PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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PATENTED DEVICES FOR LAWN AND TREE USE 
Gauge for Cutting Hedges. 
A writer in Popular Mechanics recom- 
mends the home-made gauge for cutting 
hedges, illustrated. Difficulty is usually en- 
countered when cutting hedges in getting 
hedge trimmer comprising a guard bar 
provided at one end with a handle offset 
from its front side and a lug offset from 
its rear side, said bar also being provided 
along its front edge with integral longitu- 
David AI. Motherwell, of Chicago, and is 
assigned to the Whitman S; Barnes i\Ifg. 
Co., of .A.kron, O. Its object is to provide 
a light device adapted to cut out or trench 
the edges of lawns alon,g cement walks and 
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WEES EITBIOTISO TOOL. 
APPLICiTIdS rtlE3 ;CIE J 1»11. 
G. G. FRAZER. 
LAWK and HEDOE TRIMMER. 
APPLIOATION FtLEO JAK 23. 1609 
974 , 653 . 
J. SWEGLES, 
PRONISO IMPLEMENT 
APPLIOlTtOS riLCO JU5E 10, I9l(. 
973 , 582 . 
a straight line. The attachment for a 
wheelbarrow, shown in the illustration, con- 
sists of two uprights, about 2 inches square 
and 3 feet long, graduated in inches on 
one of their surfaces, and an adjustable 
crossbar. .A. yi-\nch hole is bored in the 
center of each piece on each mark. 'I'he 
uprights are fastened to the sides of the 
wheelbarrow with bolts, having thumb- 
nuts, as shown at .A.A. The crossbar is a 
piece of material 1 inch thick, 2 inches 
is to provide for the slant of the uprights. 
Two bolts with thumb-nuts can be used to 
hold the guide to the uprights. 
When cutting the hedge the guide is set 
at the desired height and the top of the 
hedge can be clipped off evenly, the 
wheelbarrow being moved forward as the 
clipping proceeds. The advantages are evi- 
dent. The guide is afljustahle, and the 
clipped tops can be thrown into the wheel- 
barrow. .Any shape of guide may be used, 
which makes it possible to obtain any va- 
riety of shape to the hedge. 
Lawn and Hedge Trimmer. 
George G. Frazer, of St. Louis, has pat 
ented a lawn and hedge trimmer for trim- 
ming lawns under and around shrubbery, 
flowers and in other places inaccessible to 
a lawn mower and also for trimming 
hedges, shrubbery and the like. His patent 
cl.nims cover the following ; “.A lawn and 
dinal teeth and upon its rear edge with 
integral guide arms, said guide arms being 
folded over to a position parallel with said 
bars, a reciprocating cutter bar having 
longitudinal teeth on one edge to co- 
operate with the aforesaid teeth of the 
guard bar and provided with longitudinal 
slots and with an angularly bent arm at its 
rear end. bolts passing througlr. the slots in 
the cutter bar and openings in the guard 
bar and guide arms, a handle pivoted to 
the lug of the first-named handle having an 
arm pivotally connected with the angular 
arm of the cutter bar, and a sprin.g disposed 
between the handle and acting to normally 
maintain the guard bar and cutter bar in a 
I)rescribed relative position.” It is patented 
as No. 974,653. 
Lawn Edge Trimmer and Trench 
Cutter. 
The lawn edge trimmer and trench cut- 
ter illustrated is patented as No. 861,304 by 
drives and automatically deposit the cut- 
tings in a convenient place for removal. 
In the drawings a indicates a frame or car- 
riage, to which the push bar handle b is 
fastened, preferably by bolts 12, 14, and 
nuts 13, 15. The handle is preferably made 
adjustable to various convenient heights by 
the vertical slot 15a in which the headed 
bolt 14 may be locked at any desired point 
by means of the nut 15. The device is car- 
riefl on a runner truck or wheel d on 
headed shaft 9. It is adjustal)ly secured to 
the frame a. so that the device may be set 
to operate at different heights, by means 
of the vertical slot 8 and the nut 11 on 
the threaded end of shaft 9, the other end 
being headed at 10. By loosening the nut 
11 the shaft 9 can be adjusted to any point 
in the slot and locked by tightening up the 
nut 11. The forward edge of the dei)cnd- 
ing share a is made L'-shaped and provided 
with a liard cutting edge 16. The bottom is 
closed so as to form a short gutter 17, atul 
the side, farthest from the wheel d, is 
brought up to form a wing or deflector 
which, for a short distance lies ptirallel to 
the wlieel, is deflected and tai)ered to the 
rear atul brought under so as to continue 
the gutter 17 in this deflected course, also 
giving it a slight upward inclination so as 
to throw the cuttings upwards and to the 
rear f)f the wheel d, the side adjacent to 
