Pick-up device

Claim 1

A PICK-UP DEVICE COMPRISING AN ELONGATED SHANK HAVING A HANDLE AT ONE END THEREOF AND A SPICATE IMPALER AT THE OTHER END THEREOF, SAID IMPALER HAVING A TAPERED FREE END PORTION WITH A GENERALLY SLOPING SURFACE WHICH TERMINATES IN A POINTED END, GUIDE MEANS ATTACHED TO SAID ELONGATED SHANK INTERMEDIATE SAID HANDLE AND SAID SPICATE IMPALER, A PULL-ROD MOUNTED IN AND GUIDED BY SAID GUIDE MEANS, SAID PULL-ROD HAVING A HANDLE AT ONE END THEREOF ADJACENT SAID HANDLE OF SAID SHANK AND COACTING THEREWITH TO PERMIT MANUAL MANIPULATION OF SAID PULL-ROD, A FINGER INCLUDING AN ARCUATE PORTION AND A TERMINAL PORTION, SAID FINGER PIVOTALLY MOUNTED ON SAID SHANK ADJACENT SAID SPICATE IMPALER, SPRING MEANS FOR BIASING SAID FINGER INTO A NORMALLY OPEN POSITION AWAY FROM SAID SLOPING SURFACE OF SAID IMPALER, MEANS FOR COUPLING SAID PULL-ROD TO SAID FINGER, SAID TERMINAL PORTION EXTENDING ALONG AND SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO SAID SLOPING SURFACE OF SAID IMPALER, BEING ADAPTED TO CONTACT SAID SLOPING SURFACE ALONG THE LENGTH OF SAID TERMINAL PORTION WHEN SAID FINGER IS IN THE NORMALLY CLOSED POSITION AND TERMINATING COEXTENSIVELY WITH THE SHARP POINTED END OF SAID IMPALER WHEREBY THIN OBJECTES SUCH AS SCRAPS OF PAPER AND THE LIKE ARE CAPABLE OF BEING PICKED UP WHEN THE TERMINAL PORTION OF THE FINGER AND THE STRAP POINTED END OF THE IMPALER ARE IN CONTACT.