Harvesters – Cutting and catching – Catchers
Patent
1974-12-18
1976-06-08
Mancene, Louis G.
Harvesters
Cutting and catching
Catchers
563202, A01D 3522
Patent
active
039614670
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is a rotary lawn mower including a grass collecting apparatus including a support, a frame adapted to releasably retain thereon a disposable grass collecting bag with the mouth thereof upwardly open, means pivotally mounting the frame on the support for movement between a bag retaining position wherein the frame is operative to removably retain thereon the grass collecting bag and a second position spaced from the bag retaining position so that movement of the frame from the bag retaining position to the second position is operable, when the bag is laden with clippings, to strip the bag from the frame, a chute having a discharge opening located adjacent to the upwardly open mouth of the bag for discharging grass clippings into the bag through the upwardly open mouth, a cover hinged to the support for movement between a closed position in covering relation to the open mouth of the bag and to the discharge opening and an open position affording access to the frame and to the discharge opening, a shutter selectively movable relative to the chute between a closed position blocking discharge from the chute and an open position permitting discharge from the chute, and latch means on the shutter and on the cover for retaining the cover in the closed position when the shutter is in the open position and for permitting movement of the cover from the closed position when the shutter is in the closed position.
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patent: 3186152 (1965-06-01), Epstein
patent: 3423918 (1969-01-01), Siwek
patent: 3722192 (1973-03-01), Corbett
Eskovitz J. N.
Mancene Louis G.
Outboard Marine Corporation
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