IMPLEMENT FOR HOEING WEEDING AND RAKING GRAVEL WALKS, DRIVES AND THE LIKE
Year: 1885

page_text: We JOHN LE PATOUREL of Les Terres, Merchant and THOMAS LE POIDEVIN
of Rouge Rue, Gardener, both in the Island of Guernsey do hereby declare the
nature of the invention for AN IMPLEMENT FOR HOEING WEEDING AND RAKING
GRAVEL WALKS, DRIVES AND THE LIKE and in what manner the same is to. be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This Invention relates to an implement for hoeing scraping and weeding gravel
walks and the like and consists 1st in the combination with a hand hoe of rolling
or travelling bearings or supports in front and rear of the hoe blade whereby to
regulate the depth of work of the hoe and serve as a fulcrum for the same thus
enabling a novice to do the work as regularly as the most experienced workman,
and secondly in the combination with a hoe so provided with rolling bearings or
supports of a revolving or a harrow-rake as the case may be, the rollers and rake
being arranged and operating substantially as hereinafter more fully described
with reference to the accompanying drawings forming part of this Specification
which represent two examples of the various ways in which the invention may
be carried into effect. Figure 1 is a side elevation and figure 2 a detail of the
implement as provided with a roller bearing immediately in front of the hoe blade
and with another at some distance in rear thereof in combination with a revolving
rake. Figure 3 is side elevation and figure 4 plan of the implement as provided
with rolling bearings immediately in front of and behind the hoe blade in
combination with a harrow rake. The hoe blade a, which may be made of any
convenient width, say from 6 to 18 inches, is rivitted in the usual way to a bow
shaped frame b provided with extensions b¹ projecting in front of the hoe blade
between which is mounted an axle carrying a pair of rollers c, or a single roller
extending across the whole width adapted to run on the ground in front of the
hoe blade The bow b, is attached to a long handle d, as usual to which is rigidly
fixed at any convenient point, say about two feet from the top, a downwardly
extending stay or leg e in whose lower forked end is mounted a second pair of
rollers f, which when the hoe blade is in work run on the ground as likewise the
first mentioned pair, the two pairs of rollers c, and f, thus constituting a double
travelling bearing whereby the depth of work of the hoe is regulated the pair of
rollers, serving also as a fulcrum for the hoe whereby the labor is considerably
lessened and the work more regularly and quickly done.

page_text: With the last mentioned pair of wheels. is combined a cylindrical revolving
rake g, consisting of radial teeth fixed in a boss fast with the pair of rollers f, the
points of the teeth projecting slightly beyond the radius of the rollers so as to
scrape or penetrate the ground and act on the weeds, the said cylindrical rake
being caused to revolve with the rollers f. The rake would correspond in width to
the hoe blade so as to act over the same extent of ground-Instead of the stay e
with the pair of rollers f, and revolving rake g, mounted in the lower fork thereof
as above described, a pair of rollers with or without a revolving rake may be
mounted in the arms of the bow frame 'b, immediately behind the hoe blade a, in
the position indicated in figures 3 and 4 and when there mounted without a
revolving rake as shown in those figures at f, a rake h which is also shown in
those figures may be combined with the hoe. This rake resembles a small harrow,
being a plate having several rows of teeth and attached to the bow frame b of the
hoe by links whereby it is dragged over the surface of the ground in rear of the
rollers, the attachment of the rake being adjustable to suit the work. In either
case the improved implement may also be effectually used without the rake.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
1st The combination with a hand hoe of rollers in front and rear of the hoe
blade so arranged as to afford a double rolling bearing or support on the ground
whereby to regulate the depth of work of the hoe and form a fulcrum for the
same, substantially as herein described and represented in the drawings.
2nd The combination, with a band hoe, of rollers in front and rear of the hoe
blade as and for the purpose herein specified, and of a cylindrical rake combined
with and revolved by the rollers, substantially as shown and described for the
purpose specified.
3rd The combination with a hand hoe of rollers in front and rear of the hoe
blade and of a harrow rake dragged in rear of the same, substantially as and for
the
purpose specified.