Locking device for spline shaft of brush cutter

• US 20070180704A1
• Filed: 02/07/2006
• Published: 08/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lee Hsin-Chih Chung
• Original Assignee: Lee Hsin-Chih Chung
• Inventors: Chiu, Yi-Shan
• Application Number:
  US11/348,381
• Publication Number:
  US 20070180704A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 30/276
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 34/412 having rotating cutters
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 34/82 Other details

Abstract

A locking device for a spline shaft of a brush cutter is disclosed. The brush cutter comprises the spline shaft installed in a shell and coupled with a driven bevel gear that is coupled with a drive bevel gear, which is further linked to a power device. The spline shaft has a blind hole, and the shell has a stub tube facing to the blind hole. A spring and a pin are received in the stub tube in such a way that the pin is inserted through the spring and the spring acts on the pin. With this structure, when a cutting tool is to be assembled to or disassembled from the spline shaft, it is only needed to push the pin into the blind hole of the spline shaft to restrain the spline shaft from rotating. Accordingly, the cutting tool can be assembled or disassembled in safe and convenient.

Claims

1. A locking device for a spline shaft of a brush cutter, the brush cutter comprising the spline shaft installed in a shell and coupled with a driven bevel gear that is coupled with a drive bevel gear, which is further linked to a power device, and the improvement comprising:

the spline shaft having a blind hole, the shell having a stub tube facing to the blind hole, a spring and a pin received in the stub tube in such a way that the pin is inserted through the spring and the spring acts on the pin.

2. The locking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pin has a flange, and one end of the spring biases against the flange of the pin.

3. The locking device as claimed in claim 2, wherein a cap is mounted with one end of the pin which extends out of the stub tube.

4. The locking device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the cap has a circular groove for mating with a wall of the stub tube.

5. The locking device as claimed in claim 3, wherein a spring pin is mounted to the wall of the stub tube between the flange of the pin and the cap, and the spring pin is able to extend into the stub tube.