Combination soil cultivator and weeder implement

Claim 1

A COMBINATION SOIL CULTIVATOR AND WEEDER IMPLEMENT COMPRISING AN ELONGATED HANDLE HAVING A PLURALITY OF SOIL PENETRATING TINES SECURED TO ONE END AND WHICH CURVE LATERALLY OF THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS THEREOF, SAID TINES BEING SPACED APART LATERALLY WITH RESPECT TO THE HANDLE, A LEVER, MEANS PIVOTING SAID LEVER TO SAID HANDLE TO SWING ABOUT AN AXIS EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OF THE DIRECTION THE SOIL PENETRATING SECTIONS OF SAID TINES EXTEND, MEANS FORMING GRIPPING SURFACES AT ONE END OF SAID LEVER COMPRISING SEMITUBULAR SECTIONS EACH HAVING THE OPEN SIDE THEREOF FACING AND ALIGNED WITH THE RESEPCTIVE TINES WHEREBY SAID SEMITUBULAR SECTIONS RECEIVE INTERMEDIATE SECTIONS OF SAID TINES THEREIN AND GRIP WEEDS THEREBETWEEN, SAID LEVER PIVOTING MEANS BEING DISPOSED TO CAUSE SAID LEVER TO SWING SAID GRIPPING SURFACES THEREON ABOUT AN ARC APPROACHING SAID TINES FROM THE SOIL WORKING ENDS THEREOF AT AN ANGLE THERETO OF APPRECIABLY LESS THAN 90* TO THEREBY IMPART A SUBSTANTIAL COMPONENT OF MOVEMENT OF SAID GRIPPING SURFACES LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID TINES AND AWAY FROM THE SOIL PENETRATING ENDS OF THE TINES, AND MENS TO SWING SAID LEVER ABOUT SAID PIVOT MEANS TO MOVE SAID GRIPPING SURFACES TO AND FROM SAID TINES.