Multi-purpose garden hoe
AssigneeEagle Valley Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorRaymond G. Voss
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Abstract
A garden hoe features a wide cutting edge for normal hoeing, at one end of which is a pair of cutting edges meeting at a right angle for bordering a garden or a walk and at the other end of which is a short cutting edge for chopping or trenching. A hooked cutting edge for pruning is also incorporated in the hoe which may have a long or short handle.
Claims9
In a hand wieldable implement of the hoe type, the implement including a handle having a front end and a generally longitudinal axis, and a cutting head having forward and rear portions, the head rear portion being secured to the handle front end, the head forward portion including a first blade having a surface extending transversely both of said axis and of a first plane through said axis, the first blade having a first cutting edge formed along one margin thereof and lying in the surface of the first blade, the first cutting edge extending generally parallel to said first plane, the first blade also having opposite end margins extending transversely of said first plane, the improvement including second and third cutting edges, the second cutting edge being formed along one of the first blade end margins and lying in the surface of the first blade, one end of the second cutting edge adjoining one end of the first cutting edge at a first angle to form an exterior corner of the first blade, the head forward portion including a second blade having a surface and an exterior margin, said exterior margin adjoining the other end of the second cutting edge and extending rearwardly therefrom transversely of the surface of the first blade, the third cutting edge being formed along said exterior margin of the second blade and lying in the surface thereof, one end of the third cutting edge thereby adjoining said other end of the second cutting edge at a second angle.
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