GB2199472A - Planting tool for gardeners and growers - Google Patents

Planting tool for gardeners and growers Download PDF

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GB2199472A
GB2199472A GB08629449A GB8629449A GB2199472A GB 2199472 A GB2199472 A GB 2199472A GB 08629449 A GB08629449 A GB 08629449A GB 8629449 A GB8629449 A GB 8629449A GB 2199472 A GB2199472 A GB 2199472A
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Gabriel Pickering
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01C—PLANTING; SOWING; FERTILISING
    • A01C5/00—Making or covering furrows or holes for sowing, planting or manuring
    • A01C5/02—Hand tools for making holes for sowing, planting or manuring

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Abstract

A planting tool has a tubular body and handle and is designed and shaped 4 so that numbers of planting holes can be made quickly and easily while standing and without compacting the soil. <IMAGE>

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PLANTING TOOL FOR GARDENERS AND GROWERS This invention relates to a planting tool for gardeners and growers.
There are four main kinds of planting tool, viz: Spades for excavating trenches; Trowels for excavating holes; Dibbers for making holes by pushing them into the soil; A short hollow tool for making a hole by extracting a core of soil.
Spades are expensive and laborious to use.
Good trowels are fairly expensive and involve bending or kneeling on the ground.
Dibbers compact the soil around the hole and involve bending or kneeling on the ground.
The short hollow tool also involves bending low or kneeling on the ground.
In a preferred form there is provided a planting tool which consists of a hollow plastic tube of suitable length sharpened and shaped at one end to penetrate the soil without compacting it, a tubular handle at a right angle through the tube near the other end to enable the tube to be rotated clockwise and anti-clockwise in the soil, and to withdraw a core of soil, without bending low or kneeling or compacting the soil.
A specific embodiment of the invention will now be described by way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawing in which: Figure 1. Shows the tool in three dimensions; Figure 2. Shows the tool in elevation; Figure 3. Shows the tool in plan view; Figure 4. Shows how the tool is operated.
Referring to the drawing the tool consists of a hollow plastic tube of suitable length, sharpened and shaped at one end, and a tubular handle re2easably secured to the tube by being slightly offset from the diameter.
In order to make a planting hole the tube is pressed doxvnxvards into the soil and rotated clockwise and anti-clockwise by the handle as illustrated in fig 4.
By reversing this action a core of soil is extracted and is deposited on the surface by shaking or tapping the tool.

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  1. I A planting tool comprising a tube of suitable length, sharpened and shaped at one end to penetrate the soil; a handle near the other end to enable the tool to be presented to the soil, rotated and withdrawn to extract a core of soil leaving e hole.
  2. 2 A planting tocl as claimed in Claim 1 wherein the length of the tool enables it to be used without bending low or kneeling.
  3. 3 A planting tool as claimed in Claim 1 or Claim 2 wherein the design and light weight of the tool enable it to be used by elderly, disabled or infirm users.
  4. 4 A planting tool as claimed in Claims 1, 2 an2 3 whereby planting holes can be sade- more quickly end e?sily.
  5. 5 Aplanting tool as claimed in any preceding Cleim end which enables planting holes to be made without compacting the soil.
    Ó A planting tool substantially as described herein with reference to figures I to 4 of the accompanying drawing.
GB08629449A 1986-12-09 1986-12-09 Planting tool for gardeners and growers Pending GB2199472A (en)

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Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2271047A (en) * 1992-08-21 1994-04-06 Rlr Engineers Limited Implement for removing soil plugs
US7171779B1 (en) 2003-05-28 2007-02-06 Sheryl Lynn Kok Tool to remove soil obstructing the entrances to gopher and mole burrows

Citations (10)

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GB309727A (en) * 1928-04-02 1929-04-18 George Henry Hales Improvements in or relating to devices for making holes in the soil
GB353701A (en) * 1930-07-26 1931-07-30 Thomas Baines Improved weed extracting device
GB658037A (en) * 1949-05-09 1951-10-03 William Bedell Benison Device for removing seedlings, plants and the like from the ground or from containers preparatory to transplanting
GB891657A (en) * 1959-03-25 1962-03-14 William Derek Crowley An implement for making planting holes and soil blocks
GB1085003A (en) * 1965-02-11 1967-09-27 George Henry Kelley Gardening tool
US3506296A (en) * 1968-02-12 1970-04-14 Charles W Nelson Optional digger for garden and lawn
US3534994A (en) * 1967-08-25 1970-10-20 Stephen Sterk Sod cutting tool
GB2122462A (en) * 1982-06-19 1984-01-18 Peter Duxbury Plant removing tool
GB2167281A (en) * 1984-11-23 1986-05-29 Thomas Edward Bye Planting device
GB2192772A (en) * 1986-06-12 1988-01-27 Inst For Ind Res & Standards A gardening tool

Patent Citations (10)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB309727A (en) * 1928-04-02 1929-04-18 George Henry Hales Improvements in or relating to devices for making holes in the soil
GB353701A (en) * 1930-07-26 1931-07-30 Thomas Baines Improved weed extracting device
GB658037A (en) * 1949-05-09 1951-10-03 William Bedell Benison Device for removing seedlings, plants and the like from the ground or from containers preparatory to transplanting
GB891657A (en) * 1959-03-25 1962-03-14 William Derek Crowley An implement for making planting holes and soil blocks
GB1085003A (en) * 1965-02-11 1967-09-27 George Henry Kelley Gardening tool
US3534994A (en) * 1967-08-25 1970-10-20 Stephen Sterk Sod cutting tool
US3506296A (en) * 1968-02-12 1970-04-14 Charles W Nelson Optional digger for garden and lawn
GB2122462A (en) * 1982-06-19 1984-01-18 Peter Duxbury Plant removing tool
GB2167281A (en) * 1984-11-23 1986-05-29 Thomas Edward Bye Planting device
GB2192772A (en) * 1986-06-12 1988-01-27 Inst For Ind Res & Standards A gardening tool

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2271047A (en) * 1992-08-21 1994-04-06 Rlr Engineers Limited Implement for removing soil plugs
US7171779B1 (en) 2003-05-28 2007-02-06 Sheryl Lynn Kok Tool to remove soil obstructing the entrances to gopher and mole burrows

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