Abstract: A target stand having a base, a vertical beam extending upwardly from the base, a crossbeam, a locking and rotation assembly having a first portion engaged for vertical movement with the vertical beam and a second portion attached to the crossbeam, the first portion attached to the second portion with a pivot bolt, wherein the crossbeam is configured to be disposed in a first locked horizontal position using the locking and rotation assembly, and wherein the crossbeam is rotatable about the pivot bolt to move into a first non-horizontal position.

Abstract: A target stand having a base, a vertical beam extending upwardly from the base, a crossbeam secured to the vertical beam, a locking and rotation assembly having a first portion engaged for vertical movement with the vertical beam and a second portion attached to the crossbeam, the first portion attached to the second portion with a pivot bolt, wherein the crossbeam is securable to the vertical beam in a first locked horizontal position using the locking and rotation assembly, and wherein the crossbeam is rotatable about the pivot bolt to move into a first non-horizontal position.

Abstract: An anchor spade attachment is disclosed and includes a ground engaging component comprising a platform, a first plurality of teeth and a second plurality of teeth. A first body is longitudinally affixed to the ground engaging component. A second body is longitudinally affixed to the first body. A reinforcing plate is affixed to the platform, the first body, and the second body. The reinforcing plate is positioned orthogonal to the platform. The first plurality of teeth is positioned orthogonal and adjacent to the platform. The second plurality of teeth is positioned orthogonal and adjacent to the platform. The first body and the second body are each positioned orthogonal to the ground engaging component. The first body is centrally positioned on the platform. The platform longitudinally traverses the first body. The second body longitudinally traverses the first body. The second body extends beyond the first body.

Abstract: An example of a fire-extinguishing apparatus includes a plate member including a convex front surface configured to be exposed to fire, and a concave rear surface. The apparatus includes a handle member including a first end and a second end. The handle member is configured to push the plate member over the fire. A joint connects the first end of the handle member to the concave rear surface. In one example of using the apparatus, the apparatus can be placed on a location on a line of fire. By pushing the apparatus along the line of fire, the fire along the line can be mowed.

Abstract: A surgical instrument includes a pressure sensitive element that contacts a patient's tissue during surgery. The pressure sensitive element sends a signal to a computer processor that compares the signal to a known pressure being applied to the surgical instrument to calculate the rigidity of the tissue. The processor then delivers that information to the operating surgeon. The rigidity of the tissue may correspond to an audible tone, visual indicator or tactile feedback.

Abstract: A dirt digging tool is provided which includes a handle and an asymmetrical head. The asymmetrical head include an upper end and a lower end which collectively form the tool's face. The lower end includes a ground engaging edge which includes a first convex arcuate edge which includes the tool's tip, a second convex arcuate edge, and a medial edge. The second convex arcuate edge is longitudinally spaced above the tip. Meanwhile, the medial edge is preferably straight and extends longitudinally, parallel to the handle, from the first convex arcuate edge's tip to the second convex arcuate edge.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein seek to provide an anchor spade attachment that includes a ground engaging component comprising a platform, a first plurality of teeth and a second plurality of teeth. A first body is longitudinally affixed to the ground engaging component. A second body is longitudinally affixed to the first body. A plurality of buttresses are each orthogonally affixed to the platform, the first body, and the second body. The first plurality of teeth are positioned orthogonal and adjacent to the platform. The second plurality of teeth are positioned orthogonal and adjacent to the platform. The first body and the second body are each positioned orthogonal to the ground engaging component. The first body is centrally positioned on the platform. The platform longitudinally traverses the first body. The second body longitudinally traverses the first body. The second body extends beyond the first body.

Abstract: A dual-bladed scraper includes a handle extending between a proximal end including a grip portion and a distal end extending forwardly of the proximal end. A blade-retaining head is rotatably mounted to the distal end for pivotal movement about a head-rotation axis. The head has opposed first and second ends configured for retaining, respectively, first and second scraping blades on mutually opposite sides of the head-rotation axis about which the head is pivotable between first and second angular positions. The first angular position is such that the first blade is in a deployed attitude and the second blade is shrouded in a non-deployed attitude beneath the handle. Conversely, the second angular position is such that the second blade is in a deployed attitude and the first blade is shrouded in a non-deployed attitude beneath the handle.

Abstract: A disposable carving blade contains a central hole defined at a central position thereof, a first central line passing through the central position thereof, a right cutting rim formed on a first peripheral side thereof and a left cutting rim formed on a second peripheral side thereof. The right cutting rim is connected with the left cutting rim to form a V-shaped portion, and the V-shaped portion includes a cutting edge defined on a distal end thereof. An intersection point of the right cutting rim on the first peripheral side of the disposable carving blade and the left cutting rim on the second peripheral side of the disposable carving blade is adjacent to the first central line, and a distance between the intersection point and the first central line is a first eccentric value.

Abstract: A locking mechanism for the elbow swivel joint of a support arm for selectively locking the lower arm section and upper arm section of the support arm relative to each other, in which the lower arm section has a swivel head positioned between the end flanges of the upper arm section. A carriage bolt runs through centrally-located coplanar screw holes in the swivel head and end flanges for completing the live hinge of the swivel joint elbow. The locking mechanism preferably includes three spring-biased locking pins that sit in three open-ended guide channels in the relevant end flange of the upper arm section, and there are also a plurality of corresponding locking pin receiving notches on the engagement surface of the swivel head, and a locking knob for compelling the three spring biased locking pins into mating engagement with the corresponding locking pin receiving notches on the engagement surface of the swivel head and holding them in place.

Abstract: A foldable multipurpose apparatus including a tool, a gripping mechanism, and a connecting element, extending along a first axis between the tool and the gripping mechanism, the tool being articulated at one end of the connecting element around a second axis transversal to the first axis, the gripping mechanism being articulated at an opposite end of the connecting element around a third axis separated from the second axis and transversal to the first axis. The second transversal axis and the third transversal axis are perpendicular to each other.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for exerting a compressive force on soil around the root ball of a plant for compacting the soil. The device has a substantially planar head having a pair of arms that are configured to extend over at least a portion of the soil above the root ball of the plant for exerting a compressive force on a portion of the soil. The device also has a handle fixedly attached to the head that is configured to transfer force to the head when a user exerts a compressive force to the handle, thereby compacting soil positioned beneath the head.

Abstract: A manually operated device or tool for manipulating or working the earth or soil. A preferred embodiment possesses an elongated digging rod having an adjustable handle assembly configured to quickly locate and fasten to a plurality of predetermined set points located on the elongated digging rod. The apparatus compensates for the incremental deepening of a hole as the digging activity progresses so to enable a user to better maintain a preferred, upright, working posture. This is accomplished by adjusting the elongated digging rod, given a substantially constant handle assembly height, to consecutively lower settings corresponding to the increasing hole depth.

Abstract: The present disclosure is to a handled, bladed tool having a plurality of straight edges and at least four vertices formed by straight edges configured to perform various tasks. The tool comprises an angular configuration of the handle and the plane of the bladed tool face attached thereto.

Abstract: Tool attachments and extensions handles may be removably connected to each other. In an example embodiment, a tool attachment is capable of being connected to an extension handle having an extension handle connector, which includes a first field emission structure. The tool attachment has a tool implement and a tool attachment connector, which includes a second field emission structure. The tool attachment connector is adapted to be mated to the extension handle connector with the second field emission structure in proximity to the first field emission structure such that the first and second field emission structures have a predetermined alignment with respect to one another. Each of the first and second field emission structures include multiple Field emission sources having positions and polarities relating to a predefined spatial force function that corresponds to the predetermined alignment of the first and second field emission structures within a field domain.

Abstract: A cultivating tool for removing weeds and unwanted grass and for cultivating ground around and under an object under which a standard hoe or a hula-type hoe cannot fit. Specifically, the present invention discloses a cultivating tool having a thin scraping blade at the lower end of an elongated handle with a blade assembly interconnecting the handle and an upwardly disposed mounting standard on the upper surface of the scraping blade. The blade assembly includes a mechanism that connects to the lower end of the handle and a pivoting mechanism that pivots the scraping blade relative to the handle. The blade assembly connects the scraping blade to the handle in a manner which maintains the spaced area above both ends of the blade unobstructed so the scraping blade may slide under a plant without harming the plant and under an object to remove weeds and grass.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ergonomically shaped gardening hand tool comprising a base, a tool head extending from the base, and a handle extending from the base at an angle with respect to the tool head. The base may further comprise a pivot with a plurality of settings by which the user can adjust the angle of the handle with respect to the tool head. The tool head can be one of any kind of tool head used in gardening, including but not limited to a rake, hoe, pick, trowel, and the like. The handle may be padded for comfort and ergonomically shaped to accommodate the curvature of a gripping hand.

Abstract: A depth limiting shovel having a blade with a vertically extending slot therein, a depth limiting member having a horizontal element and a vertical element slidable within the slot, the horizontal element extending transversely across the blade. The depth limiting member preferably is adjacent the rear face of the shovel blade.

Abstract: A manual plow tool, effective in both forward and backward directions, has a head of generally triangular cross section comprised of two working plates, each having a bottom blade edge. Surfaces on a mounting plate and on a perpendicular guide panel facilitate guided movement along an outer course of pavers adjacent to which the surface of a coarse foundation layer is to be substantially uncovered.

Abstract: An extensible electrical connecting device comprises an extensible supporting bar device and an extensible electric cable. The extensible electrical connecting device further comprises a first electrical connecting base which is connected to one end of the extensible supporting bar device and connected to one end of the extensible electric cable and a second electrical connecting base which is connected to another end of the extensible supporting bar device and connected to one end of the extensible electric cable. Therefore the extensible electric cable is capable to extend its length along with the extending motion of the extensible supporting bar device so as to provide an electrical connection between the first electrical connecting base and the second electrical connecting base.

Abstract: Apparatus for digging a trench in the soil for the purpose of installing underground infrastructure such as underground communication cable, underground sprinkler hoses, invisible underground dog fences, etc. The apparatus, termed a “chunker” is designed ergonomically to reduce muscle fatigue normally experienced by a trench-digger and to improve safety. The handle is ergonomically designed to accommodate the natural orientation of the hands. The length of the chunker can be adjustable to accommodate different heights of different people using the chunker. The chunker can be weighted for low center of gravity to improve stability and accuracy in usage. The spade-blade at the bottom of the chunker is oriented in a direction parallel to the intended route of the trench, allowing the trench-digger to widely straddle the line of the trench to avoid foot injury as the blade is vigorously thrown vertically downward into the soil near the trench-digger's body.

Abstract: A divot repair tool comprises a cylindrical housing having at least one helical groove located on the inside wall of an axial bore of the housing. The blade is stored within the axial bore of the housing by mechanical cooperation with the grooves such that the blade projects and retracts from the housing as it is turned. The divot repair tool is preferably rigidly affixed within a golf club shaft at the handle end and the blade is rotated by a knob which includes a slot through which the blade extends and retracts.

Abstract: A handle having an adjustable shaft wherein the overall length of the shaft and/or the angular relationship of portions of the shaft can be varied by a user of an associated tool. In one embodiment, the handle includes a first tube, a second tube connected to a working unit of a portable tool, and wherein a portion of the second tube is telescopically received into the first tube. A coupling is provided to receive a portion of the first tube and the second tube. The coupling has a pin stop which engages a pin connected to one of the tubes and defines a limit of a range of relative rotational motion between the first tube and the second tube. In one embodiment, the upper tubular portion of the handle and a control grip are capable of being rotated relative to a working unit.

Abstract: A gutter cleaning system has a shovel with a working surface and a connecting component. The connecting component is a rigid member. A handle has inboard and outboard components and a locking mechanism to vary the length of the handle. An adjustable holder has an inboard component coupled to the handle, an outboard component coupled to the shovel, and a locking bolt with a wingnut to vary the angle between the shovel and the handle.

Abstract: A gardening tool which consists of a handle grip, a tool head section, an extension rod and a support pad; a section of the extension rod is joined and secured to the handle grip, and since the support pad is actively conjoined with the extension rod to form a contoured, recessed area, the user is provided with a columnar handle to grasp as well as, a firm support for the forearm.

Abstract: A garden seeding tool is provided including a handle and a blade coupled to the handle and having a pointed end. Further included is a depth control mechanism for preventing the pointed end of the blade from penetrating the ground past a predetermined depth.

Abstract: A gardening tool is composed of a blade, a handle, and an eccentric rotating device connecting the blade and the handle. The blade has a connector provided with a receiving hole, whereas the handle is provided at one end thereof with a fastening hole. The eccentric rotating device is composed of a locating rod, a rotating rod and a bolt. The locating rod is securely received in the receiving hole of the connector of the blade while the rotating rod is fitted into the fastening hole of the handle. The locating rod and the rotating rod are held together end to end by the bolt such that the rotating rod can be actuated by the handle to turn.

Abstract: An apparatus for grading soil or dirt adjacent to a curb, gutter, or other structure. The apparatus includes a blade portion, a handle portion, and a guide which may be attached to the handle or blade portions. The guide can be positionally adjusted relative to the blade portion to set the depth of penetration of the blade into soil. The guide is placed along the curb or gutter when the apparatus is used, with the guide controlling the depth of the blade.

Abstract: The invention is a wooden handled, heart shaped, garden tool configured to perform various garden tasks. The tool includes multiple edges and angles configured to perform various garden tasks and a bolt attached thereon at 36.degree. to mate with a handle connector equipped with three different angled mounting bosses. One boss comes straight from the end of the connector, the second boss is ninety degrees from the connector and handle, and the third boss is fifty four degrees from the connector and handle. A coupling has also been designed for the center of the of the handle to allow it to be taken apart for the ease of shipping or storing or to add a longer length handle section.

Abstract: A hill maker hoe embodying a set of semicircular rearwardly opposing concavo-convex blades assembled to an angularly and extensibly adjustable handle which enables a user to accommodate the hoe for individual height and weight profile as well as for ease of manual use and efficiency in employing the same to form and make a planting hill from a single location with but a simple push-pull motion thereof.

Abstract: Disclosure is made of an adjustable pitch garden hoe tool, as an article of maufacture wherein the pitch of the head assembly can be adjusted to control the dig or "bite" into the soil and comprises ferrule legs mounted on an extended handle and adjustable pitch garden hoe tool head mounted on the ferrule legs, and a compression V spring mounted within the ferrule legs and arms of the compression V spring extending into pitch set slots and pitch set stops in vertical sides of the garden tool head.

Abstract: Disclosure is made of an adjustable pitch garden hoe tool head (16) as an article of manufacture wherein the pitch of the garden hoe tool head (16) head assembly can be adjusted to control the dig or "bite" into the soil and comprises ferrule legs (11, 11') mounted on an extended handle (1) and adjustable pitch garden hoe tool head (16) mounted on the ferrule legs (11, 11') and a modified compression V spring (10) having a three sided trapezoidal shape with an apex segment of modified compression V spring (23) which is a straight segment at the apex mounted within the ferrule legs (11, 11') and arms (9, 9') of the modified compression V spring (10) extending into pitch set slots (4, 4') and pitch set stops (3, 3') in vertical sides (5, 5') of base blade (6) of the garden hoe tool head (16).

Abstract: A garden tool that has a tool member coupled to a hollow aluminum handle by a nylon spacer and a pair of threaded nylon rivets,

Abstract: A four in one gardening tool is provided which consists of a scooped blade, with a handle assembly extending upwardly at an angle from a bent central area of the scooped blade. A plurality of teeth extend at an angle downwardly from a first side of the scooped blade. The teeth are used primarily for removing a multiplicity of small weeds. A straight portion having a cutting edge extends along a second side of the scooped blade. The straight portion is used primarily for hoeing. A first pointed portion having a cutting edge extends from a first chord of the scooped blade. The first pointed portion is used primarily for removing large weeds and rocks. A second pointed portion having a cutting edge extends from a second chord of the scooped blade. The second pointed portion is used primarily for cutting a small furrow in the ground.

Abstract: A manual snow removal tool has a blade, a pivotable handle, and a load transfer subassembly for structural rigidity and distributing force applied by a user through the handle to the blade. The load transfer subassembly defines an elongated channel, spaced from the handle pivot mount, through which the handle extends. The handle is slidable within the channel over a range of angular positions. The snow removal tool also has an angle adjustment mechanism for selectively positioning the handle at a desired angular position. The shovel can be used to scoop or windrow snow.

Abstract: A hand cultivating system for loosening or tilling select portions of the soil in a garden or plot. The preferred embodiment of the present invention contemplates a hand cultivating implement wherein there is provided a longitudinal handle member having first and second ends, the first end having affixed thereto a tined cultivator member including a plurality of tines in general longitudinal alignment with the handle member. Also affixed to the handle member, connected to the handle member in a position in the medial or upper medial area of the handle, disposed generally toward the second end of the handle, is a laterally emanating torque handle, configured to allow the user to partially rotate the handle and tined cultivator member about their longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A clod chopper structure arranged to effect the cutting and cubing of earth clods into manageable agricultural components is provided. The chopper includes a rectilinear frame, including intersecting rows of first and second blade members whose edges extend beyond the lower periphery of the frame. The handle is arranged in a modified configuration for adjustment pivotally relative to the frame.

Abstract: Disclosure is made of a garden hoe tool, having an adjustable pitch head, to control the depth of the dig into the soil, and the head comprising a tool base blade and vertical sides on the base blade and a compression V spring to lock the pitch of the head, as adjusted.

Abstract: A shovel having a bottom portion with a surface edge adjacent to a surface to be scraped, top portion, one side portion at an acute internal angle with the surface edge at one end of the shovel and one side edge at an oblique internal angle with the surface edge on the other side. The side portion is located against a curb to direct the path of the shovel as well as to prevent material wedging between the shovel and the curb. The top portion has a means for preventing material for rolling over its top. A handle is attached to the shovel at an acute internal angle so that the user walks directly behind the shovel so as to maximize the transfer of energy for the removal of material. The bottom, top and side portions may be removably connected to the shovel blade so that they can be rotated to expose new wearing surfaces. The shovel may be rotated approximately 90 degrees and the same gutter may be scraped; or, without rotating the shovel, the user may cross to gutter on the other side of the road and scrape it.

Abstract: A garden roller tool is provided having a weighted roller journaled on fork end of a ferrule at proximal end of an elongated handle. In one position the handle is tilted downwardly with the roller elevated applying pressure on an implement of the tool pushing the implement into the ground. In another position the handle is raised upwardly with roller lowered releasing pressure on the implement of the tool, raising the implement from the ground, allowing the roller to roll over the ground.

Abstract: A manual agricultural implement, having a shaft with an axis and two ends, a handle arranged at one of the ends of the shaft and a tool arranged at the other end of the shaft having a plurality of tines arranged at radial distances from the shaft, the tines extending around the shaft axis in a curved manner and along the surface of an imaginary cylinder which is coaxial to the shaft axis.

Abstract: A hand tool for loosening, cutting and crumbling soil or the like, includ a central bearing axle of an angular cross section, a plurality of pairs of pronged wheel arrangements having radially extending prongs and being freely rotatably mounted on the axle such that vertical central planes of the pronged wheels extending in the direction of extension of the radial prongs intersect one another at an acute angle, and wherein the edges of every two adjacent crosswisely interengaging pronged wheels slide along one another to form cutting regions; wherein a spade-type tine or prong formed with an end portion which protrudes beyond the radially extending prongs of the pronged wheels is disposed between every two pairs of intersecting pronged wheels. The spade-type prong is mounted on the axle which may be angularly orientated, as desired, by adjusting the inclination of the handle, such as a shaft non-rotatably mounted on the axle.

Abstract: An elongated upstanding shank is provided including structure for manually applying rotary torque to the upper end of the shank. The lower end of the shank supports an elongated blade therefrom including a first horizontal upper end mounted at one end of the shank above the lower terminal end thereof for rotation with the shank. The first horizontal upper end of the blade extends outwardly from one side of the shank and terminates in a downwardly and inwardly curving portion which in turn terminates in a downwardly and inwardly inclined lower end portion of the blade. The downwardly and inwardly curving blade portion is slightly twisted about its longitudinal axis to position the lower terminal end of the blade lower end portion slightly outwardly of a second side of the shank facing outwardly in a direction disposed substantially 90.degree. from the direction in which the first side of the shank faces outwardly.

Abstract: A hand operated weeding device. The device is used in weeding such places as flower beds and vegetable gardens. It comprises a weed displacing structure composed of sections which have multiple functions. One section, when operated under the surface of the soil, is used as a self stabilizer of its operating depth in the soil; it crumbles the soil it passes under, the soil being around the top sections of the cut off weed roots; and it has a forward cutting edge. A second section further crumbles soil around this top part of the roots and pushes most of these root parts with attached weed tops out of the soil and pushes them all away. Weeds cut off on the surface of the ground are also pushed away.

Abstract: A work implement having a tubular handle, a tool having tines mounted within the handle for movement between an extended position and a retracted position, and a pendulum-action tool mounted on the handle.

Abstract: An elongated upstanding shank is provided including a ground piercing lower end and an upper end including structure for applying rotary torque to the shank. The lower end portion of the shank supports a generally horizontally disposed U-shaped blade therefrom including a pair of generally parallel upper and lower arms joined at one pair of corresponding ends by an integral curved bight portion. The other pair of corresponding ends of the arms are supported from the shank at points spaced therealong. At least the lower arm and the adjacent portion of the bight portion include a sharpened edge facing outwardly of one side of an upstanding plane containing the U-shaped blade and the shank. The blade comprises a thick elongated strap metal member bent into U-shaped configuration and the portions of the blade defining the lower arm and the adjacent portion of the bight portion are disposed with their width extents disposed generally normal to the aforementioned plane.

Abstract: A manually manipulable tool movable along a linear index to create a trench for planting seeds at a spaced distance from the index. The depth of the trench and its spacing from an index are adjustably variable. The device may be indexed from either side and may create an additional indexing indicia at a spaced distance from the seed trench created.

Abstract: A plate has on its under side a V-shape keel of decreasing depth from end-to-end, a handle mounting on its upper side, and upwardly flared soil flattener at the ends of the plate.

Abstract: A hand-held rake for golfers is made with a head having two portions one of which can pivot about the shaft of the rake from a working position in which it forms a continuation of the other head portion to a stowage position in which the head portions are in overlying relationship with their tines oppositely directed. The rake when stowed thus has the form of a golf club. The tines of each head portion can be arranged such that when the head portions overlie each other, the ends of the tines of each head portion lie shielded within the outline of the other head portion which facilitate handling of the rake.

Abstract: A hand operated weeding device. The device is used in weeding such places as flower beds and vegetable gardens. It comprises a weed displacing structure composed of sections which have multiple functions. One section, when operated under the surface of the soil, is used as a self stabilizer of its operating depth in the soil; it crumbles the soil it passes under, the soil being around the top sections of the cut off weed roots; and it has a forward cutting edge. A second section further crumbles soil around this top part of the roots and pushes most of these root parts with attached weed tops out of the soil and pushes them all way. Weeds cut off on the surface of the ground are also pushed away.