Leaf bailer

• US 20090223197A1
• Filed: 03/06/2008
• Published: 09/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cyril D. Kohlbeck
• Original Assignee: Cyril D. Kohlbeck
• Inventors: Kohlbeck, Cyril D.
• Application Number:
  US12/074,724
• Publication Number:
  US 20090223197A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 56/341
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 20/43 for sweeping, collecting or disintegrating lawn debris
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 20/47 Vacuum or blower devices

Abstract

A very complete one person machine that combines five separate functions:

• 1. Mobility: The machine will function on any solid roadway or golf course.
• 2. The Leaf Baler will pick up the leaves making a clean environment.
• 3. The vacuum/blower will force the leaves into the baler chamber.
• 4. The adhesive sprayer will insure that the leaves are held together during and after the baling process is completed.
• 5. There is no need for additional labor to spray the bales after they are formed as taught by Davis, Truitt, and Mathews et al. Campbell'"'"'s additional device for spraying an adhesive after the bales are formed makes the procedure additionally expensive.
• 6. The vacuum/blower will force the leaves and debris into the section of the baling machine that compresses the leaves into a programmed shape and size.
• 7. It will then eject the bales into an enclosed wagon for transport.

Claims

1. The main reason for the proposal of the LEAF BALER is to present the most inexpensive and labor saving device for cleaning streets.It is a complete operation done by one person.It allows for continuous operation, thereby making it the best use of labor.There are options as to disposal. Bales can be left on the street.Bales can be ejected into a wagon for storage and hauling.There is no reason for the Leaf Baler to leave the scene where the job of street cleaning is being done.The Leaf Baler combines numerous operations that were previously performed as single procedures.

a. The Leaf Baler will sweep the streets.

b. The vacuum will force all debris into the baler'"'"'s main chamber.

c. The adhesive device will spray the leaves so that they hold together in a bale.Spraying an adhesive to the bales after they are made, as taught by Davis, Truitt, and Mathews et al. makes the operation complex and prohibitively expensive due to additional labor and extensive handling involved.

d. The baler will make bales as designed and programmed.

e. The ejector will send the bales into an enclosed wagon for transport.

f. The Leaf Baler will leave an environmentally clean street.

g. The Leaf Baler will produce a product that can be easily handled in shipping.