Multi-purpose hand tool

Claim 1

A multi-purpose tool for performance of at least a dozen or more tasks around a home, an office and the garden basically as (A) a gutter clean-out tool adapted to fit (a) narrow "K" type gutters; (b) wide "K" type gutters; (c) narrow half-round gutters; and (d) wide half-round gutters as well as also including most other common types of gutter cross-sectional configurations; (b) additional applications including (e) a weeder in a garden; (f) a ditcher; (g) a hoe; (h) a spreader; (i) a row-forming tool; (j) a seed-bed tool; (k) a furrowing tool; (l) a deep-planting tool for bulbs, sets (onion, for example), and small plants; (m) a blending tool for mortar and plaster; (n) a hand tiller for mulch and dry chemicals; (o) a hand tamping tool for soil and sand; (p) a planting lateral-spacing gauge tool; (q) a planting depth-gauge tool; and (r) a scraper, said multi-purpose tool in combination therewith comprising: a single face plate including a flat sheet metal body having a centrally located hole therethrough; a first portion of said metal body having a half-round-curved periphery in a configuration adapted to fit into half-round gutters; a second portion of said metal body having a more retangular peripheral contour conforming to inner shape of K-type gutters; a handle having an axial end that abuts centrally against said flat sheet metal body of said single face plate and having a free end remote therefrom as well as having measuring graduations on said handle in location intermediate said ends; and a fastening means inserted through the centrally located hole and into said axial end of said handle so that said free end as well as said measuring graduations and said face plate are available to fit (A) and for the additional applications (B).