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A garden tool that includes a rake and a shovel rake for picking up and placing fallen leaves, twigs, branches, grass clippings, and other debris into a transport container such as a wheelbarrow, garbage bag, or trash can. The rake has prongs pointing in two directions so that the rake can gather le

A garden tool that includes a rake and a shovel rake for picking up and placing fallen leaves, twigs, branches, grass clippings, and other debris into a transport container such as a wheelbarrow, garbage bag, or trash can. The rake has prongs pointing in two directions so that the rake can gather leaves when in a raking position, but can also hold leaves against the shovel rake when in a placement or transport position. The prongs can each be carried on individual tines of the rake or can be carried in pairs, one prong facing in each direction. The handle of the shovel rake pivots on the handle of the rake so that it rests on top of the handle when the rake is used to collect leaves. After debris is gathered, the user places the shovel rake on one side of the leaves to be moved, swings the rake to the far side of the leaves to be moved, lowers the rake, and draws the rake toward the shovel rake. The user then picks up the shovel rake, the leaves being held in place by the rake as gravity acts on the rake. The handles of the rake and shovel rake are shaped so that they form a substantially circular handle over the contacting portions of their handles.

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[ I claim:] [1.] A garden tool comprising:a shovel rake including a shovel rake handle mounted substantially at a first end of the shovel rake handle to a rake handle of a rake by a pivot connection so that the shovel rake handle can be swung from an initial position in which substantially the entir

[ I claim:] [1.] A garden tool comprising:a shovel rake including a shovel rake handle mounted substantially at a first end of the shovel rake handle to a rake handle of a rake by a pivot connection so that the shovel rake handle can be swung from an initial position in which substantially the entire shovel rake handle is adjacent one side of the rake handle to an open position in which most of the shovel rake handle is spaced apart from the rake handle a magnitude of an angle between the shovel rake handle in the initial position and the shovel rake handle in the open position being limited only by the pivot connection, the shovel rake handle, the rake handle, and a user's ability to move the shovel rake handle from the initial position;the shovel rake being arranged to rest on a top of the rake handle when the garden tool is in a debris-gathering position, the top of the rake handle being the one side of the rake handle and the debris-gathering position being a position in which raking prongs of the rake projecting from a rake head of the rake are pointed substantially at a surface to be raked and away from the shovel rake so that the shovel rake is substantially entirely on an opposite side of the rake handle from the surface to be raked; andthe shovel rake also being arranged and mounted on the handle so that a shovel rake head of the shovel rake can be moved away from a rake head of the rake and used in conjunction with the rake to pick up gathered debris when the shovel rake handle is moved out of the initial position.