Improvements in Garden Tools.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Dec., 1892-Accepted, 25th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Garden Tools.
We CHARLES KLEYER, Patent Agent and VINZENS BITZENHAFER Imperial
Pier Master (retired) both of Karlsruhe Baden, in the Empire of Germany do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The invention for improvements in garden tools has for its object the production of
an implement which may be regulated by any workman according to his stature
and custom of working, thereby allowing him with a reduced expenditure of energy
to effect a considerably increased amount of work than with the usual tool with a
curved wooden handle.
This increased capacity of work is attained not only because the new implement
is lighter and more convenient than those now used but principally because of the
arrangement whereby the handle is adjustable in respect to the working blade so
that each workman is enabled to so regulate his working blade as is most convenient
to his stature and his customary manner of working. An implement constructed
according to this invention consists of a smooth thin steel plate without groove or
handle socket, of a carrier of iron, tinned plate or steel, with a rivetted or soldered
socket and of a straight wooden handle. The plate has three holes in the form of
an equilateral triangle, the point of which is towards the centre of the plate and
forming the axis about which the plate is adjusted on the carrier. The plate is held
in position by bolts or rivets passing through the other two holes and through
curved slots in the carrier.
The carrier itself is preferably made of tee iron-steel plate, or malleable iron.
At the back end of the tee shaped iron carrier is fixed a socket into which fits the
straight wooden handle.
The blade of the new implement is the only part subject to wear and these blades
can be made very cheaply in quantity and can be changed by the workman himself.
By the introduction of this new tool therefore, not only practical but important
financial benefits accrue to the workmen.
Dated this 5th day of May 1892.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Garden Tools,
Wė, CHARLES KLEYER, Patent Agent, and VINZENS BITZENHAFER, Imperial
Pier Master (retired) both of Karlsruhe, Baden, in the Empire of Germany 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:
This invention for improvements in garden tools has for its object the production
of an implement which may be regulated by any workman according to his stature
and custom of working, thereby allowing him with a reduced expenditure of energy
to effect a considerably increased amount of work than with the usual tool with a
curved wooden handle.
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This increased capacity of work is attained not only because the new implement
is lighter and more convenient than those now used but principally because of the
arrangement whereby the handle is adjustable in respect to the working blade so
that each workman is enabled to so regulate his working blade as is most convenient

page_text: to his stature and his customary manner of working. An implement constructed
according to this invention consists of a smooth thin steel plate without groove or
handle socket, of a carrier of iron, tinned plate or steel, with a rivetted or soldered
socket and of a straight wooden handle. The plate has three holes in the form of
an equilateral triangle, the point of which is towards the centre of the plate and
forming the axis about which the plate is adjusted on the carrier. The plate is held
in position by bolts or rivets passing through the other two holes and through
curved slots in the carrier. The carrier itself is preferably made of tee iron-steel
plate, or malleable iron. At the back end of the tee shaped iron carrier is fixed a
socket into which fits the straight wooden handle.
The blade of the new implement is the only part subject to wear and these blades
can be made very cheaply in quantity and can be changed by the workman himself.
By the introduction of this new tool therefore, not only practical but important
financial benefits accrue to the workinen.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a spade constructed according to this invention and
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are detail views.
The blade a is fixed to the T-shaped carrier by means of the rivet passing
through the holes e and about which the blade can pivot and of bolts passing through
the holes d in the blade and the curved slots e in the carrier b, the curved slots
allowing the blade to be adjusted as desired. The socket to receive the wooden
handle is brazed or otherwise secured to the carrier b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is—
1. A garden tool consisting of a carrier, of the blade a, adjustably fixed to
the carrier b, and of the socket fattached to the carrier and adapted to receive the
handle, the whole substantially as described.
2. The improvements in garden tools substantially as described with reference to
the drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1892.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, Agents.