Extensible and retractible implement handle

Claim 1

AN ADJUSTABLE IMPLEMENT HANDLE COMPRISING AN ELONGATED TUBE PROVIDING, WHEN IN USE, AN INWARDLY DISPOSED HANDLE SECTION, THE OUTWARDLY DISPOSED END OF SAID TUBE BEING EXTERNALLY SCREW-THREADED AND BEING CUT ACROSS ON AN ANGULAR SLANT AND THUS PROVIDING A MITERED TERMINAL END, A COMPLEMENTAL ELONGATED TUBE AXILLY ALIGNED WITH SAID FIRST-NAMED TUBE AND OF A LESSER CROSS-SECTION THAN SAID FIRST-NAMED TUBE AND CONSITUTING AN OUTWARDLY HELD HANDLE SECTION AND HAVING A NON-THREADED END PORTION FITTING TELESCOPINGLY AND SLIDINGLY INTO THE BORE OF THE FIRST-NAMED TUBE, AND BUSHING SPLIT LENGTHWISE AND THUS BEING RADIALLY EXPANSIBLE AND CONTRACTIBLE, THE END OF SAID BUSHING ADJACENT TO THE MITERED TERMINAL END OF SAID FIRST-NAMED TUBE BEING MITERED AND BEING IN ABUTTING RELATION WITH SAID MITERED TERMINAL END, THE OPPOSITE OUTWARDLY DISPOSED END OF SAID BUSHING BEING BEVELED, AND A COUPLING SLEEVE EMBRACING COACTING PORTIONS OF BOTH OF SAID TUBES AND BEING INTERNALLY SCREW-THREADED AT AN INWARDLY DISPOSED END AND ADJUSTABLY SCREWED ON THE SCREWTHREADED END OF SAID FIRST-NAMED TUBE, A PORTION OF SAID SLEEVE SNUGLY EMBRACING AND COVERING SAID BUSHING, THE OUTER END OF THE SLEEVE BEING PROVIDED WITH AN INTERIOR