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A blow molded plastic snow scoop with a wear strip automatically attached to the lip during the blow molding procedure. The wear strip has two elongated slots, at opposite ends, each extending closely adjacent the respective ends. During the blow molding procedure, ribs of plastic material are extru

A blow molded plastic snow scoop with a wear strip automatically attached to the lip during the blow molding procedure. The wear strip has two elongated slots, at opposite ends, each extending closely adjacent the respective ends. During the blow molding procedure, ribs of plastic material are extruded from the underside of the leading edge portion, through the slots, and are flattened to provide flanges engaging bottom surfaces of the wear strip alongside the slots. During the blow molding procedure, the wear strip is held by positioning pins inserted through the inner ends of the slots. When the pins are withdrawn following the molding procedure, they provide clearance cavities between the inner ends of the ribs and the slots enabling the ribs to shift inwardly along the slots with the cavities receiving the ends of the slots, to compensate for shrinkage of the plastic relative to the wear strip during cooling.

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In a snow removal device, a scoop comprising a housing made of plastic material having a bottom wall, left and right side walls, a back wall, and a lip along a leading edge portion of said bottom wall opposite said back wall; said leading edge portion being reinforced on the underside by an elongate

In a snow removal device, a scoop comprising a housing made of plastic material having a bottom wall, left and right side walls, a back wall, and a lip along a leading edge portion of said bottom wall opposite said back wall; said leading edge portion being reinforced on the underside by an elongated, ground-engaging wear strip; said wear strip having an elongated slot extending lengthwise thereof in each of the left and right end portions respectively, said slots extending along said leading edge portion of said bottom wall and having outer ends closely adjacent to the left and right ends of the wear strip, said slots having inner ends adjacent one another in the center portion of the wear strip; said wear strip being fastened to the underside of said housing by means including ribs of plastic material integral with said leading edge portion of said bottom wall extending through said slots and having widened flanges engaging bottom surfaces of the wear strip alongside the slots enabling limited inward sliding movements of the ribs lengthwise of the wear strip as the plastic material cools and contracts following a molding operation during which said ribs are extruded through said slots; and the inner ends of said ribs being spaced from the inner ends of said slots to provide recesses to receive said inner ends of the slots during said inward sliding movement of the ribs.