block(s) can optionally have at least one cut-out section(s) extending upwardly from a scraping edge of the wear block and can define at least two spaced-apart teeth in the lower portion of the wear block.

LAWN MOWER WITH PIVOTAL ROCKER ARM ASSEMBLY

An outdoor power equipment device, such as a lawn mower, includes a main chassis having first and second pivot joints, a first rocker arm having a caster wheel on a first end portion and a drive wheel on a second end portion, and a second rocker arm having a caster wheel on a first end portion and a drive wheel on a second end portion, wherein the first rocker arm and the second rocker arm are independently pivotally coupled to the respective first and second pivot joints of the main chassis at a location between the caster wheels and the drive wheels.

ATTACHMENT FOR SNOW PLOW BLADE
20230295889 · 2023-09-21 ·

A snow plow blade attachment with is fixable to a lower edge of a snow plow blade to better prevent damage to a road or driveway during, in particular those formed by gravel, plowing. The detachable snow plow blade attachment comprises a tubular member having two posts which are designed to fit through holes in the base plate of the snow plow blade, and are detachably fixed thereto.

CONVERTIBLE SNOW PLOW
20230295888 · 2023-09-21 ·

A convertible snow plow comprises a support frame having a forward end and a rearward end, the rearward end adapted to be mounted to a vehicle, a pair of plow blades hinged together along inboard ends of the blades at a hinge at the forward end of the support frame, an actuator having opposite ends, one end connected to the support frame, and a two-position linkage connected to the other end of the actuator and to at least one of the blades. When the linkage is in the first position the blades are in a straight blade configuration and the actuator is operable to position the blades in straight blade forward, straight blade left, and straight blade right positions, and when the linkage is in the second position the blades are in a V-blade configuration and the actuator is operable to position the blades in forward swept V and rearward swept V positions.

Apparatus and method of monitoring product placement within a shopping facility

Methods and apparatuses are provided for use in monitoring product placement within a shopping facility. Some embodiments provide an apparatus configured to determine product placement conditions within a shopping facility, comprising: a transceiver configured to wirelessly receive communications; a product monitoring control circuit coupled with the transceiver; a memory coupled with the control circuit and storing computer instructions that when executed by the control circuit cause the control circuit to: obtain a composite three-dimensional (3D) scan mapping corresponding to at least a select area of the shopping facility and based on a series of 3D scan data; evaluate the 3D scan mapping to identify multiple product depth distances; and identify, from the evaluation of the 3D scan mapping, when one or more of the multiple product depth distances is greater than a predefined depth distance threshold from the reference offset distance of the product support structure.

SWEEPING BLADE AND SWEEPING BLADE ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE
20220018076 · 2022-01-20 ·

There is provided a sweeping blade assembly which is configured to be attached to a plow blade of a vehicle for sweeping a ground surface and to a sweeping blade device. The assembly comprises a blade support which is securable to the plow blade and a plurality of sweeping blade devices which can be mounted to the blade support. Each sweeping blade device includes a blade main section and a wear block which can be attached to a front section of the blade main section in a lower portion thereof. The wear block(s) can optionally have at least one cut-out section(s) extending upwardly from a scraping edge of the wear block and can define at least two spaced-apart teeth in the lower portion of the wear block.

Combination snow shovel and roof rake
11225764 · 2022-01-18 ·

A snow moving tool that has a handle and a curved lower shovel portion permanently affixed to an upper shovel portion so that as snow is scooped by the lower shovel portion, it is also pushed down by the upper shovel portion so that deep snow does not simply move over the top of the lower shovel portion.