Hand-held garden tool
AssigneeRLJ, Inc.
InventorDonald R. Reuter
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Abstract
A versatile hand-held garden tool for cultivating, digging, weeding, pruning and trimming has a blade, a handle and a neck angling upwards from the blade that connects the blade to the handle. The blade has a body portion that is preferably 5"-7" long and a tip portion angling upwards from the body portion that is preferably about 1 inch long. The body portion has two edges, one edge is serrated and the other edge is beveled. The tip portion has a beveled edge. It is preferred that the handle have a V-shaped cross section to facilitate the mounting of a grip. The garden tool can be made by cutting a blank from a web of cold rolled steel having a thickness of about 0.075 inches, coining the beveled edges into the blank, and forming the tool by bending the blank. It is then preferred to heat treat and plate the cold rolled steel.
Claims15
A hand-held garden tool comprising:
- a rigid elongated blade having a flat, body portion of uniform thickness with a top side, a bottom side and two edges and a tip means for weeding and digging, the tip means being located at a free end of the blade and angling upwards from the plane of the body portion, the body portion and the tip means being connected at a straight bend line;
- a handle having a longitudinal axis that is substantially parallel to the flat, elongated blade;
- a rigid neck connecting the body portion of the blade to the handle, the neck angling upwards from the blade so that the handle is offset above the blade;
- wherein the body portion of the blade is elongated in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the handle and one of the edges of the body portion of the blade is serrated.
A hand-held garden tool comprising:
- a rigid elongated blade having a flat, body portion of uniform thickness with a top side and a bottom side, and a tip means for weeding and digging, the tip means being located at a free end of the blade and angling upward from the plane of the body portion, the body portion and the tip means being connected at a straight bend line;
- a handle;
- having a longitudinal axis that is substantially parallel to the flat, elongated blade;
- a rigid neck connecting the body portion of the blade to the handle and angling upwards from the body portion so that the handle is offset above the blade;
- wherein the body portion of the blade is elongated in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the handle, and the body portion has two edges and at least one of the edges of the body portion of the blade is beveled.
A hand-held garden tool comprising:
- a rigid elongated blade having a flat, body portion of uniform thickness with a top side, a bottom side and two edges and a tip portion located at a free end of the blade which angles upwards from the plane of the body portion the body portion and the tip means being connected at a straight bend line;
- a handle having a longitudinal axis that is substantially parallel to the flat, elongated blade;
- a rigid neck connecting the body portion of the blade to the handle, the neck angling upwards from the blade so that the handle is offset above the blade;
- wherein the body portion of the blade is elongated in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the handle and one of the edges of the body portion of the blade is serrated and the other edge of the body portion of the blade is beveled.
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