Abstract: A hand lever device is disclosed for adjusting the degree of openness of a throttle valve via a cable and kept at a desired opening degree and yet immediately returned to a minimum degree of opening to ensure high safety, thereby diminishing fatigue of fingers, and ensuring a desired level of operation. The hand lever device comprises a main lever (3) and a sub-lever (50) is attached to a wind-up tractive member (60) which draws a cable (20) connected to a throttle valve (CV) in such a manner that one end portion of the cable (20) is wound up thereon, and a torsion coil spring (42) is used as a brake operated by the main lever (30) for braking the wind-up tractive member (60) in order to hold the sub-lever (50) immobilized at any pivotally operated position.

Abstract: A blade cover for a rotary blade weed or grass cutter is formed with a body adjustably fixed to a bracket provided on the operating shaft. Either the bracket or the attachment part is provided with long holes extending slantingly downwards to the main body and bolts are inserted into these long holes and fastened so that the position of the attachment part on the bracket is changeable.

Abstract: The weeder with rotary spikes in which the weeding operation is adequately and smoothly carried out in accordance with the type of weeds or the like to be weeded; power is effectively distributed without harmful effect to an engine and the like; maintenance work of the weeder is easily performed; and the overall weeding machine is simple in construction and is manufactured with low cost. The weeder with rotary spikes comprises: an operation rod; a gear case attached a tip portion of the operation rod; a rotary drum with a horizontally extending axis mounted to the tip portion of the operation rod through the gear case; and a spike mounting member with a number of spikes thereon detachably mounted to the rotary drum.

Abstract: A hand-held gardening machine includes a pair of upper and lower clipper blades each formed with clipper teeth. The clipper blades are caused to slidably reciprocate in a longitudinal direction thereof by means of output from a power source. A comb-like safety plate is formed with protrusions protruding beyond the tips of the teeth. The positions at which the protrusions of the safety plate are located are selectable from overlapping positions of the teeth of the clipper blades and positions shifted from the overlapping positions.

Abstract: A hand-held edger is disclosed which is so constructed that the lower portions of the gear box and the safety cover member are prevented from directly scraping against the ground during trimming operation to enable abrasion thereof to be avoided, and that tendency to be caught by lawn grasses and liability to wobble are extremely reduced to enable improved operational properties to be attained. The hand-held edger comprises a supporting rod 14 one end of which is connected to a prime mover, a gear box 20 connected to the other end of said supporting rod 14, a rotary blade 22 which is driven by power transmitted from said prime mover via said gear box 20, a safety cover member 12 which covers said rotary blade 22, and a traveling wheel 17 journal-supported by a rear portion 12b behind said gear box 20, wherein a ring-shaped traveling auxiliary wheel 30 is rotatably mounted over the circumference of said gear box 20.

Abstract: A throttle lever holding mechanism is disclosed in which an intermediate locking member is provided for at least one of first and second throttle levers. The throttle lever is moved in an operational direction so that the throttle lever is kept under a predetermined operational condition by the intermediate locking member. The throttle lever is further moved in the operational direction so that the locking of the throttle lever by the intermediate locking member is released.

Abstract: A throttle lever mechanism in which both ends of a wire cable arranged in a curved manner are connected to a throttle valve opening/closing member of a carburetor and a first throttle lever, respectively, one end portion of an outer tube covering the wire cable is held in a stationary manner, the other end portion of the outer tube is coupled to a link member supported rotatably, and the link member is connected to a second throttle lever through a connecting rod movable within an elongated slot formed in the link member.

Abstract: A collecting bag for collecting dusts having an air permeable bag body made of a cloth and provided at its one end with a connection opening for connection to a passage of the dust laden air and at its other end with a discharge opening through which the dust content of the bag is taken out. A pair of opposing plate members are jointed to the opposing peripheral edges of the discharge opening of the bag body so as to cooperate with each other in opening and closing the discharge opening. One of the plate members may be provided with a hook which engages a suitable member fixed to the bag in the closed state of the discharge opening.

Abstract: A collecting apparatus having a nozzle through which air is released to form a jet flow, a restriction provided at a position spaced from the nozzle in the direction of the jet flow and a vacuum sleeve defining a large vacuum space between the nozzle and the restriction. A collecting tube is connected to the vacuum sleeve to open to the vacuum space. A high vacuum is established in the vacuum space so that large dusts are sucked through the collecting tube and collected in a collecting bag attached to the restriction or scattered through the restriction.