Garden Tool
OwnerJoseph L. Lucaninventor
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Abstract
This gardener's hand tool has a double-ended head at one end of a handle. One end edge of the head is beveled to form a cutting hoe-like blade and the other end is provided with spaced tines which are rounded in cross-section to form tapered wedge-shaped recesses for receiving and pulling weeds and roots. The handle is rigidly secured to the head and the latter is bent at two places to dispose the cutting blade and tines at a critical angle relative to the handle to secure the most efficient operation of the tool. A unique connection between the head and handle prevents the rotation in and/or separation of the latter from the head.
Claims6
A gardener's hand tool, comprising:
- a. a head member, said head member having a blade, intermediate and tine sections, said tine section including a plurality of tines, each of said tines being relieved on the under side of said tine so as to provide the space between said tines with a wedge-shaped cross-section;
- b. a handle, said handle being provided with a tapered configuration;
- c. a ferrule, said ferrule being provided with a tapered configuration and fitting over a portion of said handle and being firmly attached to said handle;
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- d. a flange member attached to said ferrule, said flange member having one side attached to one end of said ferrule and the opposite side attached to the intermediate section of said head member so as thereby to attach said handle to said head member, said intermediate section and said flange member being disposed at an angle of substantially 90.degree. to said handle, said blade section and said tine section being disposed on opposite sides of said intermediate section, said blade section and said tine section being disposed at a predetermined angle to said intermediate section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.