Plural Rows Patents (Class 172/379)
  • Publication number: 20140138110
    Abstract: The multipurpose manual mixing and tilling tool, consisting of two elongated manipulating handles attached to opposingly hinged jaw members, each having a plurality of offset and optionally intermeshing tines makes use of manipulating actions that are ergonomically performed to accomplish the task of manual mixing or tilling especially for mixing in vessels such as a bucket, or for manual mixing of materials in vessels that have a deep volume requiring ability to easily reach and integrate the bottom layers. The resulting invention has also proven to be effective and useful as a garden type implement for tilling or loosening soil and such use is a further object of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventor: Robert Winston Corbett
  • Publication number: 20140060870
    Abstract: A gardening tool can take the place of multiple gardening tools. The gardening tool includes a substantially flat elongated plane having three edges that are adapted to function as different working tools. The gardening tool may be attached to a handle for operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventor: John G. Scarpati
  • Patent number: 7935007
    Abstract: A turf accessory placement device adapted for use with turf. The turf accessory placement device has a base. The base has a top, bottom and sides between the top and bottom. The turf accessory placement device has grip spikes extending from the bottom of the base which are adapted to grip the turf. The grip spikes have spike shanks projecting from the base in the same direction at an angle between one degree and eighty-eight degrees downward from a plane along the bottom of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Inventor: Christopher Andrew Gawryla
  • Patent number: 7059421
    Abstract: A weed extraction tool is disclosed, comprising an elongated handle, a prong assembly, and a step assembly. The prong assembly includes a rod having a plurality of prongs attached at a lower end thereof and a pivot pin holder near its center. The step assembly comprises a flat step portion at one end, a plurality of fingers at another end, and two sides near the center of and under the step assembly. An opening is formed in the top side proximate its center, and each side includes a side opening. The rod of the prong assembly is inserted through the opening in the top side of the step assembly such that a pivot pin may be inserted through one side of the step assembly, through the pivot pin holder, and through the other side of the step assembly, so as to pivotably fix the prong assembly to the step assembly. As such, the opening of the top side of the step assembly is sufficient only to allow the step assembly to pivot between closed and open positions with respect to the prong assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Inventor: Ronald E. Gray
  • Patent number: 6076614
    Abstract: A dirt-loosening tool comprising of an elongated handle having a head at one end that has multiple prongs in separate planes that can be easily pushed into soil. A footrest deposed between the separate planes doubles as a leveraged fulcrum. This allows for effortless cultivation of compacted dirt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Inventor: Mark S. Gracy
  • Patent number: 5813471
    Abstract: A ground aerator is provided including a thin square base plate with a top surface, a bottom surface and a periphery formed therebetween. An array of posts are coupled to the bottom surface of the base plate and extend downwardly therefrom to define a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. An elongated cylindrical handle is included having a top end with an elastomeric grip formed thereon and a bottom end coupled to a center of the base plate and extending in perpendicular relationship therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Inventor: Philip M. Ramsey
  • Patent number: 5433278
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Inventor: Jeffrey C. Shipley
  • Patent number: 5003760
    Abstract: A combination cultivator, rake and hoe having cultivator tines of uneven length parallel to one another and inclined with respect to the handle. A hoe blade, preferably with a sharpened forward edge is connected on one or both ends of the row of cultivator tines extending substantially parallel to the tines and to the handle. Rake tines directed oppositely to the cultivator tines are offset upwardly toward the handle. The uneven lengths of the cultivator tines reduce the intitial force needed to be applied to penetrate the soil and the blade or blades exert substantially no drag when the tines are moved forwardly or backwardly through the soil. The hoe blade or blades can be used with the tool rotated 90.degree. from the cultivating position. The blade is pushed against the stem of weeds or other growth to be removed, slightly below the soil surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1991
    Inventor: Nancy A. Webb
  • Patent number: 4905768
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Inventor: Friedrich Lorenz
  • Patent number: 4846286
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus for fixing ball marks. The apparatus includes a pair of turf gripping elements for moving patches of turf and soil for fixing or filling in ball mark indentations on a golf green. The apparatus is preferably manually actuated through a linkage-lever mechanism for moving the turf gripping elements during a ball mark fixing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Inventors: John J. McNeely, David S. Hutton
  • Patent number: 4791995
    Abstract: A manual tiller, mulcher and weeder tool has an elongated upright handle having its lower end connected to a horizontal top plate which has a series of diamond-headed tines extended downwardly in parallel spaced apart relation from the underside of the top plate. A cleaning plate has a series of holes aligned with the tines for vertical sliding movement of the cleaning plate on the tines. Compression springs mounted on selected tines urge the cleaning plate to a lowered position adjacent the tine heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1988
    Inventor: Eugene Hochlan, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4115984
    Abstract: A support member is pivotally connected to a baler and projects laterally thereof. A side delivery rake is secured to the projecting end of the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1978
    Inventor: Talmadge Whipple Simpson
  • Patent number: 4054178
    Abstract: A gardening tool that includes a handle portion having a plurality of tines depending therefrom and a second plurality of tines of shorter length, which are adjustable in alternating arrangement with the longer tines. Each tine of the second plurality of tines includes two telescoping portions surrounded by a clamp with a variably tapered internally threaded section. The variable taper within the clamp facilitates the clamping together of the two telescoping portions of the tine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1977
    Inventor: Ferron Boothe