Device for cultivating around a fixed object

申请号 US3743027D 申请日 1971-04-12 公开(公告)号 US3743027A 公开(公告)日 1973-07-03
申请人 HATFIELD C; 发明人 HATFIELD C;
摘要 A device for cultivating around a fixed object including a plurality of vertical cutting blades attached on a handle between outer and inner cylinders. The cutting blades are circumferentially spaced and obliquely positioned relative to the direction of rotation of the handle. Self-operating means surround each of the blades for expelling cultivated material downwardly away from the blades.
权利要求
1. A device for cultivating underlying material around a fixed object of a predetermined diameter including: a handle rotatable in a circular direction about a vertical axis; a mounting plate connected to and extending laterally from a lower end of said handle; inner and outer vertical cylinders attached to said mounting plate concentric with said vertical axis, said inner cylinder having a diameter greater than said predetermined diameter of said fixed object; a plurality of circumferentially spaced flattened vertical cultivating blades positioned on said mounting plate between said inner and outer cylinders, each of said cultivating blades defining and lying in a plane parallel to said vertical axis and oblique relative to said circular direction and to the radially adjacent portions of said cylinders and having bottom edge means for scraping the underlying material, with said inner and outer vertical cylinders terminating in bottom cutting edges in substantial lateral alignment with said bottom edge means of said cultivating blades; and a horizontal plate member between said inner and outer vertical cylinders having access slots which allow passage of said cultivating blades respectively for cleaning any underlying material stuck between said cylinders and being movable from a normally lowered position adjacent said bottom cutting edges of said cylinders and said bottom edge means of said cultivating blades to a raised position adjacent saId mounting plate.
2. A device as defined in claim 1 wherein said cultivating blades and said access slots do not extend the full distance between said inner and outer cylinders, and wherein some of said bottom edge means of said cultivating blades are spaced at different radial distances from said vertical axis.
3. A device as defined in claim 1 in which the fixed object is adjacent an uncultivatable surface, and wherein said outer cylinder includes a laterally truncated side for positioning adjacent the uncultivatable surface, and said mounting plate includes means for allowing said blades to rotate relative to said cylinders about said vertical axis including stop means for preventing rotation of said blades past the laterally truncated side of said outer cylinder.
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