Abstract: Garden tools are provided to enable easier gardening with increased gardening and landscaping functionality. The garden tools allow the passing of material through the tool to enable improved landscaping. Certain garden tools include gratings to sift material. Certain garden tools allow material to pass through to allow easier performance of the desired gardening or landscaping function.

Abstract: An electronic product includes a case; a first board placed inside the case; and a second board having an Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) structure inserted therein. The second board is coupled to an inside of the case facing the first board so as to shield a noise radiated from the first board.

Abstract: The tool is an optimized scuffle hoe that maximizes the efforts of the user in forward and backward motion, and that provides the functions of multiple garden tools, all-in-one. The tool includes a V-shaped head portion having an open interior with blades that are sharpened on both inside and outside. The V-shaped head is connected to a handle portion by curved arms that are free of 90 degree bends.

Abstract: A soil manipulating tool is disclosed which has a handle (12) and a soil penetrating portion (14). The soil penetrating portion (14) is formed from a helical or spiral rod or wire (13) which defines a cavity (18). The rod or wire (13) may be hollow so that fertilizer or other liquid material can pass through the hollow rod wire (13) into the soil in which the tool is to be used. The tool may also include an abutment member for limiting the amount of penetration of the tool into the soil to facilitate churning up of the soil and a blade may also be provided across one of the spirals of the portion (14) to provide a chopping of soil so that a hole can be formed by removal of a plug of soil but at the same time leaving loosened soil at the bottom of the hole. The tool has particular application in aerating and manipulating composted material and the removal of composted material from a compost bin as well as garden applications for the formation of holes, and the aeration of soil facilitating plant growth.

Abstract: Disclosed is a garden tool to effectively weed or break up ground in a planting area. The tool has an irregularly shaped metal blade attached to a handle which is extremely effective in working ground. The blade is formed of a metal band and may have holes punched there through in order to increase the aeration of the ground when the soil is worked. The loop shaped band has a flat shaped bottom which is ideal for weeding multiple weeds at one time and covering large surface areas. The blade also has a V-shaped portion which serves to effectively weed gardens in which plants are located close together or to weed in close to a plant without risking killing it. Both edges of the band shaped blade are sharpened to make the weeding process even more effective.

Abstract: A multi-purpose weeder attachable to a hand-held rotary power implement is designed to weed, aerate and till soil. A vertical shaft is removably attached to the implement to permit erect operation of the weeder. A pair of substantially spiral-shaped blades are rigidly connected at an acute angle with the lower end of shaft to cause discharge of weeds upwardly and outwardly from soil when the shaft is rotated. The blades are equally spaced from the shaft as they diverge upwardly. A top end of an auger is connected to the lower end of the shaft to penetrate weed and soil at its free end. An annular member with a cross horizontal element connects the upper ends of the blades to the shaft.

Abstract: A garden tool comprising a ground engaging portion for engaging the ground and up rooting a plant, a handle extending upwardly and forwards from the ground engaging portion such that a user can stand upwardly while using the tool. The ground engaging portion including at least two arms extending downwards and forwards being spaced apart and parallel for digging underneath a surface of the ground and a wire coupled to an end of a respective arm extending horizontally therefrom and is coupled to the arms such that the wire has a substantial amount of tension for engaging a root of the plant. The ground engaging portion has two outer arms and an inner arm, the outer arms are spaced outwardly from the ground engaging portion such that the inner arm is located in between and in front of the two outer arms, the arms extend downwardly and forwardly forming a substantially “C” shape and the wire is connected to each of the arms at a groove which is cut into the ends of the arms.

Abstract: The plant puller is a hook attached at one end of a pole or handle. The hook is used to grip a plant to be pulled from the soil. While a standard circular hook may be used, a tapered hook which causes a compression of the plant as it is drawn into the tapered toe end of the hooks provides a firm grip for pulling the plant from the soil. The tapered hook may have a beveled inner surface with a stop in the toe tip to provide additional griping force when the plant is pulled. The weed puller may be used to pull plants at or above the soil surface or be forced into the soil and pulled to grip the plant roots below the surface.

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 cultivator includes a handle having a lower end with a tool member connected thereto. The tool member has first and second spaced-apart tines, each of the tines having an outer tip and being tubular with a longitudinal interior hollow extending to the tip. A flexible member, such as a wire, extends from the hollows of the times and between the tips thereof. There are devices for securing the flexible member in tension between the tips of the tines. Preferably the tines have outer portions which are thinner and harder than inner portions of the tines. For example, the outer portion of each tine may be a tubular insert telescopically received within the inner portion. The devices for securing the wire may include a reel secured to one end of the wire.

Abstract: A garden tool having a cultivating blade portion and a cultivating tine portion provided at the end of a relatively long handle. The blade portion is generally U-shaped and is substantially equal in width to the tine portion. The blade portion is articulated relative to the tine portion.

Abstract: A ground-working tool for attachment to the foot of the wearer includes a base plate for attachment against the underside of a wearer's shoe and a pair of ground-working hoe blades rigidly supported beneath the base plate. The hoe blades are generally flat in shape and are arranged in a common plane with one of the hoe blades being positioned beneath a forward portion of a base plate and the other hoe blade being positioned beneath a rearward portion of a base plate. Further, each hoe blade defines a forwardly-directed cutting edge and a reawardly-directed cutting edge which are parallel to one another and which extend transversely of the the base plate. When the tool is moved by the wearer's foot in a fore-and-aft scuffing action, soil loosened by the cutting edges is permitted to pass across the blades through the space defined between each blade and the base plate.

Abstract: A pendulum action cultivating hoe utilizes an elongated handle on the lower end of which is mounted a vertically inverted U-shaped support frame. The support frame pivotally mounts a second upright vertically positioned U-shaped blade frame having a blade portion which is drawn back and forth through the soil to be cultivated and whose motion is limited by a rod member mounted between the side arms of the frames.

Abstract: An aquatic weeder is provided which includes an elongated handle with a generally rectangular, flat blade assembly rigidly mounted at the lower end thereof. The weeder includes a pair of support straps extending from the handle to each end of the blade assembly. The blade assembly includes a flat rectangular cutting blade sandwiched between a pair of rigid generally rectangular support plates. The aquatic weeder is useful for cutting and pulling weed growth from the underwater soil surface just above the root tops to leave the underwater area growth free.

Abstract: The specification discloses a tool used for chopping and scraping earth which is easily convertible into numerous different implements such as a rake, shovel, broom, fork or the like. An apertured working section is disposed normally to an elongated handle. Two intersecting planar cutting surfaces are integrally formed and extend along the base of the working section in order to define a cutting edge which enables the tool to be used for cutting soil. The aperture formed through the working section permits the passage of earth therethrough to facilitate scraping of soil. The working section contains several smaller apertures to which any of a variety of attachments can be bolted when it is desirable to use the tool for some function other than chopping or scraping earth.

Abstract: A pendulum type hoe has a stirrup-shaped blade mounted to the fork of a handle for limited articulation. Inturned flanges of the blade engage hourglass shaped openings in the fork arms, the flanges being retained between reinforcing bars which project through the openings and afford strength, wear resistance, and limited resilience to the blade. The fork is made in two separable parts whereby any component of the hoe may be replaced.

Abstract: A manual cultivator tool including a handle, a U-shaped blade, a tubular member provided with spaced flattened end portions having similar intermediately disposed bends therein, and a pair of separate handle attaching elements assembled into a final construction in which the tubular member interengages with the free ends of the legs of the U-shaped blade to form a strong annular structure and the attaching elements provide for both connection with the handle and the annular structure in such a way as to effect a limited tilting movement of the horizontal earth penetrating blade portion of the annular structure.