Harvesters – Cutting – Housing or guard
Patent
1995-06-26
1997-06-17
Melius, Terry Lee
Harvesters
Cutting
Housing or guard
56DIG17, 56 175, A01D 3468
Patent
active
056386672
ABSTRACT:
A mulching lawn mower has a closed cutting chamber in a mulching mode such that the grass clippings are confined within the cutting chamber except for when they fall out through the open bottom face of the chamber. The cutting chamber has a first portion of toroidal or doughnut form generally closely surrounding the blade tips. In addition, the front portion of the cutting chamber includes a forwardly protruding wedge-shaped extension having side walls that converge towards one another in a pie-shaped fashion. The wedge-shaped extension further includes a top wall that extends between the side walls. This top wall is sloped or inclined downwardly as it extends to the front of the mower such that the height of the wedge-shaped extension gradually decreases until the wedge-shaped extension disappears at its front edge. The wedge-shaped extension reduces power consumption of the mower when the mower is placed in its mulching mode and is used to mulch grass.
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Toro Mower Deck Drawings (undated).
Photographs Illustrating Ryobi Mower (undated).
Ellson Bart T.
Kakuk Jay J.
Melius Terry Lee
Miller James W.
The Toro Company
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