Abstract: A self-cleaning, dual purpose, manual garden tool that can be used either as a weeder or as a cultivator. The tool has an elongated body that serves as a handle. The body is longitudinally split into two parts which are pivotally joined at one end. When the two parts are brought together they mate so as to form a single body. A blade formed of laterally spaced tines is mounted at the pivoted end of one body part so as to form a longitudinal extension of that body part. Another blade formed of laterally spaced tines is mounted on the pivoted end of the other body part so as to form a transverse extension thereof. When the tool is used as a weeder the longitudinally extending blade is shoved in the soil underneath a weed and the weed is lifted by a prying action. When the tool is used as a cultivator the transversely extending blade is used to scarify the top soil and dig out weeds.

Abstract: A semi-automatic, adjustable picking and weeding implement comprises a stationary prong and an adjustable prong with which a horizontal handle, a stop pad, a spring, two horizontal, partly-threaded shafts, two stop pegs and four nuts are associated so that the implement can be vertically pushed into soil, and one prong can be slantingly pressed toward the other to pluck up weeds easily and promptly. After that, the prong that is slantingly pressed can automatically recover its vertical position. In order to weed various sizes of weeds, the span between the stationary prong and the adjustable prong can be modified. Essential methods for using such an implement are also disclosed.

Abstract: A one hand operable grasping tool having extended and crossing tines, or raking members, that transform the tool into a small one hand operable rake when in a closed position.

Abstract: A gardening tool for digging around weeds, vegetables, bushes, etc., and in particular, a gardening tool having a handle, two laterally mounted straight prongs extending parallel to one another, and a medially mounted pair of diverging prongs which extend in a gradually diverging manner from one another to define a V-shaped member.

Abstract: An apparatus (10) for rotary extraction of weeds and other vegetation by hand or by using a power driver. The apparatus includes a hollow guide tube (20) in which a shaft (16) is slidably disposed. An extraction head having a plurality of pointed rods (12) or prongs (62) is coupled to shaft (16), and can be extended or retracted by movement of shaft (16) within the guide tube (20). The rods (12) or prongs (62) are extended and inserted into the soil over the vegetation to be removed. Rotation of the apparatus winds the vegetation and its root around the rods (12) or prongs (62) and removes it from the soil. The vegetation is then ejected from the apparatus by retracting the rods (12) or prongs (62) and, if necessary, sliding the vegetation off of the tapered sleeve (30).

Abstract: A ball repair tool has a plurality of fingers which extend first vertically into the surface of the green. After extending into the green vertically a specified distance, the plurality of fingers are forced conically inward to force both dirt and grass into the unrepaired ball mark. Once repaired, the fingers are retracted leaving a repaired ball mark. The holes made by the blades of the fingers aid in the repair of the ball mark by aerating the area around the repaired ball mark. The vertical extension of the fingers into the green before the conical motion to force dirt and grass into the ball mark provides sufficient depth of the repair area to adequately support the green area.

Abstract: A rake is provided including a U-shaped bail supported from the handle and a tine construction incorporating an elongated bar and a plurality of laterally outwardly projecting tines extends between and supported from the free ends of the arms of the bail for movement between an extended operative position with the plane of the tines disposed substantially normal to the plane of the bail and a retracted position with the plane of the tines substantially corresponding with the plane of the bail and the tines fully enclosed within the confines of the bail and projecting toward the free end of the handle which projects outwardly from the longitudinal center portion of the bight portion of the bail. Detent structure is provided for releaseably retaining the tine construction in its extended or operative position as well as in its retracted position and the tine construction and bail include coacting stop structure for limiting pivoting of the tine construction from the retracted position to the operative position.

Abstract: An apparatus (10) for rotary extraction of weeds and other vegetation by hand or by using a power driver. The apparatus includes a hollow guide tube (20) in which a shaft (16) is slidably disposed. A plurality of pointed rods (12) are coupled to shaft (16), and can be extended or retracted by movement of shaft (16) within the guide tube (20). The rods (12) are extended and inserted into the soil over the vegetation to be removed. Rotation of the apparatus winds the vegetation and its root around the rods (12) and removes it from the soil. The vegetation is then ejected from the apparatus by retracting the rods (12) and, if necessary, sliding the vegetation off of the tapered sleeve (30).

Abstract: A stand up hand-held tool to penetrate soil for purposes of cultivation, weeding and the like. The tool comprises an elongate spear shaft, at least one end of which is pointed or otherwise formed to provide a leading edge for expeditious soil penetration. An elongate tubular handle grip, preferably extending about 2/5 the length of the shaft, is mounted on the shaft rod to provide a smooth manual hand grip surface to permit a user's hand to slidably grip the tool in a large variety of longitudinal positions along the lengthwise axis of the rod. The tool is specifically designed to permit a user in a standing position to manipulate the tool using an underhanded sliding grip with one hand on the smooth handle grip.

Abstract: A rake head attachment for raking the sand of a trap, designed for being removably mounted upon the grip of the shaft of a golf club. This rake head attachment comprises an elongate support member, from a lower portion of which a plurality of rake teeth extend substantially perpendicularly downwardly in a coplanar array. The upper portion of the support member is enlarged, with a handle-receiving socket defined in a central part thereof, with the central axis of the socket being generally perpendicular to the plane of the teeth. The socket has elongate members of springy, flexible material of sufficient length as to collectively define a socket of sufficient depth as to tightly and firmly receive a substantial portion of the end of the grip. The members close around the end of the inserted grip so as to grasp such end sufficiently tightly as to enable the rake teeth of the attachment to be pulled through the sand of the trap.

Abstract: A pitch-mark repair tool used for repairing pitch-marks made on greens when playing golf is provided with a timing device which allows specific time periods applicable to a game of golf, such as the five-minute rule, to be measured objectively and simply with the specific advantage of being a non-disturbing yet readily usable piece of equipment which is required in general to be carried by all golfers. The repair tool timing device has operating buttons which are on the pitch-mark repair tool and which can be recessed and of such a size and shape that unintentional activation of the timing device is prevented when using the tool purely to repair a pitch-mark.

Abstract: A light weight, highly visible tool with no moving parts for repairing ball marks on golf course greens without the user bending over. User holds grip and pushes tines into surface of ground. User manipulates shaft causing multi-faceted curved fulcrum head including upwardly diverging side surfaces to provide leverage for repairing ball marks quickly, quietly, and without up and down movements. Tines, base, multi-faceted curved fulcrum head, collar, and neck are cast together forming a one piece tool. Neck fits and is affixed inside shaft up to collar. Grip is affixed to cover the opposite end of shaft. Flag fits around shaft and is held in place by grip and ring. With tines inserted into the ground, the shape of multi-faceted curved fulcrum head allows entire tool to stand by itself.

Abstract: A garden tool having an elongate shaft with a handle on one end of the shaft and the opposite end of the shaft having a plurality of circumferentially spaced generally axially extending cultivating and weeding prongs, and the shaft and handle permitting a gardener to use the tool in a generally upright position for soil loosening, cultivating and weeding by rotary and rocking maneuvers of the handle and agitating the prongs, and for optionally spearing trash or aerating sod.

Abstract: A weed extraction device for digging, cutting, twisting and pulling out weeds. The weed extraction device includes a rod member from which a handle is formed by bending the rod member. The handle is useful in pushing the device into the ground and to twist the device to twist out the weeds and by which the user can pull the weed from the ground without bending over. The rod member also includes a foot step which is formed by bending the rod member and is useful in pushing the device into ground to the depth of the tap root. Attached permanently to the rod member is the root trap which is a half-cone or hemiconically shaped cutting, coring and compacting portion of the device. The root trap is useful to dig into the ground, cut a cone shaped plug, compact the tap root and branch roots and twist out the weed including the tap root which prevents the root from ever growing again.

Abstract: An implement can be releasably attached to a towel to be used as a rake to smooth sand and as an anchor to anchor the towel to the ground. The implement includes a spring-biased clamp that is releasably attached to the towel adjacent to one edge of that towel and a mounting ring on a base bar. A multiplicity of ground engaging teeth are mounted on the base bar as is a mounting ring. The mounting ring engaging ring releasably engages the mounting ring to attach the base bar to the towel via the spring-biased clamp. One form of the base bar includes a plurality of sections that telescopically connect together.

Abstract: A one-piece leveling device for smoothing and leveling granular materials comprising a rigid flat elongated body having upper and lower portions, each a predetermined configuration, aperture means located in the upper portion of the body for aid in gripping the device by hand, and a plurality of spaced-apart conically-shaped finger elements of a predetermined configuration formed into the lower portion of the body, said finger elements defining a plurality of spaces located between each finger element such that the shape of the spaces is substantially the same as the inverted shape of the finger elements, whereby in use the finger elements extend into the surface of the granular material and, when moved in a forward or backward direction, smooth and level any irregularities in the surface thereof.

Abstract: A golf tool combination (20) of a divot repairer (22) and a ball marker or spotter (26) comprises a pair of markers joined together as a unit (24) by legs (42) with a lip (48) of one marker engaging indentations (38) in the other marker. A space (28) provided between the markers receives and holds divot repairer (22) between the markers in the space. Prongs (62) in repairer (22) resiliently engage curved surfaces (52) on legs (42) to ensure that the divot repairer is held with the assembled together markers. A V-shaped portion (64) joins the prongs and enables a user to grip, position and manipulate the repairer in a relatively pressure-free manner when used to repair and replace divots.

Abstract: A weed cutting tool including an elongate handle mounting a generally "L" shaped leg at a lower end thereof for securement to a blade member. The blade member includes arcuate forward and rear cutting edges, with spaced parallel sides, each side including a cutting notch therewithin. Modifications of the invention include mounted forward and rear cutting blades, with the forward blade including saw tooth projections, and the rear blade including spaced notched members with intercommunicating cutting edges, with a handle including a cavity formed within the handle for securing gloves and the like therewithin.

Abstract: A garden tool configured as a glove includes a rigid "J" shaped body terminating in a continuous forward edge spaced from an entrance opening, wherein the entrance opening includes a flexible surrounding skirt mounted to the rigid opening. The interior surface of the glove defining the concave bottom surface is of an undulating configuration to accommodate fingers of a hand positioned therewithin. The glove includes modifications, wherein the glove terminates in a forward blunt surface receiving a spike thereon. Further, the invention utilizes a glove mounting a spike spaced from the forward continuous edge, and wherein the spike optionally may include a replaceable spike mounting spaced rearwardly extending cutting blades for cutting roots and the like in use.

Abstract: A hoe attachment for a conventional rotary line trimmer designed to cultivate soil when rotated and which is particularly useful for cultivating small areas of soil. The attachment comprises a plurality of downwardly extending arms each having a blade projection at the lower end thereof extending radially inwardly toward the vertical axis of rotation.

Abstract: An improved golf club having a turf repairing fork formed in the heel of the head thereof enabling the golfer to remain erect while repairing the turf. The golfer saves effort and time by forcing the fork down into the grass mound left by the impact of a golf ball on a putting green, sufficiently far enough so that it extends under the depressed turf of the ball mark. By rocking the putter shaft slightly forward the fork will lift the depressed turf and by rocking the putter shaft slightly backwards, the grass mound can be pulled back to its original position. The fork of the putter can also be used to clean foreign matter from the soles and spikes of a golfer's shoes.

Abstract: Plant uprooting apparatus having a pair of jaws movable relatively to one another between open and closed positions in response to movements by a person of an actuating grip and linkage. The movement in one direction of the grip is limited so that the force that must be exerted by the person to maintain the jaws in their closed position is minimal.

Abstract: A golf ball mark repair tool is mounted on a hand grip end of the shaft of a golf club. The repair tool has a mounting base secured to the hand grip end of the shaft, and an elongated prong attached to one end of the base and projecting therefrom. The prong has a configuration for prying turf to repair a ball mark. The shaft of the golf club provides a handle extension for the base of sufficient length for permitting a player to operate the tool to repair the ball mark by gripping the handle extension while standing erect. The repair tool also includes a protective cover removably mounted to the club shaft end and having a hollow interior for extending over and enclosing the turf prying prong. Preferably, the cover constitutes an extension of the club hand grip.

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 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 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 garden tool for cultivating and tilling garden soil has a cultivating blade secured at one end of an elongated handle. The cultivating blade is formed by a plurality of sequential adjacent connected teeth, each formed by a pair of perpendicular facets intersecting at a ridge line. The leading edge of each of the facets is grounded to a sharpened cutting edge. In use, the cultivating blade is pushed forward and downward into the surface of the soil and subsequently pulled back. This reciprocating movement is repeated and tills the ground in a shaving or plowing action.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing ball marks from golf course surfaces includes an elongated handle having at one end thereof a tongue having prongs to be inserted into the turf, adjacent and beneath the ball mark. A tension spring attaches the tongue to the handle, and a compression spring spaces the tongue from the handle against the action of the tension spring. The tension spring attachment permits the tongue to pivot relative to the long axis of the handle, and the compression spring acts to return the tongue to alignment with the long axis of the handle after each use.

Abstract: A rake head attachment to be removably attached to a handle, such as the shaft of a golf club, and which is constructed so that it may easily and quickly be coupled to the shaft of the golf club. This is achieved by dropping the shaft between two spaced and parallel pieces mounted on the rake head, by turning the shaft into slots in the two pieces, and then by drawing the shaft through aligned holes at the inner ends of the slots until the hosel is firmly engaged by the pieces. The slots in the pieces are shaped and positioned such that the rake head is firmly held on the shaft of the golf club without any tendency for the rake head to turn or otherwise move with respect to the shaft.

Abstract: A greens repair tool is described having an elongated casing which is adapted to be placed in the shaft of a golf club. The casing defines a central chamber for slidably positioning a fork. The fork includes a pair of prongs in spaced substantially parallel position to each other. When not in use, the prongs of the fork are nested in the chamber of the casing out of the way of the golfer. In use, the prongs may be pulled out a certain distance. The golfer may then repair the greens utilizing the entire length of the shaft of the golf club.

Abstract: A collapsible sand rake assembly may be stored within the shaft of a golf club and selectively extended from an upper end of the club for use. The sand rake assembly includes a post which has a limited range of sliding movement with respect to the golf club, a rake back which is pivotally connected to the post, and a plurality of tines which are pivotally connected to the rake back. The rake back may be pivoted to extend perpendicualr to the post, and likewise the tines may be pivoted to extend perpendicular to the rake back, to configure the golf club for use as a sand rake by the golfer. The tines and the rake back may then be retracted to lie substantially parallel and adjacent to the post, for insertion within the shaft. The sand rake assembly is held within the golf club shaft in a manner which minimizes contact between the assembly and the shaft, to permit normal use of the golf club.

Abstract: A soil dressing implement useful as a sand trap rake, the head thereof including a transverse body portion with plurality of tines and a vane extending across the rear of the tines for the full width of the head. The tines, which are laterally spaced, have a downwardly and rearwardly sloped front edge merging into a rearwardly and downwardly curved bottom edge. The bottom edge curves slightly upward at the rear and terminates at a lower edge of the vane. The vane has a front flat surface which slopes downwardly and forwardly towards the lower edge thereof. The transverse body has a top surface having a rear edge which is forward of the bottom edges of tines when the implement is lying on its back. The implement has better raking characteristics than known devices because the front sloped surface of the vane has a tendency to pull the tines down into the sand and to distribute the sand which then flows between the tines and spills over the upper edge of the vane so as to not leave any tine marks.

Abstract: A garden tool which includes a handle and a connected head part. The head part includes multiple sides each formed into a tool part for performing a specific garden task.

Abstract: A weed cutting and extracting tool having upper and lower portions, the lower portion having a weed cutting and pulling device attached thereto and a foot rest for applying pressure to said weed cutter, the upper portion of said tool being crank shaped so as to rotate said tool when in use.

Abstract: A rake having independently pivotal tines which have eccentric portions designed so that the rake moves through the soil on edge upon displacement of the support in one direction and moves through the ground broadside upon displacement of the rake through the ground in an opposite direction.

Abstract: A compound garden type or agricultural tool having a handle which is adapted to be fitted to a blade type of implement which is angularly adjustable for use as a spade, shovel or hoe and a fork type implement which is similarly adjustable. Additionally, the fork is adapted to be fitted with a pronged attachment which converts the fork into a rake. The adjustability feature comprises an angulated shoulder surface on the blade and fork type implements and having a projection which is operable to cooperate with a recess and a flat surface in the handle for establishing a straight, inclined, and right angled position for the particular implement engaging the handle.

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: A manually operated tool for simultaneously preparing a seed bed, feeding seed and dispersing the seed uniformly in the bed consists of a rake-like structure, the head of which is integrated with an appendage bearing enclosure for containing a supply of seed and for cooperating with the rake-like structure when manipulated to cause controlled scarifying of the ground and efficient and controlled feeding and dispersing of the seed.

Abstract: A furrower having shares that are displaceable on a support pipe which is connected to a tool attachment socket by a swivel joint, that can be fastened in any position. The fastening place is effected by a clamping device which can be released against spring action by a manual knob or button. A clamping member within the head of the share is pressed by means of its clamping section against the support pipe. This clamping section can be released by pushing the manual knob inwards. Preferred places of attachment to the support pipe are defined by notches. Each notch can accommodate one share, the share being engaged with the notch by means of a notch pin.

Abstract: A garden tool which allows the user to rake, cultivate, thatch, weed and aerate the soil is disclosed. The tool comprises a handle and a work head which includes a number of partially rotatable earth-working elements. One end of each element is specifically adapted to travel the surface of the soil to sever weeds and to cultivate and aerate the soil. The opposite end of each element is adapted to act as a rake for raking and thatching grass lawns. The rake side of the tool can also be used to weed, cultivate and aerate by causing the tips of the elements to penetrate the soil and work it loose.

Abstract: A weeding tool is provided in the form of a fork having a plurality of tines, each tine having teeth which project outwardly and rearwardly from lateral edges thereof. The tines are employed for breaking up and loosening soil around relatively large weed roots. The teeth along the tine edges collect and withdraw small, hair-like rootlets dispersed throughout the soil in association with the larger roots. In a preferred embodiment the rearwardly directed teeth are offset in a crosscut configuration and are staggered along edges of adjacent tines to increase their effectiveness. The removal of rootlets during the course of ordinary weeding with the tool reduces regeneration of weeds by propagation of the rootlets.

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 hoe-rake including a flat, wide-meshed basket-shaped structure attached to a shaft. The basket-shaped structure includes radially placed strips or wires in two horizontal planes, connected by way of vertical strips or wires, the strips or wires in the lower horizontal plane being formed as inwardly pointing prongs.

Abstract: A tool such as a garden cultivator, squeegee, or paint-roller holder has a relatively short handle provided at its rear end with a relatively deep backwardly open recess. An extension handle has a relatively long front end engageable relatively far into this recess and is provided with a fixed ring formed with a multiple screwthread engageable with a similar formation inside the recess so that the two parts can be locked together by a single revolution relative to each other. At its rear end the extension handle is provided with a cap having a forwardly directed end and screwthread formations similar to that of the front and of the extension handle so that this cap can be placed on the rear end of the short handle of the tool if desired.

Abstract: A kit for converting a conventional rake having one row of tines to one having two rows of tines in back-to-back relation. The kit comprises a straight attachment bar having sawteeth on one edge and three clamping plate assemblies, each of which consists of a pair of complemental plates shaped to have the back bar of a conventional rake snugly received therebetween, and a pair of bolts and nuts which clamp the plates toward each other. A shim is also provided for each plate assembly which adapts the latter to a conventional rake having a particular curvature in its back bar and tines.

Abstract: A landscaping hand rake having a handle, tines and an extensive arcuate body containing rectangular perforations across the width of the body. In the inverted position the rake will cause dirt to be scooped into the arcuate cavity due to a cutting edge created by a lip on one of the edges of the rectangular perforations.

Abstract: An implement for smoothing the surface of sand in a golf course sand-trap is described. The smoothing portion of the implement comprises a substantially cylindrical body having tapered ends designed to be drawn through the sand, just below its surface, by an elongated handle joined to the cylindrical body at its mid-point. In one embodiment, the surface of the cylindrical body is smooth over its entire extent, while in other embodiments the surface is provided with a series of parallel, circumferentially and equally spaced circular ridges.

Abstract: A hand garden tool generally in the form of a rake wherein all tines are individually vertically-adjustable upon the crossbar, some to different depths depending from the crossbar and alternate tines can be elevated or raised to allow the depending tines to astraddle vegetable plant or flower rows so the cultivating action is had by a single raking action or pass of the converted rake cultivating tool along the vegetable rows and so that the rows are cultivated on opposite sides at the same time. The vegetable or flower rows in the garden which are to be cultivated by the use of this tool can be spaced closer together and conserve upon ground space and the work required for the cultivator to keep a garden thereby greatly reduced. The tool can be inverted and worked from one side or the other with the alternate raised tines by less rows at a time and at times the pulling is being made in more tough ground.

Abstract: A device having combined features of a glove and a garden tool is disclosed. The device includes a glove element having a bar grip installed therein, with a tool element attached to the bar grip. In one embodiment, a horizontal bar grip is employed in conjunction with a tool element having forks or tines, such as a rake. In a second embodiment, a vertical bar grip is employed in conjunction with a tool element which has the form of a scoop or spade.

Abstract: The present invention resides in a floor cleaning aid or lawn edging device comprising a shank having a handle portion at one end thereof, a blade member depending from another end of said shank remote from said handle, means projecting from said blade member in a direction transverse to the plane of the blade member and an elongate member pivotally connected at one end thereof to said shank to pivot in a plane substantially parallel to said plane of the blade. Further there is provided a spring connecting said elongate member and said blade member, said spring being adapted to bias said elongate member towards said blade member.