Patent Application
20190141890
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The disclosure and prior art relates to sawing devices and more particularly pertains to a new sawing device for removing plants around a sprinkler head.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a hole saw that may be positioned around a sprinkler head to remove plants growing around the sprinkler head. A receiver extends upwardly from the hole saw and a shaft is removably positioned in the receiver. The shaft is coupled to a power tool thereby facilitating the power tool to spin the hole saw to cut the plants.
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 outer wall 20 has a distal edge 22 with respect to the top wall 18 and the distal edge 22 has a plurality of indentations 24 extending toward the top wall 18. The indentations 24 are spaced apart from each other and are distributed around the distal edge 22 to define a plurality of teeth 26 on the distal edge 22 to cut the plants 16. The outer wall 20 has a pair of openings 28 extending through the outer wall 20 and each of the openings 28 is positioned between the top wall 18 and the distal edge 22. Moreover, each of the openings 28 is positioned on opposite sides of the hole saw 12 with respect to each other. Each of the openings 28 facilitates debris to exit the hole saw 12 when the hole saw 12 is cutting the plants 16.
A receiver 30 extends upwardly from the hole saw 12 and the receiver 30 is centrally positioned on the top wall 18. The receiver 30 has a distal end 32 with respect to the top wall 18 and an outer surface 34. The distal end 32 has a well 36 extending toward the top wall 18 of the hole saw 12 and the well 36 has a bounding surface 38. The bounding surface 38 has a first side 40 and a second side 42 and the first side 40 is concavely arcuate with respect to the second side 42. The second side 42 is flattened such that the well 36 has a semicircular shape. The outer surface 34 has a first aperture 44 extending into the well 36. The outer surface 34 has a second aperture 46 extending into the well 36 and the first aperture 44 is aligned with the second aperture 46.
A shaft 48 is removably positioned in the receiver 30 and the shaft 48 is selectively coupled to a power tool 50 thereby facilitating the power tool 50 to spin the hole saw 12 to cut the plants 16. The power tool 50 may be an electric drill or the like. The shaft 48 has a first end 52 and a second end 54 and the shaft 48 is elongated between the first end 52 and the second end 54. The shaft 48 has a first surface 56 extending upwardly from the first end 52. The first surface 56 of the shaft 48 is flattened such that the first end 52 of the shaft 48 has a semicircular cross-section taken along a line extending through the first end 52 and the second end 54.
The well 36 insertably receives the first end 52 of the shaft 48 having the first surface 56 of the shaft 48 engaging the second side 42 of the bounding surface 38 of the well 36. In this way the shaft 48 is inhibited from spinning in the well 36. The shaft 48 has third aperture 58 extending therethrough and the third aperture 58 is positioned on the first surface 56 of the shaft 48. The third aperture 58 is aligned with each of the first aperture 44 and the second aperture 46 when the shaft 48 is positioned in the receiver 30. A fastener 60 is provided and the fastener 60 is selectively extended through the first aperture 44, the second aperture 46 and the third aperture 58 when the shaft 48 is positioned in the receiver 30. In this way the shaft 48 is retained in the receiver 30. The fastener 60 may be a cotter hair pin or the like.
In use, the shaft 48 is inserted into the receiver 30 and the fastener 60 is extended through the receiver 30 and the shaft 48 to retain the shaft 48 in the receiver 30. The shaft 48 is connected to the power tool 50 and the hole saw 12 is positioned around the sprinkler head 14. The power tool 50 is turned on to rotate the hole saw 12. In this way plants 16, such as grass and other plants 16 common to a yard, are cut away from around the sprinkler head 14. Thus, the sprinkler head 14 is cleared from obstructions thereby enhancing functionality of the sprinkler head 14.
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.
