Land preparation tool

• US 9,943,037 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2016
• Issued: 04/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fecon, LLC
• Original Assignee: Fecon, Inc.
• Inventors: Stanley, Jeffrey, Hentz, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Fabian-Kovacs, Arpad
• Application Number:
  US15/172,655
• Publication Number:
  US 20160278298A1
• Time in Patent Office: 683 Days
• Field of Search: 241294, 407113, 407 48, 144241, 144218, 144 2412
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 33/142 the rotating shaft being oriented horizontally
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 35/28 Rotating tools; Mounting rotating tools
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 23/093 Combinations of shearing, sawing or milling apparatus specially adapted for felling trees
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 3/002 for comminuting plant waste comminuting by cutting implements in general B02C18/00
• CPC Class Codes: B02C 18/18 Knives; Mountings thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B23C 2200/085 discontinuous
• CPC Class Codes: B23C 2200/086 with one or more grooves
• CPC Class Codes: B23C 2200/164 discontinuous
• CPC Class Codes: B23C 2200/165 with one or more grooves
• CPC Class Codes: B23C 2200/361 Fixation holes
• CPC Class Codes: B23C 2240/32 Connections using screw threads
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 61/065 Adjustable teeth
• CPC Class Codes: B27B 33/02 Structural design of saw blades or saw teeth
• CPC Class Codes: B27B 33/144 having cutting inserts or exchangeable cutting teeth
• CPC Class Codes: B28D 1/122 with exchangeable cutter bits or cutter segments

Abstract

A land preparation tool includes a tool body having a longitudinal axis, wherein the tool body includes a cutting surface and a mounting surface disposed on the tool body opposite the cutting surface, wherein the mounting surface includes an apex that extends along about half of the mounting surface parallel to the longitudinal axis and first and second side mounting surfaces that extend from the apex; a blade disposed on the same side of the tool body as the cutting surface; and a channel disposed into the mounting surface and extending into the tool body.

Claims

1. A land preparation tool comprising:

a tool body having a longitudinal axis, wherein the tool body comprises;

a cutting surface and

a mounting surface disposed on the tool body opposite the cutting surface, wherein the mounting surface includes an apex that extends along about half of the mounting surface parallel to the longitudinal axis and first and second side mounting surfaces that extend from the apex;

a first blade and a second blade positioned side-by-side to each other along an upper portion of and disposed on a same side of the tool body as the cutting surface; and

a channel disposed into the mounting surface and extending into the tool body.

2. The land preparation tool according to claim 1, wherein the mounting surface has a non-planar profile selected from the group consisting of convex, concave, V-shaped, and combinations thereof.

3. The land preparation tool according to claim 2, wherein the non-planar profile is V-shaped.

4. The land preparation tool according to claim 1, wherein the first and second side mounting surfaces each angle from the apex away from the cutting surface.

5. The land preparation tool according to claim 1, wherein the first and second side mounting surfaces each angle from the apex toward the cutting surface.

6. The land preparation tool according to claim 2, wherein the blade has a convex surface.

7. The land preparation tool according to claim 6, wherein the blade comprises two blades positioned adjacent to one another above the cutting surface on the tool body.

8. The land preparation tool according to claim 1, wherein the channel extends entirely through the tool body and the cutting surface.

9. The land preparation tool according to claim 2, wherein:

a portion of the cutting surface comprises a first angled surface that sweeps backward from the cutting surface toward the mounting surface, and

a second portion of the cutting surface comprises a second angled surface disposed on a side of the cutting surface opposite the first angled surface, the second angled surface sweeps backward from the cutting surface toward the mounting surface.

10. The land preparation tool according to claim 9, wherein a lower portion of the cutting surface angles forward and away from the body.

11. The land preparation tool according to claim 9, wherein the body comprises an upper region having a width W₁ and a lower region that comprises the first and second angled surfaces and at least a portion of the cutting surface and having a width W₂, and wherein W₂ is greater than W₁.

12. The land preparation tool according to claim 2, further comprising a second channel extending through the mounting surface and into the body toward the cutting surface.

13. A land preparation tool comprising:

a tool body having a longitudinal axis, wherein the tool body comprises;

a cutting surface and

a mounting surface disposed on the body opposite the cutting surface, wherein the mounting surface comprises a V-shaped non-planar profile;

twin side-by-side blades disposed on an upper portion of a same side of the tool body as the cutting surface; and

a channel disposed into the mounting surface and extending into the tool body.

14. The land preparation tool according to claim 13, wherein the V-shaped mounting surfaces include an apex and first and second side mounting surfaces extending from the apex and angling away from the cutting surface.

15. The land preparation tool according to claim 13, wherein the V-shaped mounting surfaces include an apex and first and second side mounting surfaces extending from the apex and angling toward the cutting surface.

16. A land preparation tool comprising:

a tool body having a longitudinal axis, wherein the tool body comprises;

a cutting surface and

a mounting surface disposed on the tool body opposite the cutting surface, wherein the mounting surface includes a rounded recess, an apex that extends along about half of the mounting surface parallel to the longitudinal axis, and first and second side mounting surfaces that extend from the apex to form a V-shape;

a first blade disposed above the cutting surface;

a second blade disposed above the cutting surface and positioned adjacent to the first blade; and

a channel connected to the recess and extending into the tool body.