An Improved Hoe.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 6th June, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 6th Mar, 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 6th Apr, 1889
An Improved Hoe.
A communication to me from abroad by ADE PIRLOT-PRÉVOST, of Bellignies in the
Republic of France, Gardener.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co, Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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This invention has for its objects improvements in hoes used for hoeing plants sown
in rows, such for instance as wheat, oats, beans, and the like, by which improvements
the manual labour required for hoeing may be greatly economized.
The improved hoe consists of a wooden handle of sufficient length fitting into a
corresponding socket upon the iron hoe itself, this socket having formed upon its inner
end three branches curved forward and down, their extremities having formed upon
or attached to them plates of suitable size and shape for the hoeing operation. These
plates are separated from each other a distance about equal to that between the rows
of plates which are to be hoed
The improved hoe may be made of any required size, and the plates may be made
adjustable so that they may be fixed at any desired distance apart.
Instead of three two or more branches and plates, may be used
EDWARDS & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Hoe.
Communicated to me from abroad by ADE PIRLOT-PREVOST, of Bellignies, in the
Republic of France, Gardener.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex
do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying drawings (that is to say):
:-
This invention has for its objects improvements in hoes used for hoeing plants sown
in rows, such for instance as wheat, oats beans, and the like, by which improvements
the manual labour required for hoeing may be greatly economized.
The accompanying drawing is in illustration of the invention, figure 1 being a front
view, figure 2 a side view, and figure 3 a perspective view of a hoe
The improved hoe consists of a wooden handle a of sufficient length fitting into a
corresponding socket 6 upon the iron hoe itself, this socket having formed upon its
inner end three branches c, c, c, curved forward and down, their extremities having
formed upon or attached to them plates d, d, d, of suitable size and shape for the
hoeing operation These plates are separated from each other a distance about equal
to that between the rows of plants which are to be hoed.
The improved hoe may be made of any required size, and the plates may be made
adjustable so that they may be fixed at any desired distance apart. Instead of three
two or more branches and plates may be used.
I do not confine myself to the precise form and proportions of the several parts
of the improved hoe which may be varied more or less as may be found desirable,
but having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is
The hoes consisting of two or more curved branches c, having plates d at their ends,
substantially as and for the purpose described and shewn.
EDWARDS & Co,
35, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for the Patentee.