US PATENT SUBCLASS 171 / 10
WITH PRELIMINARY REMOVAL OR UNDESIRED EARTH MATERIAL


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171 /   HD   UNEARTHING PLANTS OR BURIED OBJECTS

10WITH PRELIMINARY REMOVAL OR UNDESIRED EARTH MATERIAL


DEFINITION

Classification: 171/10

(under the class definition) Apparatus having an unearthing unit adapted to traverse an area including a zone of earth which has desired plants or buried objects embedded therein in order to remove and separate said plants or objects from the earth and including a ground- working means outside (but adjacent) said zone and adapted to move undesired material in a direction away from said zone in order to decrease the amount of undesired material handled by said unearthing unit

without substantially decreasing the quantity of unearthed product.

(1) Note. The ground-working means may be a plow or scraper disposed either laterally of or above the desired object containing zone to either scrape or cut off the undesired earth or vegetation above said zone and/or laterally thereof.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

172, Earth Working,

133+, for diverse earth-working tools and subclass 382 for multiple level earth- working tools.