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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WALTER H. EGGLESTON, OF SUGAR LAND, TEXAS.
IMPROVEMENT IN HOES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 201,395, dated March 19,.1878; application filed
February 6, 1878.To all whom it may concern :
Be it known that I, WALTER H. EGGLES-
TON, of Sugar Land, in the county of Fort
Bend and State of Texas, have invented a new
and useful Improvement in Hoes, of which the
following is a specification:
Figure 1 is a front view of my improved hoe.
Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same, taken
through the line x x, Fig. 1.
Similar letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts.
The object of this invention is to furnish an
improved hoe for weeding cotton and other
plants, which shall be so constructed as to do
better work than hoes constructed in the usual
way, and shall be lighter, less liable to clog
with dirt, and will enable the grass and weeds
to be cut closer to the roots of the plants with-
out injuring the stalks.
The invention consists in a hoe in which the
blade is set in the eye at an inclination with
the plane of the handle, is plated with steel
upon its lower side, has its forward edge bev-
eled upon the upper side, has its side edges
beveled, andhas projecting points formed upon
its forward corners, as hereinafter fully de-
scribed.
A is the hoe-plate, which is set in the eye at
the proper inclination for weeding, so that'it
will not be necessary to bend it. This bend-
ing of the hoe-plate makes it more liable to
break, and also causes it to gather dirt, making
it heavy and unhandywheninuse. The plateA is plated with steel upon its lower side, and
is beveled upon the upper side of its edge, to
prevent it from bouncing or jumping over and
leaving small grass uncut when the ground is
hard and dry.
Upon the corners of the blade A are formed
projecting points a', to clip the small blades
of grass at the roots of the plants without
bruising the stalks, causing them to die, and
thus losing the stand. The side edges of the
blade A are also beveled, so that by turning
the hoe sidewise between the stalks and grass
and pushing it from you it will cut the grass
and leave the stalks uninjured and clean.
A hoe thus constructed will cut wider than
an ordinary hoe, will be much lighter and
handier, and will enable a workman to do more
work with greater ease.
Having thus described my invention, I claim
as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat-
ent-
A hoe in which the blade A is set in the eye
B at an inclination with the plane of the han-
dle, is plated with steel upon its lower side,
has its forward edge beveled upon the upper
side, has its side edges beveled, and has pro-
jecting points formed upon its forward corner,
substantially as herein shown and described.
WALTER IH. EGGLESTON.
Witnesses:
JEREMIAH BUCKLEY,
LAURENCE ANSTAETT.
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