SHREDDER ADAPTOR

• US 3,808,782 A
• Filed: 05/21/1973
• Issued: 05/07/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Larry L. Mcwilliams
• Original Assignee: Larry L. Mcwilliams
• Inventors: McWilliams, Larry L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kinsey, Russell R.
• Application Number:
  US05/362,438
• Time in Patent Office: 351 Days
• Field of Search: 56/229,255,500,501,502,503,16.8,16.9 83/444 241/186R
• US Class Current: 56/16.9
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 2101/00 Lawn-mowers
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 34/005 Mulching means
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 42/005 Mulching shredders or like cutting implements for comminuting plant waste per se A01G3/002
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/739 Positively confines or otherwise determines path of work

Abstract

Apparatus for utilizing a rotary type lawn mower for shredding leaves, twigs, grass cuttings and so forth, the lawn mower housing horizontal portion having an opening therein, an adapter attachment affixed to the upper surface of the housing surrounding the opening, an upwardly extending chute detachably secured to the adapter attachment means whereby leaves, grass cuttings, etc. inserted into the chute passes downwardly and into the mower below the housing and a lid for closing the adapter attachment means when the chute is not attached permitting the lawn mower to be used in the normal fashion.

Claims

1. With a lawn mower having a frame supported by wheels and having a horizontal portion, a vertical drive shaft supported by a bearing mounted in an opening in said frame horizontal portion, a horizontal blade supported to and rotated by said drive shaft below said housing horizontal portion, and a prime mover connected to said drive shaft for the rotation thereof, said housing horizontal portion having an opening therein spaced from said shaft, an adapter for shredding organic matter such as leaves, grass cuttings, and twigs, comprising:

an adapter attachment member affixed to the upper surface of said housing horizontal portion surrounding said opening;

an upwardly extending chute open at the top and bottom, the lower end of the chute being removably attachable to said adapter attachment means, the chute being adaptable to receive organic matter therein, the organic matter passing downwardly through said opening and into the mower below said frame horizontal portion; and

lid means for closing said adapter attachment member when said chute is not attached.

2. An adapter for shredding organic matter as in claim 1 including a stuffing stick for pushing organic matter placed in said chute through said opening in said frame horizontal portion, the stuffing stick having a handle end and a working end, said stuffing stick having a vertically extending stop portion adjacent the handle end, the length of said stick from said stop portion to said working end being equal to or less than the length of said chute whereby the working end of said stuffing stick is prevented from engaging the mower blade.

3. An adapter for shredding organic matter as in claim 1 including a closure means hinged to the interior of said chute intermediate the upper and lower end, the closure means being pivotal between a normal closed position blocking the passage of objects upwardly through said chute and an opened position permitting passage of organic matter downwardly through said chute;

and spring means normally retaining said closure means in the closed position.

4. An adapter for shredding organic matter according to claim 1 wherein said adapter attachment member is in the form of a short, upwardly extending open top housing and wherein said lid means includes a short telescopically extending portion slidably and snugly receivable within said adapter housing, the upper end of said telescopically extending portion being closed.

5. An adapter for shredding organic matter according to claim 1 wherein said adapter attachment member is in the form of a short, upwardly extending open top housing, the upper end thereof terminating with oppositely extending integral lip portions, and wherein said lid means is in the form of a flat member having integrally downwardly curved portions on opposite sides thereof providing spaced, paralleled recesses slidably receiving said housing lip portions.