Adjustable scraper tool

Claim 1

An adjustable scraping and sanding tool including a housing, an adjustable handle operatively connected thereto and a pad releasably attached to the housing, the housing having a bottom wall about the periphery of the housing, the wall sized for releasably receiving a painting or a sanding pad, the housing having a generally prismatoidal configuration and a substantially centrally positioned undercut, the housing including a handle shaft substantially within the centrally positioned undercut but being exposed for reception of the handle, the handle shaft including a retaining pad having a diameter greater than the diameter of the shaft, the handle shaft further including a thumbwheel with an internally threaded opening, the handle shaft having a threaded portion along its length, spaced from the retaining pad to threadedly engage the thumbwheel, whereby the thumbwheel is rotatable on the shaft toward and away from the retaining pad in order to compressively retain the handle, the thumbwheel being substantially within the undercut but exposed therefrom, the handle including a shaft through-hole for rotatable reception of the shaft between the retaining pad and the thumbwheel, at least one locking protrusion on one of the retaining pad and the handle and a plurality of grooves in the other for mating reception of the retaining pad and the handle, the handle further having a receiving slot for close reception of a scraper, a scraper closely received in the receiving slot, the pad including a clip-on support member so that the pad may be releasably attached to the bottom walls of the housing whereby the angle of the handle of the tool may be manually adjusted relative to the housing with one hand by rotating the thumbwheel away from the retaining pad until the protrusion no longer engages a groove, angularly moving the handle relative to the housing and then rotating the thumbwheel so that it moves toward the retaining pad thus causing the protrusion to move into one of the grooves.