Abstract: A connector comprising a tapered socket component, a complementary tapered spigot component and a sleeve component for location between the socket component and the spigot component, the sleeve component and one of the other components being screw engageable, whereby, in use, screwing together of these components laterally deforms the sleeve component to clamp the spigot component within the socket component.

Abstract: Power grass shears detachably attached to a handle: the handle includes a rod extending in the cutting plane; a connection between the shears and the rod to enable the shears to be rotated around the rod; the connection comprises various arrangements of a pin, and detent like means for enabling the shears to be held at various rotative positions.

Abstract: Strewing apparatus for distributing seed, fertilizer, etc. in a garden, including a wheel on which the apparatus moves, a strewing shaft driven by motion of the wheel, a strewing means on the strewing shaft; an interchanging proportion and distributing plate on the side of the housing of the device, which plate has holes therethrough and shaped so as to desirably proportion the exit of material from the device.

Abstract: The specification describes a mixing container for dissolving corrosive or poisonous chemicals, supplied in a sealed package, in a solvent. The container comprises a filling neck, which can be closed by a lid, for the chemicals, more particularly for the production of a plant protective spraying liquid, characterized by the following features. The filling neck is provided with a sleeve extension, directed towards the interior of the container, for receiving an as yet unopened chemical package. The sleeve extension in the interior part has an opener for the package and this opener becomes effective on pressing the package into the sleeve extension and the opener causes the content of the package to move past it into the container.