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A POWERED MATERIAL MOVER UNIT COMPRISING A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL PLATE LIKE PLATFORM HAVING A LONGITUDINAL AXIS AS SEEN IN PLAN CORRESPONDING TO THE NORMAL FORWARD DIRECTION OF USE MOVEMENT OF SAID UNIT, MEANS TO ROLLABLY SUPPORT SAID PLATFORM ABOVE A GENERAL SURFACE, SAID MEANS MOUNTED UPON AND BELOW THE REAR END OF SAID PLATFORM, A HANDLE MEMBER HORIZONTALLY SECURED TO THE PLATFORM AND ADJACENT SAID ROLLABLE SUPPORT MEANS AND RISING REARWARDLY THEREABOVE IN SWEEPING CURVES AND TERMINATING AT A CONVENIENT HAND HEIGHT OF AN OPERATOR, A HOUSING OF GENERALLY HORIZONTAL AXIS AND FRUSTO-CONICAL SHAPE DIVERGING IN A FORWARD DIRECTION AND HAVING ONE REAR FRUSTRUM PLANE PORTION WHICH IS MOUNTED VERTICALLY TO THE FORWARD END OF SAID PLATFORM AND EXTENDING BOTH ABOVE AND BELOW SAID PLATE, THE FORWARD PART OF SAID HOUSING HAVING AT ITS LOWER PORTION A PAIR OF SLANTING ARMS EXTENDING OUTWARDLY, DOWNWARDLY AND FORWARDLY AND A FORWARDLY AND DOWNWARDLY SLANTING PLANAR BASE MERGING WITH AND BETWEEN SAID PAIR OF ARMS, THE EXTREME BOTTOM OF SAID ARMS AND SAID BASE TERMINATING IN A SINGLE SLIGHTLY UPWARDLY AND FORWARDLY HORIZONTAL PLANE SO AS TO CLOSELY FIT SAID GENERAL SURFACE WHEN THE UNIT IS TILTED IN USE BY UPWARD MOVEMENT OF SAID HANDLE, A VERTICALLY DOWNWARDLY PROJECTING PLANAR SHIELD MEMBER MOUNTED ACROSS THE UPPER PORTION OF THE FORWARD PART OF SAID HOUSING, THE LOWER EDGE OF SAID SHIELD BEING CONCAVE AS VIEWED FROM BELOW AT A POINT ADJACENT A FORWARD EXTENSION OF THE AXIS OF SAID PLATFORM, THE AREAS BELOW THE SHIELD MEMBER AND BETWEEN SAID ARMS AND ABOVE SAID PLANAR BASE COLLECTIVELY FORMING A MATERIAL INLET OPENING, AND A MATERIAL EXHAUST OPENING DEFINED IN AN UPPER QUADRANT OF SAID HOUSING AS VIEWED FROM THE FRONT OF THE UNIT AND EXTENDING FROM SAID REAR FRUSTRUM PLANE TO SAID FORWARD PLANAR SHIELD OF SAID HOUSING TO DISCHARGE MATERIAL FED THERETO FROM SAID MATERIAL INLET OPENING UPON FORWARD MOVEMENT OF THE UNIT WHEN IN USE.