JP2011000030A - Weeding tool - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a weeding tool capable of pulling out weeds from their root parts surely and simply.SOLUTION: This weeding tool includes a plate like thrusting part 1 having a pointed tip end, and a handle 2 attached to the base end part of the thrusting part 1, and forming a plurality of slits 5 from the tip end of the thrusting part 1 toward the base end part. The thrusting part 1 is preferably curved in its width direction so that its upper surface becomes concave.

Description

  The present invention relates to a weeding tool used to remove weeds such as flower beds.

It is troublesome to manually remove weeds that grow on flower beds and fields, especially in summer, because weeds grow fast and the ground is stiff.
A tool that cuts grass like a sickle may be used, but not only will the roots of the weeds remain, but if weeds and useful plants are mixed, they will be cut together and cannot be used. It was.

Conventionally, as a tool for pulling out weeds in fields and flower beds, it has a scooping portion with a straight edge shaped front edge and a rod-shaped handle attached to the trailing edge of the scooping portion. There is known a weeding instrument provided with a notch that is recessed in a V shape from the front edge toward the rear edge (see Patent Document 1).
However, this weeding device has a straight front edge so that it is difficult to insert deeply into the ground. There is a risk of it.
Moreover, since the notch part has a wide V-shape on the tip side, there is a concern that when the weeds caught by rotation of the scooping part move to the tip side, the notch part comes out of the notch part.

JP 2008-194012 A

  The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a weeding device that can reliably and easily pull out weeds from the root portion.

The weeding instrument of the present invention comprises a plate-like piercing portion having a sharp tip and a handle attached to the proximal end portion of the piercing portion, and a plurality of the piercing portion from the distal end to the proximal end portion. The slit is formed.
The piercing portion may be curved in the width direction so that the upper surface is concave.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the pierced portion with a sharp tip can be deeply pierced into the ground near the root of the weed, and as a result, the root of the weed is hooked into the slit, and the handle is pushed down at the pierced portion. By digging up the soil, weeds caught in the slit can be easily pulled out from the root with the soil.
Further, even if the piercing portion rotates upward, weeds are not easily pulled out from the slit having a uniform width, so that weeds can be reliably removed.
According to the invention which concerns on Claim 2, it becomes easy to pierce the piercing part into the ground, and the soil around the root can be dug up more easily.

It is a perspective view of the weeding instrument which shows the Example of this invention. It is sectional drawing of the piercing part which concerns on the Example of this invention. It is a principal part top view of the weeding instrument which shows the Example of this invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
As shown in FIG. 1, the weeding instrument of the present invention includes a plate-like piercing portion 1 with a sharp tip and a handle 2 attached to the base end portion of the piercing portion 1, and the handle 2 is held with one hand. It has an external shape and dimensions like a transplanting iron that can be gripped and operated.
The piercing portion 1 is made of a hard and strong material such as metal or ceramic, has a sharp tip, and a base portion with a wide vertically long shape.
Further, as shown in FIG. 2, the piercing portion 1 is curved in the width direction so that the upper surface is concave, and the depth of the concave portion 3 on the upper surface becomes gradually deeper toward the base end side.

As shown in FIG. 3, a plurality of slits 5 (five in the example shown in the figure) are formed from the distal end of the piercing portion 1 toward the proximal end portion. The width and length of the slit 5 can be changed as appropriate depending on the dimensions of the piercing portion 1, but when the width of the base end portion of the piercing portion 1 is about 7 to 10 cm and the length is about 13 to 17 cm, the slit 5 The width is about 3 to 7 mm, and the length is about 1 to 4 cm.
As shown in FIG. 1, a handle attachment portion 4 having a semicircular cross section is integrally protruded rearward at the center of the base end portion of the piercing portion 1, and the handle 2 is attached to the handle attachment portion 4.
The handle attachment portion 4 is inclined with respect to the central axis of the piercing portion 1 so as to face upward as it approaches the rear end.

The handle 2 is made of plastic, wood, or the like, and is formed in a rod shape having a diameter of 2 to 3 cm, and non-slip irregularities 6 are formed on the outer surface along the circumferential direction.
Then, the handle attaching portion 4 is inserted along the axial direction from the front end surface of the handle 2 and fixed by an appropriate means such as concave-convex fitting, screwing, and adhesion, and the handle 2 is attached to the piercing portion 1. As described above, since the handle attaching portion 4 is inclined with respect to the piercing portion 1, the handle 2 is also inclined with respect to the central axis of the piercing portion 1 so as to face upward as it approaches the rear end.

In order to pull out the weeds with this weeding instrument, the handle 2 is grasped by hand, and the tip of the piercing portion 1 is pierced obliquely from above into the ground where the weeds are growing. Since the tip of the piercing portion 1 is sharp, it can be pierced into the ground easily and sufficiently deeply. Then, the root portion of the weed is caught in the slit 5 formed at the tip of the piercing portion 1.
Next, the handle 2 is pushed down to rotate the piercing portion 1 upward, and the root of the weed caught in the slit 5 is pulled out while digging up the ground where weeds grow. At this time, since the slit 5 is not wide at the tip side, there is no fear that weeds will come out of the slit 5 even if the piercing portion 1 rotates.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Puncture part 2 Handle 3 Concave part 4 Handle attachment part 5 Slit 6 Concavity and convexity

Claims (2)

  It has a plate-like piercing portion with a sharp tip and a handle attached to the base end of the piercing portion, and a plurality of slits are formed from the tip of the piercing portion toward the base end. Weeding equipment characterized by that.   The weeding instrument according to claim 1, wherein the piercing portion is curved in the width direction so that the upper surface is concave.

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