Material handling implement

Claim 1

A PICK-UP DEVICE, COMPRISING IN COMBINATION A TUBULAR HANDLE HAVING A LATERALLY ANGULATED HAND GRIP PORTION AT ONE END THEREOF AND BEING OPEN AT ITS OTHER END, A FIXED JAW PROJECTING LONGITUDINALLY FROM ONE SIDE OF SAID OPEN OTHER END OF SAID HANDLE, THE OPEN END PORTION OF SAID HANDLE BEING PROVIDED AT THE SIDE THEREOF OPPOSITE SAID FIXED JAW WITH AN ELONGATED RECESS COMMUNICATING WITH THE OPEN END OF THE HANDLE, AN APERTURED EAR PROVIDED EXTERNALLY ON SAID HANDLE AT ONE SIDE OF SAID RECESS, A MOVABLE JAW PIVOTED TO SAID EAR FOR MOVEMENT TOWARD AND AWAY FROM SAID FIXED JAW, AN EXTENSION PROVIDED ON SAID MOVABLE JAW AND PROJECTING INWARDLY THROUGH SAID RECESS INTO SAID OPEN END PORTION OF THE HANDLE, A TENSION SPRING DISPOSED BETWEEN SAID JAWS AND CONNECTED AT ONE END THEREOF TO THE FIXED JAW, THE OTHER END OF SAID SPRING BEING CONNECTED TO SAID EXTENSION OF THE MOVABLE JAW WHEREBY TO BIAS THE MOVABLE JAW AWAY FROM THE FIXED JAW, A DEPRESSIBLE TRIGGER MOVABLY MOUNTED IN AND PROJECTING OUTWARDLY FROM SAID HAND GRIP PORTION, AND A LINK EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY AND WHOLLY CONTAINED IN SAID HANDLE, ONE END OF SAID LINK BEING CONNECTED TO SAID MOVABLE JAW EXTENSION AND THE OTHER END THEREOF BEING CONNECTED TO SAID TRIGGER, WHEREBY THE MOVABLE JAW MAY BE MOVED TOWARD THE FIXED JAW AGAINST THE ACTION OF SAID SPRING WHEN THE TRIGGER IS DEPRESSED.