US1917731A - Brush killer - Google Patents

Description

L. D. FENDER July 11, 1933.

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This invention relates to a hand operated tool for cutting brush, weeds, bushes and the like.

An object of the invention is to assemble a handle and blade in a new and novel manner whereby the handle will not be subjected to splitting and breaking strains.

Another object is to so locate the handle on the blade as not to interfere with the sharpening of either or both edges of the blade. lVith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds the invention resides in the combination and arrangement oi parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed it being understood that changes in the precise embodimentof the invention herein disclosed may benia de with in the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawing 1 Figure 1 is an elevation of the complete tool.

Figure 2 is an enlarged section 011 line 2--2, Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an enlarged section on line 33, Figure 1.

Figure 4 is an enlarged plan view of the butt end of the blade.

Figure 5 is an enlarged plan view of the blade engaging end of the handle, the rein forcing straps being removed.

The tool consists oi a handle, preferably of wood, attached to a thin steel blade. The manner of attaching the handle to the blade and the arrangement and construction of the handle and blade where they are connected together present most important advantages over other tools intended to do the same work.

Referring to the figures it will be noted 4 that the handle 1 has one end enlarged as L is parallel with the wide fiat faces, .extends endof the blade while the other'end has its corners cut away along oblique lines as at 10, leaving a straight transverse end 11 of the same length as the wall 6 and adapted to bear thereagainst.

The thickness ofthe blade isthe same as the distance between the opposed walls of slot 5 so that the blade will fit snugly in the 3 slot and project inopposite directions from the handle.

Two pairs of openings 12 and 13 areformed in the handle near the ends of the slot and these openings are located between the center and side edges of the handle. Theycoincide with openings 14 and 15 formed in the blade and are adapted to register with openings 16 in transverse reinforcing straps 17 which e'xtend across the flat faces a of the handle.

Rivets 18 or the like extend through the open- 'throughthe steel blade and through the handle and are arranged in rows oftwo each, these rows being located near the edgesof the flattened portion of the handle, the wood inaterial composing the handle extends between the rows of rivetsand there is no splitting strain experienced whatever, by this arrangement. Further as the outside edges of the handle are fully protected by the straps clamped securely down over them the handle is not subjected to unprotected strain. As the handle is located at equal distances from each edge of the blade it thereby allows a sutficient portion of the blade to be exposed so as to permit sharpening and use as a cutting edge and as the handle is fully protected on both sides and bot-h edges alike, the blade may be sharpened on one edge, or both edges, as desired and may be used for cutting with either edge or both edges.

What is claimed is:

A tool of the class described including a handle having an angular end portion with flat faces, there being a slot extending into 7 said end portion parallel with and equi-distant from opposed faces of said end portion, a thin cutting blade having a butt end fitted snugly into the slot and against the end Wall

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