Ernest Etal Rodgers

US Patent:

57994382, Sep 1, 1998

Filed:

Apr 5, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/629075

Inventors:

Ernest Charles Rodgers - Fenelton PA

International Classification:

A01G 1706
A01G 1714

US Classification:

47 46

Abstract:

A device for stringing and supporting growing plants, such as tomato plants, and which is manually operable by a workman includes a handheld, elongated pole having a handle end, an opposite dispensing end, a tip member having an aperture and which is secured to the dispensing end, and a plurality of brackets having eyelets positioned adjacent the handle end and projecting perpendicular from the pole. Further included is a container for attachment to the workman's belt and disposed within the container is a rotatable ball of string which is dispensed from the container during the stringing of the plants. As a length of the string is successively wrapped around spaced-apart stakes adjacent to and located on either side of several plants in a row of plants by the workman's manipulation of the pole's dispensing end, the string is dispensed out through the slot of the container, through the eyelets of the brackets along the pole, and through the tip member aperture whereby the string is wrapped around all the stakes in that particular row in both directions, thus encircling and supporting the plants between one or more levels of string.