Patent Application
20230380338
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The disclosure relates to rake devices and more particularly pertains to a new rake device for breaking soil in a garden. The device includes a head, a handle attached to the head and a plurality of tines extending away from the head. The tines lie on a horizontal plane when the rake is in a standing position. In this way the tines angle downwardly when the handle is pulled thereby facilitating the tines to break soil when the rake is drawn along the soil.
(2) Description of Related Art Including Information Disclosed Under 37 CFR 1.97 and 1.98
The prior art relates to rake devices including a rake that has tines and a pair of cutting blades integrated into a head. The prior art discloses a garden hoe that includes a stand that is pivotally coupled to the garden hoe for standing the garden hoe. The prior art discloses a garden rake which has a grip that is pivotally disposed on a handle of the rake. The prior art discloses a garden rake that has cutting edges on opposing ends of a head of the garden rake.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a rake that has a head and a handle that is attached to the head. The rake has a plurality of tines that each extends away from the head. Each of the tines lies on a horizontal plane when the rake is positioned in a standing position having the handle angling upwardly from the head. Each of the tines is oriented to angle downwardly from the head when the handle is urged downwardly thereby facilitating the tines to engage soil for breaking the soil when the handle is pulled by a user. The prior art discloses a variety of ornamental designs for garden rakes that each include downwardly pointed tines.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The head 14 has a first panel 22 forming an angle with a second panel 24, and the first panel 22 has a rearwardly facing surface 26, a forwardly facing surface 28 and a top edge 30. The second panel 24 has an upwardly facing surface 32 and the second panel 24 lies on a horizontal plane having the first panel 22 extending upwardly from the second panel 24 when the rake 12 is in the standing position. Each of the tines 18 has a first end 34 and a second end 36, and the first end 34 of each of the tines 18 is attached to the rearwardly facing surface 26 of the first panel 22. Each of the tines 18 is aligned with an intersection between the first panel 22 and the second panel 24. Additionally, the second end 36 of each of the tines 18 tapers to a point thereby facilitating the second end 36 of each of the tines 18 to penetrate the soil 20.
The handle 16 has a primary end 38 and a secondary end 40, and the handle 16 is elongated between the primary end 38 and the secondary end 40. The handle 16 has a bend 42 positioned between the primary end 38 and the secondary end 40 to define a first section 44 of the handle 16 forming an angle with a second section 46. The bend 42 is positioned closer to the primary end 38 than the secondary end 40; the primary end 38 is associated with the first section 44 and the secondary end 40 is associated with the second section 46. The handle 16 has a hole 48 extending laterally through the first section 44 of the handle 16 and the hole 48 is spaced from the primary end 38. A fastener 50 is provided which extends through the first panel 22 and which extends through the hole 48 in the first section 44 of the handle 16 for attaching the handle 16 to the head 14. The fastener 50 may be a bolt of other type of releasable, mechanical fastener 50.
In use, the second section 46 of the handle 16 is gripped and the second section 46 of the handle 16 is pulled thereby tilting each of the tines 18 to angle downwardly. In this way the tines 18 can break the soil 20 by dragging the tines 18 through the soil 20 while the handle 16 is pulled. Thus, the soil 20 can be broken without the use of a downward, chopping motion as is common with traditional gardening tools. Furthermore, the broken soil 20 does not have to be scooped or pushed into place as is common with garden hoes. In this way the rake 12 improves the efficiency of breaking soil 20 in a garden.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
