Trowels, and other like Horticultural and Agricultural Implements for Various Purposes.
Year: 1885

page_text: Trowels, and other like Horticultural and Agricultural
Implements for Various Purposes.
I, GEORGE PARKES of the Firm of A. and F. Parkes and Company of Dartmouth
Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Edge Tool Manufacturer do hereby
declare the nature of said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OR PRODUCTION OF RAKES, HOES, TROWELS AND OTHER LIKE HORTICULTURAL AND
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the manufacture or production of rakes, hoes and other
horticultural and agricultural implements for various purposes from sheet metal;
and my said invention consists in forming or making the said implements from a
single blank or piece of metal, without rivetting a part thereto, as has heretofore
been practised; that is, the blade or prongs, the body, and the tang or socket of
the implement are made in one pieco.
I will first describe my invention in connection with a rake provided with a
socket.
I cut out from sheet metal a blank with a widened or extended front part, of
somewhat the figure of the front of a rake to be formed, with the fronts of the
prongs or teeth, disposed in the same plane as the metal.
That part of the blank above the prongs which forms the body, is connected to
the part to form the socket, by a neck or shank; thus, the metal to form the socket
consists of a rectangular piece of metal attached by a neck or web to the body and
prong part.
By means of tools, I raise the blank into a rake of the desired form; that is to
say, the back part is raised or turned up into a short barrel or socket, for carrying
a handle or stale, the joint of which said socket may be welded or left open.
When the joint is welded I preferably make the metal of the meeting edges
slightly lap, so as to produce a firm shut.
The body of the rake is coffered or troughed, so as to give rigidity and strength
thereto, while the prongs are twisted or turned at right angles, so as to present the
thin edges of the metal to the front and back of the rake.

page_text: By my invention, rakes and the like are cheaply made; and moreover, the
socket being made in one piece with the body and prongs, there is no liability of
the said socket becoming detached, as is common with those of the ordinary
manufacture, where the socket is rivetted to the body of the rake.
Instead of a socket a tang may be substituted therefor, in this latter case, the 5
body part, is slightly troughed to impart strength thereto, while the forward end
is pointed, to enable it to be driven into the end of the stock or handle.
The application of my invention to other like implements, differs in no essential
respect from its application to a rake, other than the substitution of a blade, for
prongs or forks,
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page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture or Production of Rakes, Hoes,
Trowels, and other like Horticultural and Agricultural
Implements for Various Purposes.
I, GEORGE PARKES of the Firm of A & F Parkes and Company of Dartmouth
Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Edge Tool Manufacturer, do dereby
declare the nature of said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OR PRODUCTION OF RAKES, HOES, TROWELS AND OTHER LIKE HORTICULTURAL AND
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES " and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
My invention relates to the manufacture or production of rakes, hoes and other
horticultural and agricultural implements for various purposes from sheet metal;
and my said invention consists in forming or making the said implements from a
single blank or piece of metal without rivetting a part thereto, as has heretofore
been practised; that is, the blade or prongs, the body, shank or socket of the
implement are made in one piece.
I will first describe my invention in connection with a rake provided with a
socket.
I cut out from sheet metal a blank with a widened or extended front part, of
somewhat the figure of the front of a rake to be formed, with the fronts of the
prongs or teeth, disposed in the same plane as the metal.
That part of the blank above the prongs which forms the body, is connected to
the part to form the socket, by a neck or shank; thus the metal to form the socket
consists of a rectangular piece of metal attached by a neck or web to the body and
prong part.
By means of tools, I raise the blank into a rake of the desired form; that is to
say, the back part is raised or turned up into a short barrel or socket, for carrying
a handle or stale, the joint of which said socket may be welded or left open.
When the joint is welded, I preferably make the metal of the meeting edges
slightly lap, so as to produce a firm shot.
The body of the rake is coffered or troughed, so as to give rigidity and strength
thereto, while the prongs are twisted or turned at right angles, so as to present the
thin edges of the metal to the front and back of the rake.
By my invention, rakes and the like are cheaply made; and moreover, the
socket being made in one piece with the body and prongs, there is no liability of
the said socket becoming detached, as is common with those of the ordinary
manufacture, where the socket is riveted to the body of the rake.
Instead of a socket, a tang may be substituted therefor; in this latter case, the
body part is slightly troughed to impart strength thereto, while the forward end is
pointed, to enable it to be driven into the end of the stock or handle.
The application of my invention to other like implements, differs in no essential
respect from its application to a rake, other than in the substitution of a blade, for
prongs or forks,

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I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings,
the manner in which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 is a front elevation, figure 2 is a plan, figure 3 is a side elevation and
figure 4 is a section of a rake constructed according to my invention, and produced
from a single blank figure 5.
a is the body of the rake, a' are the prongs, b is the shank and c is the cylindrical
socket all made in one piece, or from a single blank of sheet metal.
In carrying out my invention, I cut from sheet metal a blank figure 5 with a
widened or extended front part, which forms the body and prongs of the rake, the
latter of which are disposed in the same plane as the said blank.
By means of tools, I shape the blank of the body a¹ of the rake into somewhat
a trough form so as to give rigidity and strength thereto, and I also turn the prongs
at right angles so as to present their edges to front and back. The shank part 61
with the part c¹ is also shaped and fashioned, (at the same time or at different
times) the former of which is troughed, while the latter is turned up into a short
barrel or socket, the joint of which may be welded or left open.
Figure 6 represents in front elevation, figure 7 in plan and figure 8 an edge view
of a hole made from a single blank of sheet metal figure 9 constructed according to
my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is―
Making the socket, socket shank, body and prongs or blades of rakes, hoes,
trowels and other like implements in one piece, or from a single blank of sheet
metal, substantially as described and illustrated; or making the tang, shank body
and prongs or blade of implements as described, from a single blank or in one piece,
substantially as described.