LAWN MOWER

• US 3,568,421 A
• Filed: 03/12/1968
• Issued: 03/09/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fuqua Industries Incorporated (MIG LLC)
• Original Assignee: Harold P. Jackson, Wallace A. Hanson, William R Smith
• Inventors: Smith, William R., Jackson, Harold P., Hanson, Wallace A.
• Application Number:
  US04/712,407
• Time in Patent Office: 1,092 Days
• US Class Current: 56/255
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 2101/00 Lawn-mowers
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 34/63 having cutters rotating about a vertical axis

Abstract

A POWER LAWN MOWER INCLUDING A HOUSING HAVING A TOP AND A DEPENDING PERIPHERAL SKIRT ENCLOSING A ROTARY CUTTING BLADE DRIVEN BY A MOTOR CENTRALLY MOUNTED ON THE HOUSING. GRASS CLIPPINGS CUT BY THE BLADE ARE SWEPT UPWARDLY AND ANNULARLY IN THE MOWER HOUSING IN AN ANNULAR DISCHARGE DUCT WHICH PROGRESSIVELY INCREASES IN HEIGHT FROM THE REAR TO THE FRONT OF THE HOUSING AND TERMINATES IN AN OUTLET WHICH IS CONNECTED EITHER TO A LATERAL DISCHARGE CHUTE OR REAR DISCHARGE CHUTE. DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF DISCHARGE DESIRED, THE DISCHARGE CHUTES ARE ALTERNATELY ATTACHED TO THE MOWER HOUSING IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE DISCHARGE PASSAGE. WHEN THE REAR DISCHARGE CHUTE IS EMPLOYED, IT CONVEYS GRASS CLIPPINGS REARWARDLY AND UPWARDLY INTO A COLLECTOR BAG SUPPORTED AT THE REAR OF THE MOWER.

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