An Improved Appliance applicable as a Weeding or Daisy Hoe and Turf Cutter.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 17th Dec., 1897-Accepted, 29th Jan., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance applicable as a Weeding or Daisy Hoe and
Turf Cutter.
I, GEORGE NASH, of Milton Cottage, Wendover Road, Aylesbury, in the County
of Bucks, Professional Cricketer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention consists of an improved implement for cutting out sods, daisies,
dandelions, or other weeds, from lawns, or for repairing the latter or cricket creases
by the removal of bare spots and the insertion of fresh sods, and it is designed in
various sizes, suitable for the handling of a boy, girl, woman, or man and for
various purposes.
To carry my invention into effect I attach a circular cutter to a vertical haft
provided with a transverse handle bar, having loose covering handles of about the
height of an ordinary spade.
The cutter is clear open within its circumference, the central stem or haft being
attached thereto by an open stirrup or fork. The inside of the cutter blade is
provided with one, two, or more short radial cutter wings, which cut into the sod
within the cutter and seize the same so that the cut sod is turned round with the
implement after it has been cut and is thus loosened from the ground.
The cutter is conveniently provided with an upper flange, extending outwards,
forming a good surface for the pressure of the foot to force the cutter into the sod,
and at the same time it serves as a gauge by which the cutter may be forced into
the sod always to the same depth.
It is obvious with this implement of a small size, daisies, dandelions, or weeds
can be neatly cut out of turf or lawns or cricket creases, and an exactly similar
piece of sod both as to size and thickness can be cut by the same implement to
be introduced in the hole from which the weed has been removed.
Where it is required also to patch cricket creases, bare places can be cut out by
the cutter and sods can be cut by the same implement of exact size and depth to
fill up the hole neatly and smoothly.
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FELL & JAMES,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance applicable as a Weeding or Daisy Hoe and
Turf Cutter.
I, GEORGE NASH, of Milton Cottage, Wendover Road, Aylesbury, Professional
Cricketer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:
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My invention consists of an improved implement for cutting out sods, daisies
dandelions, or other weeds, from lawns, or for repairing the latter or cricket creases

page_text: by the removal of bare spots and the insertion of fresh sods, and it is designed in
various sizes suitable for the handling a boy, girl, woman, or man, and for
various purposes.
To carry my invention into effect I attach a circular cutter to a vertical haft
provided with a transverse handle bar, having loose covering handles of about the
height of an ordinary spade.
The cutter is clear open within its circumference, the central stem or haft being
attached thereto by an open stirrup or fork. The inside of the cutter blade is
provided with one, two, or more short radial cutter wings, which cut into the sod
within the cutter and seize the same so that the cut sod is turned round with the
implement after it has been cut and is thus loosened from the ground.
The cutter is conveniently provided with an upper flange, extending outwards,
forming a good surface for the pressure of the foot to force the cutter into the sod,
and at the same time it serves as a gauge by which the cutter may be forced into
the sod always to the same depth.
It is obvious with this implement of a small size, daisies, dandelions, or weeds
can be neatly cut out of turf or lawns, or cricket creases, and an exactly similar
piece of sod both as to size and thickness can be cut by the same implement to
be introduced into the hole from which the weed has been removed.
Where it is desired to patch cricket creases, bare places can be cut out by the
cutter, and sods can be cut by the same implement of exact size and depth to fill
up the hole neatly and smoothly.
And in order that my invention may be the better understood, I now proceed to
describe the same, reference being had to the drawings hereto annexed and to the
letters and figures marked thereon.
Figure 1 is an outside elevation of my appliance.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same.
And Figure 3 is a vertical section through the same.
My appliance consists of a circular cutter A provided with a flange B at its upper
edge to act as a gauge check to limit the distance to which the cutter is forced
into the ground and which serves also as a broad foot-step on which to place the
pressure of the foot, and at the same time this flange forms a convenient attacli-
ment for the forked haft C.
The forked haft C terminates at the top in a cross handle D which may be
covered by wooden sleeves for convenience in handling.
Within the cutter is provided with one or more radial wings E projecting
inwards from the inside face of the cutter, which entering the sod with the main
cutter, seize the same, so that the cut sod may be turned round with the implement
after it has been cut, and is thus loosened from the ground.
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:
1st. A sod cutting appliance consisting of, in combination, a circular vertical
cutter, one or more radial wings within said cutter, a haft forked over said cutter
to leave the centre of said cutter free, and a cross bar on said haft, to turn appli-
ance after cutting the sod to free the same, substantially as described.
2nd. In a sod cutting appliance a circular vertical cutter provided with one or
more internal radial wings, and a flange turned outwards from the upper edge of
the circular cutter substantially as and for the purposes described.
FELL & JAMES,
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1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.