Sheet metal garden tool
AssigneeKeller Manufacturing Co., Inc.
InventorWilliam A. Keller
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Abstract
A sheet metal tool such as a garden rake or garden cultivator of special one piece metal construction. The garden tool such as a rake or the like is comprised of a flat body of steel which is pressed in a manufacturing operation to provide a body portion having reinforced rib strengthening structure including a continuous flange along each side thereof and a head portion bent over at right angles to the body portion and having particularly strong tines made possible by a generally U-shaped cross section at the rear but with the side walls being pressed solidly together at the tines ends to provide strength and rigidity and avoid accumulation of debris and thereby minimize rust contamination.
Claims8
A sheet metal garden tool comprised of a flat body bounded on its edges by a forwad head portion, a rearward central handle receiving portion, and opposed side portions each bounded by a generally perpendicular bent over flange, said side portions curving rearwardly from said forward head portion to said handle receiving portion, said head portion having a plurality of forward extending tins, said tines having spaced apart side walls of substantially uniform depth defining a generally inverted U-shaped cross section at the rear thereof and merging with a flange portin of said head, said flange portion extending at right angles to the tines and having sections thereof connected at opposed ends to said tine side walls, the outer tines having outer downwardly extending side walls formed in the same plane as the bent over flanges of the body and formed so that each of said outer side walls forms a continuous planar surface with one of said flanges, said flanges extending from said outer side walls of said tines as a continuous border of the body rearwardly to and merging with the handle receiving portion and said tine side walls being pressed solidly together at a forward terminating end portion, said latter portion extending a substantial length of the tine to provide strength and rigidity.
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