Plural Prongs, Teeth Or Serrations Patents (Class 172/378)
  • Patent number: 4002207
    Abstract: A hand tool used to manage and cultivate soil in confined areas, as planters and pots, for growing plants. The tool has an elongated handle having an end integral with an earthworking implement. The handle has triangularly related linear sides which taper inwardly toward the earthworking implement, wherein the sides are adapted to be engaged by the first and second fingers and thumb of the user. On the end of the handle opposite to the earthworking implement, the sides converge into a cylindrical section terminating in a knob. The earthworking implement includes a body having a plurality of teeth. The body can be in the shape of a shovel, pick or rake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1977
    Inventor: Richard O. Bartz
  • Patent number: 3985382
    Abstract: A weed puller having a shank projecting from a handle and carrying two laterally turned prongs between which a weed is received, with the prongs having opposed weed contacting surfaces with first entrance throat portions which converge relatively rapidly toward one another to the location of inner portions of those surfaces which extend more parallel to one another and define a compression compartment within which the weed can be frictionally retained for removal from the earth by the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1976
    Inventor: Harold Dale Wheeler
  • Patent number: 3955513
    Abstract: A device in which a single elongate shaft serves to support a tined structure for the cultivation of ground, a hopper for holding a quantity of a particled material such as fertilizer or the like that will have a beneficial result when applied to the soil, and manually operated means that are longitudinally movable relative to the handle for intermittently causing a metered quantity of the particled material to be discharged from the hopper onto the ground, either concurrently with the cultivation of the ground, or prior to or after the cultivation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1976
    Inventor: Swan M. Akeyson
  • Patent number: 3930544
    Abstract: A garden cultivation implement equipped with a plurality of cutting edges for cutting and removing weeds or other undesired growth in the cultivation of a garden. Tines are also provided from the body of the cutter for use as a rake or cultivator and the outer edges of the implement are useful for hilling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1976
    Inventor: Lloyd Foster, Sr.