Improvements in the connection of Hoes and Rakes and the like to a Common Handle.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1899-Accepted, 1st Apr., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the connection of Hoes and Rakes and the like to a
Common Handle.
I, ALPHEUS AUGUSTUS Peart, of Deloraine, in the Colony of Tasmania, Surveyor,
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:
The object of my invention is to provide an improved handle connection for
such implements as hoes, rakes and garden forks, whereby the handles and imple-
ment heads are quickly. disconnected from one another and made interchangeable
and so that economy of time and material is practicable, one handle being adapted
moreover to hold upon its end simultaneously two distinct implements, such as a
hoe and a rake. Whichever part wears out or breaks first-the handle or the
implement head at its end-can be replaced without renewing the other part.
This invention is illustrated on the drawings herewith in which Figure 1 repre-
sents an elevation partly in section, of a handle with a hoe and rake connected
thereto. Figure 2 shows the handle alone. Figure 3 shows the hoe head alone,
Figure 4 the rake head alone, and Figure 5 is a detail. In order to secure the
utmost economy I retain a cylindrical or like shape for the handle A that is I do
not taper it, and I provide the same with two oppositely set holes B and two like
holes at suitable distances from the extremity. To prevent the handle being
weakened at the holes or wearing there they may have eyelets D. The holes will
be of small diameter relatively to the handle. Their object is to secure in place
against longitudinal or lateral movement the tangs of the hoe and rake heads, E, F,
which have in each case a tang G G₁ each tang being provided with a pair
of projecting spikes H H respectively as shown, struck up out of the tang itself or
otherwise integral therewith, the said projections being on the opposite side of the
tang to that on which is the working head of the hoe, rake or like tool. Each tang
is bent or swelled out or ribbed or the tool ends are so shaped that when they are
placed upon the handle with the spikes H H in the holes BÛ the outer edges of the
tangs shall not be parallel but at an acute angle to one another, and closer together
at their inner ends. The consequence of this arrangement is that all that is need-
ful to fix the tool heads immovably is to slip home over the tangs, i.e. till it iş
tight, a ring as I of slightly conical form.
It may be pointed out that the object of having two spikes to each tang is to
prevent lateral movement around the handle. Various slight modifications might
be made in the forms shown in the drawings without departing from this inven-
tion. Thus by having the tangs at a greater angle to the handle A than is shown,
the same ring would hold a single tool firmly in place equally as well as two tools,
but the ring would in the case of a single tool being used on the handle of course
travel farther before getting "home."
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:-
T
himation with handle provided with

page_text: oppositely set holes B, C of implement heads as E, F, provided with tangs having
spikes H, and arranged so as when in position to have the outer edges of the tangs
at an acute angle to one another, and a ring as I all substantially as and for the pur-
poses set forth.
2. In an implement connection, a single tool head having a doubly spiked tang
adapted to rest with its outer edge at an acute angle to the handle which has recesses
for the spikes of the said tang and to which it is connected by a ring substantially
as and for the purposes herein before described.
ST day of repruary
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.