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A soil manipulating tool is disclosed which has a handle (12) and a soil penetrating portion (14). The soil penetrating portion (14) is formed from a helical or spiral rod or wire (13) which defines a cavity (18). The rod or wire (13) may be hollow so that fertilizer or other liquid material can pass through the hollow rod wire (13) into the soil in which the tool is to be used. The tool may also include an abutment member for limiting the amount of penetration of the tool into the soil to facilitate churning up of the soil and a blade may also be provided across one of the spirals of the portion (14) to provide a chopping of soil so that a hole can be formed by removal of a plug of soil but at the same time leaving loosened soil at the bottom of the hole. The tool has particular application in aerating and manipulating composted material and the removal of composted material from a compost bin as well as garden applications for the formation of holes, and the aeration of soil facilitating plant growth.

Disclosed is a binding machine for agriculture which is used when binding, using a binding tape, a crop to a pole which is previously installed near the crop so as to keep in places the stems or branches of various crops. A steel needle standby groove is formed at an inner side of the steel 5 needle exit of the steel needle supply part loaded with binding steel needles, and when steel needles are extruded, the steel needle is separated from the steel needle group and stands by in the steel needle standby groove, and in the steel needle extrusion plate, a steel needle separation protrusion is formed at a side surface 10 in the direction of the steel needle standby groove, and then the binding steel needle is extruded.

A powered, lightweight soil tillage device, including an elongated hollow support member having a motor and handle at the upper end thereof, and the tillage assembly mounted at the lower end thereof. The tillage assembly comprises a pair of beams which are mounted on opposite sides of a gearbox and driven thereby. The upper ends of the beams are attached to idler or rocker beams so that each of the beams is moved in a generally circular path. Hoe blades or the like are secured to the forward ends of the beams and extend inwardly therefrom so that the hoe blades are disposed one behind the other.

A food slicer for slicing a food product is provided. The slicer may have an adjustable surface and a stationary surface with a blade interposed therebetween. The food product may be sliced with a specific thickness via the blade by traversing the food product from the adjustable surface to the stationary surface. A trailing edge of the adjustable surface and an edge of the blade may define a gap distance which determines a slicing thickness of the food product. A cam may contact an underside of the adjustable surface to set the gap distance. The gap distance may be reset by rotating the cam. More particularly, the cam may have a plurality of cam surfaces. Each of the cam surfaces may have a different distance to a rotating axis of the cam. The gap distance may be changed by rotating the cam such that a different cam surface contacts the adjustable surface's underside.

The flow of crop material through a harvesting machine, such as a combine, can be described using a wide range of models, providing a relationship between the harvester load u(t), e.g. the mass flow at the inlet, and an effectiveness value y(t), e.g. the grain loss at the outlet. However, prior art models are not applicable to a wide range of harvesting conditions or are very complicated, requiring a multitude of inputs. The invention proposes to use a simple model, comprising a stochastic parameter , which is continuously optimized to adjust the model to the latest prevailing working conditions. Such parameter may be considered to constitute a variable which characterizes the instantaneously prevailing readiness of the harvesting process. Such variable can be used for establishing field maps showing the evolution of the harvesting operation itself. It can also be used in automatic routines which adjust the harvester speed in order to limit the grain losses.

An autonomous ground maintenance vehicle is capable of varying its operating parameters in response to environmental conditions. These operating parameters include maximum permitted acceleration, deceleration, velocity, rate of change of direction and rate of change of steering values. A rain sensor 50 and moisture sensor 51 may be mounted to the vehicle or be positioned on the ground. An inclinometer may also be provided such that the operating parameters may be varied according to the inclination of the ground to be maintained. If guidance means is provided to guide the vehicle along a specified path a variable operating parameter may be a minimum allowable specified path length.

A cutter operative to pierce and cut a sheet of material includes a handle and a body portion coupled to the handle. The body portion includes two puncture fingers having tips for piercing the sheet of material and two blades for cutting two parallel cuts in the sheet of material. in a method of installing a zipper on a sheet of material, left and right portions of a zipper are applied to a sheet of material. A swath portion of the sheet of material is cut having two parallel, spaced-apart cuts between the left and right portions of the zipper. In this manner, zipper installation is established in a manner that avoids formation of flap of material that would otherwise remain between the left and right flanges of the zipper.

Tools for trimming excess vegetation from growing plants include inner and outer coaxially positioned, relatively rotatable cutter blade assemblies which establish an interior volume for receiving a plant to be trimmed. Excess vegetation from the plant which extends outwardly of the interior volume established by the cutter blades will therefore be severed upon relative rotation being effected therebetween. Most preferably, the inner cutter assembly includes sets of elongate cutter blade members whose having tined ends which may be partially embedded in the soil surrounding the growing plant to be trimmed. The outer cutter assembly is mounted for free movement both rotationally and longitudinally regarding the inner cutter assembly, and is most preferably connected to a motorized source of power (e.g., a conventional hand-held electric drill). The tined ends may therefore be embedded in the soil surrounding the plant so that the plant occupies the interior volume defined thereby and so that the inner cutter assembly remains stationary during the trimming procedure. The outer cutter assembly may then be sleeved over the inner cutter assembly, and rotated (e.g., by operation of the electric drill attached thereto) to thereby cause the excess vegetation extending outwardly from the interior volume to be severed.

Provided is a light-emitting module from which light with uniform brightness can be extracted. Further, provided is a beautiful light-emitting module in which Newton's rings are not observed. The light-emitting module includes a first substrate, a light-emitting element formed on one surface side of the first substrate, a second substrate, a conductive spacer maintaining the gap between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a space in which the light-emitting element is sealed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Further, the pressure in the space is lower than or equal to the atmospheric pressure. Furthermore, the conductive spacer is electrically connected to the second electrode in a position overlapping with a partition provided over the first substrate so as to reduce a voltage drop occurring in the second electrode.

A peeler apparatus is provided having an ergonomic handle and a blade that can be rotated relative to the handle to accommodate different peeling styles. The blade can be rotated in order to position the blade in a variety of positions relative to the handle. Such positions include perpendicular, parallel left, parallel right, 45 degree left, and 45 degree right positions. Variations of the peeler can be provided which enable rotations of 180 degrees, 360 degrees, and/or other angles as desired. A user-operable knob cooperatively engaged with a yoke permits the yoke and a blade secured to the yoke to rotate relative to the handle in response to rotation of the knob. A peeler having a blade fixed at approximately 45 degrees relative to the handle is also provided.

An electrically driven router is mounted in a top portion of an elongated rod. An electrical cord is juxtaposed along the length of the rod and is electrically connected to the router at a top portion of the rod and at a lower portion of the rod to a source of electrical power in the form of a battery pack or 110 volt service. The router mounts a fluted cutting bit having a length preferably of at least three inches, the bit adapted to laterally cut through a longitudinal axis of small diameter vegetation.

Adjustable slicing devices and blades for the adjustable slicing devices are provided. One slicing device includes a frame having a first configuration and a second configuration. The slicing device further includes a first guide plate and a second guide plate wherein the first and second guide plates are mounted to the frame and include an opening formed between the guide plates in the first configuration. The device includes a first blade mounted in the opening in the first configuration, the blade having a cutting edge, and an adjustment control member having a first position for releasing the frame from the first configuration.

A manual snow plow with ergonomic features comprises a snow scoop, two (2) articulating struts extending upward from the scoop and two (2) hinged rounded braces placed against a user's shoulders during use. The struts are provided with cross bracing which provide size adjustability and stability to the plow. A set of position adjustable hand grips extend from each strut in a rearward fashion to control the device during use. A pair of casters provided on a rear of the snow scoop allows the device to ride over cracks and other uneven surface variations. The snow plow becomes an extension of the user's body and thus enables the user to use the force of their entire body to move snow.

A handle support is constructed for removable attachment to, a tool, appliance or other implement for hand held use. The handle support includes a brace portion extending rearward in a helical form. The brace portion circumscribes an open space which is substantially conical in form.

The instant invention known as “H.A.L.O. HYBIRD”™ is an amusing multipurpose hand tool primarily used to manipulate fluid mass and multitask secondary related and unrelated natural and synthetic matter.

The H.A.L.O. HYBIRD™ device, (Fig. AOK) comprising a generally flat, rounded planar member which is sufficiently sized to expand the surface area of a users hand, is provided with a primary powerface (FIGS. 9a &11a), a secondary powerface (FIGS. 9b &11b), a leading edge (FIGS. 9c &11c), a peripheral edge (FIG. 9d &11d), a trailing edge (FIGS. 9e &11e), a finger receiving aperture (FIGS. 9f &11f), a center balance point (FIGS. 9g &11g), a plurality of “optional” vortice producing apertures (FIGS. 9h &11h), an integrally formed gripping region (FIGS. 9i &11i), a hand receiving aperture bifurcating the peripheral edge (FIGS. 9j &11j), a plurality of apertures (FIGS. 9k &11k) facilitating a releasable hand securement means (FIGS. 5 &17) being threadably affixed therethrough, thereby facilitating methods by which a users hand is engagably installed into said device and therein bisected, simultaneously occupying space in, on and about said planar member (FIGS. 7, 8, 19 &20), whereby at least one finger is methodically passed through said finger receiving aperture and encouraged to work cooperatively with the thumb to multitask secondary matter (Fig. AOK).