Collapsible manipulating handle for floor treating machine

Claim 1

A HANDLE STRUCTURE FOR AN ELECTRICALLY OPERATED FLOOR TREATING MACHING OF THE TYPE HAVING A HOUSING MOVABLE OVER A FLOOR SURFACE, SAID HANDLE STRUCTURE COMPRISING TWO ROD-LIKE ELEMENTS PIVOTALLY CONNECTED, AT ONE END, TO OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE HOUSING, AN OPERATING HANDLE SECURED TO THE OTHER ENDS OF SAID ROD-LIKE ELEMENTS FOR USE IN MANIPULATING THE MACHING DURING ITS OPERATION, EACH OF SAID ROD-LIKE ELEMENTS HAVING FIRST AND SECONF ELONGATED PORTIONS OF APPROXIMATELY EQUAL LENGTH EXTENDING FROM SAID HOUSING AND FROM SAID OPERATING HANDLE, RESPECTIVELY, AND JOINT MEANS PIVOTALLY CONNECTING THE ENDS OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND PORTIONS OF EACH ELEMENT WHICH ARE REMOTE FROM SAID HOUSING AND OPERATING HANDLE, RESPECTIVELY, SO THAT SAID SECOND PORTIONS OT THE TWO ROD-LIKE ELEMENTS CAN SWING AS A UNIT ABOUT A LATERAL AXIS RELATIVE TO SAID FIRST PORTIONS BETWEEN AN EXTENDED OPERATIVE POSITION AND A FOLDED POSITION, SAID JOINT MEANS INCLUDING A TUBULAR MEMBER COAXIAL WITH SAID LATERAL AND EXTENDING BETWEEN THE TWO ROD-LIKE ELEMENTS AT THE PIVOTALLY CONNECTED ENDS OF SAID ELONGATED PORTIONS OF THE LATTER TO FORM A CARRY HANDLE FOR THE MACHINE WHEN SAID SECOND PORTIONS ARE IN SAID FOLDED POSITION, SAID PIVOTALLY CONNECTED ENDS OF SAID PORTIONS OF THE ROD-LIKE ELEMENTS HAVING END PIECES THEREON WITH THE END PIECES OF SAID SECOND PORTIONS BEING LATERALLY INSIDE THE END PIECES OF SAID FIRST PORTIONS, SAID END PIECES OF THE SECOND PORTIONS BEING AXIALLY MOVABLE ON THE ENDS OF SAID TUBULAR MEMBER CONSTITUTING A CARRYING HANDLE, SAID JOINT MEANS INCLUDING A SPACER BOLT EXTENDING AXIALLY THROUGH SAID TUBULAR MEMBER AND SAID END PIECES OF THE SECOND PORTIONS AND MEANS SECURING SAID END PIECES OF THE FIRST PORTIONS TO THE ENDS OF SAID SPACER BOLT, SAID END PIECES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND PORTIONS HAVING CONFRONTING SURFACES FORMED WITH SIMLARLY SHAPED RECESSES AND PROJECTIONS ENGAGEABLE WITH EACH OTHER TO RETAIN SAID SECOND PORTIONS IN SAID EXTENDED OPERATIVE POSITION RELATIVE TO SAID FIRST PORTIONS, AND SAID RECESSES AND PROJECTIONS BEING DISENGAGERABLE FROM EACH OTHER TO PERMIT SWINGING OF SAID SECOND PORTIONS TO SAID FOLDED POSITION BY AXIAL MOVEMENT OF SAID END PIECES OF THE SECOND PORTIONS INWARD TOWARD EACH OTHER.