Improvements in and relating to Hoe Blades.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 3rd Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Hoe Blades.
We JOHN HENRY PICK of No. 3 Tenter Lane, Stamford in the County of
Lincolnshire, Blacksmith, and THOMAS ROY FOUNTAIN of 3 Wharf Terrace,
Stamford aforesaid, Manager to Iron Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
An improved blade for all hoeing purposes with two cutting edges; one to cut
when drawn and the other when pushed; the blade is as follows viz. :-
It is flat with the ends or sides turned up so as to form two cutting edges, and
they are set forward at such an angle, as to get a straight pull from the front of the
said blade, the tangs or shanks being fixed to the aforementioned ends or sides.
It can also be made with the tangs or shanks turned down so as to form the ends
or sides with cutting edges and fixed to a flat blade.
Dated this 20th day of April 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Hoe Blades.
We, JOHN HENRY PICK, of 3, Tenter Lane, Stamford, in the County of
Lincoln, Blacksmith, and THOMAS ROY FOUNTAIN, of 3, Wharf Terrace, Stamford
aforesaid, Manager to Iron Merchant 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:-
Our invention relates to weed hoes.
A hoe constructed according to our invention has a blade provided with two
cutting edges one of which operates when the hoe is drawn towards the person using
it and the other when pushed away. In practice also the ends of the blade are
turned up to form vertical cutting edges or the tangs or shanks to which the blade
is attached are themselves sharpened so as to form the cutting edges.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same
by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is an elevation of a hoe constructed according to our invention, the ends
of the blade being turned up:
Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2, Figure 1; and,
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Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3, Figure 1, the hoe in this figure being shewn
in position for use:
Figures 4, 5 and 6 are views illustrating a modification of our invention.
a is the hoe blade, and b, b are the tangs or shanks to which the said blade
is attached, the said tangs or shanks being formed in one piece with a socket c to
which the usual handle is attached. The blade a has its two edges sharpened, as
shewn most clearly in Figure 3, so that the flat side of the blade lies horizontally
upon the ground. As shewn in Figures 1, 2 and 3 the ends of the said blade
are turned upwards as shewn at d, d, the edges being sharpened both at the back
and front so as to form cutting edges, as shewn most clearly in Figure 2.
upwardly turned portions d dare rivetted to the tangs b, b.
The said
In the arrangement of our invention shewn in Figures 4 and 5 the ends of the
blade a are not turned up and the tangs bare represented as provided at the bottom
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page_text: with pins e, e which fit into holes f, f formed in the said ends and are rivetted
therein. In this case the tangs are preferably made of the shape shewn in Figure 6
(which is a section on the line 6-6, Figure 4) in order to form the cutting edges in
lieu of the turned up ends of the blade.
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 weed hoe the blade of which is sharpened upon both its edges and fixed at
such an angle relatively with the handle that when the tool is in use the said blade
will lie horizontally, substantially as described.
2. A weed hoe having a double edged blade arranged in the manner referred to
in the preceding claiming clause, the ends of the blade being turned up as shewn in
Figures 1, 2 and 3 or the tangs to which the said blade is attached sharpened
as shewn in Figures 4 and 6, substantially. as described.
Dated the 28th day of December 1893.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.