Patent ID: 7100899

Claim:
A weed puller for gathering weeds at the interstices between the weed foliage above the ground and the weed root below the ground, the weed puller comprising: a handle for being held by a standing operator at one end and supporting a body generally normal to the handle at a bottom distal end thereof; the body defining two blunted prongs on either side of a central axis of the body extending away from the handle along the body, each prong terminating in a free end; the two blunted prongs defining therebetween a V-shaped gathering gap formed by blunted opposed V-shaped edges on either side of the axis which extend from the free ends of the prongs to a blunted, rounded inner end of the gap; the body having a first body portion which is planar and at substantial right angles to the handle between the handle and the V-shaped gathering gap, the inner end of the gap being located in the first body portion, and a second body portion which is planar and includes portions of the two blunted prongs including the free ends thereof, the first portion being separated from the second portion along a bending axis normal to the central axis of the body; and the second body portion including portions of the two prongs being bent towards the handle at an obtuse angle along the bending axis to form a weed pulling cradle area between the first body portion and the second body portion in the body; whereby a weed gathered between the V-shaped gathering gap between the weed foliage and the weed root is pulled between the first body portion and the second body portion by the weed pulling cradle area when the handle is withdrawn from the ground towards the standing operator.