Earth working – Guided by walking attendant; supported – propelled – or held... – Hand tool
Patent
1984-07-06
1985-10-29
Johnson, Richard J.
Earth working
Guided by walking attendant; supported, propelled, or held...
Hand tool
15236R, D 8 7, 111 99, E04D 1306, A01B 120
Patent
active
045496110
ABSTRACT:
A tool including a handle secured axially to a reversible face plate structure having a flat sheet metal body including a first portion with a half-round-curved edge or periphery adapted to fit into half-round gutters as well as a second portion with a more rectangular peripheral contour conforming or complementary to inner shape of so-called "K" type gutters. A free end of the handle has a truncated, tapered end portion. Additional light-duty uses or applications total at least twelve tasks for employment thereof including use of the tool as a weeder in a garden; a ditcher; a hoe; a spreader; a row-forming tool; a seed-bed tool; a furrowing tool; a deep planting tool for bulbs, sets and small plants; a blending tool for mortar or plaster; a hand tiller for mulch and dry chemicals or fertilizer; a hand tamping tool for soil or sand; a planting lateral-spacing-gauge tool; a planting depth-gauge tool; and as a scraper for dirt, mud, plaster, mortar and the like. The handle has gauge markings located intermediate thereon.
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