US1984395A

US1984395A - Horticultural marking device

Info

Publication number: US1984395A
Application number: US722497A
Authority: US
Inventors: Fred C Choate
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1934-04-26
Filing date: 1934-04-26
Publication date: 1934-12-18
Anticipated expiration: 1951-12-18

Description

1366- 1934- F. c. CHOATE HORTICULTURAL MARKING DEVICE Filed April 26, 1934 Patented Dec. 18, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HORTICULTURAL MARKING DEVICE Fred C. Choate, Greenville, Mich.

Application April 26, 1934, Serial No. 722,497

1 Claim. (01. 40-46) The present invention relates to marking devices for horticultural planting and the like; and its object is to provide an improved device of that character stable in construction, readily thrust into the ground and having means for holding it against horizontal turning movement.

This and any other or more specific objects are attained by, and the invention finds preferable embodiment in, the device particularly described in the body of this specification and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is an elevational view of my marking device thrust into the ground;

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view thereof taken on line 2-2 of Figure 1; s

Figure 3 is a central vertical sectional view of the upper portion of the same taken on line 3-3 of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is an elevational view of the lower portions of the device viewed from a position at right.

angles to that shown in Figure 1; and V Figure 5 is a vertical sectional view (enlarged) of the front plate of the device taken on a vertical plane as line 5-5 of Figure l, and showing a labeling sheet held in the device.

The marking device illustrated by the drawing comprises a pair of plates 1, 2 desirably of sheet metal arranged approximately parallel, joined at their adjacent ends as by spot welding indicated at 3, and a vertical rod or post 4, desirably of wire, inserted between the plates at their middles and joined thereto as by spot welding indicated at 5. These plates have pairs of

clips

6, 7 struck out from the plates and having turned over mutually approaching end portions 8, 9, so that labeling sheets 10 may be slipped horizontally under said end portions and may be marked with characters indicating the seeds or plants planted in a row in which the device is located by thrusting its lower 5 end 11 into the ground 12. Where such seeds or plants are of difierent kinds, the sheets 10 facing such kinds respectively are correspondingly marked.

To prevent the rod or post 4 from turning in the 10 ground a thin fiat sheet 13 desirably of metal is fastened on the lower portion of said rod or post as by spot welding indicated at 14. This sheet has upwardly-outwardly inclined lower edges 15, 16 on the opposite sides of the post respectively to facili- 15 tate the ready insertion of the post and sheet into the ground.

It will be seen that this device is of very stable construction by reason of the joining of the adjacent ends 17 of the plates 1, 2 and the joining of 2 the post 4 to the inner sides of the plates in their middles.

I claim:

A device of the class described comprising a pair of approximately parallel plates united at their 25 mutually adjacent lateral opposite ends, and a vertical post adapted to be thrust into the ground and united to the inner sides of the plates intermediate said ends thereof, at least one of said plates having pairs of oppositely disposed clips 30 struck out therefrom with mutually approaching end portions for holding a labeling sheet on said plate.

FRED C. CHOATE.