Tool for handling hanging plants

• US 4,153,286 A
• Filed: 11/14/1977
• Issued: 05/08/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John L. Piper, John R. Peterson
• Original Assignee: John L. Piper, John R. Peterson
• Inventors: Peterson, John R., Piper, John L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marbert, James B.
• Application Number:
  US05/851,368
• Time in Patent Office: 540 Days
• Field of Search: 294/19 R, 294/24, 294/26, 294/1 R, 294/20, 294/21, 294/22, 294/23, 294/33, 294/99 R
• US Class Current: 294/175
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 2007/003 Hand tools for lifting or positioning individual flower pots
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 7/02 Devices for supporting flower-pots or cut flowers flower-pots, holders for flower-pots in greenhouses A01G
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/28 Other culinary hand implements, e.g. spatulas, pincers, forks or like food holders, ladles, skimming ladles, cooking spoons; Spoon-holders attached to cooking pots

Abstract

A tool used to lift a hanging type plant onto and off of an overhead hook. The tool includes an elongate shaft having a handle at one end and a V-shaped tip at the other end which is formed to engage a ring carried on the upper end of ropes that suspend the plant container. The ring may be held on the tip of the tool and thereby lifted onto and off of the hook.

Claims

1. A tool for handling a plant container of the type adapted to be suspended from an overhead bracket element by means of a bracket engaging member coupled with the plant container, said tool comprising:

a handle adapted to be gripped in the hand;

an elongate shaft secured to said handle in extension therefrom; and

a generally V shaped tip structure for receiving said bracket engaging member, said tip structure including a pair of substantially straight leg members cooperating to present the general shape of a V,

said tip structure being located on the end of said shaft remote from said handle such that one leg member of said tip structure is coupled with said shaft so as to form an acute angle therewith, and

said leg members intersecting at a selected angle at the base of the V to form a sharp notch between said leg members sized to closely receive said bracket engaging member, whereby said bracket engaging member is closely held in said notch in engagement with each leg member.

2. A tool as set forth in claim 1, wherein said handle and shaft are approximately equal in length and said handle is substantially uniform along its length.

3. A tool as set forth in claim 1, wherein said leg members are substantially coplanar.