All Products for US Patent 4133390 - Tine arrangements for garden tillers

Inventor(s): Reaume; Leonard V. (Jackson, MS)

Owner: Magna American Corporation (Raymond, MS)

Filing Date: March 11, 1976

Issue Date: January 9, 1979

Abstract: Improved tine arrangements for garden tillers including a basic tine assembly comprised of a plurality of relatively long tines configured to break a clod loose and a plurality of shorter tines configured to strike such clod and break it up. A typical garden tiller will include a frame mounting an engine, either vertical or horizontal, having handles by which the operator will guide the tiller and appropriate drive structure to rotate the tine shaft mechanism carrying the basic tine assemblies. Such a tiller may also include an adjustable wheel transport system and a fold-up adjustable stake with a swinging stabilizer which may be locked in fixed position for normal tilling or swinging for easy turn around at the end of a garden row. The engine may provide one or more forward speeds and a reverse if desired. The basic tines may provide a slicing or pick action. Whatever the nature of an individual basic tine assembly, it will include the relatively long and short tines earlier mentioned and generally there will be a pair of right hand basic tine assemblies and a pair of left hand basic tine assemblies.