Combination garden tiller and sprinkler head grass trimmer

An apparatus for at least one of trimming grass from around a head portion of a lawn water sprinkler and at least one of tilling, weeding and cultivating a small garden area, said apparatus comprising:

• (a) a first elongated generally hollow housing member closed at a first end thereof, said first elongated generally hollow housing member having each of a predetermined length, a predetermined diameter and a tapered side wall;
• (b) a first aperture formed axially through said first end of said first elongated generally hollow housing member;
• (c) a plurality of serrations one of formed on and detachably secured to a second axially opposed end of said first elongated generally hollow housing member for cutting grass disposed around such head portion of such lawn water sprinkler;
• (d) an second elongated generally hollow housing member at least partially disposed for reciprocal movement within said first elongated generally hollow housing member, said second elongated generally hollow housing member being open at a first end thereof and having each of a predetermined length and a predetermined cross-sectional shape in a direction transverse to said predetermined length;
• (e) a second aperture formed axially through a second end of said second elongated generally hollow housing member;
• (f) a first elongated rod like member having each of a predetermined length and a first predetermined cross-sectional shape in a direction transverse to said predetermined length;
• (g) a predetermined number of generally L-shaped tine members having a first leg thereof secured to a distinct portion of an outer surface of said first elongated rod like member mediate ends thereof and a second leg thereof disposed one of generally parallel and inclined to said predetermined length of said first elongated rod like member for penetrating a ground surface to said at least one of tilling, weeding and cultivating a small garden area;
• (h) a second elongated rod like member passed through each of said first and second apertures;
• (i) a threaded connection connecting a first end of said second elongated rod like member disposed within an interior of said second elongated generally hollow housing member with a second axially opposed end of said first elongated rod like member, so that said first elongated rod like member is removable from said second elongated rod like member for trimming grass from around such head portion of such lawn water sprinkler
• (j) a generally disk shaped member having a first end thereof abbutingly engaging an inner surface of said second elongated generally hollow housing member;
• (k) a third aperture formed axially therewithin and sized to receive said second elongated rod like member;
• (l) a forth aperture formed through each of said second elongated rod like member and said generally disk shaped member transverse to a longitudinal axis of said second elongated rod like member;
• (m) a first pin received within said forth aperture;
• (n) a fifth aperture formed through said second elongated rod like member transverse to said longitudinal axis thereof and adjacent to and spaced from a second end thereof;
• (o) a second pin inserted through said fifth aperture;
• (p) a first washer disposed on said second elongated rod like member between said second pin and an inner surface of said first closed end of said first elongated generally hollow housing member;
• (q) a first washer disposed on said second elongated rod like member between said second pin and an inner surface of said first closed end of said first elongated generally hollow housing member and said closed end of said second elongated generally hollow housing member;
• (r) a biasing means disposed over said second elongated rod like member and caged between an axially opposed second end of said housing member and said washer;
• (s) a spacer disposed within a recess formed in an axially opposed second end of said generally disk shaped member and having an axial aperture formed therethrough for receiving therewithin said second elongated rod like member, said spacer manufactured from a resilient elastomeric material for absorbing shock during operation of said apparatus for at least one of tilling, weeding and cultivating a small garden area and for preventing over torque condition of said first elongated rod like member at said threaded connection with said second elongated rod like member;
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• (t) a means engageable with one of said first closed end of said first elongated generally hollow housing member and said second end of said second elongated rod like member for manipulating said apparatus for at least one of trimming such grass from around such head portion of such lawn sprinkler and at least one of tilling, weeding and cultivating a small garden area.