'If you're like me, you enjoy building snow men big,’ Mr Asperas wrote in the patent. ‘The bigger, the better. One problem is there isn't always someone around to help. It is very difficult by yourself.

‘Over the years, I have developed different tricks to assist my self-style of building snow people. My favourite trick is to use the long end of a shovel as a lever to rotate the boulder when it is really big.’

He described the original inventor of the snowman as a ‘genius’, but said he knows nothing about its history and had often had trouble with his back when building up a snow boulder, reported Gawker and Huffington Post.

'I do not pretend that the ultimate snowman will be as revolutionary to the advancement of mankind (as the wheel and the toaster oven),’ Mr Asperas wrote in U.S. patent 8,011,991 B2.

‘But I do contend that as far as I know no one has ever conceived and reduced to practice such an apparatus.’

Mr Asperas said some problems people come across when building snowmen are the boulder size, the amount of snow available, the stacking of each boulder and the positioning on the ground.

'We are living in the 21st century now,' he wrote. 'We have created the internet. China is getting ready to send a person to the moon.

‘And we invented silly putty, perhaps one of the all-time greatest inventions a big kid ever invented. Can't somebody build a better snowman?'

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