A New or Improved Horticultural Implement.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 17th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 6th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Horticultural Implement.
1, JAMES POWNALL BRITTON, of The Vicarage, Chappel, in the County of
Essex, Clerk in Holy Orders, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide an implement for hand use in gardens,
allotments, seed-growers plots, and the like, between the rows of such plants as
onions, carrots, parsnips, etc., as well as for many kinds of flowers, and for the
purpose of thinning the rows themselves.
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According to this invention I provide a suitable socket to receive a handle and
having four arms projecting therefrom. Three of these arms turn in one direction,
while the other turns in the opposite. The said three arms projecting on the one
side each terminate in a "share
of substantially the same construction as that of
a horse-hoe used in field culture, only made on a smaller scale so as not to be too
heavy for manipulation by hand. These "shares" may be arranged in any
suitable manner but preferably in the form of a triangle i.e. one being in rear of
the other two which are in a line with one another with their points towards the
operator. The other arm carries at its end an ordinary thinning blade or hoe.
In use,
the shares are drawn along towards the operator between the rows of the
plants so as to break up and loosen the soil and allow the air to reach the roots of
the plants. On the device being reversed so as to bring the thinning blade on the
lower side it may be employed like an ordinary hoe for thinning the rows of plants.
Though in many cases I prefer that the shares should be arranged so that the
two foremost lie in a line with each other with the other one between and behind
them it is obvious that this arrangement may be reversed so that one share lies.
between and before the other two.
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CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Horticultural Implement.
I, JAMES POWNALL BRITTON, The Vicarage Chappell Essex Clerk in Holy
Orders, 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 relates to a horticultural implement for use in cultivating and
gardening operations and the same is carried out in the following manner, reference
being had to the annexed drawings in which:
Fig. 1. side elevation of my improved implement.
Fig. 2 plan of same.
a is a shank to which the handle c is attached and upon which is cast or formed
the arms a, a, a, bent as shown and carrying the blades or spades b, b, b, shaped as
shown.
d, is also an arm cast, or formed upon the shank c and carrying the hoe blade e.
When it is desired to loosen or break up the ground, the blades or spades are
drawn through the ground, after which the implement may be reversed and the
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page_text: hoe used when desired. If desired the spades & hoe blade may be formed integral
with the arms.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A combination horticultural implement consisting of a shank having 3 or more
arms formed thereon or cast integral therewith and carrying blades or spades; one
or more arms formed thereon or cast integral therewith and carrying a hoe blade,
all in combination and substantially as described.
Dated this 17th day of March 1893.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.