Non-planar Earth Working Portion Patents (Class 172/381)
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Patent number: 12122325Abstract: An information processing device comprising a processor, the processor being configured to: in a case in which a door of a vehicle is locked, determine whether or not a terminal that operates as an electronic key is located in the vehicle; and in a case in which the terminal is determined to be located in the vehicle, perform control to restrict at least a subset of functions, among functions of the vehicle that are controlled in accordance with communications with the terminal, based on a lock trigger causing the locking of the door of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kuniharu Tsuzuki, Jumpei Fuke, Shimpei Asai, Nobuyoshi Nagai
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Patent number: 10710256Abstract: A knife including a body with a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a longitudinal axis that extends centrally through the first end and the second end. The knife further includes a first scoring tip that points in a first direction, a second scoring tip that points in a second direction opposite the first direction, and a scoring tip axis that extends centrally through the first scoring tip and the second scoring tip. The scoring tip axis is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. A chisel extends from the second end of the body and the longitudinal axis of the body extends centrally through the chisel.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: TTI (MACAO COMMERCIAL OFFSHORE) LIMITEDInventors: Drew A. Dahill, Nicholas A. Costanzo
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Patent number: 10617052Abstract: A shovel includes a continuously curved blade comprising a curved central portion that extends from a first cutting edge to a second cutting edge and a first curved wing and a second curved wing disposed along a curved central portion. The shovel also includes a base operably coupled to the continuously curved blade and comprising a first side wall coupled to a concave surface of the first curved wing, a second side wall spaced from the first side wall and coupled to a concave surface of the second curved wing, and a third side wall coupled to the curved central portion, wherein the third side wall extends from the first side wall and the second side wall toward the first cutting edge.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Inventor: Sonny S. Galea
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Patent number: 10602652Abstract: The weeding tool is a hand tool. The weeding tool is configured for use in agriculture. The weeding tool is adapted for use in removing a weed from a maintained plot. The weed is further defined with a root. By maintained plot is meant a plot of land that is either cultivated or landscaped. The weeding tool comprises a blade and a handle. The handle attaches to the blade. The blade is the working end of the weeding tool. The blade: 1) wedges itself into the weed; and, 2) pulls the weed out of the maintained plot by the root. The handle is an extension structure that: 1) connects the blade to the control grip, 2) is used to manipulate the blade; and, 3) allows the weeding tool to be used by a standing person.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Inventor: Douglas L. Joh
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Patent number: 10442093Abstract: A safety blade for use with a knife assembly having a handle with a cutting head engagement portion, the safety bade comprising (a) a blade body, a bade attachment having a first inner edge and a second inner edge, a first blade shield, a second blade shield, a first blade cutting edge, and a second blade cutting edge, and (b) a handle adaptor having a body portion and a handle engagement portion with a handle securing mechanism. The first blade cutting edge is positioned between the first blade shield and the first inner edge, and the second blade cutting edge is positioned between the second blade shield and the second inner edge.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2013Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Inventors: Matthew Jacobs, Jeffrey Kempker, Orville Crain
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Patent number: 10143121Abstract: A hand held tool for gardens, landscapes and the like; comprising a handle, and a tool head. The tool head is formed from a flat blade that has tapers and is bent in substantially a “J” shape that is beveled along a portion of its edges. The open end of the “J” has a beveled tip, preferably containing a center notch. The bent, closed portion of the “J” shape is beveled at least 50% and forms a heel. The short leg of the “J” forms a flange, which is preferably not beveled and provides an area for attaching the tool head to the handle, preferably via a tang. The blade width is generally four or more times wider than the thickness of the blade material.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: Randolph Artemas Holdredge
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Patent number: 9681597Abstract: A weed-pulling tool including a rectangular blade with a V-shaped notch at one end thereof and a handle connected to the blade via a tubular extension member extending from a second end thereof. The handle forms approximately a 50° angle with the level ground when the blade is laid flat against the ground. Such a configuration provides suitable leverage whereby a user may: (i) slide the blade into position with stems from one or more weeds in the V-shaped notch and (ii) push down on the handle thereby causing rotation about a support point such that the V-shaped notch portion of the blade pulls the one or more weeds, including root systems, out of the ground. One or more stiffening ribs runs along the perimeter of the V-shaped notch. The stiffening rib helps prevent the blade portions adjacent to the V-shaped notch from bending or failing while weeds are being pulled.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Inventor: Timothy M. Henshaw
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Publication number: 20140360742Abstract: A hoe includes a handle and a blade. In some embodiments, the handle and the blade are connected via a connection member. The connection member permits flexing, which reduces how much shock is transmitted to the user with digging motions. In some embodiments, the blade includes one or more sections at different angles. The different angles accomplish a gripping effect, which reduces how much the hoe is driven out of the ground, as it is being pulled. Accordingly, fewer interruptions and digging motions are needed to cover an area, which one permits to finish faster. In some embodiments, the blade has a mouth that permits some of the soil to flow through it, as the hoe is being pulled. The flow may reshuffle the soil. Optionally, a tooth protrudes such that it further cuts the flow of the soil.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventor: Bernard Finney
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Publication number: 20140334882Abstract: A hand tool that digs a shallow trench and places drip irrigation tubing, cable, or electrical wire is disclosed. The invention simplifies the process of laying drip irrigation tubing, cable, or wire requires less labor, fewer materials, and is not as costly. The tool has a rubber handle, a steel tube shaft, a hard metal claw for slicing through dirt, and polyethylene flexible tubing for guiding irrigation hose or electrical cable into the dirt. It also has a small cylinder and set screw for holding the tubing, and easy replacement when it wears out.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2013Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Noah Webster Gale, Dale Lee Walter
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Publication number: 20140209336Abstract: The present application is directed towards ring devices. The ring device includes a sheath and an elongated portion that is operably connected to the sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Inventor: Vincent A. Suozzi, JR.
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Publication number: 20130062081Abstract: In various embodiments, a garden tool may include a handle, a blade and mechanism for securing the handle to the blade. In various embodiments, the mechanism may include a first portion, in some cases a first band, configured to securely receive the handle. In various embodiments, the mechanism may include a second portion, in some cases a second band, defining a channel to surround a span of the handle. In various embodiments, the channel may be wider than a width of the handle along the span. This may permit movement of the handle relative to the blade during operation of the garden tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Inventors: Gerald Rudy Gerent, Joseph Scott Vermilyea
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Publication number: 20120267131Abstract: The present disclosure describes a device for installing an upright support member in a particulate substrate is provided, comprising an elongated first member having proximal end and a distal end and a lumen therein of approximately constant cross-section, extending from said proximal end to said distal end, the full cross section of said lumen being open at said distal end; an elongated second member having proximal end and a distal end, the distal end slidably engageable under application of manual force in a lengthwise manner into the proximal end and within the lumen of the first member; and a third member, having a periphery, affixed to said distal end of the second member, and fitted around the periphery thereof to form a slidable seal with the lumen of the first member during insertion and withdrawal of the second member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2011Publication date: October 25, 2012Inventor: Ulisses Russo de Oliveira
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Publication number: 20110127053Abstract: The invention relates to a spade with an additional cutting part resembling a shark fin that is located on the blade with an angle of 90 degrees and of which the front side is about 45 degrees, which makes it possible by means of a T-form incision to remove a taraxacum in its entirety by hand and to push back lumps of earth by the foot, wherein the damage to the lawn is minimal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2010Publication date: June 2, 2011Inventor: Adriaan Johannes STOFFELEN
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Patent number: 7935007Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 7, 2008Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Inventor: Christopher Andrew Gawryla
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Publication number: 20090321095Abstract: The fulcrum of this gardening device is relocated enhancing leverage. Mechanical advantage is achieved by the hinged two-sectioned handle and a pulling motion by the user. By reversing the load bearing handle of the instrument, and placing it horizontal to the ground, leverage is achieved by pulling the handle section of the jointed handle rather than striking or pressing as in other tilling tools. User's foot is strapped to the plow, spade or shovel head of the tool to move the tool. The jointed staff pieces are connected with a pivot hinge or other connection, and provide a range of movement along a central pivot point. Handle is adjustable by snap lock. Connected handle segments create unified one-handled instrument instead of hinged for use as a hoe, weeding tool, or the like. Tool is an improved hand-held plow, hoe or furrowing instrument for gardening or landscaping needs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2008Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventor: DAN E. SHISLER, IV
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Publication number: 20080202780Abstract: A power drill accessory includes a drive shaft (46) having an end removably interconnected to a power drill. A blade (12) for digging in soil is removably coupled by a pin (52) with the other end of the drive shaft (46). The blade (12) includes two parallel, spaced lateral sides (18) extending in a direction parallel to a blade axis (34) coaxial with a longitudinal axis of the drive shaft (46). The blade (12) further includes a top edge (20) and a bottom edge extending between the lateral sides (18). The blade (12) further includes two parallel, spaced, planar surfaces (36) each extending between the lateral sides (18) and the top edge (20) and the bottom edge. The blade axis (34) is intermediate the lateral sides (18) and intermediate the planar surfaces (36). The lateral sides (18), the top edge (20), and the bottom edge are located in a plane including the longitudinal axis and the blade axis (34).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventor: John P. Reiter
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Patent number: 7213658Abstract: An ergonomic hand tool for enhancing the leverage available to a user includes a frame having a distal portion and a proximal portion, and a working element operably coupled to a distal end of the distal portion. The frame further includes a handle that is pivotally coupled to the frame at a portion thereof intermediate the proximal portion and the distal portion. A brace structure is preferably operably coupled to the proximal portion of the frame, with the brace structure being configured to operably brace against an upper side of a user's forearm while the user operably grasps the handle.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2004Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Legacy Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Daniel P. Hurt
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Patent number: 7093667Abstract: An ergonomic hand tool for enhancing the leverage available to a user includes a frame having a distal portion and a proximal portion, and a working element operably coupled to a distal end of the distal portion. The frame further includes a handle that is pivotally coupled to the frame at a portion thereof intermediate the proximal portion and the distal portion. A brace structure is preferably operably coupled to the proximal portion of the frame, with the brace structure being configured to operably brace against an upper side of a user's forearm while the user operably grasps the handle.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2005Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: Legacy Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Daniel P. Hurt
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Patent number: 6827153Abstract: A garden tool with a non-slip handle grip, designed for immediate and not difficult removal of deep-rooted plants such as Thistle and Dock weeds. The body of the tool is of rigid and strong construction, with angled cutting faces and includes a plant/soil containment chamber. The tools angular cutting faces and profile, are designed to produce efficient insertion and soil compression when downward thrust is applied, which therefore holds captive the plant root in the containment chamber, hence achieving successful plant removal from the ground when the tool is withdrawn. The slotted front of the containment chamber allows for unwanted plant and soil removal from the tool. Optional hand and foot cross-members added, to produce more forceful insertion into and easier withdrawal from the ground, and to create a convenient standing operating stance, when using the tool.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2002Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Inventor: Robert Edward Constable
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Publication number: 20040206515Abstract: An implement for removing honeysuckle bushes and the like wherein the implement is inserted below the soil surface and the root ball of the bush is leveraged up and out of the soil. The implement may be manually used to break the roots of the bush before ultimate removal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2003Publication date: October 21, 2004Inventor: Christopher Grenner
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Patent number: 6733057Abstract: An Apparatus and method for breaking off cores from a material to be tested includes a tube split by opposing slots, a tightening device for moving confronting ends of a split tube towards each other so that the split tube grasps the core to be broken, and a handle for exerting lateral forces to break off the core. The core breaker is inserted into a space left by a core drill bit. The split tube is tightened around the core to be broken off, and lateral pressure is then applied to the handle to break off the core.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2002Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Inventors: Dovovan Lee Gustafson, Theodore Allen Spencer
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Patent number: 6612379Abstract: The present invention is directed to a multi-purpose gardening tool. In one preferred embodiment, the tool includes an arcuate central base. Extending from one end of the base is an arcuate scoop adapted to dig into, scoop up and transport a quantity of material. Extending from an opposite end of the base is a substantially V-shaped cutter having a sharpened peripheral edge for cutting through roots and the like. Preferably, the base, scoop and cutter are aligned and have a common radius of curvature to define a smooth bottom surface. The tool includes a handle extending generally parallel to a longitudinal axis of the tool. To protect a hand of a gardener gripping the handle, the handle offset from the peripheral edges of the scoop and cutter and the handle is supported at opposite ends by a pair of solid circular supports.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Wilmart, Ltd.Inventor: William D. Timmons
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Patent number: 6595298Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2002Date of Patent: July 22, 2003Inventor: Morris A. Crady
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Patent number: 6257346Abstract: A device for removing weeds from the ground comprises an elongated shaft, a handle mounted to an upper end of the shaft, a pair of blades mounted for opposed pivotal movement at a lower end of the shaft, and a plunger. Each blade has an upper section located above a pivot point of the blade and a lower section located below the pivot point. The plunger is mounted for reciprocal sliding movement between an extended position intermediate the lower sections of the blades and a retracted position intermediate the upper sections of the blades. The plunger and the upper sections of the blades include cam surfaces configured such that movement of the plunger from the extended position to the retracted position forces the upper sections of the blades away from one another, whereby tips of the blades are forced to converge towards one another to capture the weed and accompanying root structure. The weed and surrounding soil plug can be released by squeezing a hand-lever.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1999Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: Alterra Holding CorporationInventors: Robert T. Schofield, Paul A. Schneider
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Patent number: 6244356Abstract: A repair tool that attaches to the handle end of the shaft of a golf club for repairing golf ball marks on a putting green includes a body with spaced, radially arranged, circumferencial, wedge shaped prongs on a first said. A slotted skirt attached to the second side of the body, in combination with a tapered plug, a bolt and a nut, fits into the shaft and expands outward to tightly attach the tool to the golf club. A cap fits over the prongs to prevent injury to the golfer. A ridge on the prongs fits into an internal groove in the cap to prevent accidental removal of the cap while allowing the cap to be removed when desired.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2000Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Inventor: John Luna
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Patent number: 6073702Abstract: A garden tool is for use by a user to lay out columns of planting holes in a garden. The tool has a chassis that is sufficiently long to span a distance between columns to be laid out for the garden. A pair of blades each shaped for marking a surface of soil in the garden and for digging planting holes along a column in the garden, is fixed at an adjustable spacing to the chassis. The distance between the blades is selected to correspond to a desired distance between columns in the garden. A handle is connected to the chassis at a location between the blades, the handle being sufficiently long so that the blades are in contact with soil of the garden when a user is standing while holding the handle.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1998Date of Patent: June 13, 2000Inventor: Rocco Petruzzelli
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Patent number: 6062320Abstract: A single-handle tool (20) for manually forming cylindrically-shaped holes in soil is useful for planting shrubbery or for posting. A uniquely angled and shaped pocket (30) is formed in a shovel (26). The shovel is attached to one end of a shaft (22) while a handle (24) with a knob (28) extends at 90.degree. to the other end of the shaft. Shovel (26) comprises an upper component (32) secured to a lower component (34) at an angle of about 135.degree.. The upper component is formed from a pair of joined portions (36, 38) to form an arched (curved or angled) configuration. This combination of the 135.degree. angle between the upper and lower components and the arched configuration forms pocket (30). In operation, the user swivels the handle to rotate the shaft and pocket such that the unique sharp ended and contoured shovel cuts a cylindrical hole (52) and retains cut soil in the pocket for removal from the hole.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1998Date of Patent: May 16, 2000Inventors: Juan A. Pinto, Sergio Hernandez
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Patent number: 6056068Abstract: A gardening device comprising a weed engaging portion having forwardly projecting portions with a gap therebetween, a foot portion adapted to receive pressure applied by a foot, a base support having an arcuate lower surface and a handle portion connectable to an elongate handle; wherein pressure applied to the foot portion can be directed to move the weed engaging portion forward to engage a weed and a handle connected to the handle portion can be used to pivot the weed engaging portion upwardly with respect to the base to remove the weed from a ground surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1999Date of Patent: May 2, 2000Inventor: Nicholas O'Callaghan
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Patent number: 5960891Abstract: A multipurpose tool and a method for indoor or outdoor gardening, planting, and soil working are disclosed. The tool and method incorporate the capabilities of scooping, cutting, scraping, loosening, working, furrowing, trenching, digging, removing, and replacing kitchen commodities, household dirt or garden soil; of setting and removing plants; of weeding; of scraping, emptying, or cleaning planters, pots, and other kitchen or gardening containers, especially those having tight corners; and of cutting and removing plant roots and other obstacles found in or around soil. Preferred embodiments of the tool aspect of the invention provide a generally dished blade with a highly curved, offset pointed tip. Serrated blade edges for cutting of roots and other obstacles or debris are optionally provided. The method includes a procedure for loosening, furrowing, digging, and excavating soil with a single tool.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 1998Date of Patent: October 5, 1999Inventors: Kelly C. Sheehan, Michael O. Roser
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Patent number: 5857528Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1997Date of Patent: January 12, 1999Inventor: Lawrence V. Robinson
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Patent number: 5848653Abstract: A heavy duty, earth-working implement including an elongated handle having a wedge-shaped head mounted thereto which extends upwardly from a cutting blade along a continuously curved back surface which functions as a fulcrum to assist in prying rocks and other earth buried debris, which fulcrum terminates in a ledge which is aligned with the cutting block of the head so that a driving tool may be used to strike the ledge to thereby facilitate penetration of the cutting blade of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1996Date of Patent: December 15, 1998Inventor: Steve Warter
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Patent number: 5833009Abstract: The lawn edger is made up of a number of interconnected flat plates. One plate lies horizontally in use and has a forward cutting edge. A second plate is vertical in use and depends downwardly from one side edge of the horizontal plate. A third plate lies beside the horizontal plate and is disposed at an oblique angle to the vertical plate. That plate has a forward cutting edge. A fourth plate lies adjacent to the rear of the edger. The angle of that plate is such that it directs material which collects on the horizontal plate to move to the side thereof opposite the lateral plate. An electric motor having an eccentric cam bay be mounted on the edger for causing the edger to vibrate or to reciprocate.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1997Date of Patent: November 10, 1998Inventor: Walter Rebot
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Patent number: 5816337Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1997Date of Patent: October 6, 1998Inventor: Hsu Kun-Chuan
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Patent number: 5816338Abstract: A combined furrowing and tamping garden tool includes an elongated handle having a ground engaging member disposed at one end thereof. The ground engaging member has a furrow forming member and a soil replacing and tamping element formed therewith as a unitary member. The furrow forming member depends from a first edge of the ground engaging member and the replacing and tamping portion is in diametric opposition to the furrow forming member such that the handle can be rotated 180.degree. in either direction for the desired function.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1996Date of Patent: October 6, 1998Inventor: Damon S. Fleming
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Patent number: 5810093Abstract: A multi-purpose landscaping device for use with as hand-held rotary power tool such as an electric drill includes a shaft adaptable at one end for removable and operative connection to such a power tool, and a rotatable implement removably attached to the other end of the shaft, so that replacement of the rotatable implement is possible without replacement of the shaft. The rotatable implement is selected from the group consisting of a greenery cutter, a blower, a pruner, a soil augur and a weed extractor.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1996Date of Patent: September 22, 1998Assignee: Media GroupInventor: Herman S. Howard
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Patent number: 5787990Abstract: An improved lawn renovating tool for aerating, mulching, dethatching, seeding and fertilizing lawns which is lightweight and easy to use. The tool has a lightweight handle, an elongate tubular shaft with a seed or fertilizer feeding and soil breaking element attached to the bottom portion of the elongate shaft. The seed or fertilizer feeding and soil breaking element is a partially triangular tube having spike-tooth rotatable wheel-type attachments along its base and a series of holes for feeding seed or fertilizer from a feed hopper mounted on the elongate shaft. A damper and control pedal are also included, regulating the flow of seed or fertilizer.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1996Date of Patent: August 4, 1998Inventor: William M. Miller
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Patent number: 5765648Abstract: A multipurpose garden tool and method for indoor or outdoor gardening, planting, and soil working. The tool and method incorporate the capabilities of loosening, working, furrowing, trenching, digging, removing, and replacing soil; of setting and removing plants; of weeding; of scraping, emptying, or cleaning planters, pots, and other gardening containers, especially those having tight corners; and of cutting and removing plant roots and other obstacles found in or around soil. Preferred embodiments of the tool aspect of the invention provide a generally dished blade with a highly curved, offset pointed tip for loosening and furrowing soil. Serrated blade edges for cutting of roots and other obstacles or debris are optionally provided. The method includes a procedure for loosening, furrowing, digging, and excavating soil with a single tool.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1996Date of Patent: June 16, 1998Assignee: Garden Works, Inc.Inventors: Kelly C. Sheehan, Mike Roser
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Patent number: 5716132Abstract: An agricultural agitator used for disturbing matter such as compost includes a rod, a handle mounted on a top end of the rod, a first flat section formed at a middle portion thereof and a second flat section formed at a bottom end thereof. The second flat section is perpendicular to the first flat section and has a sharp tip at the bottom thereof. Two pairs of blades are respectively and pivotedly mounted on opposite sides of each of the first and second flat sections. Each blade resembles a tongue with a broad flat first end and a second end formed as two upright lugs.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1996Date of Patent: February 10, 1998Inventor: Hwei-rung Chou
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Patent number: 5695011Abstract: A multipurpose work-saving and ergonomically designed gardening tool useful for transplanting seedlings and other gardening tasks. A creased metal blade has a faceted cutting edge with straight sides. A cylindrical handle supports the flat end of the blade with fasteners.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1996Date of Patent: December 9, 1997Inventor: Francis P. Daniels
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Patent number: 5549167Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1995Date of Patent: August 27, 1996Inventors: Kevin M. Keperling, Sr., Michael T. Moore
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Patent number: 5529130Abstract: A root cutter having a blade front end portion and a rear edge provided with a handle and sufficiently wide to receive the foot of a user. The blade has a V-shaped cutting cavity at a front end. An intermediate edge, extending parallel to the rear edge, is located in the base of the cavity. The cavity has a first inward edge extending from the front end to the first end of the intermediate edge and a second inward edge extending from the front end to the second end of the intermediate edge. The inward edges are serrated cutting edges. The front end has a first arc extending from a first end of the first inward edge to a first end of the rear edge. A second arc extends form a first end of the second inward edge to a second end of the rear edge.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1994Date of Patent: June 25, 1996Inventor: Yong S. Suk
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Patent number: 5441118Abstract: A tool for removing roots, plants and other tubular objects from the earth while only minimally disturbing the surrounding soil. The tool includes a first, proximal end serving as a handle for rotating the tool and a second end including a plurality of coil-shaped tines. The tines include relatively sharp points and are shaped to efficiently penetrate the soil when the tool is rotated, disrupting the root system. Once engaged in the vertex of the tines, the main root stem entangles in the coil and rotates with the tool, eventually becoming free of the surrounding soil. The coil also maintains a grasp of the plant once removed from the earth which eliminates the extra step of picking up the removed plants from the surface of the soil.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 1994Date of Patent: August 15, 1995Inventor: Ramon M. Cruz, Jr.
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Patent number: 5372205Abstract: A hand held garden implement (FIG. 1) for refilling a furrow, requiring only one hand for operation, and allowing the operator to stand and walk fully erect. A handle (11) is attached into a receptacle (12) on a cover plate (13) which is connected to an inclined and converging scraper (14) which is connected to a bottom plate (15). Dirt is lifted up and into the tool as well as being pushed by it. Dirt then traverses the scraper towards the centerline of the tool, and is deposited into the furrow. The bottom plate then smoothes out and levels the deposited dirt.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 1993Date of Patent: December 13, 1994Inventor: Thomas A. Velez
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Patent number: 5277425Abstract: A repair tool for ball marks on golf greens is mounted on the grip end of a putter. The tool comprises a disc-like base mounting a cylinder on its periphery that is formed with blades which project away from the putter. The blades taper to points at their free ends for easy insertion into the soil about a ball mark. The adjacent sides of adjacent blades slope inwardly away from each other to define cutting edges on their outer periphery and plowing surfaces effective to plow soil which has been loosened by the cutting edges inward upon rotation to fill the ball mark/dent. An expandable fastener having an upper surface is inserted through the grip into the hollow end of a putter shaft for securely mounting the tool in place, the lower end of the cylinder also engaging the grip.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1992Date of Patent: January 11, 1994Assignee: Greenskeeper Corp. of DutchessInventor: Vincent J. Petriano, Sr.
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Patent number: 5257666Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1992Date of Patent: November 2, 1993Inventor: Charles E. Townsend, Jr.
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Patent number: 5097910Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1991Date of Patent: March 24, 1992Inventor: Edward F. Traczek
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Patent number: 4950013Abstract: A gardening trowel is provided to permit easy loosening of earth around plants and the like through the utilization of a handle which is substantially offset from the center line of the trowel to simultaneously provide a pushing post and a lever arm such that the heel of the palm is utilized to press the point of the trowel into the earth. This same offset handle is utilized along with an asymmetric trowel blade to permit easy rotation of the blade, such that upon insertion, the trowel may be rotated by the side or heel of the hand due to the lever arm provided by the offset handle, so as to easily rotate the blade even after insertion of the blade into packed, hardened earth.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1988Date of Patent: August 21, 1990Inventor: E. Hubbard Yonkers
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Patent number: 4892156Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1989Date of Patent: January 9, 1990Inventor: Walter C. Willis
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Patent number: 4865133Abstract: A gardening tool adapted to serve as a weeding hoe and a furrowing tool comprised of an elongated handle attached to a head part. The head part is five sided and is formed from flat material of generally uniform thickness having top and bottom surfaces angled downwardly from a central longitudinal rib. Two of the sides are shaped as a forwardly pointing "V" and have approximately three concave arcuate notches along the edges thereof. The "V" shaped portion merges into generally parallel sides with a perpendicular connecting rear side. The sides of the head are beveled and sharpened toward the bottom surface. The handle extends upwardly and rearwardly from a midportion of the head.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1988Date of Patent: September 12, 1989Inventors: Paul S. Dawley, Sally Dawley
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Patent number: 4618003Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1985Date of Patent: October 21, 1986Inventor: John L. Hostetter