Tree and brush rotary saw attachment

• US 3,343,575 A
• Filed: 07/09/1965
• Issued: 09/26/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Thomas E. Trout
• Original Assignee: Thomas E. Trout
• Inventors: Trout, Thomas E.
• Application Number:
  US04/470,852
• Time in Patent Office: 809 Days
• US Class Current: 144/34.1
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 3/08 Other tools for pruning, branching or delimbing standing trees
• CPC Class Codes: B27B 5/10 Wheeled circular saws; Circular saws designed to be attached to tractors or other vehicles and driven by same saw assemblies designed to be mounted on or driven by tractors B27B11/12
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 83/928 Vehicle-mounted tool
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/768 Rotatable disc tool pair or tool and carrier

Claims

1. IN COMBINATION, A TRACTOR, AN EXTENSIBLE AND DIRIGIBLE CARRIER ASSEMBLY MOUNTED ON THE TRACTOR, A CIRCULAR SAW BLADE CARRIED BY SAID ASSEMBLY AT THE END THEREOF REMOTE FROM THE TRACTOR, FIRST MEANS CONTROLLABLE FROM THE TRACTOR FOR EXTENDING AND RETRACTING, AND STEERING SAID ASSEMBLY, AND SECOND MEANS CONTROLLABLE FROM THE TRACTOR FOR ROTATING THE SAW BLADE, SAID BLADE BEING A COMPONENT OF A SAW ASSEMBLY, SAID SAW ASSEMBLY COMPRISING AN ARM MOUNTED ON THE CARRIER ASSEMBLY, A CARRIAGE ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON SAID ARM, A DRIVE MOTOR ON THE CARRIAGE HAVING A VERTICAL SHAFT ON WHICH THE SAW BLADE IS FIXED, A PLATE ON THE CARRIAGE FORMED WITH CIRCUMFERENTIAL TEETH, A ROTATING MOTOR ON THE ARM HAVING A PINION IN MESH WITH SAID TEETH.