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US 4,057,277 AGranted
Yard and garden tool
OwnerMarie L. Burkholderinventor
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A weed puller and garden tool having two pivotally and detachably connected arms or handles with each arm including a handgrip at one end and detachable connecting means at the other end for connecting a gripping member thereto for use of the device as a weed puller. The arms may be disconnected from each other and various individual tools attached to the connecting means for enabling the arms to be used with various garden tools, and the like, in an interchangeable manner. Also, the connecting means at the ends of the arms enables the two arms to be separated and attached to opposite sides of a garden cart to enable the cart to be easily moved to a desired location for use of various tools supported on the cart by releasing the arms or handles from the cart and attaching selective tools to the arms for use of the arms and tools independently or by pivotally interconnecting the arms in crossed relation and attaching cooperating gripping devices or other tools on the connecting means at the ends of the arms opposite from the handgrips.
A weed puller and garden tool comprising a pair of elongated handles oriented in intersecting relation, means pivotally and detachably interconnecting said elongated handles, handgrip means at one end of each of said handles and detachable connecting means at the other end of each of said handles for interchangeably mounting garden or lawn care tools or implements thereto to facilitate use of the handles when pivotally interconnected and when separated from each other, said means pivotally and detachably connecting the handles including a projecting stud rigid with one of the handles and received through an opening in the other of the handles, said stud including a peripheral groove adjacent the free end thereof, the other of the handles including a movable lock plate slidably mounted thereon with one end of the lock plate including a notch received in the peripheral groove in the stud for locking the handles together with the notch in the lock plate moving peripherally in the groove during pivotal movement of the handles, spring means biasing the lock plate to locking position, and handle means on the lock plate to retract the lock plate to a released position to enable the stud to be removed from the opening thereby detaching the handles.
A connecting assembly for interchangeable handles and tools comprising a pair of members, one of said members including a slot spaced a predetermined distance from and parallel to its terminal end, the other of said members including a pair of spaced legs with one of the legs being inserted through said slot with the terminal end of said one member abutting the inner surface of the other leg, and slidable lock means mounted on said one member and engaged with at least one of said legs and in surface contact with said one member to lock the members rigidly together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.