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US 5,207,466 AGranted
Prong-equipped garden tool
OwnerPaul W. Ohlsoninventor
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Abstract
A garden tool having an elongate shaft with a handle on one end of the shaft and the opposite end of the shaft having a plurality of circumferentially spaced generally axially extending cultivating and weeding prongs, and the shaft and handle permitting a gardener to use the tool in a generally upright position for soil loosening, cultivating and weeding by rotary and rocking maneuvers of the handle and agitating the prongs, and for optionally spearing trash or aerating sod.
Claims12
A garden tool to be used in a generally upright position and having an elongate shaft, and comprising:
- a handle on an upper end of said shaft;
- a lower end of said shaft having secured thereabout a bushing providing an outer elongate tubular surface;
- a plurality of circumferentially spaced generally axially downwardly extending cultivating and weeding prongs projecting from said bushing;
- said prongs having elongate upper end finger portions extending along the length of and engaging against said bushing tubular outer surface;
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- brazing or welding securing said finger portions to said tubular bushing outer surface;
- said shaft and handle permitting a gardener to use the tool in a generally upright position, for soil loosening, for cultivating and weeding by rotary and rocking maneuvers of said handle and shaft and agitating said prongs, and for optionally spearing trash with said prongs or aerating sod by thrusting said prongs into the sod for making sod aerating holes in the sod.
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