O. Ames Co.

Frank G Czerwinski

Kenneth J Spear

Steven F Brooker

Bryan S Ritchie

The present invention is a one-piece hand-held gardening tool comprising a rigid, high strength tool portion to be used as an implement in gardening activities and a rigid, high strength annular handle portion to be manually grasped when the tool portion is used as an implement in gardening activities. The handle portion and the tool portion are molded integrally together from a molten material which provides the rigid, high strength tool portion and the rigid, high strength annular handle portion with suitable strength and rigidity for use in gardening activities when solidified. The handle portion has a hollow cavity surrounded by an annular, outer wall. The hollow cavity is formed in the handle portion by injecting pressurized gas into the molten material from which the rigid, high strength tool portion and the rigid, high strength annular handle portion are integrally molded before the solidification thereof. The hollow cavity is substantially enclosed within the handle portion to thereby prevent dirt and debris from collecting therein. The annular, outer wall surrounding the hollow cavity has a thickness suitable to provide the rigid, high strength annular handle portion with suitable strength and rigidity for use in gardening activities. The one-piece hand-held gardening tool is molded from less of the molten material than would be used to mold a substantially identical one-piece hand-held gardening tool devoid of hollow cavities and weighs less than the substantially identical one-piece hand-held gardening tool devoid of hollow cavities by virtue of forming the hollow cavity in the rigid, high strength annular handle portion thereof.

One-piece hand-held gardening tool

Pruner

Design for pruner

A utility cart having a tool handle holding device for firmly holding the handle of a long handled lawn or garden tool to the side of the utility cart is disclosed. The device comprises one or more clips that are disposed below the rim of the bin of the utility cart. The cart and the clip(s) may be integrally molded from a suitable plastic material, such as high density polyethylene. Each clip is deformable within its elastic limit so that a tool handle may be insertingly forced into the clip wherein it is held within the clip, upon elastic contraction of the clip, by a tool retaining flange and a tool retaining lip. Removal of the tool handle from the clip is effected by removingly forcing the handle out of the clip whereupon the clip deforms sufficiently to allow the tool handle to pass between the tool retaining flange and the tool retaining lip. Upon removal of the handle from the clip, the clip then contracts to its pre-insertion, nondeformed condition.

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Parkersburg, WV, United States of America

Frank G Czerwinski