Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 15th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 23rd Dec., 1898
I, EDMUND HUNT, of 121, West George Street, in the County of Glasgow, North
Britain, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows, that is to say :-
This invention consists in making hoes of improved forms substantially such
as are shown on an accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings, and hereinafter
described.
The invention is due to observation of operations with ordinary hoes as used in
India in tea and other plantations, but the improvements are obviously applicable
to hoes used in various localities and in various agricultural operations.
In the drawings,—Figure, 1, is an inner-face view, Figure, 2, is an edge view,
and Figure, 3, is a cross section. Figure, 4, shows a modified form of cross
section; and Figures, 5, and 6, are face and edge views showing a varied form of
hoe blade, and an addition. In these drawings the same reference letters are used
to mark the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
In ordinary hoes the blade is formed with a straight bottom edge as indicated
by dotted lines in Figure 1, and with a middle rib of slight protuberance and
extending a very short distance only from the hub or handle socket, A. With the
ordinary short and inadequate rib the blade is liable to have its lower part easily
bended either wilfully by the laborer using the hoe, or in using it; but by the
present invention such bending is rendered practically impossible by forming the
blade with a rib, B, extending from the hub or socket, A, to the bottom edge of
the blade or nearly so. The rib, B, may be made solid as shown in Figure, 3, or
hollow like a corrugation as shown in Figure, 4.
With a straight-bottomed hoe blade if the hardness of the earth is irregular one
corner is apt to enter before the other, causing the hoe to be tilted or twisted, or
the laborer may turn the hoe to make it enter at one corner, inefficient work
resulting in both cases. By the present invention the bottom edge, C, of the hoe
blade is made of the V-shape shown so that in all cases the middle point will
enter the earth first, and there will be no tendency to tilt the implement.
The contour of the blade may be varied in the manner indicated in Figure, 5,
or in any other suitable manner; and it may be made with a pick projection, D,
as are some existing hoes.
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Improvements in Hoes.
Communication from abroad by PETER SWAN, Calcutta, India, Engineer.
I, EDMUND HUNT, of 121, West George Street, in the County of Glasgow, North
Britain, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
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page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, that is to say:
This invention consists in making hoes of improved forms substantially such
as are shown on a sheet of explanatory drawings filed with the Provisional Špecifi-
cation and hereinafter described.
The invention is due to observation of operations with ordinary hoes as used in
India in tea and other plantations, but the improvements are obviously applicable
to hoes used in various localities and in various agricultural operations.
In the drawings left with the Provisional Specification-Figure, 1, is
all inner face view, Figure, 2, is an edge view and Figure, 3, is a
cross section. Figure, 4 shows રી modified form of cross section; and
Figures, 5, and 6, are face and edge views showing a varied form of
hoe blade, and an addition. In these drawings the same reference letters are used
to mark the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
In ordinary hoes the blade is formed with a straight bottom edge as indicated
by dotted lines in Figure 1, and with a middle rib of slight protuberance and
extending a very short distance only from the hub or handle socket, A. With the
ordinary short and inadequate rib the blade is liable to have its lower part easily
bended either wilfully by the laborer using the hoe, or in using it; but by the
present invention such bending is rendered practically impossible by forming the
blade with a rib, B, extending from the hub or socket, A, to the bottom edge of
the blade or nearly so. The rib, B, may be made solid as shown in Figure, 3, or
hollow, like a corrugation as shown in Figure, 4.
With a straight-bottomed hoe blade if the hardness of the earth is irregular one
corner is apt to enter before the other, causing the hoe to be tilted or twisted, or
the laborer may turn the hoe to make it enter at one corner, inefficient work
resulting in both cases. By the present invention the bottom edge, C, of the hoe
blade is made of the V-shape shown so that in all cases the middle point will
enter the earth first, and there will be no tendency to tilt the implement.
The contour of the blade may be varied in the manner indicated in Figure, 5,
or in any other suitable manner; and it may be made with a pick projection, D,
as are some existing hoes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is;
1. A hoe blade made with a strengthening rib extending from the hub or socket
to the bottom edge combined with an angular shape of the bottom edge sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described, and as shown in the drawings.
2. A hoe blade made with a strengthening rib extending from the hub or socket
to the bottom edge substantially as herein before described and as shown in the
drawings.
3. A hoe blade made with an angular shape of the bottom edge substantially as
herein before described and as shown in the drawings.
Dated this Twelfth day of November 1898.