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US 3,976,282 AGranted
Plant root extraction tool
OwnerLester H. Bakerinventor
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Abstract
A plant root extraction tool for hand or foot soil penetrating use employing a dual purpose moveable positionable rocking member forming a hand or foot pressure surface for forcing the tool into the ground and then a fulcrum for providing a curved surface for rocking the tool to cause its soil penetrating blade to lift or cut the root of an associated plant.
Claims10
A plant root extraction tool comprising:
- a handle portion,
- a shank portion comprising a circular cross sectional configuration having a root extraction end,
- sleeve means adapted to fit upon the shank portion for clampingly engaging therewith, and
- a fulcrum means fastened to said sleeve comprising a pair of tangs having substantially cylindrical cross sectional configurations mounted one on each side of said shank and bent backward upon themselves toward said sleeve in an arcuate configuration to form rocking surfaces for said tool,
- the arcuate configuration of said tangs being interconnected at common ends by a bight portion for forming a surface for applying pressure to said tool to force it into the ground.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.