Handling: hand and hoist-line implements – Hand forks and shovels – Fork
Patent
1998-01-23
2000-02-22
Kramer, Dean J.
Handling: hand and hoist-line implements
Hand forks and shovels
Fork
294 57, A01B 102
Patent
active
060271531
ABSTRACT:
A garden trowel includes a handle, a blade, and a connection member interconnecting the handle and the blade. The handle has a length which accommodates the use of two hands. The blade includes a body portion and a stem portion. The body portion of the blade has a beveled edge. The stem portion of the blade is bent and is attached to the connection member. The bent stem portion of the blade effectively offsets the blade from the handle. The handle of the trowel is formed in an offset manner along a longitudinal axis. More particularly, the handle is rotationally offset in a range between about four and about six degrees with respect to a vertical plane intersecting the longitudinal axis (to the right for a right handed trowel and to the left for a left handed trowel). The handle includes an increasing, graduated size of the handle that extends from a forward end of the handle to a rear end of the handle. The forward end of the handle is connected to the blade via the connection member. The rear end of the handle includes first and second tapering, flattened sides which greatly increases the grip and turning power of the blade of the trowel much facilitating any kind of digging encountered.
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Trump Garden Tools advertisement, published Apr. 5, 1965.
Chin Paul
Kramer Dean J.
Litman Richard C.
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