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US 5,960,891 AGranted
Multipurpose scoop tool
OwnerKelly C. Sheehan, Michael O. Roserinventors
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OwnerKelly C. Sheehan, Michael O. Roserinventors
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A multipurpose tool and a method for indoor or outdoor gardening, planting, and soil working are disclosed. The tool and method incorporate the capabilities of scooping, cutting, scraping, loosening, working, furrowing, trenching, digging, removing, and replacing kitchen commodities, household dirt or garden soil; of setting and removing plants; of weeding; of scraping, emptying, or cleaning planters, pots, and other kitchen or gardening containers, especially those having tight corners; and of cutting and removing plant roots and other obstacles found in or around soil. Preferred embodiments of the tool aspect of the invention provide a generally dished blade with a highly curved, offset pointed tip. Serrated blade edges for cutting of roots and other obstacles or debris are optionally provided. The method includes a procedure for loosening, furrowing, digging, and excavating soil with a single tool.
A blade for a tool, the blade comprising a generally dished region and a pointed tip having a tip point, the blade adapted to engage a handle having a handle axis at an end of the blade opposite from the tip point and the blade having a grip axis substantially parallel to the handle axis;
A blade for a tool, the blade comprising a generally dished region, the dished region having a base point, a periphery, and a tip, the tip having a tip point also on the periphery, the blade further comprising a handle end adapted to engage a handle having a handle axis at an end of the blade opposite from the tip point and the blade having a grip axis substantially parallel to the handle axis, the base point lying at an end of the dished region generally opposite the tip point but not on the handle end;
A blade for a tool, the blade generally having a length having two ends and a width, the blade comprising a tip at a first end of its length and adapted to engage a handle at a second end and having a region of curvature along the length for a substantial portion of the length and a region of curvature along the width for a substantial portion of the width, the regions of curvature in the blade forming thereby a dished region, the dished region having edges and a periphery defined by its edges, the periphery being scalloped along the length of the blade.
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