Cultivators

Claim 1

A cultivator attachment comprising an elongated frame movable over the ground transverse to the direction of travel with a plurality of rotatable soil cultivator members supported in a row along said frame in side-by-side relationship with neighboring cultivator members being rotatable in opposite directions from one another about upwardly extending shafts and alternatively located cultivator members being rotatable in like directions with one another, said shafts being in driving connection with a power input shaft and each of said cultivator members being an elongated, substantially horizontal, tine support having a tine secured adjacent each end thereof, the tines of neighboring cultivator members being positioned to work and cultivate overlapping strips of ground, each of said tines having a fastening portion which is connected to its respective support and an integral substantially straight soil-working portion including a bottom tip substantially inclined to said fastening portion, substantially the entire soil-working portion, with respect to the direction of rotation of its respective support, being located and secured in position to trail at the rear of said fastening portion, the soil-working portions of the tines of alternatively located cultivator members being positioned to extend substantially parallel to one another.