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US 5,154,465 AGranted
Weed puller
AssigneeKendon Manufacturing Ltd.
InventorPeter Pakosh
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Abstract
A weed puller has a head mounted on one end of an elongate stem and a handle on the other end. The head has four blades with pick-up arms that normally extend vertically downwardly from the head. The pick-up arms may be pressed into the ground around a weed and then an actuator lever on the handle pulled to draw the ends of the pick-up arms together to grip a weed under the ground so it can be pulled.
Claims13
A weed puller comprising:
- a head;
- at least three blades, each with a pick-up arm having a gripping end;
- mounting means mounting the blades on the head with the arms located symmetrically around a common centre line, for movement of the blades between an open condition with the gripping ends of the pick-up arms spaced apart, and a closed condition with the arms converging towards the gripping ends;
- means for moving the blades simultaneously between the open and closed conditions;
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- the gripping end of each arm comprising two gripping faces converging towards an apex, the gripping faces of each arm being in face-to-face engagement with the gripping faces of each adjacent arm and the apices of the gripping ends being substantially parallel in the closed condition of the blades.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.