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An improved snow shovel for reducing the suction of snow to shovel while still maintaining the overall strength of the shovel. The improved snow shovel has a face or blade scoop portion that has an array of vertical or longitudinally extending slots or slits that penetrate through the entire blade s

An improved snow shovel for reducing the suction of snow to shovel while still maintaining the overall strength of the shovel. The improved snow shovel has a face or blade scoop portion that has an array of vertical or longitudinally extending slots or slits that penetrate through the entire blade scoop portion of the snow shovel. The array is arranged with the slots aligned vertically in a top to bottom arrangement. The slots are disposed in a set of preferably one to two slots per set. The sets of slots are arranged in a symmetric pattern on the face of the shovel to ensure uniform distribution of the reduction of snow to the shovel and to ensure uniformity of the overall strength of the shovel. The shovel face can be flat or curved.

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1. A snow shovel comprising: Said snow shovel having a blade that has a generally rectangular shape being bounded by a left edge, a right edge, a top edge, and a bottom edge, of said bottom edge of said blade and said blade also having a front face and a rear face and has on its front face an array

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A snow shovel comprising: Said snow shovel having a blade that has a generally rectangular shape being bounded by a left edge, a right edge, a top edge, and a bottom edge, of said bottom edge of said blade and said blade also having a front face and a rear face and has on its front face an array of vertical or longitudinally extending slits penetrating through said entire blade through said front face and said rear face, said slits being arranged in an array with said slits being aligned vertically in a top to bottom arrangement and being disposed in sets of one to two slits per set;said sets of slits being arranged side to side with respect to each other along a width of said face of said shovel; said sets of slits being arranged in a symmetric pattern of said pattern of said slits of one to two slits per set contained within the boundaries of said front and rear faces so as not to extend all the way to a bottom edge of said front and rear faces of said shovel to ensure uniform distribution of the reduction of suction of snow to the shovel for releasing the snow from the front face of the blade of the shovel and to ensure uniformity of the overall strength of the shovel. 2. The snow shovel according to claim 1 wherein said symmetric pattern is arranged symmetrically with respect to a center of said front side of said shovel so that an arrangement of sets of slits on a left side of said face of said shovel is symmetrically matched on a right side of said center of said front side of said shovel to ensure uniform distribution of the reduction of suction of snow to said shovel and to ensure uniformity of an overall strength of said shovel. 3. The snow shovel according to claim 1 wherein a spacing of said slits in each of said sets is less than a spacing between said sets to ensure support for the overall strength of the shovel strength. 4. The snow shovel according to claim 1 wherein said slits have lengths that are no more than 75 percent of a length of said shovel face to ensure for an overall strength of said shovel. 5. The snow shovel according to claim 1 wherein a metal edge is provided horizontally along a bottom edge of said front side of said shovel for supporting the shovel and for cutting or breaking ice. 6. The snow shovel according to claim 1 wherein the shovel is curved so that the front side of the shovel 5 is somewhat concave in its curvature. 7. The snow shovel of claim 1 wherein the shovel front face has beveled raised areas defining recesses and each of said sets of one or more slits are located within a respective one of said recesses to provide additional support for overall shovel strength. 8. The snow shovel according to claim 1 wherein the shovel is flat so that the front face of the shovel is flat. 9. The snow shovel according to claim 1 further comprising a first handle has one end that is secured within an opening of a top portion of said shovel and a second handle, said second handle being connected or coupled to the shovel; said first handle having a pole or an elongated portion that is coupled around its perimeter by two C clamps said second pole being positioned at an angle from a longitudinal direction of said first handle's pole and being connected by another bolt going through another of the C clamps into the pole of said second handle wherein said second handle can be adjusted by loosening or tightening the bolt fastening the second handle of the C clamp to adjust the angle of the pole of said second handle and in this way adjusting the angle at which said shovel is held by a user thereby helping a user to adjust the shovel to a more comfortable position for shoveling. 10. The snow shovel according to claim 1 wherein some of said sets have one slit and some of said sets have two slits. 11. The snow shovel according to claim 1 wherein said slits are substantially parallel to each other and are rectangularly shaped. 12. The snow shovel according to claim 1 wherein the shovel is curved so that the front face of the shovel is curved. 13. The snow shovel according to claim 1 wherein said slits each have a uniform width. 14. A snow shovel comprising: Said snow shovel having a blade that has a front face and a rear face and has on its front face an array of vertical or longitudinally extending slits penetrating through said entire blade through said front face and said rear face, said slits being arranged in an array with said slits being aligned vertically in a top to bottom arrangement and being disposed in sets of one to two slits per set;said sets of slits being arranged side to side with respect to each other along a width of said face of said shovel; said sets of slits being arranged in a symmetric pattern of said pattern of slits of one to two slits per set on the face of the shovel to ensure uniform distribution of the reduction of suction of snow to the shovel for releasing the snow from the front face of the blade of the shovel and to ensure uniformity of the overall strength of the shovel; andsaid front face of said shovel having has beveled raised areas defining recesses and each of said sets of one or more slits are located within a respective one of said recesses to provide additional support for overall shovel strength.