US1194992A - Henry adolphtjs - Google Patents

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H. A. GIBSON.

GARDEN TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 10.1915.

Patented Aug. 15,1916.

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UNITED STATES PATENT enrich.

HENRY ADOLPHUS GIBSON, OF 'WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA, ASSIGNOR 'lO GLADYS UNA IVIURIEL GIBSON, OF l/VINNIPEG, CANADA.

GARDEN-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 15, 1916.

Application filed July 10, 1915. Serial No. 39,125.

one can quickly and effectively place a protective paper wrapper around a transplanted plant, thereby protecting the plant from heat and cold and also guarding it, in its early development, against insects and worms.

Vith the above object in view the invention consists essentially in an open ended cylindrical casing or holder fitted with a handle adapted to receive a paper wrapper or covering and a hand operated sliding catch piece carried by the holder, the parts being arranged and constructed as hereinafter more particularly described and later pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 represents a side view of the tool with the catch piece up. Fig. 2 represents a side view of the tool with the catch piece down. Fig. 3 represents a plan View of the tool.

shown in the position occupied in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a side view of the tool as it appears when in use, the parts having the position they occupy when the paper is pressed down into the ground. Fig. 6 is a side view of the tool when in use with the catch piece forced down to catch the paper. Fig. 7 is a vertical sectional view of the parts as they appear in Fig. 6. Fig. 8 represents a sectional view through the paper wrapping as it ap pears embedded in the ground with the tool removed.

In the drawing like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

1 represents an open ended cylindrical casing or holder and 2 represents a handle permanently secured such as by riveting, as indicated at 3, to the sides of the holder.

4 represents a catch piece, in the present Fig. 4. is a vertical sectional. view through the holder, the parts being instance in the form of a stout wire, having two. downwardly extending legs 5 and (S which terminate in foot pieces 5 and 6 and having the body portion thereof arched out wardly as shown at 7 to form a hand piece. The legs are arranged to pass down within the casing or holder to which they are slidably held by'means of pairs of straps 8 and 9, these straps-being actually formed by making parallel cuts in the material of the holder and then depressing the cut portions lnwardly.

10 represents a casing or paper wrapping -of a cylindrical form, having open ends.

This wrapping is designed to pass over the holder in'the manner as shown in Figs. 5 6 and 7 of the drawing.

In utilizing the tool, the transplanted plant, as indicated at 11 is planted in the ground, (seev Fig. 8). The catch piece a of the tool is raised up to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 5 and the cylindrical paper wrapper is then placed around the holder as shown in Fig. 5. The lower edge of the paper is creased in around the lower edge of the holder as shown at 10, Fig. 7, and the holder with the paper wrapper is then pressed into the ground around the plant, the paper being carried into the ground with the holder. The. catch piece a is then forced down so that the foot pieces catch the inturned end 10 of the paper wrapper, (see Fig. 7). The handle 2 is then raised while holding the catch piece dbwn, and is brought to the position shown in Fig. 7, where it will be noticed the lower end of the holder is above the ground line. The attendant then puts his hand around the paper wrapper and raises the tool clear of the rapper, leaving the paper wrapper partially below the ground and partially above the ground and surrounding the plant, as shown in Fig. 8. The tool, as is obvious, is purely for the purpose ofplacing a protective wrapper around the plant. This wrapper protects the newly planted plant from the suns rays and also from the eX- treme heat and cold, and it further protects the roots of the plant, to a great extent, from worms and insects.

That I claim as my invention is 1. A device for placing a protective wrapper around a plant comprising, a holder for the wrapper, an adjustable catch piece, and foot pieces carried by said catch piece for engaging the wrapper, said catch piece being longer than the holder whereby the foot pieces may be projected below the holder.

2. A device for placing a. protective wrapper around a plant comprising, a holder for the wrapper, an adjustable catch piece, a hand piece on said piece, and foot pieces carried by said catch piece for engaging the wrapper, said catch piece being longer than the holder whereby the foot pieces may be projected below the holder.

A device for placing a protective wrapper around a plant comprising a holder for the wrapper, an adjustable catch piece, and 15 angularly bent foot pieces, carried by said catch piece for engaging the wrapper, said catch piece being longer than the holder whereby the foot pieces may be projected below the holder. 20

Signed at Winnipeg, this 4th day of June, 1915.

HENRY ADOLPHUS GIBSON. In the presence of G. S. ROXBURGH, S. SILVERT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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