Walter Gary Willis

US Patent:

48921564, Jan 9, 1990

Filed:

Jan 31, 1989

Appl. No.:

7/304419

Inventors:

Walter C. Willis - Louisburg NC

International Classification:

A01B 106

US Classification:

172381

Abstract:

A garden tool for cultivating and tilling garden soil has a cultivating blade secured at one end of an elongated handle. The cultivating blade is formed by a plurality of sequential adjacent connected teeth, each formed by a pair of perpendicular facets intersecting at a ridge line. The leading edge of each of the facets is grounded to a sharpened cutting edge. In use, the cultivating blade is pushed forward and downward into the surface of the soil and subsequently pulled back. This reciprocating movement is repeated and tills the ground in a shaving or plowing action.

US Patent:

62608258, Jul 17, 2001

Filed:

Nov 22, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/444235

Inventors:

Walter A. Willis - Yanceyville NC

International Classification:

B25C 1100

US Classification:

254 28

Abstract:

A staple removing tool is provided which can be attached to a power tool such as a pneumatic hammer gun or which can be used manually. The tool includes a shaft having a handle affixed at a right angle thereto and an angled tip to assist in prying. The method described using the tool which greatly increases the efficiency in removing stapled upholstery fabric from furniture frames and the like.