MULTIFUNCTION BRUSH CUTTER HEAD

• US 20080178569A1
• Filed: 01/25/2007
• Published: 07/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daniel Rose, Donald Hamel
• Original Assignee: Daniel Rose, Donald Hamel
• Inventors: Rose, Daniel, Hamel, Donald
• Application Number:
  US11/626,902
• Publication Number:
  US 20080178569A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 56/15.2
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 23/093 Combinations of shearing, sawing or milling apparatus specially adapted for felling trees
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/3681 Rotators

Abstract

The multifunction brush cutter head attachment is versatile and designed for forestry operations, ground preparation for tree plantation, side road maintenance and other areas where precise cleaning of brushes and small trees is required. The invention consists of rotary shafts cutters as a cutting means to chop the brushes and small trees into wood chips or log sections. The steel welded frame of the invention includes two large opening ports on each side to avoid machine jams. The invention can reach hidden parts behind objects using a rotational system mounted on the top of the frame. Lengthways knives are secured with wedge blocks on the rotary shafts cutters and are easily removable for sharpening or maintenance. As the rotary shafts cutters have a low moment of inertia, the invention requires little power and is particularly suitable for small size excavator.

Claims

1. A multifunction brush cutter head for cutting brushes, undergrowth and small trees comprising:

a steel welded frame with two large open ports, one on each side, that avoid machine jams, the said frame is made of three parallel plates, a front plate, a back plate and an end plate, the said front plate is joined to said back plate with a bent plate perpendicular to form a top shielding at the half height of said frame, the said back plate is joined to said end plate with a side plate perpendicular and bent around the edges of said back plate and said end plate to form a rigid hollow section;

a rotary shaft cutters uses as a cutting mean and mounted perpendicularly to said open ports at the bottom of said frame, under said shielding top and between said front plate and said back plate;

a plurality of removable knives that are secured on the said rotary shaft cutters;

a motorization mean to put the said rotary shaft cutters in rotation;

a mechanical rotation system that allows rotation of the said brush cutter head on an horizontal plane for 300 degrees.

2. A multifunction brush cutter head, as cited in claim 1, where the cutting is done by the rotational action of the knives that are secured on the rotary shaft cutter, said shaft is supported by bearings and having driven toothed pulley at one end, said driven toothed pulley is belted to the motor drive toothed pulley in such a way that when the motor under power, the rotary shaft cutters starts turning.

3. A multifunction brush cutter head as cited in claim 1, where a plurality of rotary shafts cutters can be used.

4. A multifunction brush cutter head as cited in claim 1, where the rotary shaft cutters motorization is selected from group consisting of belt driven, chain driven, gear driven and direct driven.

5. A rotary shaft cutters as cited in claims 1 or in claim 3, comprising:

three machined longitudinal grooves equally distributed around the said shaft to insert the knives;

three machined longitudinal concave section beside each said groove with a plurality of equally distributed treaded holes;

three longitudinal wedge blocks designed to take on the exact shape of the said concave section with one taper side facing the said grooves;

a plurality of compression bolts tightened in a plurality of bore holes drilled and bored through the said wedges to secure the said knives firmly on the said shaft with the said taper side pushing against the said knives.

6. A rotary shaft cutters as cited in claim 1 or in claim 3, has a low moment of inertia that does not exceed 0.026 Kg.m² (kilogram square meter).

7. A multifunction brush cutter head as cited in claims 1 that can be used for a plurality of forestry operations such as brush cleaning tree felling, tree trimming and tree harvesting.

8. A multifunction brush cutter head as cited in claims 1 that can be mounted on small size excavators that have an operating weight lower than 10 metric tons.

9. A multifunction double head brush cutter for cutting brushes, undergrowth and small trees comprising:

a steel welded frame with four large open ports, two on each side in order to avoid machine jams, the said frame is made of four parallel plates, a first front plate, a back plate, an end plate and a second front plate, the said first front plate is joined to said back plate with a perpendicular bent plate forming a first top shielding at the half height of said frame, the said back plate is joined to said end plate with a perpendicular side plate and bent around the edges of said back plate and said end plate forming a rigid hollow section, the said end plate is joined to said second front plate a with perpendicular second bent plate symmetrical to said bent plate and to form a second top shielding at the half height of said frame;

a set of two rotary shafts cutters used as cutting mean and mounted perpendicularly to the said open ports at the bottom of said frame, the first said shaft is under said first top shielding and between said first front plate and said back plate, the second said shaft is under said second top shielding and between said second front plate and said end plate;

a plurality of removable knives that are secured on the said rotary shafts cutters;

a motorization mean to put the said rotary shafts cutters in rotation;

a mechanical rotation system that allows a rotation of the said double head brush cutter on an horizontal plane for 300 degrees;

10. A multifunction double head brush cutter, as cited in claim 9, where the cutting is done by the rotational action of the knives that are secured on the rotary shafts cutters, said shafts are supported by bearings and having driven toothed pulley where the end of said shafts are inserted and blocked, said driven toothed pulley is belted to the motor drive toothed pulley in such a way that when the motor is under power, the rotary shafts cutters starts turning.

11. A multifunction double head brush cutter as cited in claim 9, where a plurality of rotary shafts cutters can be used.

12. A multifunction double head brush cutter as cited in claim 9, where the rotary shafts cutters motorization is selected from the group consisting of belt driven, chain driven, gear driven and direct driven.

13. A rotary shaft cutters as cited in claim 9 or in claim 11, comprising:

three machined longitudinal grooves equally distributed around the said shaft to insert the knives;

three machined longitudinal concave section beside each said groove with a plurality of equally distributed treaded holes;

three longitudinal wedge blocks designed to take on the exact shape of the said concave section with one taper side facing the said grooves;

a plurality of compression bolts tightened in a plurality of bore holes drilled and bored through the said wedges to secure the said knives firmly on the said shaft with the said taper side pushing against the said knives.

14. A rotary shaft cutters as cited in claim 9 or in claim 11, has a low moment of inertia that does not exceed 0.026 Kg.m² (Kilogram square meter).

15. A multifunction double head brush cutter as cited in claim 9 that can be used for a plurality of forestry operations such as brush cleaning, tree felling, tree trimming and tree harvesting.

16. A multifunction double head brush cutter as cited in claim 9 which can be mounted on small size excavators that have an operating weight lower than 10 metric tons.