Harvesters – Motorized harvester – Including driven air-blower unit
Reexamination Certificate
2005-02-15
2005-02-15
Pezzuto, Robert E (Department: 3671)
Harvesters
Motorized harvester
Including driven air-blower unit
C056S016600
Reexamination Certificate
active
06854249
ABSTRACT:
A lawn mower comprises a blade drive shaft with a blade rotatably mounted inside a mower deck supported by a vehicle body, a blower unit including a cylindrical blower housing connected to a grass clippings discharging section provided in a side end region of the mower deck, a vertical drive shaft having a shaft portion with vanes attached thereto inside the blower housing and a shaft portion extending upward through the blower housing, and a discharging sleeve projecting rearwardly along an outer tangent line of the blower housing, a grass collecting apparatus mounted rearwardly of the vehicle body, a duct for allowing the discharging sleeve to communicate with the grass collecting apparatus, and a belt-type blower driving mechanism for driving the vertical drive shaft of the blower unit. The belt-type blower driving mechanism includes an intermediate vertical shaft disposed rearwardly of the blower housing, and a belt transmission unit for transmitting power from the blade drive shaft to the vertical drive shaft through the intermediate vertical shaft.
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Asahara Masato
Esaki Yoshiyuki
Fujiwara Osami
Minoura Akira
Samejima Kazuo
Kubota Corporation
Pezzuto Robert E
Webb Ziesenheim & Logsdon Orkin & Hanson, P.C.
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