Harvesters – Horse rakes – Wheel supported
Patent
1983-07-15
1987-12-01
Hirsch, Paul J.
Harvesters
Horse rakes
Wheel supported
56375, 56400, 172622, 172707, A01D 706, A01D 7600
Patent
active
RE0325511
ABSTRACT:
A dethatching unit is mounted for attachment to the front end of a self-propelled lawn mower, for example, so that the dethatching unit is pushed by the lawn mower and thatches the ground prior to mowing thereof. The dethatching unit includes a frame having a caster wheel at its forward end and arms at its rear end for attaching to the mower. The wheel and the arms cooperate so that tines, which are mounted in two rows on the frame, do not carry any of the weight of the unit so that the bottom tip of each of the tines is slightly spaced from the ground in its rest position. Each of the tines in each of the rows is offset from each of the tines in the other row. Forward motion of the dethatching unit causes the bottom tip of each of the tines to deflect rearwardly and downwardly as it comes in contact with grass. In their deflected positions, the bottom tips of the tines contact the thatch layer to tear it loose from the soil and ultimately flip the thatched material to fall on the ground. This leaves the thatched material loose for the vacuum effect of a mower to pick up and collect in a bag. The flipping or release action of the tines occurs periodically as the caster wheel runs over grass clumps or uneven ground. If desired, this release action can be controlled by use of a non-circular wheel.
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Hirsch Paul J.
Leach, Jr. Frank C.
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