(under subclass 100) Apparatus in which a means such as a blade, scoop, shovel or the like is impressed into the soil to surround the bulk of a plant's root system and which can be manipulated so that a substantially undisturbed root ball is removed from the soil to facilitate moving of the plant to a new growing location.
(1) Note. Apparatus of this subclass are disclosed as being used for plants to be transplanted or saved as opposed to apparatus found in the SEARCH CLASS notes below, which are "stump removers" that merely remove or destroy plants. Apparatus which places the excavated plant into a container will be found here.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
37, Excavating,
302, and 303 for stump removers and see (1) Note above.
47, Plant Husbandry,
76, for receptacles, per se, for the root balls of trees.
171, Unearthing Plants or Buried Objects, 1, for methods of recovering buried objects; and subclass 50 for extractors, per se.
