Gardening tool
OwnerWilliam Harpellinventor
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Abstract
A cultivating tool having a blade made from steel sheet at least one-eighth of an inch thick. The blade has a front surface, a back surface, and at least one cutting edge. The blade is tapered from the cutting edge to the front surface to provide a wide, tapered, camming section and a relatively narrow cutting edge. The tapered, caiming section is at least one inch wide.
Claims17
A cultivating tool having an imperforate rectangular blade made from steel sheet at least one-eighth inch thick, connecting means on the back surface of the blade for use in connecting a handle to the blade;
- at least one side of the blade having a cutting edge adjacent the back surface;
- the blade tapered from the cutting edge to the front surface to provide a wide tapered camming section and a relatively narrow cutting edge;
- the tapered camming section having a width, measured from the cutting edge and in a direction transverse to the cutting edge, of at least one inch.
A cultivating tool having an imperforate blade made from steel sheet at least one-eighth inch thick, the blade having a front surface and a back surface;
- connecting means on the back surface of the blade for use in connecting a handle to the blade;
- the blade having a generally narrow, rectangular shape with one long side that is generally straight and with the other long side of the blade having teeth along its length;
- at least the one long straight side of the blade having a cut&g edge adjacent the back surface;
- the blade tapered from the cutting edge to the front surface to provide a wide tapered camming section and a relatively narrow cutting edge;
- the tapered camming section having a width, measured from the cutting edge and in a direction transverse to the cutting edge, of at least one inch.
A cultivating tool having an imperforate blade made from steel sheet at least one-eighth inch thick, the blade having a front surface and a back surface;
- connecting means on the back surface of the blade for use in connecting a handle to the blade;
- the blade having a pointed end defined by two diverging front sides, two short parallel back sides leading from the front sides, and a back end joining the back sides;
- at least one of the front sides or back end having a cutting edge adjacent the back surface;
- the blade tapered from the cutting edge to the front surface to provide a wide tapered camming section and a relatively narrow cutting edge;
- the tapered camming section having a width measured from the cutting edge, and in a direction transverse to the cutting edge, of at least one inch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.